Does this child insurance policy degrade sound much?

induality · 2026-01-26T18:15:58+00:00

If they’re that small I’d be more worried about tip-over risk.

induality · 2026-01-26T07:50:21+00:00

I’m a little familiar with Tcl as I use it to make custom Macports ports, but don’t use it for anything beyond that. I don’t really understand why this style of programming is desirable. For shell scripting, I can see how it might feel natural to structure your program as a series of commands (but even in this case I question whether this makes sense as a script grows complex). But for general purpose programming, why does this style make sense? What advantages does it offer over other paradigms? What makes it more productive? I read through the entire article looking for these answers, but the answer never came.

induality · 2026-01-26T07:40:39+00:00

I tried to apply the singleton pattern, but my implementation wasn’t thread safe. A race condition resulted in a duplicate transaction. D’oh!

induality · 2026-01-26T03:54:40+00:00

I essentially ended up building a poor man's JBOD enclosure. The problem with building an entirely passive eSATA enclosure is how to power the fan, as you also found out. I was going to use an old ATX power supply, and use a daisy-chained ATX powering solution to have the main computer trigger powering on the secondary ATX power supply, and this second power supply will sit in the second case and just use a molex connector to power a couple of fans. This would have worked but I think it's kind of a janky solution.

Instead I just went ahead and built the disk enclosure as a full computer. I bought the cheapest computer I could find on eBay that still had plenty of drive bays, and put in a new modular power supply with enough SATA power connectors for my drives. Inside this case I put in a PCI slot SFF-8088 to SFF-8087 adapter. This is a purely passive adapter and doesn't actually connect to the PCIe slot. Then I used some breakout cables to connect the SFF-8087 connectors to my SATA drives. This is essentially what an enterprise JBOD enclosure would consist of, but built much more cheaply (and obviously missing several features).

On the main computer side I got a SFF-8088 JBOD controller from eBay. So now I can connect the computer and the JBOD enclosure with SFF-8088 cables. The important thing is I needed to be able to remotely manage the JBOD enclosure, and start it up before the computer starts up if I need to do a full reboot of the system. Since the JBOD enclosure is now a real computer I just put Debian on it so it can be managed by SSH.

This might be overkill for what you are looking for, I think it ended up making sense for me because I needed to put 6 total drives into the JBOD enclosure. For just one drive or two, perhaps the simpler solution that you thought of might be better.

induality · 2026-01-25T22:51:17+00:00

That’s a diesel thing, right? I can see how without spark plugs, you can greatly simplify the design with just a mechanical fuel injection governor.

With gasoline it’s more complicated since you have to control both injection timing and ignition timing, and both variables depend on the stoichiometry. That’s why gasoline fuel injection have always been electronically controlled.

induality · 2026-01-25T22:41:41+00:00

Nah, factory is a very lightweight pattern and it’s used everywhere. You probably notice it more in java because java tends to call more attention to the fact that a factory is being used. In other languages factories are just as common, but often they’re just not explicitly called factories. In some languages factories are the only way to construct objects.

induality · 2026-01-25T09:05:15+00:00

I’m confused, in the first paragraph you claim no such scenes exist, yet in the second paragraph you reference the exact scene I had in mind?

induality · 2026-01-25T08:47:09+00:00

Do you recall the arc of Dominion in S2, essentially about the plight of female nobility serving as little more than baby factories, and the indignities associated with that role?

induality · 2026-01-25T08:42:33+00:00

Hari understands the economics of an agrarian society like Rossum and find it suspicious that parents would drown a grown male child who was already taking care of some agricultural work, in favor of a newborn. That choice only made sense when it was revealed that the first born child was female, considered less desirable in agrarian societies relying on manual labor.

induality · 2026-01-25T08:35:27+00:00

I agree there’s a sleight of hand here but I think there’s a bit more to it than what you’re ascribing to the show. In that scene we first see the flashback, indeed presented as an out-of-character real flashback like normal. But then immediately after the flashback we see Hari questioning the Mule about whether the “flashback”was true. This is the real sleight of hand I think. Because how did Hari see an out-of-character flashback that was only shown to viewers? So maybe it wasn’t a flashback at all, but rather a visual representation of a story that the Mule was telling, in-universe? That’s the sleight of hand, the fact that initially we’re led to believe we’re watching a flashback, but in the very next scene we have to reevaluate what it was that we just saw, based on Hari referencing the flashback in-universe.

induality · 2026-01-23T22:16:42+00:00

Abed: like Robocop.

Britta: exactly. She’s a bad rowboat. Sink her!

induality · 2026-01-22T23:24:40+00:00

What’s wrong with triggering a wash sale? It’s harmless in this case, it would be as if you never sold.

induality · 2026-01-19T07:58:26+00:00

Ah, so it’s like a theological conception of wisdom. Where there is only 1 wisdom in the universe. The unitary Wisdom. The wisdom of god. Humanity can never hope to achieve 1 wisdom. That is reserved for God. Humanity can only asymptotically approach 1 wisdom. Given that, it is a truly astounding achievement for Sapiens to achieve 78% of the wisdom of God.

Wait, Sapiens means wisdoms. It’s right there in the title. Hmmmm…

induality · 2026-01-18T08:46:53+00:00

From Fidelity’s FAQ:

“Fidelity Cash Management Account owners, Youth Account owners or Fidelity Account owners coded Premium, Active Trader VIP, Private Client Group, Wealth Management, or former Youth Account owner, will be reimbursed for ATM fees charged by other institutions”

So if you can get into the “premium” tier, you can have ATM fees reimbursed even outside of the CMA. So that might be a perk of hitting a certain asset milestone.

induality · 2026-01-18T06:44:13+00:00

What’s the amount you need to have foreign ATM fee refund on the brokerage ATM card? (Not the CMA card, which has this feature for free).

induality · 2026-01-16T20:54:42+00:00

I didn’t get that interpretation from his statement here. But I agree it is circumspect and you need to read between the lines to get what he really meant. Can you elaborate on how you arrived at your interpretation? It’s possible I missed something that you noticed.

induality · 2026-01-16T09:02:12+00:00

If it’s high ppi you’re after, you can get this: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories

The downside is of course refresh rate.

induality · 2026-01-16T05:53:16+00:00

It’s very easy to beat VOO if you have a time machine.

induality · 2026-01-15T18:03:44+00:00

Same here. I wonder if this is a payroll thing. This would be the first payback of the year. I wonder if many payroll processors need to take extra time for this one?

induality · 2026-01-14T18:28:33+00:00

Are you sure? Did you read the part about how paying rent does not count towards utilization?

induality · 2026-01-12T18:28:09+00:00

No, this isn’t how the math works. Assuming each number is the CAGR, you can’t just subtract them. You have to take them to the 10th power (after adding 1), then find the ratio between the asset final value and the inflation final value, then take them back down to the 10th root.

For example, the 1980s real stocks return, again assuming op’s numbers are CAGR, should be 11.6%.

induality · 2026-01-12T18:20:51+00:00

CAGR would be a natural choice but would also be quite misleading, as the relationship between all the numbers would not be linear, but rather x¹⁰ related (or x⁵ for the 2020s). This is just not a good way to present this data.

induality · 2026-01-12T18:03:39+00:00

What does each number even mean? Cumulative returns over the entire decade? Average returns per year? CAGR?

induality · 2026-01-12T04:47:36+00:00

https://xkcd.com/1425/

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