philsnow

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by philsnow 3y ago
TIL a lot about natural gas. Gas-fired plants use "dry" natural gas which has had most impurities removed and consists of around 94% methane, with the rest mostly ethane, propane, and butane. I was about to say "ah-ha! what
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by philsnow 3y ago
I'm regularly struck by how much of technical Japanese is literal transliterations of loanwords. In the diagram at https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer#vc-client-%E3%81%A8... , I see "user", "c
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by philsnow 3y ago
and the toilet fountain
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by philsnow 3y ago
I am the same way, after having royally screwed up one year (on a similar employer-provided benefit, not a health FSA). I donated several thousand of my pre-tax dollars to the state of California because I missed a deadline and the funds w
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by philsnow 3y ago
It depends how far back your "back in the day" is.. for me, the meme bad hard drive manufacturer was IBM with their Deathstar^W Deskstar drives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...
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by philsnow 3y ago
Hey! You got your Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis [0] in our Gell-Mann Amnesia! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf#Career_in_f...
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by philsnow 3y ago
If you want a search term for more info about it, this kind of article specifically falls under "content marketing", in this case it's a high-converting type called a "versus page".
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by philsnow 3y ago
Sure, but the serving size can vary, even between different package sizes of the exact same product , and certainly between different manufacturers. Overall, humans are dumb and can't (or won't) do math in their heads. Consider
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by philsnow 3y ago
I looked at the code for a bit, and it's just like most academic code I've ever seen/written: incredibly dense and cryptic. What is the likelihood that he has a transcription error somewhere? The average number of characte
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by philsnow 3y ago
A certificate says “we are Some Group that Knows about This Stuff and we think that so-and-so is capable of doing pirate-y things” You’d want a letter of marque for an endorsement of being “allowed” to do pirate-y things. https:/&#x2
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by philsnow 3y ago
> There comes a time when data analysis becomes astrology... or just plain numerology
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Most notably, 2G networks based on [...] (GSM) standard lack mutual authentication, which enables trivial Person-in-the-Middle attacks. Missed opportunity to call them Mal-in-the-Middle attacks.
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by philsnow 3y ago
The article itself includes a link [0] to yet another gTLD that I guess Google owns now, .gle . I have never seen this gTLD used before and had to double-check that the site I was looking at was indeed on the legit blog.google domain. A wh
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by philsnow 3y ago
For sure, I'm not saying any browser should change this behavior. C-x M-c M-butterfly and all that.
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by philsnow 3y ago
I totally get that. I had to check what my muscle memory would do in that situation. (Apparently) I select text, right-click, and then choose "search for <selected phrase>" from the context menu.
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by philsnow 3y ago
> dragging the text to a new tab to perform a web search I had no idea that this worked. I don't "get" intentionally dragging if there's any alternative. I feel like one of those people who tells people that frowning
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by philsnow 3y ago
> On my work issued M1 Studio for example my display s Do they behave any better if you only have one plugged in at a time? MacOS seems to have problems with multiple identical displays.
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by philsnow 3y ago
What does "forge access" even mean? I would have said "gain access". Although, even worse, the private key could likely have been used to actually forge communications from those parties.
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by philsnow 3y ago
I really don't want to defend Amazon's practices on this, but > Amazon is paying for hosting an audio file, basically, and the development of the player app, and that's it. "development of the player app" is kind
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by philsnow 3y ago
This article just makes me wish that they had used gifs of the Ghibli food scenes, they're so much more compelling: https://imgur.com/account/favorites/V8JvhMT Somebody put together a cut of several of them
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by philsnow 3y ago
> In the mid 1990s in Montana, that was a nearly unbeatable strategy. We won a lot because we knew the judges > we lost [...] to a team from Hardin [...] and guess where the state championship was held that year? We lost because the j
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by philsnow 3y ago
I'm not familiar with this idiomatic use of "sleep on", can you explain it a bit? Is it like "discounted" (not as in lower price, but as in to hold a low opinion of)?
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by philsnow 3y ago
> [disabling SIP, even temporarily,] may not be possible on a work machine I wouldn't do it on a personal machine either (not that you're advocating that). Yeah, the "full" installation of yabai [0] requires partially
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Haven't figured it out for emacs yet. Up until today I'd been using (global-set-key (kbd "C-c RET") (lambda () (interactive) (set-frame-parameter nil
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by philsnow 3y ago
> I wondered how I never noticed this, and it looks like I had Accessibility > Display > Reduce Motion enabled. I use Reduce Motion too, but even then there's an animation (it's a cross-fade instead of a wipe) with the sa
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by philsnow 3y ago
Completely unrelated, but reading "FreeAgent" just now released a core memory for me of reading USENET in the 90s with the free version of Forte Agent. This site has the 16-color image that IIRC was the basis of the icon for Free
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Carbs create more energy for the body and proteins with fat make more food for the brain I was under the impression that the brain, almost uniquely among human tissues, requires glucose for energy (whereas most other tissues can use ke
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by philsnow 3y ago
Don't forget the bad-old-days of `sudo make install`. I'll note that this project does come with an `uninstall` Makefile target, but not a lot of projects do/did.
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by philsnow 3y ago
> The idiot pmendes is wrong (if he was correct then no one knowledgeable on the subject would classify that system as E2EE What exactly is pmendes wrong about? Are you referring to this comment: > In iMessage the message contents ar
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by philsnow 3y ago
> No need to read the lines all into memory first. It looks like that code does read the whole file: (with a foo.csv that is 350955 bytes long:) % python -V Python 3.11.4 % python >>> f = open("foo.csv") &g

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