HankB99

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by HankB99 8y ago
Before refrigeration and large glass tanks the time between edibility and putrefaction was probably on the order of hours.
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by HankB99 8y ago
"It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." (I was joking, of course, when I said this.) It seems to me that that's a reasonable metric for determining if something was well written or possibly well commented. I
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by HankB99 8y ago
> Booting from ZFS seemed like a hassle, without clear benefits. I'm running ZFS on a single boot/user partition on an XPS 13 (9370.) I was unable to get the built in WiFi working with Debian Stretch but it seems to work well
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by HankB99 8y ago
That was going to be my suggestion. But I was thinking along the lines of orange juice, pomegranate juice and some tequila. Another interesting combo is OJ, pineapple juice, pomegranate, coconut rum and regular rum.
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by HankB99 8y ago
I saw exactly that at the first shop I contracted at decades ago. They treated their engineers like dirt. During the interview they were told that travel would be a couple weeks a year. Then some were literally handed airplane tickets when
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by HankB99 8y ago
That can be a real pitfall for benchmarking. I recall looking at some promotional material touting the performance advantages of Rust against some other language (C?) It involved a loop so I kept increasing the loop count to try to get the
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by HankB99 8y ago
> I wonder about all the things happening today we're not being told about Considering the usefulness of quantum computing for cracking ciphers, I wonder how far along development of that is and when we'll see it.
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by HankB99 8y ago
Or developing trading algorithms. AKA Financial Engineering.
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by HankB99 8y ago
I wonder which ones have the best vetting. And if it is adequate. I also wonder about other packaging systems. CPAN, pip (pypy?) AUR and so on. It doesn't surprise me to see this happen. I wonder what other surprises might be in any of
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by HankB99 8y ago
I recall hearing of similar failures early on. I don't recall the brand. Apparently the controller goes bad and it just stops responding to SATA commands. Intel had a strategy that caused them to go into read only mode once they reache
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by HankB99 8y ago
I had problems with Ubuntu updates hanging and the fix was to do something that (I think) caused networking to prefer IPV4. I'm on Comcast but don't know if the problem was theirs. If networking preferred IPV6 prior to the change
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by HankB99 8y ago
Up until a couple years ago I could have said the same. I even have a couple deathstars on the shelf that were operational when retired. In the last couple years I've had several HDDs fail starting with a 2TB Seagate (one of the "
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by HankB99 8y ago
Github is pretty diffuse to count much as a community, though there are aspects of community about it. Stackoverflow and kin are very focused on specific questions and are elitist. I've participated for years and find that I cannot add
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by HankB99 8y ago
867-5309 is a phone number that can't be used anywhere (at least where phone numbers take that format.)
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by HankB99 8y ago
Only slightly. Changing the orbit of the earth to achieve a 333.333 day year is not feasible b y any foreseeable technology.
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by HankB99 8y ago
Probably not a good time to propose decitime, I guess. (No pun intended.) Day is the basic measure. Deciday = day/10. (=~ 2.4 hour) Centiday = day/100 Either could be used in place of the old fashioned hour. Milliday = day/10
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by HankB99 8y ago
I'm assuming this would/could be done by a malicious party in order to substitute different IP addresses for some sites in an attempt to direct traffic for nefarious purposes. If my host is configured to use DNSSEC would that prev
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by HankB99 8y ago
Do you need to be remembered to be significant? I consider them to be two different things. For me the answer to both is to do what I can to have a positive impact on those around me. I consider my efforts as a scout leader to be the most l
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by HankB99 8y ago
That's good but I think I prefer http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-04-24
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by HankB99 8y ago
Indeed. In one of my podcasts a biologist described studying a female coyote that lived in downtown Chicago traveling between several parks in the wee hours. IIRC he tracked her for a couple years until the tracking collar fell off. For sev
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by HankB99 8y ago
I thought one of the aims of AMP was to curate advertising. A couple months ago I got (on my Android phone) one of those popovers that fills the entire screen and screams that my phone is infected and I need to "click here" to fix
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by HankB99 8y ago
Unrelated variant: Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life. ;)
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by HankB99 8y ago
Yes, it's the hydrogen that leaks out that's the problem. I was told that the way to find hydrogen leaks in plant piping was to walk the line holding a corn broom over the line. When it bursts into flame you found the leak. In an
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by HankB99 8y ago
I don't know, but it seems possible. The only references I recall about hydrogen embrittlement were with steam boilers at high temperature and pressure. I suppose like most engineering solutions it comes down to the various tradeoffs b
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by HankB99 8y ago
> ... and the AUR, which everyone knows are not officially endorsed or reviewed ... Uh, not everyone. I ran Manjaro for a bit and found that many of the things I ran were available via AUR. The usual thing I'd find in a search was u
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by HankB99 8y ago
I've disabled my account too. I haven't decided whether to delete yet. I originally got on FB because it was the best way to communicate with our kids. They have since moved on but in the mean time I have found several communities
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by HankB99 8y ago
Edit: Should have been "18.04". I need a better proof reader. (Perhaps that is why this was downvoted.)
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by HankB99 8y ago
FWIW utility generators are cooled with hydrogen to reduce windage losses and promote cooling. Hydrogen is probably lower viscosity and higher thermal conductivity than helium. It's also very hard to contain due to the small molecular
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by HankB99 8y ago
Here's what the BLS has to say about that. https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm I think about this when people post about how you don;t really need a college degree, you just need a trade. I have no doubt that
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by HankB99 8y ago
I agree with the long term / short term dichotomy. I believe the same dynamic is at work WRT the concentration of wealth in the US. I understand the short term desire to accumulate wealth. I do it myself. It seems to me that if trends

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