adhesive_wombat

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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
This is what happens when you don't use a proper capital-S Stack. Probably they weren't even using Kubernetes and a separate multi-cloud management DB for monitoring their data pipeline ingest.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Hopefully they thought of that and made the bore narrow enough that it won't fit.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Makes good cover for naval intelligence activities though. Just don't assume because you see a ship "mining manganese nodules" from the seabed that you should build your own ship with your own money.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Well it's not going to get better now that Euston's HS2 expansion has been functionally killed.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
> For example, they might make the Accept All Cookies button prominent, colorful and appealing, while burying the Customize Settings option in small text or a less noticeable location. This design choice can be misleading, effectively nu
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
LeechBlock on Firefox has timed blocks. It works on Android and desktop. Delete the apps, use the websites.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The short story was good too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima_Blue_and_Other_Stories
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
For Reddit, Twitter, Pinterest and Imgur the website is almost unusable on mobile when not logged in. Log out, don't save your password in the autofill. Now you have to log in to get your fix, which is now a hassle.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Very many older (and not even that old) tube stations have glossy tiled walls[1], presumably because they're easy to clean with just a cloth. Choosing bare concrete looks cool, and you don't need to pay a tiler to install them, bu
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
My in-laws watch so much TV, it's stultifying. I start getting antsy from lack of brain engagement if I have to spend too long sitting there. Build a model, read a book, write a book (or write a Wikipedia article, or a wikibook chapt
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Somehow once you get to a certain scale it becomes its own defense. "Oh we can't police that, we're really just that big, don't you know". But the small guys better watch out, no excuses for them.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I was going to say "if you wanted to live in human-ready paradise you can already do that right here" but decided not to add it!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Compared to deep space, Mars is positively luxuriously bountiful in many ways. You can even go outside with just a compression suit and a tank of oxygen and there's plenty of radiation shielding material just lying there on the floor (
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Leetcode is taken seriously too by some. There's a thick layer of Ark B types that think they're extremely useful, because when you just have a list tick boxes, you don't need to think about it and no one can blame you for fo
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
For things like inverters for example, yes, you have to measure things to decide when to turn on (say) transistors based on that information. You have to carefully design it if you want to be able to drive the exact same H-bridge in reverse
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Good to see that technology-based executive function theft (i.e. "our inconvenient corner case is all y'all's problem not ours") doesn't just affect individuals.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Governments should be too. It's probably the cheapest way to get the most justice done to "just" have things durably publicly archived, not to mention historical research, adminstrative utility and so on. An equivalent amount
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Fundraiser with matching no less. Wikipedia doesn't need any more money, the Internet Archive is a far better use for a donation. And they don't use fake-urgency manipulation to beg for it either.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
I think in German some smashed up sentence like "ich haben gegesst der Abendessen" would also be understandable no matter how brutally you fluff the verb's conjugation and gender of the noun.
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
The adjective order one is really interesting to explain: the adjectives in "good small old red wooden English book" have to come in that order or it sounds very peculiar. Other European languages may have this to, but explaining
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Allegedly this is a problem Nvidia has encountered. Their share price increase means they have a lot of staff who are now rich through share ownership and who don't really need to put in the effort any more. https://www.toms
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
You can get LEDs in many wavelengths. Around 500nm is "cyan", 505nm is described as "Verde" or "mint green", 510nm is called "blue green" by LED manufacturers. And those are just single-wavelength exa
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Hey can the reward be a little video of an anthropomorphic bowling ball and pins? It's not the same as back in the 90s: now you can get an NFT of it and trade it!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It's wild to me how these things get these valuations. It's just a scooter and an app. There's demonstrably barely any technical moat here. The only possible way to stay afloat at that kind of value long term is if your scoot
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
No, it's not a gambler's fallacy. You know you got zero this year, it already happened. You know it's expected 1/n next year (assuming independence, etc), just like every year. So the expected amount of hurricanes next y
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
That is how it works: it's regression to the mean. If you expect a major hurricane every n years and you didn't have one this year, the expected likelihood of one next year (1/n) is greater than what you actually got this y
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Excuse me brother, did you forget DevOps scripture may not be uttered outside sanctified Discord churches?
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
... And yet most of it still uses Jenkins in there somewhere!
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Firstly, only if you can only sell a certain amount specifically (heh) by mass. And then but in order to bulk it up by even a percent, you're quickly into "holy shit" concentrations. 500ppm is above the highest level detected
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by adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Using lead to increase mass by any significant amount would require a substantial fraction of the food to be lead acetate, which has a density well under 4g/cm³. Even red lead is "only" 8.3g/mm³, so it's not like yo

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