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by oasisbob 5y ago
> "There is one basic color tint that is extremely difficult to get" Any idea of the possible tint which is being referred to? Wondering if it's a mineral source requiring mining, heavy-metal processing, or what?
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by oasisbob 5y ago
> all tape measures must be the exact same length. Tape measures are useful even if they're not the same length. Higher-end engineering tapes acknowledge that length isn't constant, and provide temperature coefficients, ranges
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by oasisbob 5y ago
The rabies vaccine is relatively expensive compared to others, even abroad. When vaccinating in India, the rabies jabs were the most expensive by an order of magnitude.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Sounds like you know this, but Rabies PrEP can be had overseas far cheaper. IIRC, the WHO protocol is down to two doses from three. Did my last round of travel jabs in India. Ended up being less than $200 for everything, including rabies pr
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Non-caching isn't accurate either though, as the story about the man who found portions of an incognito view cached and displayed when he opened a game in front of other family members makes clear. IIRC, this was not considered a bug.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
It's using whatever library stuffs an extra page in your history, "More stories to check out before you go!" in a blue banner at the top of the page. (iOS chrome)
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by oasisbob 5y ago
No arrests. False alarms on silent alarm systems are common. Other factors made it clear that a real threat was unlikely. All orgs should consider locking out all employees for at least one uninterrupted week a year. Very easy way to shake
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Training is very important in duress systems. I once worked in a place with a keypad duress code on the security system. If you prefixed your security PIN with NN-, it was the duress version of the code and would trigger a silent alarm. Thi
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Perhaps in the Midwest, but here on the west coast immigration policy and resistance to Bush-era security theater also played a part.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
IPSEC VPNs (and others) have the remote networks defined in the protocol as part of the security association (SA). The SAs define which networks are available over the tunnel. Saying "all RFC1918 addresses are available over here"
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by oasisbob 5y ago
The seeds do much better in mineral soil, out of a closed-canopy climax forest. It's a matter of environment, not seed fertility. It's very easy to take a drive anywhere in Northern CA and find plenty of places where the primary f
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Western redcedar, too. They have a lot in common with their distant northern cousins.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Coast or coastal redwood is another common name, typically used in its native range when differentiating with giant redwood. (Sequoiadendron giganteum) Perhaps that's what you're thinking of?
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by oasisbob 5y ago
if yoga is injuring you, your understanding of it is wrong That feels a lot like either victim blaming, or being fed a No True Scotsman truism and accepting it. One could say the same thing about staying within their skill level for any h
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by oasisbob 5y ago
I'm being a bit glib, but from the point of view of someone who used SFP optics once in a while, it seemed like the whole "standard" was a bit of a mess. If it was known that vendors would try to push their thermals past what
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by oasisbob 5y ago
It would have been fun to be a fly on the wall at Cisco when they first realized people were jamming devices with heaters in SPF sockets.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
If you like that, make sure you check out the `definitions.units` file from GNU Units. Many informative and entertaining rants to be found there: https://fossies.org/linux/units/definitions.units
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Saying that cheap insulin kills people seems like a hyperbolic, but essentially true statement. It's well known that you need to keep all sorts of things under control with type 1 to avoid long-term health complications. Blood sugar is
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by oasisbob 5y ago
One thing which makes 2% seem much worse for a grocery store is their thin margins. The gross profit for just about anything at Amazon is going to astronomical compared to just about any food category.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
An example of theft of a free product is newspaper theft. It's not much of a grey area in the US, plenty of precedent. https://splc.org/newspaper-theft-resources/
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by oasisbob 5y ago
As an aside, the moisture gradient in a tree typically becomes drier as you move towards the top of the crown. Thinking solely about throughfall can be misleading- exposure dominates by driving drying.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
> HTTP exploit requests can be pretty complicated, and the use of cURL hints that it's a dirt simple exploit to leverage. Why would that be? Curl can perform incredibly complicated requests to the point where they're barely leg
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by oasisbob 5y ago
> but it does seem suggestive. As pointed out by others, we don't even know who COVID's patient zero is, nor whether or not an intermediate host was even required after bats. The original SARS-CoV virus has never been isolated
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by oasisbob 5y ago
I don't understand that either. Other virologists seem to interpret the out-of-frame insert as being counterproductive.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
For large institutions in the early 2000s, it was very obvious that Category 5 wiring and Ethernet was a difficult technology to beat. Even back then, most universities were running Ethernet to rooms in all new construction, and retrofittin
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by oasisbob 5y ago
I just can't see this use case. The power draw is probably fine, but the contention for the battery would be a problem. Think, "hey honey, can we put off the Costco trip until next week so we can leave the internet up, and lights
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by oasisbob 5y ago
I'm not familiar with that study, but I think it's important to note that the PNAS article was submitted mid-2020, so it's hard to understand your criticism here.
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by oasisbob 5y ago
Here is a recent published review for those seeking a more comprehensive and complete evaluation of the literature: Howard, Jeremy, et al. "An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19." Proceedings of the National Academy of
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by oasisbob 5y ago
> I could post literally hundreds more examples of statistically significant, RCT'd science showing they have no effect on viral transmission. Please do. I'm only aware of about a half-dozen controlled trials of mask usage, and
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by oasisbob 5y ago
That type of exception analysis is exactly how University of Washington researchers do their stingray hunting. It doesn't take much time monitoring to figure out which towers smell funny: https://seaglass.cs.washington.edu&#

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