kstrauser

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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Safe shock levels is a naive myth. What if the person had a pacemaker? What if they’re wet? What if one person is grabbed by the bicep and forearm, and another is grabbed by the chest and face? It’s completely impossible to assign one value
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
From anear, too.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
How compatible are these with a super soaker filled with saline? Asking for a friend.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
You should also go apologize to your English teacher.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I think this is going to become a common theme over the next couple of years.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
You can take the Verizon out of the Southwest Bell, but you can’t take the Southwest Bell out of the Verizon.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
It was explained to me that there are people who react to it, and people who don’t react to it yet .
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I get that. I do. And yet, once things like this start to happen, it’s exceedingly likely to continue, and you have to start making contingency plans. Evernote increased their annual prices like 40% in early 2024 and it’s been nothing but u
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Oof. I upgraded my wife’s business from Comcast to AT&T. This is the only context, ever, where you’ll hear me describe AT&T as an upgrade to anything. I returned Comcast’s modem to the local office, photographed them accepting it fr
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Absolutely. You have until the end of your subscription to migrate. After that the thumb screws come out.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Every now and then I check out the Evernote Reddit out of morbid curiosity. One person recently announced they’d finally had enough and were leaving because Bending Spoons increased their monthly bill from $20 to $30. They’d been paying $24
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
As a counterexample, my bestie is "brown as a paper bag", and he was convinced he couldn't get a sunburn, up until he did. Unrelated, he also swore he couldn't get poison ivy, until he literally rolled in it to prove it
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
In retrospect, I wonder if there was a measurable effect on sun exposure creating vitamin D => immune system recovery, especially if the patient were otherwise not outside much? Like, I doubt that fixing a vitamin D deficiency is going t
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I don't think that was because of UV exposure or anything related. Look at Bedouin tribes even today. They wrap up head to toe, man and woman and child alike, not to avoid tanning but because prolonged exposure to direct infrared will
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
And those both work over IPv6, which I thought was a delightful mix of the old and new. Nice!
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
In the Before Times, when I didn't have direct Linux experience yet, I was telnetted into my university's computer lab (as a non-root user) to do homework. I needed a newer version of GCC, and was resourceful enough to download, c
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
This is my favorite. It Just Works with every mouse I throw at it and supports a ludicrous amount of button customization.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
One day I was getting a haircut in my smallish Midwest hometown. Another customer was grousing about being unable to contact a friend, and just happened to mention someone I knew. I pulled out my Palm and said I had their phone number. The
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
When did you last see a security camera in the bathroom?
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Or as we called it growing up in Missouri: “summer”. I exaggerate. Slightly.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
> A typical automotive ECU chip now is about 7 billion gates. So it is bigger, 3x bigger, and there are big power challenges. As a simple example, the way that’s really measured now is, “Oh, it translates into a much smaller range for th
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Ah, yes, those BSD idiots with their root and toor accounts, clearly clueless about security concerns. I don’t recall ever seeing a security requirement not to have 2 root accounts. What you can’t have is multiple users sharing the same acc
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
That’s not what appeal to authority means.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
Uh, Mac OS 9 existed. It shipped with early iMacs before OS X was stable and for people who needed to run old apps natively.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
It wasn't clear to me that this was a satire article. It seemed like a reasonably serious experiment with a bad idea.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
What’s wrong with satire sites? If The Onion put in the work to try this, I’d still be interested in hearing about it.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I appreciate this. IPv8 is a terrible, terrible idea, and it’s good to see someone actually built it out to prove the depths of its terribleness. Well done.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
I worked for an ISP at the time, and was delighted to get to write a support page for Miami (a then-new TCP stack for Amiga), complete with config file downloads. Those were fun times.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
At 8.0ms for mult/div, that would make it right on par with a Commodore 64's BASIC math routines, even though it came 24 years earlier. That's pretty freaking impressive.
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by kstrauser 2mo ago
As a parent of older kids: I never remember the context of the old photos. "Yep, there's my kid laying on the rug." I do, however, remember them letting go of the coffee table and wobbling their way toward me for the first ti

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