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by hrunt 3y ago
Why? They already used up all their luck escaping the accident.
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by hrunt 3y ago
Tsar Bomba was detonated in October 1961. That means that for any civilization to have seen it, that civilization must be within 63 light years of Earth. In addition, unlike the Pyramids, Tsar Bomba was a momentary flash, so if a civilizati
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by hrunt 3y ago
These make analogies make no sense. The author is a self-described expert in fraud and security. It's totally reasonable to ask why he didn't use base-standard advice like, "Don't accept incoming calls," and "D
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by hrunt 3y ago
I don't understand. Is Boeing using a different anti-ice system on the engines for the MAX 7 compared to the other MAX variants? They use the same engines, no? Why would the MAX 7 need a safety exemption for a system that should be ide
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by hrunt 3y ago
I think it was because most people are used to Teams being an application with a poor experience, so a widespread degradation in service just looks like what people normally expect from Teams. I know in the orgs that I work with, everyone t
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by hrunt 3y ago
> Obviously, one solution to the problem is that DHCP leases on planes should be drastically shorter, like at 1 hour intervals. Secondly, the number of leases should be drastically increased. Why isn't the solution as simple as, &qu
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by hrunt 3y ago
They explain this in the article. It's to make the broadcast easier to watch for the European audience.
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by hrunt 3y ago
For me, two books that changed how I thought about software were (and I may date myself here): 1. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment[0] This changed writing software from being about the code I was writing to being about the under
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by hrunt 3y ago
In fact, there's a significant market right now for purchasing FTX claims precisely because of this Anthropic investment. The bet is that you can buy the FTX claim for 35 or 40 cents on the dollar, and get 75 or 80 cents on the dollar
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by hrunt 3y ago
YTTV does not really have the ability to not show ads. Those are put in the streams they are carrying. Could they negotiate with the channels to not show ads? Maybe, but no channel is going to allow that. A different way to think of this is
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by hrunt 3y ago
As of September 5, it's Novo Nordisk, maker of Ozempic and Wegovny.
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by hrunt 3y ago
Architecture school is all about the fanciful. Whether or not the proposals will work in real life are secondary to the creative process that gets you to them (aside from purposeful courses like Structures or Materials). That something like
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by hrunt 3y ago
Apparently, this will be an all-cash deal worth $28 billion[0]. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/21/cisco-acquiring-splunk-for-1...
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by hrunt 3y ago
Having gone through /exactly/ what this article is about, I know the pain. But I will point those that don't read the article to the last paragraph: > We considered implementing an off-the-shelf billing solution but there
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by hrunt 3y ago
I've had a Google Pixel phone since the Nexus 5. I switched to it from an iPhone 4 because my company was developing apps for our online service, we needed to improve our Android apps, and I wanted to immerse myself in the Android ecos
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by hrunt 3y ago
Yes, all these stopped and immovable Cruise cars would certainly be safer for pedestrians than moving human-driven cars.
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by hrunt 3y ago
> The GFW blocks WireGuard, right? The GFW is extremely sophisticated in what it blocks and how it blocks it. I have seen it block otherwise random traffic based on packet sizes, packet patterns, stream concurrency, stream duration. It w
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by hrunt 3y ago
It is /exactly/ because the media company can promote its partnered VPN. A huge driver of user signups in the commodity personal VPN space is affiliate referrals, and usually those affiliate sites are "review" or "h
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by hrunt 3y ago
Yet, when we send our spacecraft from one planet to another, we lose a surprisingly high percentage of them (~7% since 2000, not counting the ones we purposefully crashed). Look, I'm beyond skeptical of the claims, but it's not be
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by hrunt 3y ago
Ha! That wizard brings back memories. I remember in the late 90s Microsoft introducing text-to-speech recognition through those characters. I hooked that wizard up to the output from my IRC client. Anytime a message would come to the channe
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by hrunt 3y ago
My son just got an non-ebike, and we bought parts to convert it to an ebike (a better, a kit with a wheel/motor, control unit, screen, and pedal assist sensor). What I found is that the collection of parts was very much like building a
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by hrunt 3y ago
Those who are familiar with US submarine operations would assume this from the start. For an excellent account of the development of US submarine capabilities (including listening and detection), I wholeheartedly recommend the book "Bl
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by hrunt 3y ago
Cryptomator suggests WinFSP for its Windows installation, MacFUSE for Intel Macs, and FUSE-T (the NFS FUSE implementation) for Apple silicon Macs. I've used all of them, and I've also used Dokan with encfs. Both OSes treat network
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by hrunt 3y ago
From the article: > One time I heard someone praised as a good teacher. Not knowledgeable, but a good teacher. I objected that if someone is ignorant but a good teacher, does that mean they’re effective in conveying their ignorance? Woul
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by hrunt 3y ago
Lately, these archive links have been broken for me. DNS is not resolving for them. Is anyone else seeing this issue? I've seen it in the past few days with both archive.is and archive.ph
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by hrunt 3y ago
I don't understand this thinking. JPM is in long-term arrangements with CRE landlords whether employees come into the office or not. If employees come in to the office, JPM actually pays MORE, because the buildings will need the lights
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by hrunt 3y ago
> aren’t the inheritors gaining wealth they did not have before? In terms of stocks and land, yes and no. They are receiving assets they did not have before, and those assets have a market value that is not realized until they sell them.
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Microsoft Agrees to Buy Power from Helion in 2028(cnbc.com)
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by hrunt 3y ago
> I'm still surprised the police left without any fuzz because Mullvad surely must keep track of both transactions and the connected computers (to limit use). But maybe that data is stored somewhere else. First, I'm not surpris
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by hrunt 3y ago
Normally, when a company gets 80% of their revenue from one line of business, the market does not see them as "diversified". Are you saying that you think everyone on HN thinks they get a larger precentage of their revenue from ad

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