mordechai9000

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by mordechai9000 16d ago
Stellar fusion could also be a factor in a sufficiently large compost heap.
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by mordechai9000 2mo ago
In northern Alaska it can last most of the day in the winter, and most of the night in the summer.
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by mordechai9000 2mo ago
That could be a troubling game for someone with a history of psychological problems like depersonalization or other forms of psychosis. If it were a film or a story, you could tell it with enough ambiguity that the audience wouldn't be
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by mordechai9000 2mo ago
I also want to add something. The new pressure cookers, stovetop or electric, are much less risky than the old school version with the rocker switch. Those could get clogged with food and they had no backup relief mechanism, as far as I kno
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by mordechai9000 2mo ago
I think $1M net worth in the US these days is a nice little nest egg, but not anywhere near financial independence. Unless your needs are simple, you can relocate somewhere to live very cheaply, and you don't have any dependents.
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by mordechai9000 3mo ago
I'm a little skeptical that any actual wiring from this project is still in use to this day. Conditions are hard on this kind of infrastructure. Alaska has been pushing to modernize telecom infrastructure heavily for the last two decad
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by mordechai9000 3mo ago
> Obviously, huge challenges here Social credit score? I've seen that Black Mirror episode.
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by mordechai9000 3mo ago
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listenin
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by mordechai9000 3mo ago
I worked for a small, local ISP in the mid 2000s. I don't think I made any stupid mistakes on my part, but I had plenty of coworkers who did. To be fair, people were often actively hostile to security concerns back then. It's not
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by mordechai9000 4mo ago
It also had "weltschmerz" in the list, but I think I have only ever heard "ennui" used in English. They are both foreign words, but I would not have thought of weltschmerz as a loan word. Then again, maybe I am not readi
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by mordechai9000 4mo ago
Depending on where you live, those probably aren't the problematic species known as the German cockroach that typically infests human living quarters.
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by mordechai9000 5mo ago
My concern is that even if it would temporarily alleviate the local drought conditions for some areas, it wouldn't reverse the long term trends towards hotter, drier conditions.
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by mordechai9000 5mo ago
I wonder about failure modes and fault identification. I've heard stories of things like screws or brackets wearing through the insulation and causing an intermittent fault that defies diagnosis. One of those things I think about when
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by mordechai9000 5mo ago
A handful get infected from direct exposure to animals. Then it spreads to family and others in the community. Sometimes people travel and bring it to a new location. Sadly, it is often the caregivers who get infected.
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by mordechai9000 5mo ago
I believe, in my state, similar looking characters are considered identical for vanity plates. I assumed this applied to state issued plate IDs as well, but maybe not. It's hard enough trying to read a license plate on the road without
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by mordechai9000 5mo ago
"Slow down. Think clearly." - Izchak Solid advice, but not easy for me. I made it to the astral planes, once.
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by mordechai9000 5mo ago
I programmed a Mandelbrot generator on my TI-81 (if I remember the model correctly) when I should have been paying attention in class. Entering the code was slow and painful - fortunately the algorithm is fairly simple. The batteries lasted
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by mordechai9000 6mo ago
> the DS&A nerds among you would call this an LRU cache, I guess More like a FIFO buffer. But you probably don't strictly enforce the rotation - you might still pick a preferred garment over the one on the end, I am guessing. So
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by mordechai9000 6mo ago
My guess is they stock it in case someone needs it during the mission. Not that they are sending people who are already taking it.
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Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs(theguardian.com)
194 points by mordechai9000 6mo ago|136 comments
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by mordechai9000 6mo ago
Could you maintain a VM or other environment dedicated to running the client through RDP or Guacamole or something like that? I think that would mitigate the security risk, somewhat, since there would be nothing else on the system to compro
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by mordechai9000 7mo ago
Removing the case and putting it in mineral oil with a circulating pump and a heat exchanger would probably work better
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by mordechai9000 7mo ago
Are we back to this again? I have a friend who wants to know how to build a blue box.
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by mordechai9000 7mo ago
Do you really need Turbotax? Just feed it the tax code, your financial data, and the relevant forms and it should be good to go. Now we have freed up the labor of accountants so they can go be productive in another segment of society. &#x2F
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by mordechai9000 7mo ago
Years ago I was surprised to read a critic that described Branagh's Hamlet as middlebrow. I mean, Henry V, sure - that only even qualifies as middlebrow because it's Shakespeare. I would assume it was lowbrow at the time it was wr
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by mordechai9000 7mo ago
I would make them fairly small (personal pie-sized) and use a filling that doesn't need to be cooked in the oven to set. The main limiting factors, I think, would be structural integrity and heating the filling to the center. You could
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by mordechai9000 8mo ago
In the US, depositors are insured by the FDIC (Federal Depositors Insurance Fund) up to $250000 per institution. This doesn't apply to investment accounts, but would cover standard checking and savings accounts, even if they pay intere
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by mordechai9000 8mo ago
Just anecdotes, but I know two people who got it in their 40s, and one of them has some minor facial paralysis that he believes is probably permanent. I got the vaccine when I turned 50.
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by mordechai9000 8mo ago
I can only speak for myself, but 2 was a good number for me. This amounts to somewhat less than a replacement rate. My wife and I had enough time and energy to give the kids what they needed, and still have some for ourselves at the end of
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by mordechai9000 9mo ago
If people are uncomfortable, they can predict how often they can turn the table over and get another party in there.

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