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by perlgeek 5y ago
Induction ovens are a complete non-starter if somebody in your family has pace maker and cannot approach it within 1,5m range while it's on... :-(
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by perlgeek 5y ago
The thing I hate about emphasizing streaks is that once you've broken one, it's easier to ignore the thing entirely than starting again.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I wonder if something like https://paulbradley.org/sqlite-test-data/ could be used to generate the test data in sqlite3 directly, and if it would be any faster. (It would likely be faster for other DB engines, because
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by perlgeek 5y ago
> I'm most curious about the auto rate adjustment. I'm assuming a built in oximeter? Current cardiac pacemakers use oximeters as well as acceleration or jerk sensors as a proxy for physical activity.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
What what you want is a kind of business or foundation where: 1. users pay monthly fee/premium 2. part of that is kept in a pool, part is payed to the developers 3. when bugs happen, funky stuff happens with the pooled money. See, I di
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Comparing the launch costs: > "The average launch cost for Atlas was about $225 million per lift," Bruno told FLORIDA TODAY this week. "Where Atlas V is at today is almost half of that just by virtue of all the changes we
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by perlgeek 5y ago
With a "normal" viral cough, the infection itself lasts that long. With Long Covid, the viral load is gone from your system, and symptoms still persist Previously, the general public wasn't very interested in chronic, unspeci
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by perlgeek 5y ago
> I will always wonder if I had called them earlier if I could have avoided the worst of this Given the prevalence of Long Covid in asymptomatic cases, many people claim that the severity of the initial disease and the long-term symptoms
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Yes, it's totally possible. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210615-a-fifth-of-as... claims it's 20% of asymptomatic cases that develop Long Covid. Even if the number is off, it's unlikely to
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by perlgeek 5y ago
There are problems with disabling overcommit. Consider this scenario: a process runs a fork(), and shortly after it runs an exec(). Normally, the extra fork only uses a tiny amount of extra memory, because the memory is shared between the p
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Another "fun" interaction pattern: User reports a bug (or a feature request), several others subscribe to and/or vote for this to be solved, and then a service rep closes the issue because there wasn't any recent activit
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by perlgeek 5y ago
There are basically 4 effectiveness numbers, based on whether you measure: * positive PCR tests * showing symptoms * hospitalization * death I share kube-system's frustration with the media glossing over those details quite often. Here
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Disclaimer: layman here, just repeating what I heard and read the past months/years. > How much care is given to ensure the jab group's demographics reflect the "control" (i.e., the broader population). This is mostly
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by perlgeek 5y ago
At least the early news report I have read about the Biontech/Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines didn't have links to the scientific studies either. This seems to be pretty standard for new these days :-( Even if the effectiveness nu
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by perlgeek 5y ago
The entry points are "whatever works". Typically: * Password spraying from previous data leaks * Good old-fashioned fishing * Bugs in anything that's common in enterprises, exposed to the Internet and not patched fast enough,
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Because in the short term, this could have some pretty nasty consequences for some companies that are hit the hardest, and few politicians want to take that hit.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
It's a matter of reputation. If a ransomware group has a reputation of not actually delivering the unlock upon payment, or of re-infection shortly afterwards, the decision to pay them becomes harder to defend.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
None of the federated social networks seems to have reached the scale of the biggest centralized social networks. Which leads me to believe that economics and incentives favor big, centralized social networks.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
That's because many such business have grown so large because they benefit from scale. Some examples: Social network: you only engage on one if your friends/family/coworkers are on the same network. Search engine: needs to in
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by perlgeek 5y ago
15 to 20 years ago when roundabouts were first introduced to where I live (southern Germany), people were pretty terrible at using them. After about 5-10 years, people have gotten the hang of it, new drivers were properly educated in drivin
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by perlgeek 5y ago
It's OK to not have a side project. If you really want one, I recommend doing something physical, with your hands. Like woodworking, cooking, pottery, whatever. That seem to be a good counterbalance to the thought-heavy tech jobs most
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Lots of hosting companies use vcenter for managing their VMs, and if you expose vcenter to your customers, you have a very convenient way to have the powercycle VMs, open consoles and stuff like that. And if you expose it to your customers,
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by perlgeek 5y ago
At work, we've been using a RabbitMQ instance as a central integration point (for about 7ish years now, I believe), and it's been working very well so far. My observations so far: * Running a single RabbitMQ is pretty boring in th
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by perlgeek 5y ago
More than one Russian hacker was arrested when making vacation in a country that has an extradition treaty with the US. That's far less effective than we would want, but it's a bit more than nothing.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I have published three books (with a publisher), and I can confirm that Credibility was one of the bigger motivations both for writing them, and for going with an established publisher. For some of them, I started self-publishing with leanp
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Key to a negotiation is understanding what the other party wants (and what you want, of course). WHY do they want you to work on premise? Wanting your presence is just a means to an end. There could be many reasons, like: * They think it&#x
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Getting operational security right is surprisingly hard. The really hard part is that you need to have gotten it right some years ago already. I remember that I read that other day that a bitcoin tumbler operator was charged for money laund
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I don't think anybody really knows; there simply isn't any data with > 10. Back in the days when boosters were recovered, I remember hearing somewhere that SpaceX was confident that they would be able to fly them 10x, and hoped
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Yes it is. Also of note: when you're insured with a public health insurance in Germany, a spouse and kids without income of their own are automatically insured as well, without extra cost.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
... and much cheaper than the US, currently.

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