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  1. 1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

    Outstanding.  What type of dinghy are you getting?  I need to consider the same.  My Apex RIB is pretty long in the tooth and needs to be pumped up on the reg.  Plus I think I want to go with the air floor.  Getting the RIB up on the davits is a bit of a chore with the weight.  Thing is heavy af.  What size outboard you got there?  9.9?  15?

    The new dinghy is an AB Navigo VS12. We already have a Suzuki 20hp with electric start so keeping that as it's been great. Dinghy + engine is 300 pounds but we've got an arch with 6:1 blocks to lift it which takes about a minute. It's nice. I feel for your monohullers having to remove and stow the engine and then the dinghy on deck.

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  2. The weather in Virginia has finally warmed up so I'm here for 3 weeks to replace and repair a bunch of stuff. Replacing the rudder bearings, rebuilding 3 hatches, saildrive seals and anodes, wet exhaust and hose, manual bilge pump, bilge alarms, etc etc. Got a new dinghy as the old one required multiple pump ups every day.

    The boat bucks are flying out the door.

    Here's my office for 3 weeks.

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  3. My favorite in the current rotation is an asian stir fry. Prep takes the longest but could be done a few days before when you have more time. You can use different proteins and veg; I usually do skirt steak (sliced thin) and carrots, onion, garlic, and tofu. Sauce is 1/2 cup soy, 1/4 cup dark soy, 1T brown sugar or honey, a bit of vinegar, and 1 T gochugaru. Served over rice or rice noodles.

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  4. This popped up in one of the Bahamas sailing  facebook groups. Monohull under sail ran aground somewhere in the Exumas. No idea how you fall asleep in the Exumas as you're usually just doing day hop sailing.

    We skipped this season but are itching to get back on the boat. Our boat is on the hard in Virginia and I'll go back for a month in April to knock out some boat projects and then return again Sep/Oct to put in the water and then head south. Can't fucking wait.

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  5. Just disembarked from a 16 day South American and Antartica cruise on Princess. We're not cruisers but some friends were going and we like to party with them so why not? The first 2 days were a cluster fuck as the previous cruise didn't get to dock until 1pm which pushed our embarkation until late at night after waiting in a pretty barebones cruise terminal in Valparaiso, Chile. Felt bad for the old folks that were waiting for 10 hours in the terminal. Second day we went to another port just to refuel which took most of the day.

    After that it was great. Saw a shitload of whales, spent 3 days scenic cruising Antartica, then 1 day in the Falklands, 1 day in Montevideo, Uruguay, and finally departing today in Buenos Aires which we'll stay at until we fly back on Friday.

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    Birders at the front of the ship.

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    Took land rovers over hilly terrain for an hour to get to the penguins. I'm gonna be honest, the land rover ride was as cool as seeing penguins.

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  6. 5 hours ago, Pancho said:

     

    This is just amazing. Southwest is too fucking cheap to buy every crew member an iphone that has a corp app that lets HQ know where they are at all times. Such an easy problem to solve.

    I worked on a POC for a hotel company that'd allow you to track your room service order as it moved through the hotel. "We want Uber for room service!" All of the tech was already there (great app, beacons in every hall of the hotel so you could unlock the room with your phone). It was just done at 1 hotel but they knew where a hamburger was better than SWA knows where a pilot is.

     

  7. I was a skeptic but have come around.

    For coding its great for simple bits but can't replace what most programmers actually do. I don't write 100 line apps but rather I write 100 lines of code in a 50k line codebase and do so without breaking any of the existing code. I doubt it'll ever be able to do that as it requires deep domain knowledge. Maybe it gets there but doesn't today.

    I've sent it some of my google searches and the results it produces are a lot better. Eg most recent was "How long do I cook a quiche?". Google wants to send me to a bunch of quiche recipe sites which are all SEO filled garbage. ChatGPT just gave me the answer.

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  8. New home prices for starter homes are still crazy high to me. 3/2 2100 sqft in Mansfield going for just under 500k like this https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/Foundry_South-Pointe-Cottage-Series_1700-Burney-Street_Mansfield_TX_76063_P417000615818

    Fucking Mansfield. Not Plano or Southlake or some rich suburb that is built out.

    I can afford these prices but I worry about my kids. They'll need to get married and both make 6 figures to afford a home.

  9. 20 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    Is he going to get people to re-code the entire site, with at least 50% of the engineering staff exited?

    From the article linked above.

    "Experienced software engineers leaving should be worrying because of the complexity of Twitter. Talking with long-time Twitter engineers, they told me the site has a complex architecture for a very good reason. It was built to allow for safe and fast tweaking of any part of Twitter, making it easy for developers to iterate.

    However, Twitter was not built to make architectural changes easy, and structural changes are admittedly difficult and so need to be done with caution. Twitter has on-premise data centers and I’m told that deploying Kubernetes on top of this was already a massive undertaking thanks to all the custom infrastructure.

    Twitter is unique in how configurable the infra team has made infra-level tweaks. There are multi-level feature flags used at the infra layer, which is highly unusual as feature flags usually live within the application layer."

    I'm sure he'd love to but yes it'll be impossible given the staff he's let go. Moving from monolith -> microservice or vice versa is an enormous undertaking.

  10. I wouldn't doubt Elon on this one. The move to microservices can be terrible if done wrong and it's so easy to get wrong. Eg a request to fetch timeline -> fetches 20 tweets -> fetches user info for each tweet one at a time -> fetches followers/followed for each user one at a time -> etc etc. All to render a few kb of data on a screen.

    Elon is religious about simplicity. He's gonna hate a microservices based tech stack.

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  11. 46 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    So this guy with his baby-robot voice probably not knowing a word of Spanish, is going to blend in Argentina. Where the monthly wage is about like Mexico. And he's wanted by the Zillionaires he ripped off as well as all the small fry, SOME of whom may very well BE in Argentina scraping by on Mexico wages when one day, at the bus stop, they hear a baby-robot voice buzzing out OK Spanish, like, nothing like Buenos Aires Spanish, mind you, but passable Duolingo Spanish.

    And they're standing there with their shopping bag of onions, duct tape, and a sock full of demonetized coins that you need for the bus, and the wheels start turning. Cousin's got an empty store with a backroom. How much would a Zillionaire pay for this baby-robot-voice guy?

    I had the same thought. These two:

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    are going on the lam to south america with 1-2 billion USD worth of shitcoin to their names.

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  12. 5 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Until today, I hadn't heard of this particular thread in the tapestry of a fucked up earth:

     

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/12/killing-invasive-species-is-now-a-competitive-sport

     

    tldr: Lionfish, the python of the Florida keys, introduced by aquarium homies who didn't want them anymore, now completely destroying entire reef ecosystems in the florida keys.

    (not really climate related, but still, another example of man vs nature, man wins, mankind loses)

     

    Bad news for the lionfish is that they are delicious so they stand no chance against Florida Man. I'm no expert but I'm actually seeing less and less lionfish in the Bahamas now that the word has gotten out.

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  13. On 10/22/2022 at 6:53 AM, UTGrad98 said:

    Just to rant, I'm still pissed at reading for decades how a 60/40 portfolio stocks and bonds is a nice hedge for a downtown. 

    I've been 100% US equities* for 20 years and see no reason to change. Basic thesis is that the USA is still the best combination of political stability, demographics, and environment for corporate growth/profits. Nothing else comes close imo.

     

    *: I cheated once and had an international fund for 6 months. That was a mistake.

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  14. We kept our boat in Punta Gorda, FL for the first 3 years and have several friends still there. So far the water has left the marina which is good for boats but if it comes back with a 10+ft surge then this place is going to be wrecked. Hopefully the surge isn't as big as predicted. There's usually a few hundred boats here (Burnt Store Marina).

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  15. I'll second the recommendation for the west coast or panhandle if you just want a beach. To help you narrow it down my favorite vacation spot on the west coast is Sanibel Island. Everywhere else that I've been is way more built up with miles of 10+ story condos. If you don't mind over built spots I'm also a fan of Madeira Beach and try to be close to John's Pass so you can walk there in the evenings for food. Driving can be annoying and it's nice to just walk across the road and pick up dinner easily. I think we ate at the pizza joint there every other night.

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  16. Our kids' pediatrician announced last week that she was moving her practice out of Texas. She works with a lot of add and adhd kids and also some trans kids.

    My wife's GP announced today that she's also moving her practice out of Texas because she can no longer provide care that she believes is best for her patients.

    She hasn't heard from her OB yet but I'm sure she's next.

    In GQP Texas women will need to get health care at church.

     

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