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   by gnfargbl 5y ago

   Gell-Mann probably had his tongue at least a little bit in his cheek when he said that: the two had a competitive relationship. I always took it as a dig at the way Feynman liked to make out that ideas just came naturally to him, when in fa
2. 662.▲
   by gnfargbl 5y ago

   Hetzner aren't aiming to prove your identity. They're most likely aiming to reduce their fraud risk by requiring you to have a relatively-hard-to-fake document which matches your payment details. In my case they just wanted a copy
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   by gnfargbl 5y ago

   You're right: ~170PW is the correct number. https://news.mit.edu/2011/energy-scale-part3-1026
4. 664.▲
   by gnfargbl 5y ago

   > Please, show me an estimate for an alternative fossil-fuel system that can guarantee that shortfall. I like nuclear. I have always liked nuclear. However: it's always sunny somewhere on Earth, and the total amount of solar energy
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   RIPE: EU Sanctions and Our Russian Membership(labs.ripe.net)

   2 points by gnfargbl 5y ago|0 comments
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   by gnfargbl 5y ago

   A little surprise hidden away in here: it is currently possible to exfiltrate data from a Cloud Storage bucket at standard tier ($0.085+/GB) instead of premium tier network rates ($0.12+/GB). This is achieved by making the bucket
7. 667.▲
   by gnfargbl 5y ago

   I recently bought an LG Gram 17" for use as a Linux developer laptop. So far, I'm absolutely delighted with it: huge 2560x1600 screen, fast, silent, hardly weighs a thing, decent battery life, Thunderbolt 4 and everything works in
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   by gnfargbl 5y ago

   Megafon is co-owned by Alisher Usmanov, who is under UK sanctions. Rostelecom has Mikhail Oseevsky as President. He's under EU sanctions.
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   by gnfargbl 5y ago

   Would it be possible to make a version of this in of some kind of biodegradable material? I would like to convert my physical form into a tree or similar after death (rather than something inefficient like burning, or horrific like being mu
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    RIPE are based in the Netherlands and are subject to EU law, as a subsequent email from their Managing Director makes clear [1]: > Our staff are currently reviewing the latest EU sanctions against Russian companies and individuals. A re
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    BP are going to resign from the board of Rosneft and stop taking dividends. As far as I can tell they aren't planning to try and sell their equity at this time, instead they will be "treating it now as a financial asset". [1]
12. 672.▲
    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    > [citation needed] The poster you replied to may have been thinking of US court decisions related to the legality of politicians blocking members of the public, when those politicians are speaking in their official capacity [1][2]. That
13. 673.▲
    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    I agree to an extent, but I think you're grossly oversimplifying the way that the average non-technical user views their privacy online. It's true that many people don't really care about advertisers tracking them, but they
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    My first thought when I read that was yikes, that's a lot of bugs for the rest of the team to fix . Unless this is generated boilerplate, it just isn't possible to create that much code, that quickly, and have it be correct.
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    That's kind of the fundamental insight here though, isn't it? Carnegie developed his libraries as a philanthropic endeavor, with the aim of supporting meritocracy in society. Google developed their library with the aim of making
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    There's a lot of advice here, but very little data to support any of it. Since you're a scientist, why not take an experimental approach to answering this question? Publish your code, for one (selected) paper. Monitor (a) the down
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    Similarly, RIPE offers a /24 to each member (€1400/yr, though there's the possibility of a partial annual rebate). The waiting list is currently full: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv4/ip
18. 678.▲
    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    I also can't find a way to do this with page or transform rules. Trying to create a rule which modifies the Host header is met with an error message. Apparently only Enterprise customers can do this [1] [2]. [1] https://supp
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    Yes -- thank you.
20. 680.▲
    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    The problem is likely scalability. There is no really scalable way to buy suitably reliable cars, of any age and mileage, for £800 each. It's very hard to do on even a one-off basis; a disappointingly high proportion of very cheap cars
21. 681.▲
    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    There is also nothing -- literally, nothing -- to prevent you from finding a remote work contract with a US company, and billing them at a rate appropriate for the US market. From your point of view, there is no VAT chargeable on B2B servic
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    I'm not sure. https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12937... says that isn't the case, but I have no idea how reliable that journal is. Overall, there is a weight of evidence in favour
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    Taking vitamin D is great and recommended for pretty much everyone, but the evidence for it being an effective prophylaxis against Covid-19 just isn't there[1]. By all means take it for general health reasons (I do too!) but don't
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    See also https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.21267615v... , which suggests (Figure 1) that two doses of AstraZeneca does nothing to prevent symptomatic Omicron, but that an mRNA booster pulls effecti
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    How does this cope with the case where the NAT hole-punching fails and both WebRTC clients are unable to accept an incoming connection? A TURN relay seems like it would get blocked. Edit: I should have just read the documentation [1]. It re
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    Tranco is a merge of the Alexa, Cisco Umbrella and Majestic lists. Alexa data is gathered from a browser extension [1], Cisco Umbrella is passive DNS [2]. Not totally sure about Majestic but it looks like it might be crawling of some kind,
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    Thanks for that -- seems like you're a pretty good counterexample to my hypothesis. Totally agree that sending these emails to site #350,000 on the Tranco list isn't justifiable. > I’m not sure how they claim to be analyzing my
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    There a point here which seems to have been missed. From the study's FAQ: > The set of websites for this study is sampled from the Tranco list of popular websites and publicly available datasets of third-party tracking websites. If
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    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    I think you should dabble in it! This stuff isn't magic, it's just a bit esoteric in places. That makes it a great (and valuable) skill to learn. I do cyber/data stuff, often on the network-y end.
30. 690.▲
    by gnfargbl 5y ago

    Sure. I didn't actually use a VLAN: I had a spare TP-Link router lying around, so I installed OpenWRT[1] on that and gave it a static IP on the home network side, then plugged it into my broadband provider's box. On the cloud side