quintushoratius

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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Better yet, serve an empty file to the offending user agents
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
> Q3 2022 is the median date for retirement of the largest generation, the Boomers. Just to nitpick: the largest generation is the millennials, not the boomers. https://www.statista.com/statistics/797321/us-popu
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
> But I don't know that Samsung's fabs are open to third parties. They most definitely are, my employer has sent trial tape outs to them recently.
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Permanent hosting costs money, so you are in effect demanding that future folks give a shit about you. You always have the option of committing your memoirs to stone, absorbing the long-term cost up front yourself.
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Domains may not experience scarcity per se, but desirableness quickly falls of as the strings get more random. Everyone would love to have a three- or four-letter domain but, like land, they're not making new characters for the ASCII a
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
> You die, the domain continues on forever, your hosting provider stops hosting and now no-one else can ever use that domain. So not that different than today. You stop paying for your domain and squatters make sure no one can ever regis
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
To the contrary, the dip in range highlights that, as you increase speed, air resistance rises as a square. Our Leaf could probably go almost 50% farther on a charge if we never exceeded 30 mph. 30-40 mph has a small penalty; freeway speed
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Other posters are correct that water can transfer heat more efficiently than air, but they're missing or burying the lede: The temperature is very stable once you dig down a couple of meters. Winter or summer, it's probably an ev
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Which can lead to silicosis, which itself then leads to lung cancer.
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
> If you finance most vehicles they will install a poorly hidden cell tracker that usually draws power from the OBD2 port. What kind of janky banks are you working with? My spouse and I financed a couple of cars recently, one new and one
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Whatever you're looking for in a city, by the time you read an article in a magazine you're too late. Everyone else that wants that quality is already on their way there (and probably going to ruin it.)
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
It could just be bias in the data. In Canada and northern US, you expect the cold and plan accordingly. In sub-Saharan Africa, you expect the heat and plan accordingly. It's when the conditions flip-flop (hot Canada, cold Africa) that
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Governments are not the only source of bonds. 10-year securities are not the only denomination.
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
> It is not "political" as the context of your reply clearly indicates as much as it is deeply tied to not only the history of Texas as it relates to joining the USA and also the fundamental manner in which the USA was supposed
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
I suspect that you're implying that the answer is the US Democratic party, but it's really not. By making immigration-without-visas a criminal offense, rather than an administrative one, the anti-immigration movement serves to dri
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
I believe you can still purchase them. You're just loaning money to, and benefitting, the US government rather than your own.
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
In an age of free SSL/TLS certificates, and built-in support in pretty much anything, is this really true? Making your content available via port 443 really isn't impeding anything at all.
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
I question how well bottles are being washed, if people "occasionally [find] a bottle with ash still in it".
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
> I've also noticed a news radio program I sometimes listen to, is now taking more breaks to advertise themselves. Not programs or content, but just how good they think they are in general, and how trustworthy they are. It's se
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
It's quite likely that the screen generates a lot of heat that it's pushing back into the cooler. It's probably more than would have been absorbed from ambient. So now you're paying twice for energy: once for the displa
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
Your premise needs a reality check. > 1. Millions of women entered the workforce (started when all the men were overseas fighting) The rate of women in the workplace ticked up slightly during WW1 and WW2, but by no means was it a sea cha
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
This sounds like total quackery. The muscles controlling focus are smooth muscle*. That means it can't be exercised, it doesn't get bigger/stonger with use. It also doesn't get tired, which is fortunate since it's b
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
My own experience of counterfeits includes, of all things, water filters. The packaging was perfect, but the filters literally wouldn't fit without modification. I gave up after the third time and went back to buying from brick-and-mo
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
The people you know worked long hours, but were they actually more productive? Studies on working have consistently shown diminishing returns on longer and longer hours, generally past 30-40, depending on job type, i.e. physical jobs like a
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
I think it's summed up by the mantra "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
> You are not really the target audience for Disney. My 6 and 8 year old daughters are Disney park's target. I would argue that they're not the target audience. Disney is hella fun for adults, and they have a lot more money th
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
> So orthodox economics predicts that increases in minimum wage leads, amongst other things, to deteriorating working conditions. I've never heard that take before, but it's a fascinating idea. Unfortunately, I think the proble
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
>> I usually avoid buying new but used cars are nearly the same price as new (if you can find a dealer that hasn't done ridiculous 'market adjustments'). >It seems like the dealers who didn't make these 'ad
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
> Why should I have to jump through hoops just because I happen to be located abroad for a week? I could easily see a gray market in, essentially, location-specific "rebilling" springing up the same day as this. Want to watch
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by quintushoratius 5y ago
This isn't a particularly good solution as it relies on another person's goodwill, which is neither reliable nor available to everyone. Assuming that the current geo-located situation continues, and realistically who sees that cha

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