anonymousiam

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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   The implication is, at the very least, there were SOME scientists concerned about global cooling in the 1960's and 1970's. I was around then, and it was very much publicized in the media. I never heard anything about global wa
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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   Scientists warned then-president Nixon about climate change in 1972. They were concerned about GLOBAL COOLING, NOT GLOBAL WARMING . News article about the Nixon global cooling letter: https://www.thestreet.com/economonitor
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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   A pretty cool follow-on to LCRD. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/lcrd/index.html
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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   "Or you can buy a top brand like Samsung, if you're happy with the bloatware and the recent deal with Meta – details not revealed, but it's safe to assume Zuck's hummingbird will be slipping its tongue into your sweet da
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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   I was dead on the street at 15 after being hit by a car (my fault). A good Samaritan stopped, administered CPR and resuscitated me. Forty six years later and I never got to thank him. I only know his first name (Mark). CPR is a good thin
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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   Not all that different from the Ariane-5 maiden launch, except for human lives being at stake vs. billions of Euros (adjusted for inflation). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88
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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   Well written article, but most of the "harms" described (aside from the Therac-25) are a direct result of attempting to replace human-to-human contact with technology. 1) Instead of relying on a phone alarm to wake you up, use a d
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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   Everyone involved is a person, and we are all subject to making mistakes. The organizers probably should not have pushed this as a keynote presentation, and they eventually realized their mistake. JeanHeyd Meneide saw this as a slight, bu
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   by anonymousiam 3y ago

   To take what you've said a little further, intelligence agencies have the "law" behind them, but once you become aware of everything they (all of them, worldwide) are doing, you get a completely different perspective on the &
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    Very cool, and although the submarine may be silent, the magnetic anomaly could theoretically be detected and tracked.
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    When I saw the headline, I assumed this post was about the Debian Linux Alien and not the movie, but then I realized that Linux is about 10 years younger than 44. https://wiki.debian.org/Alien
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    RIP Brian Shul.
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    As discussed here in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21202905
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    I am a libertarian, and I feel as you do. If I had not given up my privacy rights so long ago, I probably would have been a privacy activist. Constitutional rights should apply to everyone in the country. Spying on overseas traffic is no
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    Also discussed here: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/20/justice-mitchell-alabam...
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    Understood, but by holding such a clearance, you are subject to periodic re-investigation and some continuous monitoring. You most definitely give up your privacy from government snooping in order to hold a clearance. I held such a clearan
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN76477
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    The reason it's not an abuse is that the subject candidate for the clearance has signed the SF86 form and granted the government permission to look into all aspects of their life. The abuse being discussed here has nothing to do with a
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    Thanks for the reply. I got a few years of experience doing power systems in 1980, which came in handy when I did the CA PV system in 2003. (My embedded/web development skills also came in handy when designing/deploying the sola
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    Thanks! I'm somewhat ignorant of these things, and I did not mean to offend anyone.
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    While reading this, it got me wondering about proper pronoun usage for past-tense. AFAIK, Wendy was Walter when Switched On Bach was released, so is it proper to say "his" work, or "her" work? The article refers to Carl
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    It's a long story. That solar plant was basically a UPS because the neighborhood where I bought a house had terrible power, and yes, they were just for the server. The root cause of the power problem was a 50-year old 4kV "last
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    I ran a similar off-grid system for 10 years (starting in 2003), but mine was of a somewhat larger scale. The server consumed about 400W and I had 1280W of solar panels. I started with lead-acid deep-cycle marine batteries, but later swit
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    'pv' is great, but you need to have the foresight to use it in your command before you run it. 'progress' seems great for those cases where you didn't realize your job was going to take so long, and you don't
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    Great to see this here! I've never used it until now because instead I used a 20 year old shell script (later converted to Python by a friend) to do the same thing. I gave it a try on a ddrescue job (unfortunately not recognized by de
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    A timely post, considering that news was published today revealing that the FBI abused 702 data access restrictions to spy on US citizens within the US. Any bets on whether or not any FBI personnel will be prosecuted over this? https:&#x2F
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    It's 1/r², and the pulsed currents induced into the proposed wire mesh would likely produce some strong local EM effects -- possibly enough to overwhelm the rest of the drone electronics. Sure, you could build a drone to resist th
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    How to hardwire your home without ethernet in the walls(theverge.com)

    5 points by anonymousiam 3y ago|1 comments
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    by anonymousiam 3y ago

    It goes higher when you include state taxes, local taxes, sales taxes, SSI taxes, unemployment insurance, SDI, gas taxes, property taxes, etc. Also, some of the above are paid by both employer and employee, which is an accounting trick to m