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by phyzome 4y ago
This makes me think of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epi...
752.
by phyzome 4y ago
Yes, you're naturally going to see a mix of mass psychogenic illness and actually-chemically-induced symptoms, and it's going to be terribly difficult to tell them apart, especially from just news reports. :-/
753.
by phyzome 4y ago
In particular, this was a very weird sentence: « However, this common black hole model is in tension with the overall expansion of the universe » ...why would those have anything to do with each other, a priori?
754.
by phyzome 4y ago
Even better, when the helium runs out, they're going to buy hydrogen balloons. Much safer. :-)
755.
by phyzome 4y ago
That seems very odd for a default behavior. There might be good reasons to allow GCing of a dropped task reference, but it doesn't seem like that would be the most common case.
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by phyzome 4y ago
Well, it seems like the first step would be straightforward: Block these Microsoft accounts from editing. You can't have people contributing without accepting the license agreement. I would normally say the next step after that is to t
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by phyzome 4y ago
The phrase "transformed it into something never before seen" is pretty sus. They made ice... into more different ice. It's not like they made it into iridescent smoke or something. A more honest headline would be something li
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by phyzome 4y ago
Honestly, I've become a bit skeptical of these claims that 1000 ppm CO2 causes any appreciable cognitive impairment.
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by phyzome 4y ago
Yes, unfortunately Mastodon 4.0's public web interface now uses JS to render threads. Lots of people are mad about it.
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by phyzome 4y ago
What I have is a fleece scarf. I wrap it around my head (over my mouth in the front, back of neck in the back) and tie the rest under my chin. The part that's over my mouth is under moderate tension, but my beard pushes it away, so my
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by phyzome 4y ago
Interesting. I think I may have acclimated somewhat, but I still find that biking hard below freezing makes me prone to respiratory infections—unless I breathe through/under a scarf.
762.
by phyzome 4y ago
Ughh yeah, you'd end up with a gross semi-polymerized sticky film on stuff.
763.
by phyzome 4y ago
Yes! This is just about as strong as the standard childhood shoelace knot + double-knotting, but it's faster and doesn't need to be picked apart. I do get it tangled during the untie sometimes, but it's still worth it.
764.
by phyzome 4y ago
That makes sense, sort of like a gasket. But for biking, I wear it on the outside so I can keep it over my mouth, allowing me to retain some warmth in my breath.
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by phyzome 4y ago
I like eating chocolate and sleeping all day, but I also have responsibilities. One of my responsibilities is to not be wasteful. So I put on a sweater. (But if you've got some kind of super-insulated house, then never mind.)
766.
by phyzome 4y ago
Then you have to dust more stuff!
767.
by phyzome 4y ago
The point is that the danger depends on how people interact with it. That's why they're doing this PSA (and trying to recover it). It would be very easy for that little canister to get ruptured, and loose radioactive material is
768.
by phyzome 4y ago
This is the nature of highly radioactive materials. Walk past it? No problem. Walk on the crushed capsule, brush your hand against the bottom of your shoe, eat a sandwich? Die horribly.
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by phyzome 4y ago
Yeah, it would be cool to have a time-limited server like that! In practice I think it would be exhausting to admin, though, since you'd have a large population of newcomers and a very small population of experienced users to teach t
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by phyzome 4y ago
Having people not all be on the same server (or same small set of large servers) is kind of the point, though. Having everyone on GMail is not a good thing.
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by phyzome 4y ago
This version is also insecure, as it does not prevent file path traversal attacks.
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by phyzome 4y ago
In that warm a climate, I don't think gas furnaces would be used much in the first place...
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by phyzome 4y ago
Yes, true. I kind of lump them together when I think about them, and I think they're often remedied together during retrofits, but they're different issues.
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by phyzome 4y ago
> owners of drafty homes may need to take on the added cost of insulation when installing a heat pump Installing good insulation is also really important even if you're not using heat pumps! With bad insulation, you're wasting
775.
by phyzome 4y ago
I've been doing this for maybe 10 or 15 years. It has given me evidence of several database breaches (such as Avvo, who still deny it) but as far as selling my data, I think I've only seen that happen with a Kickstarter campaign
776.
by phyzome 4y ago
I worried about this as well ( after I had set it up and started relying on it) but in practice I've only gotten spam to a handful of addresses that I didn't make up myself. Into a filter they go.
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by phyzome 4y ago
It turns out you can't make complexity go away by moving it around.
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by phyzome 4y ago
Wrong, milliservices are the way to go! Maybe centiservices, but no further!
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by phyzome 4y ago
Ah, yes, my apologies -- it's done via a connection mode.
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by phyzome 4y ago
I've been very happy with it. I switched away from Tarsnap because it was far too slow on restores. BorgBackup has slightly different security semantics, but similarly supports the notion of append-only credentials. And borgbase.com ha

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