HankB99

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by HankB99 3y ago
At least the man pages.
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by HankB99 3y ago
I've been using Checkmk (raw - e.g. free) to monitor stuff in my home lab (mostly for other things.) It has notified me of some failed Systemd services.
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by HankB99 3y ago
> Weed is illegal, yet I've never seen a bar fight after everyone gets high. Dude! Who ate all of the pizza? ... ;)
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by HankB99 3y ago
Cockleburrs? They seem to grow well in the US Midwest (at least about 40 miles west of Chicago.) We also get stick-tights which are much smaller. As for my "lawn", I mow whatever grows at the highest height I can set my mower. No
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by HankB99 3y ago
I would expect that the target for a rewrite would be better known than the during the first write and that the morphing to hit a moving target would provide more opportunities for bugs. OTOH if there was a lot of pressure to get the rewrit
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by HankB99 3y ago
Oh. In that case the hub assemblies are probably VW, but the spindle itself would probably be Porsche (since I don't recall VW ever using 6 bolt CV joints.) But the overall point that the 914 was a mix of VW and Porsche bits is absolut
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by HankB99 3y ago
That system had a flap in an air passage that metered air flow. If the car backfired, the flap could change position relative to the indication that went to the control unit and that threw off the air/fuel mixture. They were also more
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by HankB99 3y ago
The synchros in the 914 transmission were the same as in the 911 (and other Porsches.) Not like the brass ring and cone that is more common (and used in VW transmissions.) You're probably right about the half shafts. However if I searc
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by HankB99 3y ago
Were Webers ever on the car from the factory? I thought they were all fuel injected. Disclaimer: Back when we were mechanics (and before we became technicians) I earned a living working on these, but I seldom had the opportunity (?) to work
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by HankB99 3y ago
> urban legend That's disappointing. It sounded so cool! The part of this story I recall is that overpasses were spaced widely enough to avoid interfering with airplanes should they need to find a landing spot.
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by HankB99 3y ago
Am I the only one thinking that they are masking a cash flow problem? Unless H/W is failing it seems to me that an existing system could just keep rolling along. If there is a capacity problem throw more H/W at it. I suppose if th
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by HankB99 3y ago
It seems to be a pretty low bar to get better. It's disappointing that it didn't start out better.
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by HankB99 3y ago
It's not something I use often, but the value of it to me is that I can "hook it up" and immediately see what's going on. The generally intuitive interface and the way it decomposes packets make it so easy to pick up and
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by HankB99 3y ago
> How did Ethernet go from fat cables and vampire taps to RJ35? Layers. The physical signaling is vastly different but the content that rides on it can remain the same. If you study the OSI model ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by HankB99 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet Old stuff but still there. I used it before I had Internet access. Even ran a leaf node for groups that interested me. It was capable of distributing binary content such as pictures
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by HankB99 3y ago
I gave this a shot a while ago and it looked promising. I particularly like the ability to identify pictures, something that Google Photos seems to be slipping on. (*) The deal breaker for me was that there was no way to share the entire in
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by HankB99 3y ago
It beats the alternative.
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by HankB99 3y ago
> but its size ... Interesting that you mention that. Our grandkids all got Van Gogh reproductions for their rooms( ). I found it difficult to find the size of the originals and even harder to find reproductions at the same size (looking
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by HankB99 3y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the US legal system as part of a solution. If a robo-taxi causes material harm, sue the operator for some multiple of the cost of the harm. I suppose the drawback to this strategy is that real harm ha
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by HankB99 3y ago
Good point. > In real life, we need to interact with several people at minimum normally, weekly. I think that's one of the problems with social media (aside from AI.) It's too easy to restrict your contacts to only those you ag
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by HankB99 3y ago
Is there any reason an LLM could not be programmed to disagree? Perhaps the level of disagreeableness would be a tunable parameter and could be cranked up when in the mood for a fight or down when one one just wants to converse. Some random
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by HankB99 3y ago
Ouch! Folks across the street own a bike shop and sponsor an annual criteruim. Last year there was a crash right in front of our house - touch of wheels I suppose. There's a slight hill at the end of the street and I guess the riders c
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by HankB99 3y ago
Yes - Thanks!
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by HankB99 3y ago
8.8.8.8 0.0.0.0 Google or Cloudflare. Both have fewer outages (IME) than Comcast. It just depends on who you want to share your web history with. I've seen Comcast lose DNS in the past even though the underlying transport still worked.
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by HankB99 3y ago
> now it seems search engines give back mostly SEO blogspam And with technical questions, too many results are not correct. It seems that Google search is really going down hill in this regard. I'd like a way to vote down results th
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by HankB99 3y ago
> in software you are always doing something new Yes, and invariably anything that comes up and wasn't accounted for in the estimate will take more time, not less.
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by HankB99 3y ago
I'm reminded of the aquarium thermometer used to launch an attach on a casino. < https://mashable.com/article/casino-smart-thermometer-hacked > I have a couple Raspberry Pi Zeroes that monitor aquarium tempera
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by HankB99 3y ago
Regulatory capture? Is there a difference or do they just go hand in hand?
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by HankB99 3y ago
Agreed. Hobbyist (and retired professional here) who fools around with IoT stuff at home. I've done lots of things with Raspberry Pi Zeroes that can be done with an ESP8266/ESP32 and with the benefit of on board analog inputs. Som
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by HankB99 3y ago
I lack Rust experience to comment on your suggestion but it does make me wonder if the author has provided a means for feedback in order to make this "More Effective Rust" (No pun intended if you're familiar with Meyers'

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