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by Jedd 5y ago
I've been meaning to write up an 'Ask HN' style question around using something similar to combat a common beekeeping pest called the Small Hive Beetle (SHB). This is a small (5mm) black beetle that comes into beehives, usual
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Initialisms are a subset of acronyms; acronym is accurate here. I believe you have that inverted. An abbreviation is a shortened version of a word or phrase, and encompasses both initialisms and acronyms. An initialism is pronounced o
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by Jedd 5y ago
It sounds like the 2500 page report has been released to the press, but not yet publicly available. Are you contending that the numbers are unreasonably high or low?
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by Jedd 5y ago
Sure, and I agree that sex scenes aren't inherently more complex / difficult to film than fight scenes (caveats around CGI, green screen, etc complexities that are more likely required in the latter). As intimated though, the ch
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Aren't there plenty of sex scenes in TV shows these days? Very probably. TFA does not include the string 'TV' or 'television', but has 16 occurrences of 'movie', so perhaps you're arguing against
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by Jedd 5y ago
It's an opinion piece in the culture section of the Free Beacon - what kind of article were you expecting (beyond 'bunch of anecdata'). FWIW I found it a hugely entertaining, and spectacularly well written piece. As to your c
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by Jedd 5y ago
Alt-F2 on KDE brings up krunner - a small text input floating dialog in which you could type, say, 8 * 9 , and be gifted the value 72. No spam accompanies this result. Alternatively if I type 'hacker', I shall be shown the three
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by Jedd 5y ago
Fantastic, and thank you. I'd searched for something like that, but was finding a mish-mash of USA state licence images. Did you count the other 33 as all having 'Driver license'? Not that that's terribly conclusive --
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by Jedd 5y ago
Slightly aside -- I have never worked out why everyone calls it a "driver's licence" (or license), as every one I've ever seen, on all sides of the pond, is clearly labelled a "Driver Licence" in big bold lette
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by Jedd 5y ago
Unfortunately off the air until they do the re-write.
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by Jedd 5y ago
> nuclear is the only clean base load generation we have. I'm assuming from your phrasing that you're using nuclear to refer exclusively to nuclear fission. Are you really suggesting that it's 'clean' in the sens
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by Jedd 5y ago
Fairy nuff. I only discovered the SMP plans about 8 months ago, but evidently they've been around since ~ 2019-08. Not hugely well advertised to existing customers, unfortunately. I'm barely hitting 1GB / month of metered c
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by Jedd 5y ago
Aha, okay, that was my initial reading. NBN (Australia's national broadband system) introduced, via a partner, this Sky Muster Plus offering about two years ago, that includes effectively unmetered plans, so the claim isn't as tru
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by Jedd 5y ago
Can confirm that it's truly horrendous. Since switching to that grade of service I have consistently had captcha challenges every time I go through paypal (despite it saying 'we recognise you on this device...'), my Unifi VPN
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by Jedd 5y ago
> But you can never get around 600~ms pings and limited data allowance ... I'm not sure how that sentence is meant to be parsed, but the NBN Sky Muster Plus packages include unlimited downlink traffic (for everything except streamin
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by Jedd 5y ago
Okay, so if I understand you correctly, you're saying that - with the constraint of what's currently being proposed, a small set of tentative / cautious controls around gun ownership - that there's not much to gain, so c
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by Jedd 5y ago
Well, yes, that question would be asked, as the current state, that the majority of US citizens have grown up with, is now considered normal by them. Reasonable enough, but many people have access to information about how the world outside
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by Jedd 5y ago
I'm not sure when that was, but in a contemporary setting, the line of questioning (and fascination about what's been normalised) would be highly reasonable. Consider the frighteningly lengthy list of school shootings in the USA.
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by Jedd 5y ago
Hang on. You came in with: > It's usually the opposite sentiment for gun owners- I trust my fellow citizens with arms. And now: > Have you ever read about the terrible things people do to each others? Or the barbarism of human h
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Guns are seen as an integral part of self-reliance by many. For context, can you clarify if the many you're referring to there are some fellow USA citizens? If so, I'll note that USA is < 5% of global population, and also
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by Jedd 5y ago
Sure, and that's objectively a weird position to take for someone who appears to be as empathetic as he is. But it (as you observe) does not reflect 'the party policies' - simply the current elected leader. And while that&#
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by Jedd 5y ago
> PS: I am strong supporter of Gun rights and proud gun owner. I don't understand the pride bit. It seems like a regrettable situation where your distrust of your fellow citizens is so strong that you are comforted by the ability to
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by Jedd 5y ago
Okay, so there's 249 pages of policy to read and then correlate, which is a bit beyond me. > ... universal health care, how strongly they are in favor of nuclear disarmament, gun control, etc As I understand it, US Democrats are kee
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by Jedd 5y ago
Happily there's a change record that demonstrates that wasn't, unsurprisingly, the case.
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by Jedd 5y ago
And lo, just 13 days on, there's (yet another) story on HN [1] about Steve Jobs being an arsehole. "Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs" The article paints Jobs
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by Jedd 5y ago
> .. Labor is Center Left and further to the left of the Democrats. Do you think? I'd have pegged things like Green New Deal, fairly strong consensus around fossil fuels and renewables, as strong US Democrat party line -- compared
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by Jedd 5y ago
Can second this recommendation. We're running OpenShift and Nomad clusters - the former makes my eyes bleed, and the latter I can mostly get my head around. (Note that I'm not involved in operating either of those platforms.)
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by Jedd 5y ago
It feels you think I have an answer, just that I'm not willing to share it with you. I don't have an answer, but that doesn't mean I must accept or like yours. The approach I described (home quarantine & testing regime fo
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by Jedd 5y ago
You're speaking about the current outbreaks - we don't yet know if we will / could eradicate it this time around. Certainly previously we've gotten down to zero, across every state, when there was more political will to

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