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by gustavus 3y ago
It seems to me that having a couple of nuclear reactors as base load spread throughout the country would be more useful than having a massive spread out battery & solar infrastructure. I mean as an example many companies, especially PG&
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by gustavus 3y ago
A handgun is also able to kill 99% of cancer cell in a lab. https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by gustavus 3y ago
This study was also done during 2020 which may have had some other confounding factors with it, of course I can't think of what that could be. Part of the squeeze is that we have the largest age demographic, the boomers, in a stage of
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by gustavus 3y ago
That's a pretty important confounding factor. I wonder if there is anything that happened in 2020 that would've made acquiring new housing more difficult. Seriously any "social science" that was done during the pandemic
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by gustavus 3y ago
Please don't do this, find another way. Almost 1/2 the internet is inaccessible to me at this point because at some point CF decided that I was a bad actor and now I can't get to anything.
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by gustavus 3y ago
I've been screaming it for years but my real guess is the shift to nuclear power is the result of the destabilization of the global geopolitical situation showing that having an energy dependency on foreign nations that you can't
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by gustavus 3y ago
Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your di
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by gustavus 3y ago
I could be wrong but I thought there was a limit of like 4kb for a URL before you start running into issues. I don't remember if it applies to the hash but I remember one of my clients ran into that issue at one point trying to store t
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by gustavus 3y ago
Possibly, given my experience in InfoSec though, and knowing Xfinity/Comcast's reputation. It probably is all stored in plaintext in a database that was written in 1975 and rather than bother spending the time and money to upgrade
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by gustavus 3y ago
I work in InfoSec and the problem at this point is I have to assume my data has already been stolen, it seems like every month there is another major company that reports about losing the data of a several million customers. The problem is
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by gustavus 3y ago
I'll be honest I don't get it. Can someone explain iMessages to me? I've been a lifelong Androider and really don't understand. I'm able to text, and have group texts with my friends and family that have iPhones. Th
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by gustavus 3y ago
So I don't want to dig up the posts but acoup.blog has long sections about medieval warfare. Basically the change can be explained by this. The primary reason a cavalry charge is so effective is not because of the force itself (despite
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by gustavus 3y ago
Rules of the internet 1. Don't believe anything you see or read on the internet. 2. Don't post any personally identifiable information about yourself on the internet. 3. Every woman is a man, every teenager is an FBI agent, and ev
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by gustavus 3y ago
> FYI, that API requires entitlements to be used, which are only available if you request them from Apple and justify their use. It's not a general-purpose API any app can use. Well as long as it is just Apple that is deciding who c
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by gustavus 3y ago
Well I have 4 and we would seriously consider another if it wasn't for my wife's health. But these 4 little children are the greatest joy in my life, and it has multiplied with each one of them not decreased. There is no greater f
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by gustavus 3y ago
I'm so tired of all these people that seem to be firmly convinced that we can't do nuclear and any other option. Why can't we do both? We run nuclear for the base load that will always be there and then supplement it with win
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by gustavus 3y ago
It's the CIRCLE OF FRAMEWORKS! Dev: "All the legacy crap is too bloated obnoxious to use and has to much overhead, packaging, and training required to do even smiple things. I'm going to invent a simple lightweight framework
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by gustavus 3y ago
Wahoo! I mean it'd be nice if we could start not building nuclear reactors on fault lines, but I think this is a good start. One of the things people underestimate in physical systems is the amount of tribal knowledge there is and how
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by gustavus 3y ago
So I know there's going to be someone coming in to complain that Software Engineers aren't "real engineers" and we need "real engineering" and real "certifications" so we can be "real engineers&q
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by gustavus 3y ago
> The proposal comes amid growing concern at the fragility of digital archives, after a cyber-attack on the British Library left the online catalogue and digitised documents unavailable to users since late October. > The apparent vuln
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by gustavus 3y ago
> It's hard for hackers to ransom ... cloud backups or versioned cloud storage as well, so that's not really an issue here. Until you set the password to Password123! because that's the only password that everyone can rem
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by gustavus 3y ago
I mean ya but the UK has basically no civil rights at this point, where they throw you in jail for criticizing politicians.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Dupe from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435481
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by gustavus 3y ago
And it's closer to independent backup than "piracy"
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by gustavus 3y ago
> The organizer responded, claiming he tried so hard to get women speakers but it’s… too hard. For a paid (!) conference w a price of €789 / $870 per person. Well as long as you put in the effort and tried hard, lying is perfectly
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by gustavus 3y ago
When my son was younger he liked Paw Patrol, so we bought several season of Paw Patrol, I now have a duaghter that is the same age and likes Paw Patrol. I pulled up my handy Youtube subscription, went into my bought movies and found out tha
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by gustavus 3y ago
It sounds like the common thing that someone in the Frontend space would say, that a technology less than 5 years old says the technology is old. I prefer the terms stable, mature, or hardened. People use React/Angular because large pr
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by gustavus 3y ago
Because in part the greatest economy came out of being the only economy left after 2 world wars wiped out pretty much everyone else's and the Iron Curtain was brought down to trap 1/3 of the worlds population under a genocidal com
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by gustavus 3y ago
So I've been wondering lately it seems there is a lot of effort going into making sure people can't generate NSFW images, but I wonder if a lot of this outrage isn't from the tech side (they tend to be fairly open about that
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by gustavus 3y ago
So here's a scenario I haven't seen brought up yet. Elbonian hackers manage to steal the singing key of kneebonia who is part of the EU (and also does IT as well as you would expect a European national government to do) They start

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