@tburkhol

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 3 days ago

Goodhart’s law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Used to be that a college degree indicated people with time, money, and drive to put four years into study. It was a good measure of the “right” kind of person. Now it’s just another job requirement and doesn’t indicate anything.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 3 days ago

When she first showed up, I remember one particular picture of her being all over right wing media. Not the most flattering picture, obviously. She was smiling especially broadly, showing lots of teeth, eyes wide open (“bugged out”). Sometimes associated with speculation that she might have Graves disease or some developmental disorder.

No question her appearance has made the media give her more time than they might, but she has a compelling story and she’s connected with millennial voters much better than her septuagenarian peers.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 9 days ago

Just what I was looking for. Recently got a kobo for experimenting, and just starting to figure out how to integrate it.

I’d still rather physical books, but sometimes there’s just too much premium for too shitty of POD trash.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 13 days ago

Not even solar panels on the roofs.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 13 days ago

These are computer monitors, not TVs. Plugging them into a Windows box triggers Windows to silently install their “driver,” which silently installs a handful of other startup apps. It’s an escalation of the smartTV-wifi path.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 22 days ago

I like Cory Doctorow’s take: AI is good for single-use, personal code to solve an immediate problem, and terrible for long-term, production projects. I imagine there’s a bunch of neophytes out there who use AI to create their first project, find out that github exists, and thinks someone else must be having the same problem they just solved, so why not release it to the public?

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 25 days ago

Dunno how well it would work with kubernates internal networks, but my DNS is configured with different views for internal and external clients. So, when letsencrypt does a lookup, they get the external IP, but when an internal client looks up the same name, they get the internal IP. TLS is happy, because the certificate matches the name. I’m happy because it works even when the ISP is down.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 26 days ago

Can’t imagine they would be personal-use lockers, especially not with doors that display the contents. Have to imagine that they were no-lock ‘lockers’ to hold common-use balls & gear out of the weather when not in use.

I suppose they could be rental/honor-box - insert quarter to get ball, please return when done, but I don’t think I’d call that a ‘locker.’

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 1 month ago

vim index.html

<html><header><title>Welcome</title></header> 
<body><h1>Welcome</h1>  
<p>Here's my random thoughts and links I keep forgetting  
</body></html>

:wq

Why would I want to learn wordpress, much less spin up a database, for that?

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 1 month ago

That seems a lot more useful than binary tags. There’s a wide spectrum between fully vibe-coded slop and hand-written with vim.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 1 month ago

“Collaboration” “Mentoring” Outside of thee military, few companies have any mechanism to train people to move up the corporate ladder. If you’re not there watching the boss, then you have no idea how to do their job. If the boss can’t see you, they can’t delegate the little tasks that amount to job training. If the boss can’t see you, they have no way to evaluate whether you’re helping or not.

The boss got his job by watching his boss and being in the right place when some opportunity came up, so that’s their entire understanding of corporate advancement.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 1 month ago

Is the topic of financial/trading tools just completely off-limits here, even if it’s AGPL and self-hosted?

Not necessarily. The platform (lemmy, not just c/selfhosted) is full of anti-corporate leftists and anarchists. You’re more likely to find people who want to burn the stock market to the ground than to participate in it, esp highly speculative algo trading.

I’ve seen plenty of people ask about self-hosted personal finance or portfolio tracking, so there are people for whom your project might be relevant. Just seems more like a r/wallstreetbets kind of thing than a lemmy kind of thing.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 1 month ago

If you’re in the Western hemisphere, NOAA has every-5-minute satellite images, using the form

https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/SECTOR/se/GEOCOLOR/600x600.jpg

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/index.php will help you pick which SECTOR is most relevant.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

I started doing the One True Database method because I got worried that the high write count on all the little db’s was abusing a raspberry pi’s SD card. Moved them all to a bigger server with NVME and mirroring to a RAID.

Not all the compose files make obvious how to reconfigure the db host. Homeassistant uses s a sqlite db built into the container, rather than a separate unit, but you can force it to use a remote db through its config file. May or may not be worth hiding db user/pass in a .env And sometimes there’s trouble restarting after power failure, depending on what order the database, pi, and various containers come back up.

I also feel it’s worthwhile. I feel better being able to check on all the databases. Feel better not writing to the SD card so much. Feel better offloading those megabytes and cpu cycles from the little pi. It’s been fun snooping through database structures. There have been a couple times where I decided to query one of the ccontain databases directly, or cross from one project to another, and it’s easier (for me) to give a different user privileges to the database and query some deep bit of data than to figure out how to extract it from an API or frontend.

I’m not even running that many services, but why would I want the overhead of 6 separate mysql instances when I could just have one?

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

A records return the numerical address of a name.

CNAME returns a different name for a name. Basically ‘synonym’ so the maintainer only has to change the one master, A record when the IP address changes. Convenient to use CNAME to point www.example.com to example.com, but you can use it just as well to point example.com at my.private.host.xyz You can even chain multiple CNAMEs to make it easier to manage a complex backend structure while presenting a simple address to users.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

The US spent a lot of money on soft power, essentially bribing countries to go along with their agenda. Much of that money did actually improve people’s lives, whether it was food aid, vaccinations, or AIDS care. Sure, it was to further their own objectives. Sure, it’s mostly because it’s cheaper to buy compliance than to bomb people into compliance. Humanitarian aid with strings attached is still humanitarian aid, though, or the collapse of USAID wouldn’t be such a problem.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

The very broad funds definitely will - VTI/VTSAX - but at lower weights and under less time pressure than the rigid index funds (VOO/VFIAX). That takes off a lot of the liquidity squeeze and (presumably) reduces their loss.

But you have to remember that people who use these funds intentionally invest in obvious losers and willingly overpay for hyped stocks because they believe, in the long run, that buying obvious losers is more than balanced by also buying the unexpected winners.

SpaceX is just the first time an oligarch tried so obviously to rig the passive investor structure to his favor, and I’m glad the S&P people didn’t cave.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

Doesn’t work that way on lemmy: if they delete the post, then the alt’s shilling disappears, too.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

or at least change the title to [solved] with a link to the comment that worked.

tburkhol@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

Uncheck “Send notifications to Email” in your settings. Or get a 3rd party app with a notifications setting.