peterbraden

You may brick your macbook as the switch charger doesn’t follow the spec. This is exactly the problem.

A ubuntu upgrade bricked a virtual server that I had relied on. Network access was so broken that I ended up exporting the data, and killing the machine.

Just an anecdote to counter your assertion.

Have you forgotten the global pandemic and impending climate disaster?

This makes me sad, you are so confident that a government can never do the right thing, that the only solution you see is to prevent any progress, and anchor yourself to a local minima from the past.

Society needs it’s members to believe that they can improve it, that they are represented by a government, and that they can influence it’s path. Anything less is an authoritarian regime. Such deep seated cynicism shows that we are far down a bad path.

If you don’t believe that the government will accept regulations that protect its citizens, at the expense of losing surveillance, then the primary goal is to replace that government, not to fight a losing battle for the sunlit uplands of a disappeared past.

Sure, but you’re twisting words. Wind is pretty much always used to refer to horizontal air movement.

I would disagree on boring, thermal flying on a windless day is amazing, proximity flying, a chill sled ride. Many fun ways to play without wind.

I wouldn’t comment on safety comparisons with paramotoring without more statistics.

The article mentions the death of hang gliding as a sport, but doesn’t mention that the reason isn’t that people stopped wanting to fly, but rather that paragliding has dominated due to rapid improvements in the technology, and the vastly simpler logistics required to go fly (they fit in a backpack). Paragliding as a sport is exploding.

This is untrue, paragliding doesn’t require any wind for descending. You generate your own airspeed. There are also other ways of staying up than soaring (thermals). Additionally, wind isn’t the source of the risk, rather wind variability and turbulence. Flying in low wind doesn’t add to the risk profile.

They solve different problems. Tailscale basically allows you to ignore any NAT topologies separating you from your machines. You can have a pseudo local network of your machines behind a VPN, allowing SSH to any machine with zero routing issues. And it’s incredibly seamless. I’m a big fan.

Europe is far more free than the US for a lot of this, no permits required, right to roam in many countries, and camping is tolerated most places it isn’t a nuisance.

Not at all. The areas where they are ubiquitous, which we normally call forests, are still cool.

No, there’s also the possibility of inheritance.

What a condescending comment. You realize how many millions of people live in flood plains, and how climate change means that existing mitigations are not sufficient anymore?

How do you do this with iPhoto?

With an iPhone it doesn't seem that there is a way to sync with a folder anymore.

As long as the work gets done, why does it matter?

how many people nowadays will recognize a paper filing box?

What data are you using for the DEM?

Doesn't load at all in firefox. I guess they only tested in chrome.

Because gas and other fossil fuels are inelastic - it's expensive to turn them off or on, and it can't be done rapidly. The fact that wind can be turned on or off at will means they can be used to balance demand spikes.

This is a terrible comparison, bird physiology is nothing like human.

The energy saving is vast, the energy comes from external lift rather than burnt calories.

It’s like the difference between standing and running.

The quote predates that fact.

SEEKING WORK | Zürich, Switzerland | Remote is good.

Experienced software engineer and problem solver with product and management experience and a proven track record of autonomy and leadership.

Please contact me if you have an interesting technical dilemma, you need an empathetic advocate for your users, or even if you just need a capable pair of hands to help grow your business.

Email: hi at peterbraden.co.uk Resume: https://peterbraden.co.uk/resume/

  Location: Zürich
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Full stack web, Rust, JS etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://peterbraden.co.uk/resume/
  Email: hi at peterbraden.co.uk

Experienced software engineer and problem solver with product and management experience and a proven track record of autonomy and leadership, seeking interesting challenge.

I'd be interested in full time work or on a project basis.

That ship sailed a thousand years ago.

Here's my version: https://github.com/peterbraden/rays.rust

Traditionally you also have dividends as well. Stock buybacks are basically tax avoidance.

Here's the thing. I have a Garmin that also gets more than a week of battery life, with an always on display. It also does the fitness stuff very well. There wasn't an advantage to the Pebble angle.

Seeking contract work, or something really compelling.

  Location: Zürich, Switzerland
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Full stack. Rust would be nice.
  Résumé/CV: https://peterbraden.co.uk/resume/
  Email: hn@peterbraden.co.uk

Experience with the full stack, from systems programming, up to product management. I like hard, user focused problems with pragmatic solutions.

I'd planned to take some time off over the summer, but then a global pandemic happened. Would love to engage on a short term project basis, but if you have something amazing full time I'm willing to be tempted.

Contentless flame-bait, not worth reading.

The mobile apps are where I'm lacking at the moment - I've reluctantly started using dropbox as the syncing solution, but there's not a lot of great mobile apps that work with text well.