nick238

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by nick238 11mo ago
Am I having a stroke? Reading the title makes my head hurt.
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by nick238 11mo ago
It does, but every time you click on a new option it's a new URL. So if you poke around a bit, you may have generated dozens of entries in the history.
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by nick238 11mo ago
Feels like server developers should include turnkey configurations where you just give maybe a year/quarter and compatibility target (secure, medium, loose). Needing to cha-cha your salsas, 128 to the 256 to the 1305...picking SSL ciph
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by nick238 11mo ago
From my time working at a Fortune 100 company, if I ever mentioned pushing even small patches to libraries we effing used , I'd just be met "try to focus on your tickets". Their OSS library and policies were also super byzan
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by nick238 11mo ago
"Your" behavior??? The second you try to put this on individuals, you lose the plot and it turns into another "personal carbon footprint" scam like what BP pulled in 2004[1]. The only way out of this is public policy and
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by nick238 11mo ago
Matching additive colors (RGB) to subtractive (CMYK, though even in mixed paints there are dozens of tints) feels fraught with peril.
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by nick238 1y ago
When OpenAPI opened the polymorphism door with 'oneOf' and the like, it seems like it turned into a shitty language written in YAML rather than being a good concise way to communicate API design. Former company enforced OpenAPI sp
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by nick238 1y ago
Fluoride doesn't bio-accumulate like PFAS do, which has a strong affinity for proteins and fats in organisms. Constantly drinking water with 0.5-1 ppm fluoride may cause minor side effects like mild dental fluorosis, but you'll ex
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by nick238 1y ago
The Materials Science Gameplay Loop: 1. Invent fantastic new material that does a heretofore novel reaction or one with improved performance (chemical, photovoltaic, etc.) 2. Do #1 without lead, cadmium, mercury, or arsenic. SociallyAwesome
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by nick238 1y ago
In the web sphere, I recall Amazon having done something like this in the very early days when there was a sidebar with categories that you could kinda drill into. Mouseover one, and there was an invisible triangle off to the right that if
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by nick238 1y ago
I guess my major question would be: does the training data include anything from 2025 which may have included information about the IMO 2025? Given that AI companies are constantly trying to slurp up any and all data online, if the model wa
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by nick238 1y ago
And if they don't request a format (or if you ask, and the response is "what's a format"), you need to use one that's 99.99% supported.
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by nick238 1y ago
Yeah, the "2% growth forever" feels like a sneaky addition which is extremely controversial in economic theory: if endless growth is required. 1.02 ** 1000 ~= 400,000,000. So if the world population continued to grow at 2% in
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by nick238 1y ago
Lifecycle analysis is a common and increasingly detailed field which includes impacts to manufacture, transport, install, run, and clean-up installations, either cradle-to-grave, or cradle-to-cradle (includes the cost of recycling). I assum
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by nick238 1y ago
Maybe these are the windmills that drive the whales crazy? To paraphrase wind-watch.org (sounds non-partisan) > The obvious concern that most people might guess will be dangerous and damaging to [swimming] wildlife are the spinning blade
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by nick238 1y ago
In non-phoenitic languages, i.e. English, many of these methods are painful, especially "Last is First". See "I", but then it's "In", so you need to mentally backtrack some understanding. See "t"
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by nick238 1y ago
Given they needed to use a tenuous carbon fiber skeleton and tungsten carbide plate, and a stray glob of glue throws off the balance...seems tough.
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by nick238 1y ago
So with mineral rights in Texas, could you just buy/lease them out from under one of your rivals/enemies and just bulldoze their buildings for the lulz? "Sorry, I just really needed that teaspoon of dirt from under your multi
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by nick238 1y ago
There are 48 blood type systems , of which ABO (giving A, B, AB, and O) and Rh (+/-) can be combined to form the 8 common types. There are effectively millions of types because all the systems combined combinatorially, but most antige
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by nick238 1y ago
You don't. That's how bills are passed: everyone adds a little of what they want. To the extreme, it's called "pork barrel politics", but there's a whole continuum between that and a basic compromise.
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by nick238 1y ago
One of our defining American neuroses is an extreme aversion to anything remotely paternalistic.
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by nick238 1y ago
Point is, compared with 16000%, 0%, 5%, 10%, 40% are all functionally the same.
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by nick238 1y ago
I'd definitely not do that . POCing a scraper to check is fine, but you shouldn't save any PII from that data. You're also saying you're the "hacker", as you don't know if it's actually been reveal
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by nick238 1y ago
Disclosure is good for the 'innocent users' as they are made aware that their data may have been leaked (who knows if the company can do the sufficient auditing and forensics to detect total scraping), rather than just being obl
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by nick238 1y ago
Pardon sir, I see you have: * Port 443 exposed to the internets. This can allow attackers to gain access to information you have. $10k fee for discovery * Your port 443 responds with "Server: AmazonS3" header. This can allow attac
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by nick238 1y ago
One of the anti-consumer behaviors that banks figured out was reordering transactions to increase overdraft fees [0]. For instance, say you made 5 purchases in a given day for ~$20 each, and your account had $500 in it. Then, you need to ma
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by nick238 1y ago
"The spacecraft is a 1.46 kg (3.2 lb) aluminum sphere six inches (150 mm) in diameter, with antennas spanning three feet (0.91 m)" A mission like the private EVA SpaceX missions could probably just go up and grab it. Maybe need to
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by nick238 1y ago
Just for clarity, "in UK" is qualifying the whole thing, not that she just happened to be in the UK. A woman in Alabama had a child via a uterus transplant, among other places.
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by nick238 1y ago
If I'm in a city neighborhood, could I just run fiber on the telephone poles just like Comcast does cable? I could probably run point-to-point connections from my garage to 16 single family homes and 2 multi-unit buildings with 3000&#x
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by nick238 1y ago
Water and sewer is probably well and a septic tank/leach field. The electrical service is probably at least that much though.

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