housemusicfan

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by housemusicfan 3y ago
A 16 pack of extra-strength paracetamol, which is more than enough to kill you in one sitting, is 65p at Tesco. Do you really think someone intent on killing himself will look at a blister pack and think, "You know, if this was in a bo
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Hanlon's razor applies here. There is no reason any company of any size should run out of IPv4 addresses internally, IF they are doing proper IP management. If I were to wager a guess I'd say there was a lot of waste going on, iss
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
10%?! 10% is huge. So we should assume presumption of guilt with a 10% error rate? If 10% of all planes crashed, you would never set foot on one. For comparison, the chance of dying in a plane crash is 0%... to the 7th or 8th decimal place.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Who made YouTube judge and jury? Let's say, for the sake of argument, YouTube demonitized all Irish because they unilaterally decided they're all plonkers and they're a private company and they can do what they want. Because
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
That's generally the premise behind "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law", as opposed to "guilty whenever the histrionic internet mob and its tech enablers deem it so".
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
How is that any different or of more concern than any other ISP in existence? And the solution is to route all traffic through Google - an advertising company quite literally renowned for its data mining habits and abilities.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Yes we should all be worried about the local coffee shop who can barely make payroll manipulating our network traffic. Fortunately we can now proxy all traffic through an internet advertising company, with credentials tying it to our identi
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
You could get to the truth by reading between the lines in the whistleblower report after they fired Mudge, whom Jack brought in as an infosec consultant. I'd suggest reading it, it's quite an eye opener to pre-Musk Twitter. Notab
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
He means they were overpaid wankers who went to the office to mostly socialize and take advantage of free gourmet food. This isn't hyperbole, these people proudly documented it on their social media accounts and I've seen the foot
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
A professional athlete likes to lie down with ladies? Say it isn't so.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
I've read Richard's blog (his "political notes") and I come away with a feeling that his extreme politics at the very least clouds his thinking, if not directly influences it. The end result is he carefully picks and cho
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
By enterprise he means non-webshit industry.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Because mushrooms are NOT "super high in protein". A comparable serving of beef has about 12x the amount of protein as mushrooms.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Indeed, many programs interpret a kill -HUP signal as a "re-read config" command.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
From afar, Caddy is one of those weird HN cargo cults. It seems like in every thread about web servers, the developers are in here peddling their wares, and the disciples pour in with endless praise. It's another product with insane fo
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
If an exploit is used in a forest, and no one's around to hear it....
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Elizabeth Warren demands probes of Elon Musk, SpaceX after Ukraine revelations(seattletimes.com)
6 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|1 comments
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Except when it doesn't. I've had versions of Mac OS fail with AirPrint printers (spits out pages of garbage) that required manual tweaking and setup. The bug was in Mac OS not the printer.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
AirPrint isn't magic. It's just PostScript with DNS-SD bolted on top.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
ICE cars aren't supposed to explode nor are EVs supposed to burst into flames via inextinguishable battery fires. But sometimes they do. We don't use this outlier data to refer to them as conflagrations-on-wheels and assert it&#x2
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
This is false. They're not supposed to leak. "Replenish gas reserves" is not a regularly scheduled maintenance item. In fact it's illegal for a technician to add refrigerant more than once without identifying and repairi
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Sounds like FUD. A properly installed AC leaks nothing because it is by design a sealed system. I wonder if they feel the same about refrigerators. These same smooth-brains are probably extolling the benefits of heat pump water heaters no
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
The Leaf is a glorified golf cart, it is not comparable to a Toyota family car.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
"Struggles to master" sounds like propaganda / smear piece to me. For a country that is clearly NOT ready for widespread EV adoption outside of enthusiasts. Maybe they have the foresight to see the infrastructure isn't
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The Aviation Herald needs your help(avherald.com)
3 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|0 comments
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Correct. The Macintosh lineage was SimpleText IIRC.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
In this case, the original source appears to be paywalled.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
It's funny how for many years the push to switch to almost-but-not-quite as good OSS solutions has been the cost savings. Then MS gives Teams away for free and all of a sudden it's "oh those evil monopolists". Would it b
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
They do make such a thing as an instant hot water dispenser, though they are considered a luxury and not very common: https://insinkerator.emerson.com/en-us/shop/insinkerator/ins...
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
BS1363 are comically oversized because they contain internal fuses, due in part to the strange ring main design, itself a vestige of WWII copper shortages.

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