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by elric 8mo ago
TIL community biolabs are a thing ... Are they really? Is this just limited to some very specific areas with an active biotech scene?
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by elric 9mo ago
That seems like a stupid ban. Heat pump water heaters are impossible to install in many smaller dwellings, even if we're ignoring the need for large storage tanks. The only problem with resistance heaters is the large current draw to h
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by elric 9mo ago
What about heat per unit of volume? Seems like the selling point is that a pretty small box can service a whole bathroom. Presumably it has a higher density than water and requires less insulation?
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by elric 9mo ago
How long do these last? How many hours/days/.. can you use them for? And how long can you store them safely before they disintegrate or whatever?
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by elric 9mo ago
I use PKL for most of my configuration needs these days. But PKL is only a format, it doesn't say where to store the config. Could I use Externalized Properties to e.g. fetch config from some random source but have it be PKL?
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by elric 9mo ago
It certainly wasn't intended as a straw man argument. I was speaking to the broader issue that any data that's gathered anywhere can be used against people. Even if it seems like there are good reasons to store it. I think you may
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by elric 9mo ago
Welcome to the club. I started my Linux and BSD journey in ~1998 and I haven't really touched Windows since ~2001 except for the occasional brief interaction. I've never missed it. Like at all. There have been instances where some
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by elric 9mo ago
> We are really seeing the fears of data collection from the 2000s and 2010s come to fruition as privatized surveillance now. Cambridge analytica should have been the warning shot but it wasn't enough. I remember protesting against
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by elric 9mo ago
> I interviewed with ASML a decade and a half ago and while there was plenty to complain about (eg their tens of millions of lines of absolutely unmaintainable C code) How is one exposed to tens of millions of lines of unmaintainable cod
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by elric 9mo ago
What makes you think that?
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by elric 9mo ago
What is the relationship between CRI and how broad (or narrow) the spectrum output by the LED is? Is CRI automatically better for broader-spectrum LEDs? Or is that too simplistic?
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by elric 9mo ago
> In humans a single 3 min 670 nm exposure improves colour vision within 3 h, which is sustained for almost a week That seems remarkable and almost too good to be true?
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by elric 9mo ago
Doesn't make it any less interesting. And in spite of it not being new, it doesn't look like it's out of the experimental stage: the article mentions it's difficult to get the tilapia skin processed and sterilized.
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by elric 9mo ago
> It's very simple. Is it? I doubt it. There isn't a large country on earth where the salaries don't differ across regions.
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by elric 9mo ago
Modern PV cells are pretty effective even in cloudy weather. Mine seem to produce more energy on overcast wintery days than on sunny wintery days because there are fewer harsh shadows that way.
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by elric 9mo ago
So what's the solution? Monitoring of "hostile" workloads at datacentre scale is not going to work. Should we throw away 80 years of trade, cooperation, and the resulting prosperity and go back into ridiculous tribalism?
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by elric 9mo ago
> Seems strange to me that at this site from the whole internet people don’t seem to see the connection between the raise of new technologies and lonelines (with a host of other mental health/social issues). And therefore this is th
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by elric 9mo ago
DuckDB is such a great tool. Met one of the authors at a conference last year, very knowledgeable chap. Deeply impressed.
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by elric 9mo ago
I too am actively fighting the Teams spellcheck and autocorrect garbage. I can't seem to turn it off permanently, every time I log in again it switches itself on again. It refuses to understand that I speak multiple languages, and that
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by elric 9mo ago
The same liability issue exists in Belgium, with very similar results. Some people will clear the pavement in front of their homes, others won't. Some don't have the time, some don't have the ability. Some try but make it wor
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by elric 9mo ago
When I lived in the UK in the early-mid 00s, I was really confused by how much of a digital backwater it was. Opening a bank account required several months of utility bills (on paper!) with my name as "proof of address". Taxes we
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by elric 9mo ago
Is government intervention even necessary? IANAL, and I don't know shit about US law, but if this this crap on X is illegal, then surely the courts can handle this and ban/fine/jail the responsible parties? If this isn't
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by elric 9mo ago
Wasn't this entirely predictable and inevitable? The genie is out of the bottle. Where can we realistically draw the line? Preventing distribution of this sort of shit is impossible, anyone can run their own generator. CSAM is already
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by elric 9mo ago
Went down a DMARC rabbit hole last month or so. The holidays and some end of year commitments have kept me too busy to get much done, but I'm slowly tinkering with it.
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by elric 9mo ago
Oooooh this tickles many of interests! Good stuff, I'll be keeping an eye on this, might be interested in contributing.
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by elric 9mo ago
If I understand it correctly, tallow is made from beef or mutton. The same principle can be applied to pork fat -- and presumably any other herbivore? -- to create lard. Which is is also delicous for fries.
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by elric 9mo ago
It's a diagnosis that's made only after excluding a wide range of other potential causes for the symptoms (like brain damage, structural abnormalities, strokes, seizures, MS, infections, ...). It's not just a case of "we
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by elric 9mo ago
Is this yet more evidence of how utterly broken US banks are? Assuming you are referring to US banks. For the past 20 or so years, every bank I've been with in Belgium has provided me with one of three types of hardware token: 1. An OT
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by elric 9mo ago
These practices are strengthening the Google/Apple hegemony and are ultimately damaging user freedoms and consumer protections. I'm sure that's not your employer's intention, but it is a negative thing that they're
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by elric 9mo ago
And surprisingly I can pay securely using my PC, fully rooted, on FOSS software. Hardware tokens have been a thing for decades. There are more second (or third) factor authentication and signing solutions than I can enumerate. Do peope get

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