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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
To be perfectly fair, the list of DNSSEC cock-ups is staggering. .nz ccTLD was taken down, IIRC, for 4 days after a bad KSK rollover just last year. I’ve seen prominent registrars with ‘automated’ DNSSEC fail to upload correct NSEC and RRSI
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I suppose furniture also follows the [Lindy Effect]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect )
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Fiddlesticks. Redwoods are a fabulous building material. If you’re in the Bay Area, go check your houses joists. Quite a number of old houses here are made of redwood. AFAIK it makes a great wood for joists and structures because it it’s re
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Why wouldn’t running a heat pump in reverse to heat a room be ~same energy as running it in forward to cool a room? I suspect you’re comparing an airconditioner against a resistive heating unit.
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I feel an overwhelming itch to fire up KSP and show them how it’s done!
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I’ve thought about this a lot while restoring an old sewing machine. I conclude it comes down to the Labor-Capital share in a market [1]. Labor used to be relatively more abundant compared to capital. In these conditions, servicing an older
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I think they’re referring to modern cartridge bullets, as opposed to little lead balls stored separately from the powder and whatever else is rammed down the barrel in preparation for the next short. Indeed the first integrated cartridges w
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I don’t think it’s fair to conflate autism (a specific medical condition) with passionate (a personality trait) Where would we be without these kinds of people?
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Shipping of raw resources is cheap. Much of the bauxite used in aluminum cans in N America is shipped to Kitimat BC [0] to be smelted. Aluminum is notoriously electrically expensive. 0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
In Canada an in-sink garbage disposal unit is called a Garburator. I recently learned that’s a brand name of said devices. I’ve lived in the states for a while now, but I’m entirely unsure what everyone calls them down here.
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I’d interpret it as offer to support the project and receive high quality prints. The author is clearly gifting the world an incredible portfolio; one ought, if able, to financially support such unique, open datasets.
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Curiously, the US Articles of Confederation explicitly permit the annexation of Canada within the United States but offers no similar offer to Mexico. > Article XI. Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of th
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Better I say it before dang or another mod says it: Your comment, especially the unwarranted retreat to antagonistic expressions, doesn't contribute to a worthwhile discussion. I'd ask that you try to angle your comments to be mo
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Very cool. I love seeing development in commercial non-chemical-propellant technologies. Question about the total impulse. For ND-500+, they claim up to 250kNs of total impulse and a wet mass of 10-20kg. Assuming a spacecraft mass of abo
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Pretty sad. I hope someone picks up the pieces and keeps the company going. Say what you will about the company and it's leadership, but WeWork as a service was splendid. Yes, there's lots of other short-term office providers,
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Tap water has to come from somewhere. Dig a well, dam a river or desal the ocean, they all have significant costs to produce, treat, and distribute the water. Even if you did build one of these devices outside your house, you'd still
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Confused by the "... that is cheaper than tap water". Growing up on an island with desalination, that was our tap water!
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Pricing is interesting. $299 for the Wayfarer model when the base Wayfarer goes for $171 on the Rayban website. If (and this is a big if) you assume Luxottica takes the same cut on both models, then Meta is selling a camera, headphones, e
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
To kill a senior states-person will certainly lead to war which is itself highly un-environmentally friendly. The carbon credits in this case are the expected value of any averted war. A single F-35 burns something like 1,500 gallons&#x2F
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I would recommend everyone buy used furniture. We (my partner and I) furnished our apartment for next to nothing with solid wood furniture. Our queen sized pineapple bed made in the 60s from solid wood cost us $35 and is easily the most s
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
UCI Weight limit is 6.8kg. For anyone thinking about entering into a serious bike race with one of these bikes, it's too light.
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
The specific hottest temperature reading from Death Valley in 1913 is far from certain. The reality is we aren't sure how accurate that reading really was (turns out, measuring accurately temperature is harder than one might think).
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I am fortunate to have three siblings with children of their own. During my teens, twenties and early thirties I've watched as my six nieces and nephews have gone from preschool, gradeschool and now, for some of them, into university.
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
I use the programmer variant of dvorak. The number keys are 'swapped' with symbols, so you press shift to access numbers. Given that most programmers (should) use symbols more often than numbers, this is highly convenient. Stro
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Interestingly enough, the two vim bindings you probably use most, up/down (j/k) are actually positioned right next to each other on a dvorak keyboard. The rest take a bit of getting used to. You'd be surprised how natural v
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
As a dvorak user, whatever increase in typing speed is mostly irrelevant, for most of us, our output isn't limited by how fast we can type, but how fast we can think. That being said, a long time ago I took an analysis of one of our c
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Would love to read this, but the website has no zoom buttons and if I zoom in using my browser and click anywhere, that annoying sidebar screws everything up. Can't find the doc on scihub. Anyone have a PDF they can share?
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Playing Factorio took me down the deepest of rabbit holes to understand railway signals. One of the most difficult situations to deal with is deadlock, where one train blocks another train, which blocks yet another train until the network
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
The reality is that Apollo doesn't serve intrusive ads, and thus, every user using Apollo instead of their own first party apps is lost revenue. Unfortunately, reddit is in that late stage monetization step where they need to prove th
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by api_or_ipa 3y ago
There are about 730 hours in a month. $14,000/month works out to ~$19.17 per hour. Of course, being on-call does not equate to being at work. This sounds like a ridiculous clerical error. Most of us here are used to being on-call f

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