[-] krellor@fedia.io 21 points 2 months ago

My favorite IRS notices are the scary you owe us letters that always say somewhere in normal font "if you have already paid or started a payment plan you can disregard this notice." Sometimes you can get those letters months after paying. To be fair, my taxes are complicated, but boy do they really need Congress to give them money to modernize their systems.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 24 points 3 months ago

I mean, they have drones with saws for cutting tree limbs now. When you have a big problem, start by cutting it into smaller individual problems...

[-] krellor@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago

LMAO, I know it's auto correct typos, but:

So don’t tax his gag so hard-core cruster.

Is excellent gibberish.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 44 points 3 months ago

Of course it's age adjusted. What good does it do to compare accumulated wealth between a 60 year old and an 18 year old?

[-] krellor@fedia.io 25 points 3 months ago

There's nothing more frustrating than a GS-12 whose just following rules.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 27 points 4 months ago

Windows detects media being played and shows you that inlay with controls. It must be detecting that stream somewhere being played, even if it isn't obviously playing in a browser tab. You should be able to control whether it shows media controls on the lock screen.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 22 points 5 months ago

I mean, yes and no. For an individual or individual systems? No, it's not hard. But I used to oversee a WAN with multiple large sites each with their own complex border, core, and campus plant infrastructure. When you have an environment like that with complex peerings, and onsite and cloud networks it's a bit trickier to introduce dual stack addressing down to the edge. You need a bunch of additional tooling to extend your BGP monitoring, ability to track asynchronous route issues, add route advertisements etc. when you have a large production network to avoid breaking, it's more of a nail biter, because it's not like we have a dev network that is a 1-1 of our physical environment. We have lab equipment, and a virtual implementation of our prod network, but you can only simulate so much.

That being said, we did implement it before most of the rest of the world, in part because I wanted to sell most of our very large IPv4 networks while prices are rising. But it was a real engineering challenge and I was lucky to have the team and resources and time to get it done when it wasn't driving an urgent, short timeline need.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 27 points 5 months ago

She drove the 3 hours to see the house, and the seller came home as she was leaving. So chance encounter.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 86 points 6 months ago

Lightning bugs have a multi-year lifecycle that includes living in fallen leaf matter, hunting for other bugs, before emerging in like 2-3 years. So they need places that don't haul away all of the fallen leaves/plant matter or use broad spectrum pesticides.

I've always kept all the leaves in rows along our fences for the lightning bugs to live in, which is also popular with the song birds hunting for bugs. That and don't do the broad pesticide treatments.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 36 points 6 months ago

Nonchalantly execute the ducks in front of the kids. You'll also be supporting your local youth therapists job security.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 54 points 8 months ago

I think many folks are too young to remember before the Internet when everything was published through retail stores. Publishers took big risks paying for advance copies of games to be produced and shipped, and developers typically got less than 70% all told.

When steam came out 30% and you didn't need to print advance copies, or deal with retail channels, it was a huge win.

Now, the world has changed, but so has steam. Steam has continued to introduce features, sales based % tiers, grown the community, push Linux development, push VR, etc. they also go out of their way to support their devices and make them user repairable.

In any other sector people would be bitching about not having a pro customer option, and yet in this market we get a bunch of non-developers bitching about the revenue split from the best game store other than GoG.

It boggles the mind.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 17 points 8 months ago

Topology: no, a set being open doesn't imply that it is closed. What if it's both? We call it clopen. Moving on.

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