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stevenhubertron··on 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home
Couldn’t the job still be performed at home with the occasional on site? I’m thinking of a construction PM. The job could mainly be done at home other then when needed to meet GC on site. Seems like there is still WFH no?
stevenhubertron··on Strava abruptly ends 3rd party data sync to Apple Health
Might be just the motivation needed. to get a few more miles in on every ride.
stevenhubertron··on Show HN: SmoothWAN a simple home internet bonding router using Speedify
I wish this came out 3 weeks ago. I was using this setup on a device by device basis and got so tired of the setup I canceled one of my 2 ISPs and just decided to pay for “unlimited” data. This would have solved my use case perfectly.
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
I’m not sure how deranking lies affects it’s privacy or speed but you clearly have an bone to pick with DDG which in my opinion is a great product that more should use.
stevenhubertron··on NY energy grid: Real-time dashboard
Hey I did as well. I always thought it cool and as kids wondered if we swam in there if we get sucked up the hill at night. Had loads of fun at the community pool there as well.
stevenhubertron··on Pfizer vaccine's protection against Covid wanes quickly in kids 5-11, study says
Just a FYI to all this hasn’t yet been peer reviewed. News agencies are too quick to publish. While the findings may not change it’s still worth mentioning.
stevenhubertron··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
The point is to mess with Russian lives so they don’t put up with Putin as their ruler and world destroyer. Any way we can put pain on the Russians right now that doesn’t include nuclear war is better then the alternative.
stevenhubertron··on Open Source DNS Resolver
I recently "upgraded" to a Comcast xFi box where I can't change my DNS server to my PiHole so I have been looking for public DNS servers that provide some privacy protection and found this but very little about them. Can I trust them more than Comcast with my DNS queries?
stevenhubertron··on Emirates president: The 5G snafu is the biggest screwup witnessed in my career
Except at half power directed away from the air. Quoteddirectly from the article:

"We were not aware that the power of the antennas in the United States have been doubled compared to what's going on elsewhere. We were not aware that the antenna themselves have been put into a vertical position rather than a slight slanting position, which then taken together compromise not only the radio altimeter systems but the flight control systems on the fly by wire aircraft."

stevenhubertron··on Balcony solar panels – one-year results
Thank you for the clarity here.. I thought there was more to the story than this article made it seem.
stevenhubertron··on Balcony solar panels – one-year results
If I am reading this right (and I am not an expert at all), if wanted to subsidize my current electric bill I could just buy a few solar panels and a grid tie inverter that I just plug into any random outlet and as long as my house consumes more energy than the panels provide and I don't exceed the amperage on the breaker I can effectively do this that simply? (even if the ROI doesn't make sense?)
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Which websites/blogs do you visit which makes you happy?
There are a couple great YouTube channels that I watch when I want something low stress/drama

Duzer TV (Most positive guy on earth)- https://www.youtube.com/duzertv

Adventure Archives - https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventureArchives

Matt's Off Road Recovery - https://www.youtube.com/c/MattsOffRoadRecovery

Venture 4wd - https://www.youtube.com/c/venture4wd

Cody Townsend Fifty Project - https://www.youtube.com/c/CodyTownsend

Dom Whiting DNB on a bike - https://www.youtube.com/c/DomWhiting

Sam Pilgrim Crazy bike guy - https://www.youtube.com/c/SamPilgrim

If these are new to you, check out videos from a few years ago and go from there. Tons of great content, no drama.

stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Best way to track personal energy levels, and Heart Rate Variability?
I have a Garmin Fenix 6 Pro and it does a pretty good job tracking my HRV, but I am not sure if the best measure (at least for me) to track my well being. I find just step counting and "activity minutes" to be a better metric for me. Basically if I force myself to walk, bike, etc I end up having a better week then if I do not. I also try not to read to much news.
stevenhubertron··on OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
Could this act as a dead drop? Just have this running on a Pi Zero in a public place as a way to covertly transfer info?
stevenhubertron··on I Built a Shed (2020)
I was considering doing something similar this spring, but instead of trenching my yard I was considering solar and just a small mesh network to get to the corner of my backyard, maybe 300 feet from the house. My thought was that it would be an office and reading area. Perhaps a place to nap away from the kiddo as well :)
stevenhubertron··on Ask HN: Alternative to HandlebarsJS for Small Projects
Have you found a way to precompile the templates on save and enable gzip/brotli compression on build? Any sort of Parcel plugins are years old and filled with caveats.
stevenhubertron··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
Yeah. It's inconsistent but a number of my production servers appear to be down. Along with my New Relic logging.
stevenhubertron··on [dead]
If Facebook wasn’t there monetizing their data to keep them in poverty maybe an open source tool would be instead.
stevenhubertron··on What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
Talk about a tactical attack. Whistleblower interview goes up. BGP weakness likely hacked. Facebook down. Facebook internal tools for communicating problem and fix also down. Everyone is WFH because of COVID.

The fix may have been easy, all the tools and comms down you need to fix is making it hard. It's all so interesting. Good riddance to Facebook.

stevenhubertron··on Cloudflare Images Now Available to Everyone
I really wish an integration to something like Sitecore would exist for this since their image pipeline is such hot garbage for both the db, the UX and UI of the user.
stevenhubertron··on Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
I am happy with this announcement I traded in my iPad Pro V2 to order a new iPad mini today. I can use it in my overlanding rig and read books when I get to the camp site. This product announcement fits my specific needs well.
stevenhubertron··on Font licensing is ill, please help heal it
We haven't. Although we do plenty of testing in general. We don't view it as a ROI driver, just an element of a strong brand. Which is much more subjective.
stevenhubertron··on Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020)
In Colorado I have been using a few different Coway air purifers and they have been able to keep the air quality in my house good, and quickly can recover that good air quality after running my swamp cooler in the morning/evening. Been overall happy with them but perhaps this box fan/merv filter is a good backup to have in case it gets really bad.
stevenhubertron··on Font licensing is ill, please help heal it
Just a data point. My team manages about 15 different brands with a couple hundred million annual page views and we pay north of $100K a year for fonts and believe that to be a good value for the money. The difference between a good Monotype font and a free or cheap font is worlds different when your concerned with a brand looking as good as can be. The cheaper fonts sometimes have odd space in them that make letter spacing or line-height changes look horrible.
stevenhubertron··on Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMesssage and iCloud Storage
Fair. He knows plenty, but the clickbait title really hurts the credibility. I’ll eat some crow there.
stevenhubertron··on Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMesssage and iCloud Storage
This isn’t true at all. Apple is doing hash matching not backdooring encryption. This person has no understanding of technology.
stevenhubertron··on Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm
I use my RTL-SDR to read my own power meter and then pipe that data into my Home Assistant instance so I can get depressed when I see the spike when I use my central AC. It's actually quite cool. I haven't yet figured how to do it for my water meter yet though.
stevenhubertron··on It appears that Reddit is forcing me to use their app to see deep linked content
When I clicked on the link sent to me, it defaulted to the browser not Apollo which I prefer.
stevenhubertron··on It appears that Reddit is forcing me to use their app to see deep linked content
Thanks for the suggestion, I updated the title.
stevenhubertron··on GitHub, fuck your name change
It didn't break 99.9% of workflows and for the remaining 0.1% they have to write an or statement. Not that big of a deal. The only constant is change.
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