ashtonkem

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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Nevermind the risk that it’s actually a cop sending these requests for their own personal reasons. It’s far from unheard of for cops to abuse these systems to harass former partners and personal rivals; the courts are supposed to provide ov
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
And this is why my reolink cameras are on a subnet without access to the internet. The only thing it can reach is my home assistant and open source NVR.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Given how many fake products amazon sells and intermingles with legitimate products, it isn’t at all surprising that they forwarded you to a scammer. They just don’t care about protecting their customers, apparently.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
They tend to go through a lot of water too, which is the big issue with the datacenter Meta wants to put in a town nearby to me.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
The issue with pair programming has always been that some people hate it with the heat of a thousand suns. I’m one of them. Its very effective I don’t dispute that, but it makes me absolutely miserable and I’ll end up quitting to avoid doin
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
The restrictions the state places on us largely function as a one way ratchet, alas. There is a lot about American drug policy that is wildly unpopular, and yet here we are. A huge portion of the issue is that we’re largely ruled by people
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
“I asked a cop about how effective an OTC medicine is” is an absolutely insane thing for anyone to say, let alone a legislator. Sadly it does not seem like such behavior receives the social opprobrium it deserves.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Not entirely unique to Seattle, in my experience. Seared into my head is my experience of trying to buy alcohol in Boston back in 2009, when I was in town for a wedding. I had just turned 21 so buying alcohol was still novel and exciting. I
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
You’re using a much more narrow definition of what a coup d’état means. > The sudden overthrow of a government by a usually small group of persons in or previously in positions of authority. Or to use Wikipedia’s definition > A coup d
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
It is worth pointing out that the American penal system is already distressingly close to the scope of the gulag system in Stalinist Russia. The gulag system hit a high of 1.5m prisoners in the 1940s out of a population of 168m (pre war), o
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
If you have made the kind of enemies that will build an EMP to destroy your car, you have different sets of problems than most of society. This is not something your average person has to worry about, no matter what kind of car they drive.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Depends on the size of your yard and how quickly it grows. My current yard is on the edge where power is a nice to have, my parents’ old yard would have taken hours to do with a non-powered motor.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
I honestly assumed they were two stroke. The last lawn mower I used at my parents house was two stroke IIRC (smelled like it at least), and I never bought a gas mower once I bought a house. I went straight to electric.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Electro Magnetic Pulses? The thing that requires us to detonate a nuclear weapon to create at any meaningful scale? No. I wouldn’t worry about that at all. Besides, if we somehow managed to create an EMP above your city and not set off a fu
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
We have this conversation on this forum a lot, and many of us are emphatically pro nuclear power. I’m not sure what you’re talking about tbh.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Part of the reason why all cars seem to look the same nowadays is that maximizing aerodynamics, passenger safety, interior volume, and comfort doesn’t leave the designer a lot of room to work with. Very little of the “sameness” is driven by
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
It’s reached the point where I now look at people using two stroke lawn mowers and instinctively think its weird that they’re using such crude and uncivilized technology. The noise alone is a reason to switch, imho.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Probably because high levels of math skill don’t translate to economic success. Analytical thinking is a good skill that math can teach you, but there is more than one path to that. In the context of a college education the ability to write
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
As a general rule, I always look at more subjective measures like extra curriculars and “well-roundedness” with a huge amount of skepticism. Such subjective standards are phenomenal places to hide discrimination and favoratism.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
It seems to be a problem common among specialists, especially among highly valued specialists. I’ve heard the same complaints about lawyers and doctors, for example, so it doesn’t seem to be specific to the “good with computers” crowd.
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
You should look up how many people are killed per MWh produced by coal and natural gas. People overweight on rare, high impact disasters and underweight things that quietly kill people in a dispersed way. Related fact, roof top solar actual
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
The current war and gas crisis in Europe is finally underscoring one of the points that’s been ignored for a long time; depending on unstable rentier states to secure the energy required for HVAC and transit is unbelievably foolish national
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Lumber production responds slowly to market demands, as it takes a while to cut down, mill, dry, and transport lumber. It’s entirely possible that rapidly changing consumer demand causes wild cycles as the supply chains struggle to scale up
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Made, not designed. Mass production a century ago was a fundamentally manual process, and therefore would show much more variation per item than modern processes. The only argument for it being designed for durability is that the designers
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
This is precisely why most people abandoned old appliances, even if they “last forever”. Often the energy efficiency of newer devices is well worth the reduced lifespan. Also, survivorship bias. Not every electric motor made a century ago s
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Because Russia can't wage a par purely based on what's in Putin's head. The assumptions and beliefs of any given leader ends up encoded in both internal policy memos, and in the observed strategic decisions made by the variou
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
If you can’t restrain yourself from childish insults, you’ll probably get banned. It also makes everyone think you’re a child, and they will ignore your arguments because of it. Also, it’s “butt hurt”. Please try and at least spell your ins
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
> Also drop the identity politics Incredible how valueless identity politics has become as a phrase, other than as a way to signal disagreement. > The truth of the matter is the West provoked a war through utter inept diplomacy and th
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
Also, if it’s really about NATO, why all the nonsense about “denazification” and the existence of Ukraine being a mistake that Lenin made?
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by ashtonkem 5y ago
> Apart from NATO expansion contrary to the unwritten undestandings of the 90-s A war over an “unwritten understanding”? Thats one of the saddest excuses for an argument I’ve ever seen, not even a defunct treaty to wave around as defense

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