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by corty 5y ago
Also, in my mind, exchanging Chrome's insistence on Google logins is just the same as Firefox's insistence on their proprietary sync and pocket. I'll say no to every one of those things, because I do value my privacy and none
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by corty 5y ago
The thing is, if you do not like the UI of unity, maybe you'll like Gnome, KDE, LXDE, fluxbox, i3 or ratpoison or .... With most Linux distros, you can have both privacy and your favourite UI paradigm. You usually do not need to suffer
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by corty 5y ago
From their job offers page for a sysadmin/devops position: > Angaben gemäß GlBG: Das KV-Mindestgrundgehalt für diese Position beträgt € 3,501 brutto monatlich (IT-Kollektivvertrag 2021, ST1 Erfahrungsstufe, Vollzeit = 38,5h), es bes
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by corty 5y ago
That is the plot of some Larry Niven Scifi :)
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by corty 5y ago
Not necessarily. I think a belligerent alien civilization might be frequently warring amongst themselves, driving various factions to flee their planet/system/local group. If transport and hiding were easier than seeking out and k
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by corty 5y ago
Having nukes also keeps all others from attacking, for most second and third world powers the USians are the primary threat due to their very mobile military. But everyone has enemies, Britain and France feared a German resurgence after WW2
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by corty 5y ago
I used the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterforce#Counterforce_disa... Britain uses Trident SLBMs, so should be capable of such an attack. However, further research reveals similar capabilities of the Fr
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by corty 5y ago
We cannot put our nukes to use beyond say the lunar orbit at the most. They can throw a few cheap but far more deadly rocks at us from the Oort cloud. Just being in a higher orbit with respect to the earth's is totally sufficient advan
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by corty 5y ago
The right canister is any of them, most of the isotopes will be bound to dust, and anything you can do to reduce the dust you breathe in helps. Gaseous isotopes like iodine aren't that easy to filter, you are better off taking iodine t
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by corty 5y ago
Look stupid. The British tested their smaller nukes in the Australian desert, Maralinga.
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by corty 5y ago
> In nuclear war, practically all detonations would be airbursts. They don't cause similar fallout. No, definitely not. It really depends strongly on who your opponent is and what their strategy might be. And on whether they stick t
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by corty 5y ago
There are multiple effects, tamper material is only one of them. Ground bursts also increase the overall amount and concentration of fallout: First, with the explosion closer to ground, more neutrons can reach the ground and activate materi
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by corty 5y ago
Reading and writing HN comments can suck as much time as social media. I'd say if it sucks too much time for your taste, quit. If it doesn't, good for you.
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by corty 5y ago
Yes of course. But some will be more competitve by having less weigth-per-axle. So after one replacement-generation of trucks, roads will be in better shape because trucks are less prone to damage them on average. And in general, trucking g
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by corty 5y ago
It does, however, make sense to take a lesson from medicine: Networked computers with common vulnerabilities are prone to herd infections in analogy to biological epidemics, mass hysteria, etc. So it does make sense to e.g. preventatively q
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by corty 5y ago
How does "Engineering is just hard" follow from "despite ample warning signs from inspectors and regulators"? What does follow from that is "listening to engineers is hard", because it costs money, time and oth
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by corty 5y ago
GCP has budgets that can be easily configured and enforced.
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by corty 5y ago
Because in such schemes, tracking peoples' movements is the actual intent, collecting fees is just a nice side-effect.
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by corty 5y ago
Well, not exponentially, it is still just a power law. But I agree that taxes should be damage-based. Tax those lorries to hell, if they want lower taxes, they should buy one with more axles and more tires per axle.
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by corty 5y ago
Plugging all our cattle into a heart- and bloodpressure monitor and doing frequent blood draws from every cow "just in case" is wasteful and unnecessary. There is a balance between sensible general always-available monitoring and
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by corty 5y ago
Because when your herd of cattle is sick, you need to grab one and have a vet look at it before your whole herd dies from the plague.
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by corty 5y ago
You are right, but the point remains: If the name almost rhymes with Zyklon-B, you better find another one and fire the marketing dept...
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by corty 5y ago
> Just wait for antivaxers to hear 'DNA' and go wild. I'm no antivaxer. But given that there are alternatives like mRNA, where including RNA into human DNA is impossible due to missing reverse transcriptase mechanisms: Why
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by corty 5y ago
You can pirate GPL software, but not in the way the article describes: If you copy&paste or otherwise link GPL code to your commercial project and then sell that under a commercial non-GPL license, that is pirating GPL software. E.g. wh
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by corty 5y ago
You have to look at the reasons why this behavior is occuring: Viruses get less harmful if it improves transmission. E.g. if you are more active and have a higher rate of contacts, even if infected and sick with a certain strain, that strai
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by corty 5y ago
Windows UI has always been a shambles. Each version of Windows, Office and VisualSomething has at least one new toolkit. It might even look the same as the other ones that came before it, but internally is a different library with different
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by corty 5y ago
When a server has IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, i.e. an A and AAAA DNS record, clients would usually try IPv6 first, then IPv4. Now, if IPv6 is broken somehow (as it was prone to be due to tunneling, Teredo and even nowadays stupid ISPs), the
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by corty 5y ago
Most consumer NATs are intentionally configured to be leaky. A commonly used technique is hole punching ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_punching_(networking) ), which all consumer NATs are prone to support because
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by corty 5y ago
The estimated cost structure is 1% webserver operation, 1% indian editing team worsening submitted papers, 1% printing stuff that still is delivered on paper, 2% office staff, 25% advertising, 30% legal cost to harass and prosecute students
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by corty 5y ago
I call "predatory" the commercial publishing businesses that profit off the need of researchers to publish and their free work, off the free work of reviewers and conference organizers while seeking extortionist subscription price

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