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by axiolite 4y ago
The 1% that do verify it would report the issue and alert others.
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by axiolite 4y ago
> it'd be trivial for a bad actor to change them if the files are compromised. But it's trivial for responsible members of an organization to set-up a continuous, automated verification of the checksums listed on a web page. I
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by axiolite 4y ago
> "Tell us why you're passionate about middle-of-the-road paper-pushing" You're missing out on the perfect opportunity to tell them about your severe head injury and/or paper-pushing fetish...
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by axiolite 4y ago
> I've (literally) employed people who were working 3 jobs without any of the other employers knowing about one another. We were being scammed. I fail to see how verifying decades-old degrees would have prevented this.
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by axiolite 4y ago
> period-accurate pigs it would have been a meme about how weird and alien the pigs look. That apparently wasn't a problem for the listed counter-example: "Kingdom Come: Deliverance"
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by axiolite 4y ago
> another cause of decline is our over obsession with landscaping and municipal lights Very much unlike their incandescent and florescent predecessors, LED lights emit practically no ultraviolet wavelengths, and therefore have a drastica
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Unfortunately, many of these frequencies are used by our tech. So what? Microwave frequencies aren't entirely line-of-sight, but they aren't going to diffuse very far off-target. Unless you have houses in between elements o
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by axiolite 4y ago
> I can start writing an e-mail on my phone, put down my phone and then continue working on it on my tablet, and then putdown my tablet and immediately finish it up on my desktop in Linux? I was doing that in the 1990s (thanks to IMAP an
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by axiolite 4y ago
Seems like Tatiana thought there was an earth shattering story here, then turned up nothing. Had to make something of all the time wasted, so turned it into a shaggy dog story. Who cares that neighbors in the apartment building and co-worke
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by axiolite 4y ago
An impact driver does a much better job than a drill or hand tools at loosening them without cam-out, whether previously damaged or not.
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by axiolite 4y ago
> A landlord can only get the amount of rent that a tenant is willing to pay. A place to live is a rather inelastic commodity. If the price goes up across the board, people will pay, until they can't possibly afford the going rent
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Their RDBMS is an amazing product. I hope you're referring to MySQL! The Oracle DB is a crufty old throwback to the bad old days where you needed highly specialized experts to spend dozens of hours to install, configure, and tune
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by axiolite 4y ago
> And yet, you also are unable to answer the question… Correction: Unwilling. Not unable. This is an important distinction. I'm simply unwilling to engage in a lengthy discussion with you, on any topic really, based on your unciv
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Forcing that issue to a head would hopefully result in a more functional system in the end. Perhaps it would... but only after we finish with the cleanup from the inevitable civil war. Forcing controversial issues to come to a head v
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by axiolite 4y ago
Sounds nice in theory, but after decades of everything running smoothly, people forget just how instrumental certain laws were to ensure that stability. It's a lot like anti-vaxers, anti-pasteurization, and other anti-science fads. An
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Edit: I see downvotes. But no one can answer the question.. . You likely would have had fewer downvotes if you had just answered in earnest the question asked: "Are you asking a question or being dismissive and flippant?" Th
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by axiolite 4y ago
> The layoffs are happening in tech. Not as much elsewhere. This is .com bubble 2.0. That's complete nonsense. "The Automotive sector leads all industries in job cuts this year" "Retailers led in job cut announcements
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by axiolite 4y ago
AMD CPUs were vulnerable to fewer of the speculative execution bugs than Intel, and the performance impact of the mitigations on AMD CPUs were far less than Intel.
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by axiolite 4y ago
The Doomsday Clock is just a pointless publicity stunt. 1440 minutes on a clock, and yet it has never been more than 17 minutes from midnight. It was farther from midnight in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis than in 2007. "Putti
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by axiolite 4y ago
> you are also admitting that hydrogen fuel cells are just as efficient. You've pulled that delusion out of thin air. Fuel cells aren't batteries. Li-Ion gets ~90% conversion efficiency while fuel cells may get ~60%. And with
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by axiolite 4y ago
> There is no possibility of commercial quantities of lithium being extracted from seawater. Lithium seawater extraction is much more likely than a green hydrogen economy! In practice, it gets more practical as you couple lithium extrac
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Glad to know there's an expert on the boards I can have second guess me though. I'll hit you up next time I might think I know something from 30 years of experience I suggest you get over yourself. I am indeed a video expert
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by axiolite 4y ago
> better twin engine planes totally obviating a lot of hub-to-hub travel. Yeah, but that was entirely predictable... There were twin-engine jets from both Boeing and Airbus flying trans-Atlantic, the 737 was a very popular aircraft, and
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by axiolite 4y ago
No electronics skills, flashing of firmware, etc. is needed. Just order a USB relay board and hook NO and COM terminals to the power switch. Can be driven from a cheap Rasberry Pi or any other low power mini PC.
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by axiolite 4y ago
> was there some reason not to just pull the laptop batteries and use normal remote-controllable outlets? What happens when someone accidentally does a clean shutdown from within the OS? Switchable PDUs have the same issue. You need som
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Why not 60 fps considering it's the standard refresh rate of practically all displays that are in use? Actually, I'd say 50fields/sec is the most popular frame-rate in-use around the world. Theatres still use 24fps or p
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by axiolite 4y ago
It's not actually 23.976fps. That's just the friendly, rounded notation we all use in discussion. It's actually 24000/1001, or in integers: 23.976023976023976... fps.
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by axiolite 4y ago
Parent was obvious talking about converting 25fps PAL video to 30fs NTSC frame rate, which happens ALL THE TIME... NOT about converting from film to PAL. You are arguing with no-one.
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by axiolite 4y ago
> Battery has very similar issues with the rare earth problems Utterly false. The elements needed for Li-Ion batteries are very much "in abundance" on Earth. Elements like lithium can be extracted from seawater around the worl
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by axiolite 4y ago
No it is not. Hydrogen is laughable, absurdly inefficient as an energy storage method: "Due to its relatively low volumetric energy density, transportation, storage and final delivery to the point of use can be one of the significant

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