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by repiret 3y ago
I've frequently had drives in a RAID fail in rapid succession. If you buy a bunch of identical drives at the same time and put them in a RAID, then you can end up with: * They were manufactured in the same batch, maybe even one right
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by repiret 3y ago
If someone is relying on Mac+iPhone users disabling a convenient and enabled mostly by default feature then they’re doing it wrong.
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by repiret 3y ago
Duo seems to have had lots of success, selling into higher education. To add to the other schools mentioned in this thread, Oregon State, and Stanford both use it too. And lots of schools are starting class today, which might be what cont
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by repiret 3y ago
Lots of software nags with something when it first starts up. It’s mostly annoying, but doesn’t seem to have a scaling problem. zsh gives you a config wizard, sudo admonishes you to use it responsibly, just about every iOS app and an increa
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by repiret 3y ago
I call baloney. Do you have a citation for that?
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by repiret 3y ago
Growing 4X in value over 41 years is only a 3.44% annual rate of return. I wouldn’t call that a haul. If you consider cost of improvements, upkeep, and inflation, it’s probably a loss.
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by repiret 3y ago
20hp is about 15kW. My EV consumes at least twice that at highway speeds. Adding that to my EV would let me drive as far as I wanted to in a day in the extreme case, but would be a nice range extender, and assuming it could run and charge
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by repiret 3y ago
In my first computer science class in college, after finishing the unit on Red-Black Trees, the professor said something like "Now you should never implement a Red-Black Tree again. If you need a balanced binary tree, use std::map or
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by repiret 3y ago
Sure, for any sort of mineral or metal there's a hard limit to how much there is in the Earth's crust, and while the oil was created by a natural process, that process doesn't take place on a time frame that's useful to
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by repiret 3y ago
Once upon a time, my conception of oil drilling was roughly that there were these giant tanks of oil underground, and to extract it we more or less stuck a straw down and sucked it out. And that one day, the well would make the same sound
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by repiret 4y ago
I’ve always been shocked by how non-fungible branches of huge national banks are. “We can’t give you a megabuck of cash because we don’t keep that much in the vault” would make sense, but “we can’t write a cashiers check for a megabuck bec
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by repiret 4y ago
I don’t entirely agree - the depositors enjoyed higher interest rates from SVB’s risky behavior. If they face no consequences, then it will encourage institutional depositors to continue flocking to whatever bank is offering the most irres
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by repiret 4y ago
I was really disappointed by that choice. I had wanted to buy it for a plane trip I had shortly after it came out, but being online only, they lost that sale. It seemed like an anti-piracy move because the game didn’t naturally need to be
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by repiret 4y ago
I am a pilot, and I compared the FAA diagram of SFO that you pointed out with the openairportmap.org one. Looking at the map itself: * Taxiway labels aren't very readable, and I need to zoom in quite a bit for them to even be consiste
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by repiret 4y ago
I had assumed it was an error.
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by repiret 4y ago
You pay a 747 pilot way more than $50/hour. https://www.aviationinterviews.com/pilot/payrates/united-par...
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by repiret 4y ago
Global oil prices affect our gas prices because global oil prices affect local oil prices (and gas it made from oil). Global oil prices affect local oil prices because oil is a (mostly) fungible [1] commodity and it's (mostly) easy to
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by repiret 4y ago
Most of the oil consumed in the United States is refined in the United States. We import relatively little already-refined petroleum products.
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by repiret 4y ago
It may cost you the same. With my insurance, if I'm admitted to a hospital, the time I spend in the ER is free to me, but if I'm not admitted, I pay for the time I'm in the ER. That doesn't make ERs cheaper when you ge
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by repiret 4y ago
Others have pointed these things out individually, but I wanted to say them all in one place: An urgent care is well suited to needing a couple stitches or a cast. At the ER, you're also paying for: * A facility and staffing equipped
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by repiret 4y ago
As a pilot of single-engine airplanes, I disagree that mowing is useful. I need to look at the runway I'm landing on for obstructions no matter what. The time of year when mowing might occur, I might also have to contend with deer, w
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by repiret 4y ago
To add some nuance to what other commenters have said, 95%+ of all NOTAMs are useless, telling you about grass that might be mowed, animals that might be present, temporary "obstacles" that you could only hit if you were flying bo
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by repiret 4y ago
> ... and grounding to plumbing used to be permitted Do you have a citation for this? I was under the impression that using plumbing as equipment ground was never allowed, but that conductive plumbing has required to be bonded to ground
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by repiret 4y ago
Yes, I agree with both points. When done right, they're slightly safer and more energy efficient, because there's less current flowing on the full length of the neutral line. I've even seen installs where the inspector was
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by repiret 4y ago
Correct. There is no national requirement to offer paid time off in the US. Many states require paid sick leave. I'm not aware of any states that require paid vacation time.
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by repiret 4y ago
You don't say where you are, but that certainly hasn't been my experience. Where I am, in Oregon, USA: * I own a house that was built in the early 20th century. As was typical of the time, the house has a small number of fused c
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by repiret 4y ago
The training, and resulting skills and privileges are nearly identical between DOs and MDs. I don’t know about interchangeable - every DO and MD I know would be offended if you put the wrong two letters after their name, but DO and MD scho
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by repiret 4y ago
M0. I’ve never seen an SoC with an M1, which is a core specifically designed to be implemented on an FPGA. Cortex-R is also pretty common (R5 on Zynq-7000 and R7 on UltraScale MPSoC, for example)
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by repiret 4y ago
I use Evince on Linux and PDF Expert on MacOS. They both do okay, but neither does search indexing, so searching goes irritatingly slow. Also neither support the public key encrypted PDFs that a certain SoC vendor likes to give me.
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by repiret 4y ago
I recently came across a reference manual for an SoC that came in at over 24,000 pages - a new personal record. The tools for working with such large PDFs generally suck.

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