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by knute 5y ago
I believe EasyDNS can automatically push DNS settings to Route53 to host DNS in AWS. Doesn't protect you from fat-fingering a change, but you should be resilient to either EasyDNS or Route53 going down. https://kb.easydns.co
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by knute 5y ago
`copy(JSON.stringify(foo))` is something I use all the time for pulling large objects into a text editor for easy browsing and searching.
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by knute 5y ago
Even near-lightspeed travel (say, >0.2C) would be leaps and bounds beyond what we know how to do at this point.
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by knute 5y ago
I was also surprised that Debian was not the list of distributions they tried. That would be the first one I would reach for in this situation, and indeed is running fine for me on a VPC 256MB of RAM (although it is a 64bit CPU).
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by knute 5y ago
There was a while in the 90s/00s when code only required wood sheathing on the corners, and elsewhere you could have just insulating foam sheathing. So if you had vinyl siding, someone could pretty easily break into your house with jus
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by knute 5y ago
I think it's important to remember that Sam Walton died in 1992, and the Walmart of today has very little in common with the Wal-Mart of 1992.
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by knute 6y ago
Drag is enough of an issue for the ISS that they actually rotate the solar panels to reduce drag when they're not in sunlight, which saves them ~1000kg of propellant per year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Gl
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by knute 6y ago
Also because the F1 audience is strongly concentrated in Europe, where Honda's market share is miniscule. Contrasted with Indycar, which is US-based, where Honda has a much larger presence.
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by knute 6y ago
In the early 1990s and early 2000s web development was a nightmare. Having to test not just in different browsers, but different versions of different browsers, because they had substantially different behaviors. There was no "Inspect
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by knute 6y ago
These are large aircraft (though the F-16 is significantly smaller than an F-22) but the pilot + ejection seat + airtight pressurized compartment + life support systems + displays and controls really starts to add up in both the mass and vo
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by knute 6y ago
One thing that's not on here: Proofread your resume. Have a friend look over it for you. Spell things correctly. I don't care if you use "JavaScript" or "Javascript" but pick one and stick with it. If you'
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by knute 6y ago
There are several linked from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities' Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/tourismandantiq
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by knute 6y ago
Meaning on station, performing a task, not just on patrol and free to take a break to come into port.
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by knute 7y ago
I once had a laptop with a manual switch for the wifi. Its sole purpose, as far as I could tell, was to get accidentally bumped and cause me to waste time figuring out why wifi wasn't working.
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by knute 7y ago
In my office I run lid closed because I have 3 nice large monitors and I don't really have room for a fourth. It's nicer to have three displays that match in size and resolution than 2+1 that doesn't.
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by knute 7y ago
I have also heard the Boeing believed that supersonic airplanes would become de rigeuer for passenger travel within 10 years or so, so they made the 747 freight-capable so they wouldn't be completely worthless in the future.
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by knute 7y ago
In my experience, the OS _does_ handle that automatically. If the app isn't verifying it, it's because they went out of their way to disable certificate validation. Which is alarming.
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by knute 7y ago
Was your sister in Pittsburgh? It's a thing there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_toilet
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by knute 7y ago
> I have no idea how they were kept from rusting immediately. Rust isn't a huge problem because the environment is very dry. Salt doesn't cause rust, it just makes it worse.
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by knute 7y ago
easyDNS is pretty good.
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by knute 7y ago
Based on the anecdote in the story, you should always break the window without trying the door, because if you're on video trying and failing to open the door, that's evidence the door was locked and they can prosecute you. Talk a
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by knute 7y ago
When the first-gen iPhone was released, they could break certain wireless networks built on Cisco hardware. https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/07/21/1212217/duke-wi...
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by knute 7y ago
https://github.com/enterprise GitHub has offered an onprem server for some time now.
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by knute 7y ago
There are faster air-breathing aircraft (e.g. [0]), but none of them are manned because with modern technology there's no need to put a person in them, and the people funding these developments aren't interested in spending lots o
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by knute 8y ago
Sometimes, perversely, important systems are the _least_ likely to be updated. Operators require extensive testing before widespread application of the updates, which takes time.
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by knute 8y ago
Just because you didn't have to sign a non-compete doesn't mean there wasn't shady business going on. What the article is talking about is franchisees signing agreements not to hire employees from other franchisees in the sam
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by knute 8y ago
Also I believe the astronauts used epoxy to glue a patch over the hole, instead of just filling the hole with glue/epoxy, so the current solution should be much more structurally sound.
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by knute 8y ago
I obviously don't know how they're actually doing it, but you can perform all kinds of analysis on traffic even when it's encrypted. You can look at the distribution of packet size, the time distribution of packets, you can a
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by knute 8y ago
"Max depth" is kind of a nebulous concept though. There's the "test depth" which is as deep as they're willing to test the submarine. There's the maximum operational depth, which is some lesser depth that
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by knute 9y ago
Grill stones: https://smile.amazon.com/Grillstone-Grill-Cleaning-Refill-Pa...

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