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by fmajid 3y ago
This probably won't help, even if the US government were able to implement such a policy (spoiler: it isn't, unlike the French, which is competent at dirigisme ). One thing that would help, and very quickly, is to end the boond
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by fmajid 3y ago
WD40 is a brand. The do sell a dry PTFE (Teflon) lubricant for locks, among other things.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Everyone knows about the importance of first impressions. The effect is spoiled somewhat when you order online and have to first open the outer carton, still quite nice but brown and more utilitarian.
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by fmajid 3y ago
There is also former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who, in his former career as “journalist” was fired for fabricating stories about the European Union that contributed to the climate of Euroskepticism that ultimately led to Brexit,
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by fmajid 3y ago
Mostly engraving tools with my name and contact info, some keychains as gifts (got cheap blanks from AliExpress). Some examples: https://majid.info/images/reddit/laser_dog_tag.jpg https://majid.info&#x2
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by fmajid 3y ago
In my company’s last round, the VP leading the effort (audience of engineering managers and senior ICs only) flat out stated feedback from managers doesn’t count, only from senior ICs. For engineers, at least. Unfortunately, senior ICs can
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by fmajid 3y ago
Not having to use all sorts of NAT traversal hacks or use relay servers means P2P communications like video calls will be faster, but only if both sides are on IPv6, so yes, it’s a bit of a chicken and egg. Most mobile phones are dual-stack
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by fmajid 3y ago
This may generate confusion with the .int gTLD used for international organizations like UN agencies.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I am primarily interested in engraving metals, so I got a 18W fiber laser with a galvo head (laser is deflected by mirrors mounted on magnetic mounts like those on old analog multimeters, much faster than moving the laser head on a gantry).
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by fmajid 3y ago
Yup, Jessica Lessin left the WSJ to star The Information.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Just one end suffices. I think the software for the Broadcomm PLC controller chipset is flaky and needs a swift kick in the pants every now and then, which is why a simple heartbeat protocol with a watchdog timer should suffice.
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by fmajid 3y ago
WiFi 7 can do 320MHz channels in the 6GHz band. Fortunately the FCC ignored the cellcos' lobbying and assigned nearly the entire 6GHz band to WiFI rather than selling it to the rapacious data monopolists (motto: no one should ever tran
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by fmajid 3y ago
Turning up transmit power on the AP does nothing to strengthen the signal from the mobile station, and you need a strong signal in both directions.
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by fmajid 3y ago
The higher 6GHz band penetrates walls less than 2.4GHz and 5GHz, which means you will need more APs but each AP will have less interference from neighbors.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I wouldn't advise it, powerline technology is very flaky and even less reliable than WiFi. I have a Devolo G.hn powerline bridge and my parents as well, the one downstairs requires power-cycling about once a week (why they don't j
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by fmajid 3y ago
I'd add: 1. Always make your manager looks good 2. Do not make disagreements personal, you may win this round but make an enemy for life
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by fmajid 3y ago
It's also XML-based and thus potentially vulnerable to XML XXE inclusions. XML, the over-engineered-by-committee gift that keeps giving. Fun fact: until recently my boss' boss Vincent Hardy was a co-editor of the SVG spec.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Civilian ships can be surprisingly resilient. Many oil tankers survived hits from the same missiles that crippled the USS Stark.
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by fmajid 3y ago
The Saudis are indeed incompetent (and mostly hired mercenaries to do the actual ground fighting anyway, surprise surprise they were not too eager to actually risk their lives for MBS). The UAE armed forces, on the other hand, are quite eff
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by fmajid 3y ago
Strange. Power and land prices are much higher in the UK than, say, France or Denmark.
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by fmajid 3y ago
What you want is latex.
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by fmajid 3y ago
I never understood leaf blowers. They just move the leaves but the wind will blow them back. I had a Toro brand corded electric blower that could be reversed to suck and chop the leaves into a bag, that could then be emptied into the compos
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by fmajid 3y ago
Here's a great article by NBC journalist John Hockenberry on how Six Sigma was enforced by GE where it didn't make any sense: https://web.archive.org/web/20120102065056/http://www.techno...
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by fmajid 3y ago
Gates is flat-out lying, because Microsoft is notorious for managing its earnings, just in the opposite direction of GE: https://www.cringely.com/2009/01/22/bob-the-impaler/ > The real problem at Mi
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by fmajid 3y ago
You can’t really distinguish the two in this case, Tojo ran a military dictatorship and moderate politicians had been murdered to make way. We shouldn’t disregard the role racist ideology played, but that paper shows how the likelihood of h
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by fmajid 3y ago
At some level Japan knew it would lose to the US in WW2, but the alternative of effectively surrender was too unpalatable to consider. Here's the analysis by a US Army historian: https://web.archive.org/web/2017083
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by fmajid 3y ago
On-paper military strength is often not decisive. The Viet-Cong and the Taliban showed they had a stronger will to fight than the US, despite their lopsided military inferiority. Usually that applies more in a defensive context, but not alw
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by fmajid 3y ago
Whoops, I meant an ISDN connection.
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by fmajid 3y ago
Have you seen the size of the heatsink on the Mac Studio Ultra? It's there for a reason...
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by fmajid 3y ago
I add them as I find new ones. Note that your site throws the following exception in my locked-down browser where cookies and other persistent storage is disabled unless explicitly allowlisted: failed to read the 'localstorage' pr

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