himinlomax

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by himinlomax 2y ago
The dual stack strategy was criticized 20+ years ago on these grounds, it seemed pretty obvious to me, and as you point out critics were right.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> Keep in mind that for most aircraft the airline can pick and choose between different engines. 737 Max can only have CFM Leap engines. A320 can have either Leap or PW GTF.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Sshfs doesn't pass inotify and other things, so your IDE doesn't know a file has changed (git, compiler output, and so on.) VScode sees file changes immediately.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Is there something similar for Python? I only write the occasional script, and the default time functions are just bad.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Patroni is pretty good at this.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> It's good to interrogate the wallpaper of colonialism Complaining of colonialism in the context of WW2 and implying, if I'm reading you right, that the West is the bad guy is quite ironic. This was a war against arguably the
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by himinlomax 2y ago
I'd happily double my risk of being hit by a meteorite for $10000.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> virtual enemy There's nothing virtual about North Korea ...
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by himinlomax 2y ago
You'd need to be able to store WEEKS of electricity to make wind+solar work. Currently, battery grid-scale storage stores seconds. You'd need an increase of several orders of magnitude for this to work. Even if manufacturing costs
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by himinlomax 2y ago
I did. It was a whole lot of nothing. In any case, I just wanted to point out that if you cared about the welfare of damn arthropods, you're going nowhere really fast. Consider this: the quickest, surest, most efficient way and ONLY wa
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by himinlomax 2y ago
The best way to save even more shrimps would be to campaign for and subsidize whaling. They are shrimp-mass-murdering machines. What's a few whales versus billions of shrimps?
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Tone is often a perfectly good signal of someone's biases. A neutral tone may hide them, but a non neutral one certainly shows them.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
You just dig a hole in the ground in a suitable location (e.g. one that hasn't budged in a million year), fill up the hole and that's it. Not exactly rocket surgery.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Waste always was an overblown problem. The amount generated is small, particularly compared to the amount of energy generated.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Aren't electrolytic caps polarized? That can't be used for AC. Iirc these capacitors are film types instead.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
They also abstain from drinking water. Medical science has clearly shown that this is bad for your kidneys. Possibly catastrophically bad. Who should I believe, science or medieval superstitions?
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Gnawing on wood is good for your teeth, study in mice shows why.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> - How do I check how many seconds the replica is lagging behind master? > - How would I monitor the replica? A simple cron task that pings a health check if everything is OK (lag is < x) would be a nice start. No, you should use
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Our teeth says we are built to eat cooked food.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Who's the pharaoh currently residing in the Vatican?
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Multi-line strings don't exist.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> And in certain forms of the French language, capitalizing an accented character causes the accent to be dropped: à Paris ⇒ A PARIS. That's incorrect, using diacritics on capital letters is always the preferred form, it's just
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by himinlomax 2y ago
90% of European solar farms are not in Spain. Also, Spain only has a ~2 GW connection to France to sell their solar power to the rest of Europe.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Nobody died at TMI. Nobody died at Fukushima (from the nuclear incident that is, 10000 died because of the Tsunami) Hundreds of people died at Chernobyl. Those are all the major accidents at production nuclear power plant that have ever occ
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> A 1 GW offshore wind farm costs about 1 billion A 1 GW offshore wind farm does not produce anywhere close to 1 GW most of the time. A 1 GW nuclear reactor can produce 1 GW 90%+ of the time, with the downtime being _scheduled_ maintenan
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> I don’t understand why wind solar is subject to absolutes devoid of probability - “what if the sun and wind stop simultaneously for 2 months?” Something close to that happens almost every year in Europe. Last year there was nearly 3 we
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by himinlomax 2y ago
It's probably much easier these days to source lithium batteries than NiMH ones.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
I heard a story according to which a similar scheme was used in the Algerian war of independence, so these is more retro than scifi. Radio sets were left by the French military for the Algerians to grab. The explosive was hidden in the fram
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by himinlomax 2y ago
It says right in the table that propane only has 3.3 times the potential of CO₂. That's in fact quite low for the use.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
It's copyright, as in the right to copy, not copywrite as in writing copies.

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