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by blincoln 4y ago
> You also don’t actually have a spiral leakage pattern with NPT if tightened appropriately- the fitting it self deforms to seal it. This contradicts every source I've read about NPT threads, e.g. "NPT pipe thread design allows
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by blincoln 4y ago
Sinks are one of the few areas that I don't think one can get out of using threaded connections on the supply lines (haven't seen push-to-connect for that last leg yet). A lot of them use NPT threads, and NPT is very easy to put t
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by blincoln 4y ago
One of the things I like about it is that because it's flexible, if you route it carefully you can avoid using connectors in a lot of areas that rigid pipe would require a joint. The way I saw it used, the only joints were in areas lik
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by blincoln 4y ago
It was just the drain pipe system that was built that way (at least in the house I helped out with). All of the supply lines were galvanized steel, replaced with PEX.
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by blincoln 4y ago
For sure. Those oakum + lead joints were problem-free a century after they were installed. How many of us can expect that from the things we do at work? The only reason some of that pipe needed to be replaced was that it was fused (by rust)
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by blincoln 4y ago
Also, I should mention that I've used PTFE tape without any issues for air tool connections. It's just for plumbing - where even a slow, tiny leak can cause massive damage - where I think it's a terrible choice.
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by blincoln 4y ago
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to discount the skill and knowledge of professional plumbers. It's an incredibly complex field (especially since they need to be familiar with decades of different pipe technology), and usually inv
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by blincoln 4y ago
I've helped out with some plumbing work in an older house, and it's pretty fascinating to see the progression of technologies. 100 years ago, most drain pipes in the US were massive cast-iron pieces with no threads at all. They we
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by blincoln 4y ago
I wrote this for pen testing purposes, but it worked so well that I've used it to get around public WiFi limitations like the author of TFA: https://github.com/nccgroup/ABPTTS (Still need to port it to Python 3 so
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by blincoln 4y ago
I'm a big fan of using UV for germicidal purposes, but I get extremely concerned when people propose using it in rooms where people are present, like the "just put it high up in a vaulted ceiling" approach discussed in the ar
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The Science Eye(science.xyz)
1 points by blincoln 4y ago|0 comments
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by blincoln 4y ago
There's a class of bad leader/manager/executive/person-in-charge who has mastered the ability to generally not do or say anything on the record that would be a red flag, but leaves a wake of orange and yellow flags behin
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by blincoln 4y ago
It's a lot easier to Photoshop a mock-up of some options than to actually implement them. Fine-grained categorization of posts so that the feature could work is a pretty deep rabbit hole, regardless of how it was implemented. Additiona
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by blincoln 4y ago
Maybe the overuse of Compare instead of ==, <, or > is from enterprise devs who've done a lot of Java work? Every time I step away from Java for 5+ years and come back, I forget that one has to use string.equals() because using =
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by blincoln 4y ago
Security through making things harder in some unquantifiable way for an attacker to exploit[1] is usually a waste of time (IMO) because there is no way to measure or even estimate with any kind of accuracy how much value it adds versus the
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by blincoln 4y ago
I've been doing RE work off and on for about twenty years. IDA is a solid tool with some really neat features[1], but the only reason I use it anymore is if I need to look at a binary that's for an architecture so obscure that Ghi
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by blincoln 4y ago
Commons itself has been around for awhile, but it looks like Commons Text was first released in 2017: https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/changes-repor... If I read the disclosure correctly, it's b
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Przybylski’s Star I: What’s that? (2017)(sites.psu.edu)
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by blincoln 4y ago
I talked to a software developer once that had used ECB because it was the only way they could think of to allow an arbitrary block of ciphertext to be decrypted without decrypting the prior blocks (i.e. they needed random access as opposed
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by blincoln 4y ago
I haven't looked at ad malware for many years, but when I did, it infected the MBR, so reinstalling Windows alone wouldn't remove it. I had to rebuild the MBR. I definitely recommend doing any live testing in a VM on a dedicated t
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by blincoln 4y ago
> Why are people drawn to such absurdly wrong medical cures? IMO, most people don't know what "homeopathic" means. It sounds vaguely like "naturopathic", which would at least contain something other than water. T
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by blincoln 4y ago
> The idea that you would have a password but not send it to the identity provider makes no sense It's possible to prove to a remote system that one knows their own password without sending the password (or an equivalent, like NTLM
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by blincoln 4y ago
A product/service in this state is a ticking timebomb. The fact that it's responsible for that amount of revenue makes it more dangerous. There are probably tens (maybe hundreds) of vulnerabilities that either compromise the whole
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by blincoln 4y ago
I think that is at least misleading, if not inaccurate. They may not have been "designed" in the sense of a graphic designer choosing the most pleasing or user-friendly colours, but there was logic behind the choices. They're
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by blincoln 4y ago
I really appreciate the work this subculture does. I was a big fan of Soul Reaver back in the late 90s, and it was famous for having about 1/5th of the game removed before release. Twenty years later, I finally got to see what it would
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by blincoln 4y ago
When I worked in systems engineering, some of the folks a decade or two older had supported tape-based computing systems. Tape damage happened all the time. They would splice it back together, manually repair corrupt bits and bytes with som
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by blincoln 4y ago
Sorry, maybe I was unclear. I wasn't asking about using the fusion reactor just to produce fission fuel. I was asking "if the fusion reactor produces a bunch of extra neutrons as a side effect, is this a way to use them to produce
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by blincoln 4y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but could one use bricks of depleted fission fuel as the neutron shield in a fusion reactor, and swap them back into a fission reactor every time they become fuel-grade again?
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by blincoln 4y ago
> What secret and hidden, nefarious things could those reasonably be? Collecting photo and video footage combined with GPS data without the explicit consent of the owner would be the biggest one, IMO. That would be a great way to build m
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by blincoln 4y ago
Maybe you can correct my math. English has something like 500,000 words, but adults who speak it natively know 20,000 - 35,000[1]. If we cut that down to 10,000 to be conservative, that's still 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 quadrillion)

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