we talking about the “fourth power law” (damage to roadway is weight to the power of 4)?

Dirt cheap.

Cost = maintenance + servers

Engineers always underestimate the cost of their time.

States can get their hands on things for criminal investigations. Or they can get that data in the infectious disease database but usually that’s carefully anonymized into general steps of ten… But this… This is some messed up shit

Gotta get those high quality gains to lift more than the McVeigh’s

Okay, damn I don’t have 15 minute access to a “bar”-bar, and the university/sports arenas are just outside that walk

You can do it. I use a powered USB hub and a raspberry pi, and 5 hard drives.

It is a mess of cables but was simple enough.

I also sprang for a UPS because most filesystem’s I tried like zfs and btrfs didn’t appreciate random brownouts from running 4 drives off the pi itself.

Right now they’re xfs and used for a minio install and torrent storage

The lemmy devs would probably take something sensible like that and flat out shoot it down because they think they know better.

getting accidentally hired and finally making enough.

story: every job I’ve ever applied for in tech didn’t work out. I was a dishwasher until right before covid when someone recommended me for a cybersecurity position. Before that I had obsessed about FIRE or living in a car or being careful about too much starbucks or avocado toast… without making enough for a car or health insurance. That job paid ~half of what cybersecurity should pay, but was AMAZING. My next job paid just a hair under average, three years later. night and day, able to afford to exist without help.

financial advice be damned. I couldn’t “find” anywhere with lower rent. I was in the lowest cost of living possible regionally. What needed to change was the PRIMARY job’s income rate, not adding some side hustle. Either make rent cheaper or find a higher wage.

I’m not making enough to consider your next fancy moves like getting a house.

single dev… yeah no.

We salute you! raises Starbucks to toast

Not so much defending as offense…

I’m inclined to believe the local PD knows the addresses of officials… So they let this happen on purpose.

I wonder what this arrest tells about the average stupidity and hubris of the population, given sampling bias of “people who got caught” and “people who were newsworthy” as factors before “people who should have kept their mouths shut”

That’s an awful number of people without shelter.

Higher up the food chain, needs more food

That face reminds me of something

Sooooorta

You’d expect them to double check it with multiple sources

Not just take another country’s Intelligence at face value

“Especially the Dutch” - Nigel Powers, Austin Powers, goldmember

… That’s what I just said. Are you a bot?

Writing to your representative is a form of lobbying

An unsolicited expert opinion is lobbying

What’s messed up is the amount of money to run and that citizens united made unlimited funds possible

Congressmen always worried about the cash they’ll need to get elected

If there were term limits we would have faceless corporate buyouts with little experience, vs someone running on name recognition

Heck I want a campaign finance max limit.

There can be nice people who are bad at tech, just like there’s racist technologists

Just because a group of nice well meaning Lemmy users is willing to suffer the pain of a poorly built app doesn’t mean they should /have/ to suffer through it

It’s sometimes nice to make nice things. Don’t be too much of an HOA, they’re new, it’s not the end of the world.

Just because I’m not afraid of biking with cars, doesn’t mean I don’t recognize that American biking infrastructure is hostile. We could do more to make biking safer and easier. They’ll struggle but they’ll get the hang of it.

So too, with making nice apps to free the lay people from their digital walled gardens.