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811.
by bityard 2y ago
Nope, the shredded cheese I buy uses potato starch. And it's definitely a trace amount, not 10%.
812.
by bityard 2y ago
This has come up a LOT on HN in the past few months, some other recent examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43500124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42463975 I like uv and all, but I take exc
813.
by bityard 2y ago
I absolutely adored Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, I don't read a _ton_ of fiction, but somehow stumbled into it and recommend it to anyone who will listen. But I couldn't get into Piranesi at all. The first few chapters never
814.
by bityard 2y ago
You are going to be amazed when you find out how many Large Corporations contribute to FreeBSD.
815.
by bityard 2y ago
If it's a new domain, then your problem isn't reputation exactly, it's having a newly-registered domain. Buying a new domain, setting up the SPF, DKIM, and MARC, and then immediately spamming from it until it's banned ev
816.
by bityard 2y ago
Yep. Direct-burial ethernet is surprisingly vulnerable to nearby lightning strikes. It's not a matter of IF the cable or devices get damaged, it's a matter of when. Nearby (not even direct) lightning induces ground voltage potenti
817.
by bityard 2y ago
I am the most amateur of runners. What I mean by that is that I haven't really read any books, joined any running forums, or done any research at all on the "proper" way to run. All I can say is that when running on the tread
818.
by bityard 2y ago
Okay, I wasted a few minutes in The Judge. It's too damn hilarious giving it a passage that insults the reader's mother in fine detail and then having the AI explain very politely and patiently why someone might take offense to th
819.
by bityard 2y ago
I think I understand that quadlets are containers managed by systemd. But I'm still in the dark about why they are called that, or why they need a special opaque name.
820.
by bityard 2y ago
I tend to be polite when asking the LLMs for things. This is less to do with building a rapport with our future benevolent robot overlords and more to do keeping low the friction of context switches when asking co-workers for help.
821.
by bityard 2y ago
I'd watch that as a movie.
822.
by bityard 2y ago
I don't think NASA is having any problem finding room in their budget for soda bottles.
823.
by bityard 2y ago
TFA warned against using bottles other than soda because soda bottles are made to withstand a lot of pressure. Others may or may not. I don't imagine ANY plastic bottle survives too many lift-offs.
824.
by bityard 2y ago
I always played games growing up but didn't play Kirby until much later in life. Kirby is easily my favorite platformer, even ahead of Mario and Sonic. I wish there were more like it.
825.
by bityard 2y ago
Install Proxmox VE (or hypervisor of your choice) and then OPNsense as a VM inside that. You won't be disappointed.
826.
by bityard 2y ago
Air seal and upgrading insulation: correct me if I'm wrong, but that implies either tearing open all of the exterior walls or ripping off all of the siding, no? If so, it feels like it would take a LONG time to recoup the cost of mater
827.
by bityard 2y ago
My favorite use case for S3 API-compatible solutions: I often run into systems that generate lots of arbitrary data that only have temporary importance. A common example might be intermediate build artifacts, or testing ephemera (browser sc
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by bityard 2y ago
Sometimes I still don't know how I convinced my parents to buy me certain things. We lived in an extremely rural area and were not at all "well-to-do" but we always had a computer in the house. In my teenage years, this was a
829.
by bityard 2y ago
"Late" is a very common synonym for "dead." If that is the case, he may have a very strong alibi for underperformance.
830.
by bityard 2y ago
You can make it to Senior Airman (the 4th enlisted rank) in the US Air Force in just two years. Take that, software devs. Amended: The tech company I'm in now doesn't really hire any engineering position at less than Senior with 5
831.
by bityard 2y ago
Back in the day, my top three websites I would visit were: 1) Slashdot 2) Digg 3) Reddit At the time, Reddit was extremely small and looked a lot like Hacker News does now, except that the content was about 1/3 nerd-related, 1/3 m
832.
by bityard 2y ago
I don't think you can install firmware from inside QEMU.
833.
by bityard 2y ago
> Reading and understanding text is much slower than just listening. Speak for yourself! I read _much_ faster than listening to someone saying the same thing. This is why I can't stand subtitles on videos, movies, and tv shows. Beca
834.
by bityard 2y ago
I would like to see a 5th rule: Don't assume a question is an X/Y Problem just because you lack context. Because this happens basically every single time a ask a question online without including a doctoral thesis on my project&#x
835.
by bityard 2y ago
That is by design, it's a feature from Intel and Microsoft called "modern standby." It basically means your laptop cannot actually sleep anymore. Instead, it enters a slightly-lower-power mode so that it can download emails i
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by bityard 2y ago
Every time helmets come up in biking or motorcycle forums, someone tries to justify their spending habits with, "Well, how much is your brain worth?" Nice to see yet more evidence that price and safety are often not correlated. (T
837.
by bityard 2y ago
I don't have an immediate use for it, but I quite like it!
838.
by bityard 2y ago
I have a couple, they work fine, but there don't seem to be that many options for apps/web.
839.
by bityard 2y ago
Humans have always like having pets and frequently interacted with all kinds of nature before the industrial revolution, which is an extremely recent event in human history. Although it turns out domesticated dogs have a wide number of uses
840.
by bityard 2y ago
If you're taking suggestions, I have a frequent need to do basic arithmetic on fractions and not many "app" calculators do that well or at all.

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