microcolonel

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2731.
by microcolonel 9y ago
> How could a border wall possibly influence searches of personal devices at crossings far away from it? This makes no sense. I did not make that argument, sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> Why do walls marking national boundaries proliferate amid widespread proclamations of global connectedness and despite anticipation of a world without borders? Why are barricades built of concrete, steel, and barbed wire when threats
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by microcolonel 9y ago
The border has a general mandate for search. If they want to search it, they can search it. Searches of this sort are rare, but seemingly well supported in law. Unfortunately, IIRC this power also extends about 50mi from any land border, en
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> The AC to DC converters that can handle rapid charging are physically huge and There's no practical way to put that inside the car itself. Ahh, that makes more sense now that I think about it. Because of the cross sectional area
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> The batteries actually take dc to charge. Yeah, I'm aware of that; I guess I didn't think that charging the battery in pulses (direct from a beefy rectifier, followed by a the DC transformer) would be incorrect or unreasona
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> As a customer and not an OEM, what would they do with this information other than ask other parties to hurry with updates? They could shut down machines for which it is an excessive risk; though honestly I don't think they shoul
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by microcolonel 9y ago
The article repeatedly states that DC chargers can deliver more power than AC chargers, but I don't see how that could be a thing. Is it some limitation with the onboard power supplies? It's my (limited, third-party) understanding
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> When you mix ethanol with water it gets heated up I don't exactly know how to read this paper into real power-per-volume or temperature differential. Does a crude mixture produce an unsafe or inconvenient amount of heat? Does a
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by microcolonel 9y ago
I don't know, but I do know there are facilities producing food and pharmaceutical grade 200 proof spirits using molecular sieves for the last 3-5% of water (I'm guessing followed by another distillation to remove the sieve partic
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by microcolonel 9y ago
I guess it should come as no surprise that the birthplace of directly-marketed neutral grain spirits sells it to the public. Unfortunately it seems that it's illegal in many U.S. states, all of Norway. Here in Ontario I've heard t
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by microcolonel 9y ago
Would it contain those traces if it were produced with molecular sieves rather than benzene?
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> I did try tasting it and it was awful. Pure ethanol is near odorless, but gains a smell from the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde. The lab grade stuff had a very strong smell. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend putting an undiluted
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by microcolonel 9y ago
Frankly I don't understand why grocery stores don't just sell undenatured purified food-grade ethanol. There's plenty of supply, and if people could be taught how to use it, there would be tonnes of demand. This isn't th
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by microcolonel 9y ago
If they did, they would be crashing into parked cars and buildings as well. GPS can not be the basis of fine navigation, and it does nothing for collision avoidance.
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by microcolonel 9y ago
It'd be cool to have another good documentary. I remember there being a good cut of one of these exercises some years ago.
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> The very word has had a campaign against it for a long time because of the 20th century relations between America and Russia It might also have something to do with the roughly 85-100 million people whose deaths can be directly attri
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by microcolonel 9y ago
I get heat for pronouncing Iran and Iraq anywhere near correctly, people tell me I sound like a redneck for it.
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> Can it be possible that there are more relevant skills to software engineering than pure coding ability? The best people I have worked with in my career were not the few “rockstar” geniuses, but the rank and file developers with good
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> The problem is that they are bragging about simply hiring more females, anyone can do that. How the company will perform as result of that is what matters and they didn't address that at all. The other rather interesting thing i
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> likewise perpetuated the problem I think before you say that the highest performing schools "perpetuated the problem", you're going to need to substantiate that. > https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sma
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by microcolonel 9y ago
That's great and all, but why go to the trouble of finding a politics-oriented candidate pool, instead of a performance-oriented one if removing identifying information and automating the first prescreening task (among other things) ar
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> We started our hiring reboot by analyzing where we were spending our hiring time and effort. Perhaps not surprisingly, we were spending time at colleges and universities based on past experience, rather than their percentage of female
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by microcolonel 9y ago
Seems like directional radio/laser-in-tube would get you back that 1/3 by avoiding the internal reflection problem altogether.
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by microcolonel 9y ago
Yeah, I marvelled a bit when I first saw that they were licensed in 1040. Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier is excellent. They seem pretty bizarre as modern breweries go. Originally operated as part of the abbey, they are now somewhat joined wi
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by microcolonel 9y ago
There are world religions younger than Kongō Gumi.
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> The essence of banh mi is basically experiencing every sensation your mouth can experience, all at the same time. It's warm, cool, crisp, chewy, greasy, sweet, sour, salty, spicy, fragrant, and ALL AT ONCE. This is, incidentally
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by microcolonel 9y ago
On a desktop, we compile 30-60 megabytes of WebAssembly code per second. That’s faster than the network delivers the packets. Funny enough, on my workstation it seems to compile something more like 60-80 MiB/s, to keep up with my netwo
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> The FCC have ignored this -- as they ignored everyone else to serve their corporate buddies. So they're just incompetent? Because if I were trying to serve my corporate buddies, I'd do a satisfactory job of it instead of je
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> The ruling didn't quote any comments. My understanding is they will be torn apart based on that. Ahh, well that actually changes everything. I really wonder why FCC (and the people who are allegedly corrupting them) would overlo
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by microcolonel 9y ago
> My understanding is they won't argue for Net Neutrality -- instead they will tear apart the process leading to the decision: it'll come down to falsifying and then ignoring comments because that means an "arbitrary and

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