Johnny555

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by Johnny555 11mo ago
Even in a desert, people still use umbrellas for protection from the rain: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jan/19/fast-moving-storm-b... And the rain still causes problems, even (or maybe especially in
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
That continues the analogy -- it doesn't rain often in the desert, but almost all deserts receive rain. And since it rains so rarely, you're certainly not going to find an umbrella during the rainstorm. So again, if staying dry in
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
I thought that's why it's a good analogy - DDoS protection doesn't apply retroactively to prior attacks (or even current attacks, it's hard to apply DDoS protection while your site is down due to DDoS). If you want prote
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
That's a good analogy since the corner shop is going to be sold out of their small stock of umbrellas during the rain storm so you won't be able to buy one until the rainstorm is over but at least you'll have protection for t
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
>The US is still party to NATO Article 5, meaning the blood of our young people is pledged to be shed to defend, say, Estonia. That has not changed. A treaty is only as good as its enforcement, and if the USA declines to uphold their obl
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
How is Trump using digital ID's on iPhones to complete a coup?
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
The article is in response to a very one-sided government ban (well, reported ban) on TP-Link products. The company is being targeted for what appears to be political reasons, the article even said so in the first paragraph: Experts say
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
>Setting aside the environmental impact of flying private, you'd think all those brilliant minds could come up with some kind of solution beyond flying further away and driving into Portugal. Maybe a jet that hundreds of people can
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
There's so little cost to store the contents of a single 9 track tape that there doesn't need to be any reason at all to do it.
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
I don't know what native apps they needed Windows for (I wasn't doing IT work by then), but I was still setting up PC's when they said they needed Windows Excel (not Excel on Mac, not Office365) for some forecasting spreadshe
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
The same reason most organizations use it -- inertia and because it's been the standard for so long, it's the best at what it does. The startup I used to work at was exclusively on OSX + GoogleDocs, when we were small, but as we g
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
>Whenever natural gas supply is turned off in the US, for any reason, only the gas company can turn it back on I had a seismic shutoff installed at my gas meter and the plumber who installed it had no problem turning off the gas and turn
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
>Just a waste of copper and a beaker really. But also helps avoid the case where your coffee maker trips the breaker shared with your refrigerator and you don't notice until the food in the refrigerator is warm. (which was a risk in
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
The owners manual for my Bosch 500 says prewash detergent is not necessary. But it does have a prewash cycle as I can hear it draining before the main wash. Note: This dishwasher provides the optimum cleaning performance without the use of
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
>It sounds like you should never trust any medical advice you receive from ChatGPT and should seek proper medical help instead. That makes sense. The OpenAI company doesn't want to be held responsible for any medical advice that goe
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
IANAL either, but I read it as using the service to provision medical advice since they only mentioned the service and not anyone else. I asked the "expert" itself (ChatGPT), and apparently you can ask for medical advice, you just
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
While they aren't stopping users from getting medical advice, the new terms (which they say are pretty much the same as the old terms), seem to prohibit users from seeking medical advice even for themselves if that advice would otherwi
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
The Las Vegas Airport is very close to the strip, surrounded by residential neighborhoods and hotels about 1/4 - 1/2 mile from the airport, and UNLV university is about 1000 feet in a straight line from one of the runways.
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
This article is in response to Trump's declaration that the USA is starting nuclear weapons testing, the the energy secretary clarified that these are "non-critical" tests, i.e. they are testing the non-nuclear parts of the w
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
I wanna know how they keep it cool, even if it's 95% efficient, that's 15,000 watts of power to dissipate.
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
For those not well versed in Haskell, GHC is apparently this: https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ What is GHC? GHC is a state-of-the-art, open source compiler and interactive environment for the functional language Haskell.
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
I've made about a dozen payments with them, and have had only one real problem - not long after I made the account but after I'd used them successfully for a few payments, I was paying for a purchase in 2 payments (one for each it
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
I don't think their customer service is crooked, but their customer service is tailored to making sure they meet the exact letter of the laws and regulations they operate under and if it means they lose customers, that's better th
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
I didn't sign up with them until they rebranded to "Wise", so that's what I call them. If this article just called them "TransferWise", I doubt I would have known it was the same as the Wise I use.
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
One interesting fact I learned in a different discussion is that when LED lights are used for obstruction lighting, the FAA has standards that require infrared emitters to make them visible to night vision goggles, since unlike incandescent
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by Johnny555 11mo ago
In this case, they did it with a moving blanket -- just folded it over and tossed it over the barbed wire at the top of the fence, then scaled the fence. It was still laying over the fence then next day.
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by Johnny555 1y ago
But usually the thing that's locked up can survive even less brute force than the lock -- a storage unit near mine was broken into, and the unit owner (who was there with the police) said the thieves just pried off the storage unit loc
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by Johnny555 1y ago
Most of the reports on the downdetector heatmap are coming from the NYC area, that's probably more likely to be a network issue (or even, if you can imagine it, DNS) than a real AWS failure since it's well into business hours on
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by Johnny555 1y ago
Google probably isn't using AWS for any of their infrastructure.
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by Johnny555 1y ago
I'm not surprised, I used to work for a cloud SaaS provider, everything we had ran on Linux, everyone in the office ran on Macs and Google Docs. Then as we grew the finance team, they found that Google Docs couldn't handle the spr

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