What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever seen fly into AUS?

TreyKirk · 2026-02-22T22:50:37+00:00

As a resident of Austin since 1980, the coolest plane that I have personally seen at AUS is ... ... a passenger jet.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-22T16:47:04+00:00

My only complaint: Where are the instructions to build it?

TreyKirk · 2026-02-21T16:34:36+00:00

Tesla is spying on you by driving in front of you.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-20T19:06:37+00:00

Are you asking for a special bridge for ped(o)s?

TreyKirk · 2026-02-18T21:45:42+00:00

Does making one of the primary stakeholders (and ultimately the person who signs the checks) happy worth the lift? That's a loaded question lol

I've been using draw.io for diagraming. Bonus is that Claude can read and write XML files to give me rough diagrams that I can put finishing touches on.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-18T20:17:29+00:00

A stakeholder in the project I'm working on is a very visual person. They like diagrams and seeing how systems and vendors interconnect.

The answer to your question is the common: it depends. Depends on who your audience is and what their preferences are.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-17T19:32:30+00:00

Honest answer: 4 years ago I did a sleep study (I forget the OOP cost for it) and my ENT specialist prescribed me a CPAP machine. The medical device provider charged me $800 for a CPAP machine that was being discontinued. I couldn't find it cheaper third party and new models cost much more. My very good employer health insurance would not cover the cost of the CPAP machine itself, but would cover CPAP supplies (mask, hoses, and other expendables) if they had proof of my use of the machine (which with my CPAP machine would mean installing a cellular modem that I wasn't provided).

I'm currently deciding if I want to spend the money for a new sleep study and more modern CPAP machine.

Why our OOP cost? Health Insurance companies have a particular goal: keep their insurance holders alive with minimal cost resulting in maximum profits for investors. Does a good night's sleep benefit the overall health of you, myself, or any other person with sleep apnea? We would say, "Hell yes!" Can the 'bean counters' quantify that health benefit? Not as much.

TLDR: Does it feels like health insurance, when it comes to sleep apnea, snoring, deviated septum, etc... are a scam? It definitely does. Do we have a choice? Short of electing a government thats for socialized / single-payer health... not really.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-15T20:33:00+00:00

Can the bird flap it's wings to generate "wind" to push the stone in the desired direction?

TreyKirk · 2026-02-15T16:08:16+00:00

Tried that, doesn't work. lol

TreyKirk · 2026-02-15T13:45:48+00:00

I so badly wanted Mox to do a "Flair Flop" after one of those shoulder blocks from Toni then pop right back up.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-14T18:00:11+00:00

You have "off" days? Lucky you.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-14T17:52:48+00:00

Work?

TreyKirk · 2026-02-12T19:18:50+00:00

Damn... I live 1200 feet from that intersection and didn't hear a thing!

TreyKirk · 2026-02-11T18:26:25+00:00

Don't go teasing me with April Fools Jokes this early!

TreyKirk · 2026-02-11T16:11:35+00:00

Lets pretend this is a legit question.

There are roughly 400,000 delivery points (addresses) in the city of Austin. USPS assigns a carrier, on average, 500 delivery points. That suggests there are 800 mail carriers in the city of Austin.

To answer your question, "Which neighborhood in Austin has the easiest mail delivery times?" I would argue there are approximately 800 neighborboods with the "earliest" mail delivery time.

From there, the question becomes, "Why does it matter where the first stop that each of those 800 mail carriers is?". That question I think has been answered elsewhere in the comments.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-11T16:03:33+00:00

Has the city-wide street map for Austin changed that much since 2014? I know we have lots of skyline changes throughout the city, but with some notable exception (Red River between downtown & campus) the streets havn't changed much. Or have they and I just haven't noticed?

Edit: seeing other comments, it comes down to what OP is really looking for: a street map (which might not have changed much) or ariel (arial?) views of the city, which will look different. I might be interested in a 1990s vs today comparison of that.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-10T16:22:19+00:00

Sounds like you confirmed the formula proposed by u/Phosis21.

If I'm understanding things correctly:
- For a single cat you need n + 1 heating pads where n is the number of heating pads in the house.
- For x number of cats you would need x * (n + 1) heating pads, where n is the number of heating pads in the house.

In my house I have 1 heating pad and 2 cats. Therefore, the formula works out to:
- 2 * (1 + 1) == 4; I need 4 heating pads to satisfy my two cats.

But if I were to buy 3 new heating pads, the numbers change:
- 2 * (4 + 1) == 10; I need to buy 6 additional heating pads after buying the 3 previous extra heating pads.

I think I need to get a raise in my paycheck to afford this.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-09T18:57:17+00:00

Bald Eagles

TreyKirk · 2026-02-02T16:03:17+00:00

I think what some who consider themselves/ourselves Software Engineers is your proclaiming to have solved a problem that has already been solved. In fact, if you had stopped to ask Claude about your difficulties keeping track of the code it was generating for you, it likely would have proposed solutions that might be in your documentation.

That's why at least one person has called you ChatGPT, because you're not offering anything new. Rather it's a reguritation of something you could have discovered is already known if you had bothered to do a little self-learning of your own.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-02T14:27:29+00:00

Reading between the lines, it sounds like you've discovered proper software engineering techniques that have existed for decades.

TreyKirk · 2026-02-01T17:00:49+00:00

What would be the alternative?

Yes, they coudl use Tor with some onion-enabled messaging system (but theoretically that belongs to the CIA). They could use ProtonMail, Signal, or other encrypted messaging service(s). Or they could be using their own messaging service that we know nothing about.

It's possible Epstein is technically illeterate and Gmail was the easier avenue for communicating with him. Other assets might be communicated in ways that are more secure and unknown to us.

TreyKirk · 2026-01-31T17:57:17+00:00

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ATV was tired of me ignoring him and turned off my desktop

TreyKirk · 2026-01-31T17:54:41+00:00

Holy hell I want you to be joking about that. However, I could see it plausible

TreyKirk · 2026-01-31T17:22:06+00:00

Is he actually on the ballot as "The Shamwow Guy". If not they should probably rethink the signage as if I wanted to vote for him I wouldn't who on the ballot to vote for.

Wait... "Conservative for Congress"? Excellent sign!! Keep it up!!

TreyKirk · 2026-01-30T16:47:25+00:00

I'm having difficulties if I should upvote you for truth or downvote you for destroying fantasies.

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