craig_s_bell

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by craig_s_bell 5mo ago
The accompanying artwork is really something: https://images.newrepublic.com/580ae26a8830e8fa8f2f054ca3232...
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by craig_s_bell 9mo ago
> MCD uses location tracking to only submit the mobile order once you are in range of the store Interesting. Can they be certain that the device from which one places the order, is also taken along for the ride? Some people might order
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by craig_s_bell 1y ago
https://archive.is/bNPHf
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by craig_s_bell 1y ago
Even better: Make the entire structure out of Flex Seal.
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by craig_s_bell 2y ago
For some distributions, CIS benchmarks (also used by various other security tools) now include guidelines for SELinux. I couldn't find it in the Debian spec (probably because it uses AppArmor), but the RHEL benchmark has these. Current
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by craig_s_bell 2y ago
I gave up NPR a few years ago, after four decades of frequent listening. It has become more difficult to recognize the attributes which made it so useful and insightful, for so long. Once in a while, they run something which reinforces my
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
There were a total of three fatalities resulting from Asiana 214. Two passengers died onboard, as a direct consequence of the crash. As for the third, it was later speculated that they could possibly have already died before encountering a
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
Too much of a good thing could be considered harmful: Destroying the Earth by Using Tidal Energy Jerry Z. Liu https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/pdf/tide0.pdf
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
UI implementers have long advocated for the eradication of Rub icons: https://imgur.com/nUNHlDs
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
If you want to learn more about life on St. Helena, I recommend a blog called What The Saints Did Next: https://whatthesaintsdidnext.com/ My favorite posts are the trip reports... They have hiked to every corner of the isl
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
This is very well-written. The author has more articles at this site, which are also worth reading: https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/contributor/michael_banks I thought I knew a bit about WWII disinformation p
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
Some people (such as my Better Half) have small hands, and greatly prefer the Mini form-factor. She finds it annoying to use the larger models. I hope that Apple hears from many such customers; and re-introduces a smaller, current-generati
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
No need to worry; Hydrogen's exceptional permeability means the gas will diffuse through the jerry can, into the atmosphere; thus lowering its internal pressure. We can make vessels which will contain increasingly high pressures; howev
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
In that circumstance, I've heard that vitamins and supplements can be tricky; the additional nutrition may feed the cancer, before it feeds you. Just one more factor to consider.
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by craig_s_bell 3y ago
You might be thinking of Zephyr, which was part of Project Athena. My school was using Athena, and I occasionally received zephyrgrams from people at MIT. http://web.mit.edu/sipb/doc/working/izephyr/html&
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by craig_s_bell 4y ago
Don't forget their (slightly less dopey) cousins, the boxelder bugs.
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by craig_s_bell 4y ago
The base elements of human nature do not care about national borders. I think you'll find such people, in similar proportion, in most places around the world.
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by craig_s_bell 4y ago
He also made a video about water kettles, which I found just as interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c
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by craig_s_bell 4y ago
Also 'The Americans'
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by craig_s_bell 4y ago
There's a bunch of info about 1L PCs at ServeTheHome. Look for the 'tinyminimicro' tag: https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic... Those guys tend to buy new; although you can easily fin
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by craig_s_bell 4y ago
Good piece. IMHO the introductory narrative might be slightly enhanced by briefly pointing out that synthesis of plutonium was not achieved until several years after Szilard's brainstorm. Something like, "Researchers predicted t
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by craig_s_bell 4y ago
Please note that SMR technology has advanced beyond the academic stage. After years of review, NuScale's design has been approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Multiple sites are planning for their use, both in the United Stat
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by craig_s_bell 4y ago
I'm particularly fond of the soundtrack editions which overlay Vangelis' music with city background noise, bits of dialog, and other atmospherics from the appropriate scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3fz6CC4