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New comment by bitbckt in "In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough"

bitbckt — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:55:18 +0000

I was single, living alone (+ 2 cats, if they count) in a one bedroom apartment in North Beach 15 years ago on a $90k/year salary. I even had a parking space and a car!

I can understand how people did it then - I was one of them - but I don't understand how they would do it now.

New comment by bitbckt in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

bitbckt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:17:31 +0000

Foobar2000 is not Windows only. https://www.foobar2000.org/

New comment by bitbckt in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

bitbckt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:16:01 +0000

I'm running it on dual DGX Sparks.

New comment by bitbckt in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

bitbckt — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:42:00 +0000

The DAD AX32/AX64 is such a thing.

New comment by bitbckt in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

bitbckt — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:34:41 +0000

Multiple day outages in Winter are not unusual in our part of Maine. Nearly everyone has a whole home generator for good reason.

New comment by bitbckt in "Making regular GPS ultra-precise"

bitbckt — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:42:46 +0000

Do you mean GEODNET?

New comment by bitbckt in "Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know"

bitbckt — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:05:48 +0000

Just a bit under 15 years after we did this at Twitter.

New comment by bitbckt in "Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio"

bitbckt — Fri, 30 May 2025 11:05:32 +0000

I feel attacked.

New comment by bitbckt in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

bitbckt — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:28:40 +0000

We never actually had a literal “Bieber Box”, but the joke took off.

Hot shards were definitely an issue, though.

New comment by bitbckt in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

bitbckt — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:26:10 +0000

Yes, we used the Yahoo! “Feeding Frenzy” paper as the basis for the design of Haplocheirus (the timeline service).

New comment by bitbckt in "Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection"

bitbckt — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:49:37 +0000

Amazing to see this happening. I wrote the non-moving Immix collector at Twitter for our Ruby runtime, Kiji.

Good luck!

New comment by bitbckt in "How economical is your local Taco Bell?"

bitbckt — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:59:08 +0000

It is also occasionally a wedding venue.

New comment by bitbckt in "Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone"

bitbckt — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:08:21 +0000

As a current semi-pro trombonist, I had the same reaction.

Relevant aside: Alan Kaplan has been recording Jacob Collier transcriptions for his YouTube channel. Check out “Moon River”.

New comment by bitbckt in "Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model"

bitbckt — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:29:11 +0000

Sweden is not Switzerland. And he died almost ten years ago.

New comment by bitbckt in "Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching"

bitbckt — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:51:38 +0000

The rack I’m referring to is in my home. YMMV, of course.

New comment by bitbckt in "Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching"

bitbckt — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:10:53 +0000

I have an SN2700 in my rack, next to a pair of Arista 7060CXs (as a point of comparison). These are wildly under-rated devices outside of the STH fanbase.

You may be surprised at how quiet and low power these Mellanox switches can be.

New comment by bitbckt in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

bitbckt — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:37:32 +0000

I’m paying about $50 service fees for the two blades currently out for repair. The 10” replacements cost over $200, and the 8” dado would require buying a new stack… around $250. The same folks who sharpen and true my blades do the repairs. They’re local to me here in Maine.

Ruminating a bit:

Cheaper blades are replaced more often with use and can’t generally be sharpened; SawStop tech doesn’t change the lifetime of a blade unless an activation happens. So, if you’re already willing to run to the box store for another blade semi-regularly, whether one survives activation perhaps isn’t material?

On the other hand, somebody who doesn’t regularly use their saw is probably both more price conscious and less likely to need sharpening/replacement often. I assume they care most about whether an activation forces them to buy a new blade (and a $100 brake). I suspect those are the people who propagate “SawStop = trashed blade”. For them, it’s true.

New comment by bitbckt in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

bitbckt — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:19:19 +0000

Yes, and they are consumable and replaceable by design, which goes to my point: the blade is not irreparably destroyed by the activation.

The missing teeth need to be replaced and the plate needs to be re-checked for runout, but most carbide-toothed blades are repairable.

New comment by bitbckt in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

bitbckt — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:44:26 +0000

I have had two brake activations in as many weeks, one on a dado stack (don’t ask). Neither destroyed the blade. Both blades will be back in service within a week.

Just putting out there: the popular idea that blades are always trash after an activation is not true.

That said, cheap big box store blades without carbide teeth will die a horrible death.

New comment by bitbckt in "The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics"

bitbckt — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:10:01 +0000

I still keep a maxed out Octane2 in running order for posterity. Occasionally logging in to it reminds me just how a desktop environment should feel. We truly have lost something since then.