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by logifail 2y ago
> Compare it to physical health. For instance, everyone is advised to take regular tests (like blood tests). While things can still be improved a lot, this simple proactive measure helps detect many health problems before they cause seri
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> Pre-industrial CO2 levels were at 280ppm, currently we have 480ppm, rising & accelerating. Give it three or four decades and ventilation won't help anymore Just to add a little context, here's a table from https:/&#
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> I would be delighted to read about opposing opinions, provided they are presented + supported by provable facts Looking back at the output of certain major media outlets during the pandemic, I'd suggest it might an idea to hold e
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> more freedom to spend your time how you please "More freedom" sounds amazing right up until the point you remember that you aren't getting a salary every month but still need to pay rent and buy food and stuff...
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> The ability to validate the key before doing anything with it [..] Q: What about the endpoint that's issuing the tokens?
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by logifail 2y ago
Appreciate hindsight is 20/20 but: (Hard to judge from dashcam) but car seems to be going fairly quickly for the conditions. Low light, low viz, curving road... and surely the moment you see flashing lights up ahead (ie from the ve
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by logifail 2y ago
> ETF just passively buys shares FWIW: ETFs also passively sell, too. We may all ignore that bit when stock markets just seem to keep on rising, but if (when) they start falling the ETFs will be following the crowd too.
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> having a competent mechanic completely overhaul and inspect the most critical safety system on a bike for €150 seems like a pretty good deal Absolutely, and I was happy to pay for the brakes to be sorted! €150 is a fairly substantial r
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next to go will be capital letters thenspaces
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> It's 100+ €/h for a skilled worker who replaced that clutch I'm pro-bike, but this issue also applies to having a bike repaired at a decent workshop. Our daughter's hand-me-down bike (previously "owned" by
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by logifail 2y ago
> Thousands of miles of transmission lines seems reasonable though? Step 1: Stop worrying about coming up with an idea for a startup... Step 2: Build "thousands of miles of transmission lines" Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit!
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by logifail 2y ago
> It really is a solved problem. <chuckle> "Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utili
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by logifail 2y ago
> … read the article >> "Crews reshaped the landscape, spreading fine sand across large stretches of rich topsoil, Duttlinger said" Where did the fine sand come from, how deep is the [alleged] spreading of it, how much of
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> There's also enough barren desert space just in Nevada to power the entire continent of North America. Q: How do you transport that across "the entire contient of North America"?
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> When did you last travel on a UK domestic flight? You definitely need government issued ID "a spokesperson for the CAA, said: “UK aviation security regulations do not require a passenger’s identity to be checked for security purpo
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by logifail 2y ago
> You need more than this to get on an aeroplane, but that also applies to domestic flights in the UK. Can you clarify what you mean by "more than this"? I've travelled on many domestic flights within the UK, and ID is not
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by logifail 2y ago
> That's a strawman [..] OK, I'll bite. How exactly are [US] domestic users of services supposed to prove they don't need to prove their identity? EDIT: it reminds me of the Common Travel Area (between Ireland and of the
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> With that said, I also don't understand the issues people are having with this. The regulation "requir[es] U.S. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers of IaaS products to verify the identity of their foreign customers&q
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by logifail 2y ago
I have two Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN (10GbE) plus one CRS504-4XQ-IN (100GbE) switches in my office. Along with a load of other Mikrotik gear. The 10GbE ones are silent, and the 100GbE one isn't exactly loud, unlike lots of second-hand
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by logifail 2y ago
There wasn't just the one Cruise incident, though, was there?
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> I've seen many human drivers doing equally stupid things Just yesterday I got yelled at by an Italian police officer who was directing traffic at a busy junction (I was in a rental car). [Full disclosure: I stopped, wound my win
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by logifail 2y ago
> $5/month + domain is going to be at least $70 a year. Whether that's cheap or expensive depends heavily on your personal situation [..] Indeed, although if your personal situation involves "sitting in conferences listeni
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> didn't have enough to say to pay all that for a big-ass server Can you define "big-ass"? You'd be amazed what you can do on a $5/mo VPS.
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by logifail 3y ago
>> It is illegal as per the GDPR. > Then they should simply tell Meta Umm, who's the they in this? Call me naive, but I'd assumed corporations were expected to comply with applicable laws without having to be told to.
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by logifail 3y ago
> It’s not a random article. It’s been upvoted to the HN front page. Time is precious, and I choose not to waste mine on the unnecessarily slow consumption of annoyingly-formatted articles. I came across this hypothesis recently: "A
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by logifail 3y ago
> That's because it's not a benchmark, it's an explanation It's certainly an article that uses the word 'may' several times in the text, yet not once in its title.
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by logifail 3y ago
It seems JMAP isn't universally loved, see for instance the spirited discussion in [0], although I've no direct experience. My Maildirs "justed worked" though, and have been moved across dozens of servers - not to mentio
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> where you can end up with things like b00b Honestly, if seeing the character string "b00b" is a problem, you have bigger problems.
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Q: What's special about the format of UUIDs compared to, say, an equivalent entropy 128-bit number? For many use cases, the hyphens appear to be utterly irrelevant. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/quest
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by logifail 3y ago
> Because of the Internet more democratization of information on what a PhD entails, how to apply, and how to be successful I'd love to see a working definition of "successful" as regards to getting a PhD. I spent the bes

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