[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

We were always going to pay for their failures; this one, or the next.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they’ve given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.

-- randy pausch, the last lecture

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430312-when-you-re-screwing-up-and-nobody-says-anything-to-you

ALL of it is good. Go watch. Maybe laugh a bit. Maybe cry near the end. Come away changed.

https://youtu.be/j7zzQpvoYcQ

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it's not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.

There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.

  • Texas power grid has been systematically gutted
  • regulation and inspections are defunded, as Texas refuses the inspections required to join the nations power exchange as a peer.

And the big one

  • now they're not exchanging power, they have to buy from their rich constituents, at a premium, and they gut the bank accounts of your tax money

They're set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

the data only goes back to 1979 and has not yet been verified by NOAA which has data going back to 1880.

There's a whole hot world outside of America who don't need to wait for its underfunded organizations to get around to validating the data.

But I get it. The news is dire. It's neat to cling to uncertainty in times like this unless you lived in Lytton

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Yes. Our 12% will really make a difference vs corporations' 80%. And we can get to that 12% if so 8 billion of us work together. I'm doing my 0.0000001% part!

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory

This trick alone makes my Lemmy addiction pay off. Thanks for even suggesting such magic is possible. Adding that as a task after my samba-AD rebuild this very f'n week.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I use flightaware and similar apps, but they all eventually want a subscription. Bleugh.

Is this one totally free ... or at least better than your average app?

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of value in a sleeping area that can get really really dark.

I'm ever so grateful for electrical tape.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I was born decades ago and 2 months early; in the glass box for weeeeks to beat the 11% survival-at-all stats.

Having said that, IT'S STILL NOT FACEBOOK'S BUSINESS as a conveyor and not a filter.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It's an exciting re-imagining of a few ideas (usenet, digg) seemingly mashed together.

I'm finding a lot of content that I've voted on, and I'm maybe done-with. I'd love to know (where to find) an option to hide content I've seen and voted around, so I can just count on regular in-mail to chase the conversation. I'm sure that nit will go away once I find some menu-option I'm just not seeing!

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Before we had the fediverse - long before it - we had Usenet: people conversing globally in email-shaped units. It was shared and synched.

It was awesome. Questions answered, points debated, everything you wanted.

I don't think the fediverse is a magical solution, but it does have a familiar feel to it. Not as good when it comes to spelling, but "it's just the web," so the rules are maybe different.

This is fine.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

This is the important part, I think: Spez showed that he will grind up his marketing partners - as 3PA devs are - into today's lunch ... and likely hope there's more to eat tomorrow.

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