Hilift

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by Hilift 1y ago
The UK was in a really interesting position. The British empire was the largest in history, and it occurred during a time of great advancement during the industrial revolution. Liquid fuel wasn't new. The owner of two of the three ship
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Hard to believe Churchill was one of the early developers of that field. Fascinating history. "In 1913, shortly before World War I, APOC managers negotiated with a new customer, Winston Churchill, who was then First Lord of the Admiral
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> By far the largest Express sort facilities are in Memphis ... I once worked for well known company with a large presence in Memphis. Our mostly empty parking lot was a mobile location for the city's new network of gunshot detector
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by Hilift 1y ago
Reducing costs is the wrong incentive. If you look at a modern vendor such as Splunk or CrowdStrike, they have huge estates in AWS. There are huge swaths of repeating data, both within and across tenants. Rather than pointing this out, it i
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by Hilift 1y ago
It is a strange market. There are some apps that include support for specific DSLR models. This one supports specific Canon and Nikon models: https://sparkosoft.com/sparkocam-features
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by Hilift 1y ago
That doesn't mean those regulations or structures were intended to be a permanent fixture. Similarly, Bretton Woods was not intended to maintain gold at $35 per ounce. The world is a place where some development requires large amounts
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by Hilift 1y ago
How it works is the county or muni specifies the number. This is similar to allocating land for single family or multi tenant. You can of course bypass this and rent rooms or have a group house, but renters may not have the same legal prote
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by Hilift 1y ago
Using a VPN doesn't prevent the Iranian authorities from detecting that you are using a VPN. It isn't a secure or safe alternative in Iran, particularly with the noisy way it is usually thrown together.
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by Hilift 1y ago
Unfortunately the state will never be able to stop or prevent it. There needs to be arrests and prosecutions though, and that is where the problems start. For a interesting example, look at California. A few years back, the state reverted m
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by Hilift 1y ago
Completely impractical. Look at other countries. France and the UK are under enormous budget pressure, mostly due to the cost of funding the defense of the illegal war in Ukraine, but also due to other costly recent policy decisions. Both c
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by Hilift 1y ago
Supposedly in the US there are 25,000 emergency room visits per year for chainsaw injuries. Or that is what AI wants us to think, so it can take all the good chainsaw jobs.
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by Hilift 1y ago
Trump doesn't do "policy". He is mostly trolling, and sometimes rambling. For anyone that doesn't understand or agree with them, they simply don't like you and it would be great if you weren't around. What Trum
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No, they noticed. 90 years ago, 2/3 of the world's books were in Germany. They were educated and literate and knew what they were doing and what was happening. Germans were acutely aware of the reality of the day to day situation
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by Hilift 1y ago
This could be the exemplar prototype for Dune knives that can penetrate a Holtzman Shield. Also recall in Dune there is an aversion to technology, so the simplicity and required human operation is a perfect fit.
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by Hilift 1y ago
Why would this be of importance given Trump already pardoned numerous violent felons and other cronies? Was it the e-vehicle association? Was it due to retail had not realized there are two systems of laws, one for retail and another for im
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by Hilift 1y ago
There was a really good "chain" in the 1960s southeast US called Davis House (or Davis Brothers). It was a more upscale version of a restaurant that served mainly Kentucky Fried Chicken, although there was many other dishes. &quot
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> I'm not really sure what to do You need an EDR and code repo scanner. Exploring this as a technical problem of the infrastructure will accomplish. The people that create these systems are long gone and had/have huge gaps in t
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by Hilift 1y ago
One thing you are missing out on: mandatory loud (97 to 112 db) 1000 Hz audible beep when the vehicle reversing, oh so slowly, such as at the recharging station. Also, constant shop vac five horsepower vacuum cleaner sound. BEEP BEEP BEEP
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by Hilift 1y ago
"Point to the keys you press to enter the em dash". And smart quotes. My conjecture (and personal experience) is 99% of the occurrences of these characters is not due to pressing they corresponding keys, it is due to copy paste. S
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It is probably infuriating to many that costs are that significant and that important. France should be the model for nuclear, but mismanaged EDF which now has €54.3 billion debt and is years behind in maintenance. (2022 debt was €64.5 bill
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by Hilift 1y ago
There probably will be, but they don't need transit to transform development because no one wants three years of competing with their neighbor for developer and contractor resources. 80% will rent or buy elsewhere. Some may return and
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by Hilift 1y ago
"Bring dense housing" misses the plot. It prevents 50% of all development projects (in recent years) from being thwarted for no reason under the veil of environment laws. Some municipalities also had requirements to "get your
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Or acknowledge the true cost of $10 billion to build a reactor. Look at recent implementations. Finland was complaining that they had to deal with the mafia. The plant cost €11 billion, original proposal: €3 billion. Yikes. "... 3,800
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by Hilift 1y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. A regular user account should never have a service principal name (SPN), for the simple reason that it can be attacked in the way described. That is why service accounts have really long complex
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The US is a mobility and automobile obsessed society. Walking and cycling are usually associated with exercise or inability to drive due to lack of resources. Combine that with an obsession to make cars available to anyone, even if they are
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> privatised water companies have built no new reservoir capacity Of course not. The water company was in terrible shape (read: lacking funds) before it was dumped on a commercial company that does not have deep pockets like Chevron. Tha
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A more enlightening chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
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by Hilift 1y ago
It is being reduced where you think it should be. There is now a more serious threat from uncontrollable methane emissions. Landfills can turn into a slushee that accelerates methane ouptput. And landfills can catch fire, such as the Chiqui
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Most SMB companies did not have IP addresses in 1994 when RFC 1597 was published, although the range was known. However, the well known companies did, and some of those have the older full class B assignments. It was common for those compan
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The cost of a B-61 nuclear gravity bomb is only $28 million (2012). There are approximately 400, of which 100 were moved to Europe in 2022. They can only be launched by an F-18 or F-35 with a special armament control package (not included i

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