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by ak217 2y ago
That's not a useful comparison. The power of the explosion at Chernobyl, while deadly to the one person immediately next to it, was not the problem that made Chernobyl the catastrophe that it was. That was the radionuclide contaminatio
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by ak217 2y ago
The military is not exactly ready for war, though. Shipbuilding capacity is greatly diminished and the Navy has massive issues with most of its design and procurement programs. Other services have issues too, though not as severe. The milit
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by ak217 2y ago
Correct. That's the difference between the wholesale spot price on the open market and what PG&E charges consumers on their bill. There's lots of supply and less demand at noon in June compared to 6 pm in January. You're
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by ak217 2y ago
Electricity prices in California are 3x higher because of PG&E's monopoly on distribution combined with their wildfire risk liability from reckless power line building standards, not because of higher generation costs.
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by ak217 2y ago
Again not really. If the pub/sub broker is persistent, you don't have to persist the revocation list on edge nodes. And just pointing out that it's a db in some loose sense of the word doesn't help with the actual challe
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by ak217 2y ago
Not really. A pub/sub bus cluster (or PaaS) is pretty different from a database.
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by ak217 2y ago
> doesn't seem to address microservice architectures at all Or just, you know, service architectures. Most microservice architectures I've seen go way too far down the route of breaking up services and their infrastructure to a
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by ak217 2y ago
It limits your ability to compartmentalize your infrastructure, establish security perimeters, and provide defense-in-depth against vulnerabilities in your dependencies.
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by ak217 2y ago
Grail's test is a cfDNA test. It detects DNA fragments in blood that are indicative of specific methylation patterns that are in turn indicative of possible cancerous growth. While a good approach, there are continued sensitivity chall
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by ak217 2y ago
Would be really interesting to see a quantitative analysis of how this acquisition impacts the podcast/youtube ecosystem. I feel like Squarespace's podcast ad market share was a big deal 5 years ago but podcasts and youtubers have
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by ak217 2y ago
No, I don't really agree with any of your points, I think they're either incorrect or not relevant. And the rest of the content in the article beyond the headline is reporting, not making a value judgment, so I don't see how
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by ak217 2y ago
I suggest following the thousands of drone videos that continue to come out of the conflict. They contradict much of this analysis. Small and medium drones are much more precise than artillery and remain incredibly effective at surveillance
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by ak217 2y ago
You either support countries' right to self-determination or you don't. What happened in Ukraine and Georgia since 2008 is the equivalent of the United States repeatedly overthrowing democratically elected governments in Canada an
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by ak217 2y ago
This reminds me of a Google Chromebook ad from a long time ago where they destroy 25 Chromebooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo It felt so sad and tone deaf, a celebration of disposability. I don't think
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by ak217 2y ago
While MacOS does seem to rearrange windows occasionally for no clear reason, and there have been serious bugs in past releases, it does correctly restore my window positions across two 4k external displays when I connect them through a Thun
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by ak217 2y ago
> there is no real pressure connected between the SLA and their true performance I'm not sure I understand this. Regardless of the refund, if a provider cuts enough corners with SLAs, won't the customers eventually raise a stin
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by ak217 2y ago
TRAMP is unusable for my needs and doesn't really implement the remote IDE paradigm at all. I would argue that no IDE really implements the remote IDE paradigm aside from VSCode with the remote SSH plugin; it sets a new benchmark. I&#
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by ak217 2y ago
VSCode has excellent git and github support (especially with the GitHub Pull Requests and GitLens extensions). In my workflow, it has surpassed anything Magit had to offer. While I still use the command line git extensively, I've come
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by ak217 3y ago
Not my experience, and even if the depreciation is faster, the capex is so much lower that point-to-point wireless still comes out ahead.
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by ak217 3y ago
I think WISP/point-to-point wireless over the last mile, with fiber only in the core town areas, is much more promising than pulling fiber long distances to every rural residence. This technology has come a long way and is super afford
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by ak217 3y ago
If you're looking to reupholster, I've had great luck with https://www.slipcovershop.com/ . They make custom slipcovers and sell affordable cloth by the yard that you can use to easily reupholster stuff yourself if
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by ak217 3y ago
Playwright at its core is a headless browser driver. In this case, we are using it to tell the browser to generate a PDF.
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by ak217 3y ago
I was curious and searched around and found this presentation: https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/Workshop/slides/Erias.pdf You're right - although many of the building blocks are there, it appears t
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by ak217 3y ago
I'm not sure - we don't do color correction on our PDFs because we don't have photos in them and color rendering is not mission critical - but paged.js is focused on the concern of layout for print media. I would imagine colo
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by ak217 3y ago
FYI: the open source state of the art in this area is Playwright (the successor to Puppeteer) with Paged.js ( https://pagedjs.org/ ). I highly recommend that everyone check out and donate to paged.js, it's a fantastic pr
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by ak217 3y ago
This is a fascinating analysis, but it doesn't mention the magnetosphere. I'm an amateur, but my understanding is that tidal locking means effectively no rotation with respect to the aspect of the solar wind. No rotation means no
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by ak217 3y ago
Paying ransoms to ransomware groups needs to be made illegal and prosecuted under the RICO regime.
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by ak217 3y ago
Not a stupid question - you can think of the problem by analogy with RF engineering. You have very high performance digital logic and precise clocks on the chip that you can use to encode/decode (convolve/deconvolve) bits into wav
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by ak217 3y ago
First, this article is about medicine, not science, so I'm not sure that the critique is well targeted. Your critique might apply to an article written about the use of AI/ML in science, in which case it would be uninformed - algo
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by ak217 3y ago
What you're saying is vague to the point of being malicious. You're poisoning discourse by labeling ideas as undesirable, but so broadly that you end up trying to smear the author instead.

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