oasisbob

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by oasisbob 6y ago
In the beginning of the pandemic, my living situation changed, and my family was dependent on mobile LTE for our internet connection due to being in a semi-rural area. A 1 GB security update would find me at the public library parking lot w
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Fungal taxonomy is especially interesting. Some argue that latin binomials should be abandoned, see "Against the naming of fungi": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2013.05.007
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Buried cables tend to have a higher lifetime cost, which is one reason why Seattle has stuck with aerial cables in so many neighborhoods. West Seattle neighborhoods have more buried cables than most, and they're facing some very expens
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You can refresh your vague memories - all of Alcoa's west-coast aluminum industry is long-gone. The waves of Enron took out most of them decades ago when its destruction rolled through the energy markets. IIRC, the last NW aluminum sme
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Some septic systems require power for a lift, essentially a pumping station. When the ground is too flat, you need to pump the waste higher than the drain field. If you've ever seen a septic system with an audible alarm, this is probab
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by oasisbob 6y ago
A good example of this is the PNW interties which move (primarily) hydro power to California from Washington and Oregon. One system is DC. The other is AC. They both do primarily the same thing through elaborate systems. Washington can send
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Yup, especially when those tanks of propane work for hot water and cooking too. There's a lot of crossover with RVs, industrial, and even marine when you use propane. The cabin I'm writing this from has a battery bank and a standb
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Going beyond that, I thought modern planes were designed with plug doors and latches that physically can't get partially engaged. If you're depending on a sensor alarming on the flight deck, you're already several failures in
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Conspiracy theories regarding genetically engineered viruses don't do well here.
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FTA is still a revenue-generating product under support which they claim is secure. https://www.accellion.com/products/fta/
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Ouch. Avoiding this sort of thing is supposed to be Accellion's core competency. If it really was a protocol or server flaw, more breach notifications could be coming. They list some big clients on their website - Kaiser Permanente, KP
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Theft is a pretty good example, actually. In many US states, the legal definition of "assault" is much different than the battery most people picture. Robbery is not larceny. Burglary is not larceny. Your peers probably don't
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> The solution is very simple: Return any LED that doesn't last the specified time. Manufactures will very rapidly start making changes if everyone did that. Agreed. I think this is why Energy Star rated LED lamps require such a lon
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Same with old incandescent lamps. The glass bulb is quite reliable, it's often the filament that dies many times quicker. (I'm confused why so many people feel the need to differentiate the reliability of the power supply from the
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Even the Philips Hue 3-year US warranty only covers three hours of usage a day. I just got started with em in December, have already killed one, and wonder how the warranty process goes when you admit that you do, in fact, occasionally us
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Many, at least in the US. It's not just companies, government agencies also have similar needs due to sunshine and open-access laws. The alternative to having a document retention policy is to just have employees delete things in an ar
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What about 802.11h? In addition to defining DFS, it also provides for Transmit Power Control (TPC). I was under the impression that it's an FCC requirement for 5Ghz 802.11a Wifi devices. Here, it appears to be working as expected. I se
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Normal procedures for emergency cardiac care are going to vary depending on where you are in the world. The general dichotomy is "stay and play" vs "scoop and run". https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470
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Plants from the nursery are often on the verge of being root-bound (if they aren't already) and getting nasty J-roots and the like. Up-potting is important for overall plant health, regardless of what kind of pots one chooses to use. P
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Another school of thought is that plants aren't generally damaged by casual overwatering, but that many houseplants aren't thriving because of poor-draining soil mixtures or being left with wet feet. If you fix the poor soil, you
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That podcast is fun, but it's only really superficially about engineering disasters. They even admit this in one of the early episodes, something like "surprise! This isn't about engineering, we're really doing a persona
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> wifi fragments (used to fragment?) packets 802.11n and 802.11ac both don't do this. In contrast, they have several layers of packet aggregation (AMPDU/AMSDU). [1] Learned about this while troubleshooting latency problems on a
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I think a big part of the confusion here is how do you clarify the meaning of R0 versus Rt in a context where people don't know the difference, and are using R0 in a context where there is either a time component or obvious public heal
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> how many times have you had to call your credit card provider because they stopped a transaction just because it was suspicious, even when it wasn't? Ugh. I'd pay more for a credit card which didn't block my own transact
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Is the bottleneck really at the production of bulk spun polypropylene textiles? I always figured the bottleneck would be actual mask assembly -- ultrasonic welding and the like.
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Just about every analog lighting board I've ever seen has huge dead zones on the end of the linear pots on some channels. I'm surprised the potentiometers work at all given the abuse they go through. Early desks had no memory, so
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I'm actively looking for better sources. Honestly, one of my biggest problems with Cliff isn't even a new one ... his blog is almost wholly one-way. He spent all this time to build a platform, but doesn't seem to care about h
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This description is painting with a wide brush across many different western tree species. A douglasfir forest that burns is going to behave much differently than a late-successional hemlock one.
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Some people still like promise theory and the execution model behind chef and puppet. I don't want to orchestrate against hundreds of systems with SSH and tell them what to do. I'd rather tell them what I want, and let them sort i
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My experience with AIX as a sysadmin ca 2005 was dramatically different. Things "worked", but everything was OLD. CLI tools had bugs and warts that GNU figured out decades previously. I remember having to use obnoxious workarounds

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