VLM

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811.
by VLM 6y ago
I think the number of people who actually perform prepping is vastly larger than the number of people consuming media trying to redefine the term, so that campaign will be an uphill climb.
812.
by VLM 6y ago
Its interesting that this study is bottom up not finding anything. So 5000 generic vitamin users and one of the ten chronic conditions researched was asthma. Working the opposite direction, https://www.cureus.com/articles&#
813.
by VLM 6y ago
Of course a "ASUS CHROMEBOX 3-N018U" runs over four times the price, so you could just buy three pi and toss them as the flash card fails and still save money.
814.
by VLM 6y ago
That stuff is nice, but in the context of OPs original request, how would any of that lower the rape rate in OPs city? Or the murder rate?
815.
by VLM 6y ago
Note that the contents of /etc/ssh/sshd_config are USUALLY compatible across operating systems. So you can use ansible to install a common and secure and standardized sshd config across, say, legacy linux and new freebsd serv
816.
by VLM 6y ago
Most important problem missed with fancy IDE: Tiny monitor. Its like looking at your source code thru a paper towel tube instead of in VR. Even if you can get a bigger monitor and give up on laptops, you'd STILL get to see more code at
817.
by VLM 6y ago
It was a big virtue signaling show where nobody involved made any changes. Which some will always see as a huge success because it avoids any need to do anything as long as declarations of support are cheered and awareness is raised and ve
818.
by VLM 6y ago
> The issue seems to me that it's a global ban. Global bans "seem" to be new. I've read many stories of shell scripts randomly permanently banning android developers for life from their platform, but those stories al
819.
by VLM 6y ago
Apple made the chiclet keyboard cool again. It might be OK. Gen-x who remember the TRS80 MC10 and its keyboard remember chiclet keyboards as not much better than membrane keyboards (Consider the ZX81 Spectrum) But decades later Apple start
820.
by VLM 6y ago
Thats not an edit, I wrote permit not encourage
821.
by VLM 6y ago
That brings us back around to the extermination of a phrase from the article "common cultural experiences". Consider the cultural difference between the gen-x experience of "every gamer" knowing the first level map of FP
822.
by VLM 6y ago
> You are basically financing a criminal group. In normal cases that's clearly illegal. Clearly, not the case. That might be an interesting way to naturally limit the size of corporations and their influence; if everyone who fills
823.
by VLM 6y ago
I realize for political reasons we have to only support one side via extreme sophistry, essentially the whole topic is a giant dog whistle test to make sure our community is politically pure. However its VERY hard to ignore the reality that
824.
by VLM 6y ago
Fun to run the math sometimes. As an engineering estimate the system wide COP of a peltier device is at most 0.05 vs pumped freon running around ten (to one sig fig). So with a solid state peltier device the 30 watt device sucks 1.5 watts
825.
by VLM 6y ago
In that era, wrapped in a tube of grounded aluminum, making an excellent faraday cage.
826.
by VLM 6y ago
The same logic of "blame the vendor" is very popular and accepted for gun control reasons.
827.
by VLM 6y ago
The topic can only be discussed using political speech until November 3rd then on the 4th we can go back to using scientific speech.
828.
by VLM 6y ago
I was pretty confused by the article and thought it was talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Experience Or at least would mention it. Very confusing but appears to have nothing to do with the stor
829.
by VLM 6y ago
Optical people are rolling their eyes at the size of reflector required for 1200 Hz. BEST hope possible to make the story true would be clear glass semiconductors can detect incoming light so MAYBE germanium glass tube diodes hanging out in
830.
by VLM 6y ago
Per google, $10K/yr is one median income per 2.8 houses. The concept of having one person for every three houses doing nothing but infrastructure maintenance is laughable. The problem with wide spread innumeracy is random numbers can
831.
by VLM 6y ago
Blind support of new urbanism used to be a pledge of allegiance on this site; support seems to be shifting to something else, although I don't know what.
832.
by VLM 6y ago
General opinion for decades has been the Ferengi are specifically anti-Semitic stereotypes rather than generic Mediterranean-area stereotypes.
833.
by VLM 6y ago
Microusb usually didn't burn out or brick the device
834.
by VLM 6y ago
Ironically the problem is due to extreme demand by the general public due to virtue signaling by wearing masks. However, when you compare wearing rates vs either reported or estimated infection rates three weeks later, there is no correlati
835.
by VLM 6y ago
An example of where you do need a SMLLC is my dentist's LLC was a SMLLC twice in his career due to various partnerships forming and dissolving in the normal course of careers. Apparently the process of adding or removing partners is, a
836.
by VLM 6y ago
I wonder how many people used to work with the people they sat next to? That was a rare experience for me back in the old W-2 office days. My boss was in another state, another timezone, another shift, sometimes another country. Ditto cowo
837.
by VLM 6y ago
> Do you want him in the office, where he is guaranteed to spend 0 hours taking care of kids Almost all of the casual conversations with my kids are more interesting than the casual conversations with my coworkers. The puzzle of the rare
838.
by VLM 6y ago
> send an electrician I think OP needed an electrician onsite anyway, as $200/month would be somewhat over 2500 watts continuous 24x7 which would require in the US at minimum two dedicated 15 amp circuits. That's a serious en
839.
by VLM 6y ago
Another classic example is free in the GNU sense vs the BSD sense.
840.
by VLM 6y ago
In the 90s there used to be a web page for linux describing all the possible physical formats and one interesting side effect was changes in average kilobytes/sec transfer rate. Obviously more tracks simply took longer to read more dat

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