HankB99

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by HankB99 2y ago
> Mercury and Gemini both had used pure oxygen environments with obviously no mishaps. Pure oxygen atmosphere is pretty dangerous. I worked with it at a steel mill where it was a process gas. Oxygen lines had to be "oxygen clean&quo
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by HankB99 2y ago
A flap over an opening in the mask is pulled shut when inhaling and pushed open when exhaling.
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by HankB99 2y ago
I used double stick tape (AKA "boob tape" on Amazon) to reduce leakage around the bridge of my nose. It helped reduce fogging of my glasses a lot. I guess it's called boob tape because boobs like me use it? I didn't see
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by HankB99 2y ago
Raspberry Pis GPIO pins include a serial port and can run at 115200. I've used that for monitoring the boot process as it can be configured to put out messages before anything goes to the screen. When the boot process halts with nothin
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by HankB99 2y ago
Modern electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems are protected by "relays" that open breakers to prevent damage. I did a quick search on "Carrington event protective relaying" and found https:/&#
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by HankB99 2y ago
Agreed. I wonder if they could find better candidates.
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by HankB99 2y ago
At times I'm wondering if the Cicada emergence (17 year brood here) is masking tinnitus or if tinnitus will mask the cicadas. As they get louder, I can easily hear them over tinnitus. The cicada sound itself is interesting. Distant one
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by HankB99 2y ago
> About 0.285% That's pretty high and aligns with the description of slurred speech and other signs of inebriation. I wonder if those afflicted ever connect diet with severity of symptoms as it seems that high carbs increase ETOH pr
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by HankB99 2y ago
> Google knows how long people stay on pages and whether they click and back out immediately. What if I <ctrl><click> to keep the search page open and open the "found" page in another tab?
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by HankB99 2y ago
> Any port you map on the host will be opened in nftables ... That rates a "Wow!" but seems like something more important to Enterprise/Cloud. It seems like it would be a Bad Thing to open a port because a DB server ran in
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by HankB99 2y ago
> Successful clicks matter. I wonder about this. If I click a link and read it and I find that it's garbage (e.g. got ranked based on SEO rather than useful content) does it count as a successful click? Worse yet, some of these site
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by HankB99 2y ago
> and does not suffer from many of the docker shortcomings. Would you care to elaborate on the shortcomings? I use Docker in my home lab and have taken a couple runs at Podman but have not been highly motivated and reverted to Docker rat
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by HankB99 2y ago
Years ago I bought Spinrite. Past the 30 day return policy I was disappointed to learn that it was limited to 2TB HDDs. At that time most of my HDDs were larger. I asked about an upgrade and was told "Real Soon Now." Years ago. I
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by HankB99 2y ago
> people should just be vary not to use language ideas for PL. (s/vary/wary/, I suspect.) Why not? I thought of crafting a system as telling a story about what the system was going to do, whether or not it involved an inte
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by HankB99 2y ago
I believe that's the book I still have on my shelf. IIRC "UNIX Network Programming" and I learned a lot about networking and a lot about how UNIX works reading it cover to cover. I think I learned more from that book than any
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by HankB99 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't even thought about telemetry until I saw this article. I thought the plate number would be enough, especially since it's a plate licensed to a business (dealer plate.) Also since it's a
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by HankB99 2y ago
Makes me wonder how this case remains unsolved. (Or if solved, unreported.) https://cwbchicago.com/2024/05/bucktown-hit-and-run-bentley-...
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by HankB99 2y ago
This reminds me of the joke whose punch line is > You will be lucky to have this person work for you.
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by HankB99 2y ago
Thanks, Mr. Orwell.
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by HankB99 2y ago
I've already seen likely malfeasance from the traffic overrides used to help emergency vehicles (in the US) control traffic lights. When the override is activated, a white light turns on near the traffic light. I've seen that go o
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by HankB99 2y ago
> 2. Trusted OS: You can trust the OS from get go. Mostly true. However I did experience issues that led to less than 100% trust. When I got my Pi 5, I ordered an NVME HAT and was thrilled to be able to run the Pi from an NVME SSD. Then
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by HankB99 2y ago
> Good time to talk about the rPi alternatives? I do not think this changes anything in that regard. As a hobbyist I keep an eye on the competition and during Covid none of the alternatives appealed to me. I'm sure others came to d
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by HankB99 2y ago
> the engine is directly coupled to the prop. Mildly interesting: to reverse propulsion, the engine is stopped and restarted rotating the opposite direction.
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by HankB99 2y ago
> However, women aged 15–24 who reported having used the Internet in the past week were, on average, less happy with the place they live, compared with people who didn’t use the web. I was wondering about the overall effect for young fol
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by HankB99 2y ago
I use one on a "CM4 ETHER BOARD" https://dphacks.com/cm4-ether-board-minimalist-compute-modul... which provides Ethernet, USB-C for power and micro USB for flashing an EEPROM. It doesn't have an SD card slot
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by HankB99 2y ago
Good is subjective. I've trialed cold brew at home and have been serving it warmed. I prefer my coffee hot. I thought it tasted fine, different but neither better nor worse than hot brew (drip in my case.) Since it's DIY I have no
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by HankB99 2y ago
Not my fantasy. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html
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by HankB99 2y ago
Last time I looked, I thought that VSCode/PlatformIO supported both the ESP libraries (ESP-IDF) directly as well as the Arduino libraries (which I think are based on ESP-IDF.) My personal preference is to use the Espressif libraries ra
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by HankB99 2y ago
When the need for their talents is gone, you just cut them loose. (Likewise if the company hits a budget crunch as well.)
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by HankB99 2y ago
Is that an Espressif or an ESPHome recommendation? Were I designing a product that uses one of these I would certainly not use the ESP8266. For hobby projects, if I can buy them on Amazon, eBay or elsewhere, the 8266 remains a valid choice

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