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by oasisbob 3y ago
Installing a Nest learning thermostat in the summer was ... illuminating. Turns out they only learn for the first few weeks. After three calls with tech support, we reset it enough times that it learned how to turn on the heat by 11am on we
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American companies voluntarily manufacture products to these standards.
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Exactly.
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> But the idea that a trans-national government over 750M people should be trying to regulate in this level of detail is just obviously a recipe for disaster Why? Standards harmonization has big upsides too. For example, the EU PPE safet
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> In civilized countries, no one can force you to hand over a password (as you have a right to not incriminate yourself). Which countries? In the US, the intersection between 5th amendment rights and password disclosure is not complete.
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I don't think so, maybe just outdated. ca 2000 when I was in HS, it was clear that the font & format limits were to also help get students used to submitting printed standardized manuscripts later in academia. But also to save the
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by oasisbob 4y ago
Running start credits, being based on community college credits, don't even transfer cleanly to state schools. When I did running start, this was the cautious advice. There are plenty of other reasons to do running start, aside from tr
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Which analysts or industries consider liquor to be a foodstuff?
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FWIW, I've seen YT premium features geo-revert themselves while traveling, but ad display never reenables itself as far as I can tell. Downloading new videos is the one feature which usually goes away, though I remember embeds getting
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by oasisbob 4y ago
That's a good one. One of my favorite cautionary stories is of the telco which, for cost-savings reasons, deferred drops and cleanup across their entire plant. As the story goes, digging out of it was horrible, expensive, and epic. Not
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by oasisbob 4y ago
> While I too love to see good cable layout, whenever you see a “thousand” Ethernet cables in one run, a foundational mistake has been made. How about in large campus environments with extensive copper plants? Bundles arriving into an ID
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NATs are problematic already. Every office I've ever worked at has that one guy who is really good at tickling Google with scripts until it puts you all behind a CAPTCHA.
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For example, with containers on AWS ECS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/userguide/task-...
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Couldn't a failure in the PHY also cause a significant enough impedance change to be problematic?
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> serial over RJ45 I'm almost certain that serial has been in common use on 8P8C longer than 100BaseT. Personally, I'll stop believing in that connector when it stops being useful.
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Elasticsearch documentation has impressed me every time I've revisited it over the last decade. The Elasticsearch Guide: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
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Which portion of the vegan community are you referring to? A Jain may choose not eat a fig under different ethical judgements than other vegans.
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> A widely accepted explanation for this peak in coal production is a temporal lag between the evolution of abundant lignin production in woody plants and the subsequent evolution of lignin-degrading Agaricomycetes fungi, resulting in a
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Strong product owners controlling the workflow and prioritization of the team certainly feel like management when you're working under one.
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> Five people died constructing the Empire State building. Do you imagine the uproar if that happens today? People still die on construction projects all the time, on relatively uninteresting things even. eg, in 2019 four people died whe
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by oasisbob 4y ago
Rhetoric is commonly introduced this way in college composition courses. Here's a good approachable introduction: https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/csu-fyw-rhetoric/chapter... Typically when I hear the word rhet
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> This is a bunch of rhetoric dressed up as logic hidden by using long paragraphs Rhetoric is the classical art of persuasion. Were you trying to say "empty rhetoric" or to describe the argument as being poor? Describing a poor
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by oasisbob 4y ago
Thanks. It was a bit scary the first time, but they keep their distance. No resident crows in this grove, afaik. Sometimes I wonder if I'm already being recognized as "that weird tree guy", even on the ground, and what it wou
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Makes sense to me. Crows have caught me tree climbing under them during their evening flights to the communal roost, the result was always a chaotic mess. They just couldn't leave it alone. Without fail, eventually one crow would notic
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This technique doesn't seem especially relevant for many kinds of backend work.
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Why was that guy running Jenkins without a password?
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A part of your analysis left out is that Elon is a public figure. Is poparazzi photography doxxing? Is the White House press corp doxxing?
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Steam exists at 350 degrees in the same way bread can be cooked at 350 degrees and come out moist. The bad assumption here is that all the water flashes off instantly, or that the temperature isn't referring to the thing you're co
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I like how the author of this piece included this early on when they point out the three markets affected by the proposed merger: - The producers - The consumers - The employees It's easy to picture consumers being squeezed the least b

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