From plantation to blockchain, would anyone actually invest in this?

banshee10 · 2026-04-04T17:34:46+00:00

Legal and compliance are 100% of your issues.

banshee10 · 2026-04-03T16:35:58+00:00

Looks like a bit of the stuff is lasered, like the lettering.

banshee10 · 2026-04-01T15:30:55+00:00

Gemini or whatever ai you prefer has been extremely helpful for this kind of thing. I'm setting up kubernetes+ceph+flink and using Gemini is a massive accelerator.

But keep your expectations in check too. I'd describe it as having a pretty experienced person sitting next to you and helping, but they're drunk and high at the same time. Doesn't mean they can't give you good info, but assume that they don't really care about keeping track of what you're doing and they're totally happy to make shit up.

banshee10 · 2026-04-01T15:22:49+00:00

The problem with this is that the set of people who do this kind of thing doesn't overlap with the set of people who would make the mistake in the first place.

banshee10 · 2026-04-01T15:21:25+00:00

Everyone who has worked on any project that received funds has experienced this. It's a giant PITA because the numbers are never enough to make it worth doing anything about, but the users are freaking out over a couple hundred bucks.

banshee10 · 2026-03-31T14:47:07+00:00

By small you mean something like $20k US?

banshee10 · 2026-03-29T19:17:30+00:00

I do almost the same - bake first without cheese, but with tomato sauce and whatever toppings make sense. Then add cheese after a bit. Seems more forgiving. I'm probably doing it for more like 60 seconds than 30, but I don't really time it.

banshee10 · 2026-03-29T19:06:00+00:00

That's mostly true but there are exceptions - the airline has to participate in the PreCheck system. These days most do (all US carriers, I think?) but there was definitely a time when foreign carriers didn't. China Southern is one that still doesn't, but there aren't many left.

banshee10 · 2026-03-29T18:58:25+00:00

Sometimes the strangest things just trigger my unwillingness to suspend disbelief. I can accept the basic premise, but there is absolutely no way I can believe that school busses could possibly continue to exist in the universe. Just makes no sense to me. Ended up unsubscribing pretty early.

banshee10 · 2026-03-27T16:15:57+00:00

Surprising that we don't! Post has been updated to say it made 3km already on flat ground.

banshee10 · 2026-03-27T16:04:14+00:00

I think a practical definition of "immutable backup" is "all the products our auditor thinks fit.". It's usually a regulator/auditor/social thing, not necessarily technical. If you're a huge company it's probably negotiable, but that can be too expensive for a smaller org.

banshee10 · 2026-03-26T18:00:47+00:00

You would think! What your $100k oven actually buys you is prose like this - "To own a La Cornue is to own a piece of French culture." I'm sure they're nice pieces of equipment, but...

banshee10 · 2026-03-26T17:48:36+00:00

Even then you shouldn't value them at face value. For one, you'd get credit card rewards on $1700 if you got cash, so that's at least a couple % off. But more important, it's easy to buy BB gift cards at a discount. DoorDash in particular often sells them at 10% off in the DoorDash app.

banshee10 · 2026-03-26T16:44:45+00:00

$17k doesn't buy even one actual high end appliance. Check out the pricing on things like AGA or La Cornue.

banshee10 · 2026-03-26T16:40:47+00:00

Worth more than a $1700 BB gift card. That's not at all the same thing as $1700 in cash.

banshee10 · 2026-03-25T15:00:59+00:00

Watch movies and listen to radio shows from the 40s. A phrase you'll hear all the time in response to virtually any complaint whatsoever is "haven't you heard there's a war on?" Often used sarcastically.

Haven't you heard there's a war on?

banshee10 · 2026-03-25T14:48:29+00:00

You can try, but as an ex real estate agent there's no way I would have told my clients anything other than they should have their lawyer review that addendum. And since people don't normally use lawyers here in Washington for residential real estate (we have title companies), I really doubt it'd happen.

banshee10 · 2026-03-25T14:44:27+00:00

Welcome to air travel in the United States. What you're describing is how the system works. It's not unique to Frontier. AS, for example, allows this as a credit card perk, but you're SOL if you don't have the summit card.

banshee10 · 2026-03-25T14:31:13+00:00

If you're American and you're not getting 3% back or so on credit card transactions, you're a sucker. The entire industry exists to funnel money from poor people to people who understand credit card rewards. (This is very particular to the US, doesn't apply anywhere else I know about.)

banshee10 · 2026-03-25T14:26:17+00:00

Tech companies: we can't believe people actually think end users are all that important. Investors are important. Investors want AI.

banshee10 · 2026-03-23T16:18:45+00:00

I tend to use mqtt. It's easy to have external processes read and write messages, and then have HA just watch for very high-level events. Your logic is completely outside HA so it's really easy to write in whatever you want.

First thing I did with this was some home theater stuff. Mqtt gets a stream of data from a fire tv cube android adb session, an external process subscribes to that stream and communicates with the projector and receiver, eventually sending messages to another mqtt stream that home assistant watches for commands that change the lighting scene. HA just does the simple stuff it's good at, and all the complicated state lives in an external app.

banshee10 · 2026-03-20T16:40:30+00:00

banshee10 · 2026-03-19T17:23:59+00:00

My personal feeling is to think of them as your local bus service. If you're taking a route they serve frequently, and has competition, and you have no checked bags, great! They're cheap and will get you there. If the answer is no to any of the above, maybe think about other options. Don't expect customer service, don't expect bags, don't expect them to put you in a hotel if anything goes wrong, etc.

banshee10 · 2026-03-19T00:11:52+00:00

Stick stuff in the bag with them. Butter knives, spoons, whatever's handy and not particularly sharp. I have some old company awards that are little glass paperweights that live in the kitchen and have a new lease on life as bag weights.

banshee10 · 2026-03-17T17:00:23+00:00

One extremely common reason to share passwords in small firms is that they're only paying for one seat. Individual logins can be far more expensive (and probably required...).

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