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by retzkek 5y ago
I recall dragging my massive second-hand Zenith 286 "laptop" into school and serving out zshell assembly programs to people with my homebrew GraphLink. I even sold a couple of them. Many a math class spent playing tetris on my TI-
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by retzkek 5y ago
http://www.mcgov.co.uk/riddles/level1.html A wonderful series of riddles, the answer of each being the filename of the next riddle.
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by retzkek 5y ago
I can't ping it from my home in the Chicago area, but I can from my Vultr VPS in Chicago. I have a smallish WISP so probably routed a bit unusually, I've seen traffic go all the way out to SIX then back to Chicago. Edit: indeed a
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by retzkek 5y ago
Just this weekend I needed to run both a FreeDOS and Linux ISO in order to reflash the Dell PERC in an R520 to support IT mode to use it with ZFS. I wondered the same thing - why can't it all be done from Linux - and found this recent
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by retzkek 5y ago
I believe he truly sees the Wolfram language as an extension of himself, from the very beginning it was designed only based on his needs and desires. That others find it useful is just a happy accident. Maybe it is just ego, or maybe it&#x2
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by retzkek 5y ago
I have a degree in Nuclear engineering, although I haven’t been practicing in a while. Your explanation is accurate and well described. > actually I think there are two sets of rods, not all of them are individually actuated commercial r
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by retzkek 5y ago
Or with Prometheus: https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter https endpoints will include the probe_ssl_earliest_cert_expiry metric, which is the expiration in UNIX epoch seconds. Use with the builtin time() fun
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by retzkek 5y ago
Wow, thanks for leading me down that interesting rabbit hole. Being born in the US in the 80s I only knew of the Energizer Bunny. The Duracell bunny was actually first for a single campaign in 1973, then parodied by Energizer fifteen years
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by retzkek 5y ago
I'd also like to see something of a chess Turing test, and while very hard to quantify a competition for the most human-like low- or mid-level chess engine. On Chess.com there's a plethora of bots of different ratings, but outside
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by retzkek 5y ago
OT: does this use of "commensurate" make sense, or did the author mean "consummate"? commensurate: corresponding in size or degree; in proportion. consummate: showing a high degree of skill and flair; complete or perfect
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by retzkek 5y ago
Then you get a mail forwarding service, which gives you a proper "permanent" mailing address. DDG for "rv mail forwarding" for many options.
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by retzkek 5y ago
Shaved Brussels sprouts, fried (or roasted), with a balsamic glaze? Sounds good to me!
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by retzkek 5y ago
There are dedicated staff for cleaning, and they do an amazing job, not a speck of dust or grime anywhere people routinely go (for good reason). Where I worked they even had special titles: NPSA, nuclear plant service attendant.
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by retzkek 5y ago
Stephen Wolfram gave the keynote at re:Clojure a few days ago, with an amazing demonstration of the Wolfram language. It's incredible how much data and functionality they've made available with it, and with Stephen's mastery
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by retzkek 5y ago
Since TFA didn't really explain what a "flow" battery is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery
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by retzkek 5y ago
Logstash is a hugely popular application for collecting/processing/shipping logs, mainly associated with elasticsearch ("ELK") but has lots of output plugins. It uses log4j, so if one of the log events it was processing
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by retzkek 5y ago
Lichess calls that an "arena" tournament, they run constantly.
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by retzkek 5y ago
Anyone else notice that in the picture of the model at the bottom of the article, the stand says "Lockheed YF-12 Wikipedia Blackbird"? Likewise if you click through to the airmodels.net product page... bad copy and paste?
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by retzkek 5y ago
RSA soft tokens require a PIN. Some versions it's appended to the code, some you enter it to get the code (both exist in my organization). So that's like three more factors right there.
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by retzkek 5y ago
It was actually demonstrated (over relatively short distance) using the MINERvA detector at Fermilab: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847
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by retzkek 5y ago
There was a book published just last year about the CL condition system for anyone who wants to better understand it (disclaimer: it's sitting on my desk but I haven't read it yet): https://link.springer.com/book&#
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by retzkek 5y ago
I was wondering the same thing, it's in the original article: > I ordered a custom-sized bamboo bed set from Advanced Bedding. Their website had a form where I could just fill in the dimensions so it seemed like it would be the only
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by retzkek 5y ago
> How many satellites can SpaceX (currently) put up per launch? Probably rhetorical, but I'll be that guy: 50-60 on Falcon 9, up to 400 planned on Starship.
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by retzkek 5y ago
Maybe you'd like 960 aka Fischer Random Chess, with 960 starting positions there's no opening theory to memorize, just principles and tactics from move one. Not as popular as regular chess but usually no problem finding a game.
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by retzkek 5y ago
Some people believe that learning with a colored "rainbow chess" set improves retention and pattern recognition. http://home.hu.inter.net/~prochess/rainbow.htm Sort of like syntax highlighting I suppose.
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by retzkek 5y ago
The Gardeners do this in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam trilogy), one character derives much comfort from telling the bees. I didn't know it was an actual custom, how wonderful. I believe there's a certain wisd
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by retzkek 5y ago
Also worth noting that Boiling Water Reactors (about half the current fleet) eliminate the steam generators and secondary loop, at the cost of increased nuclear and mechanical complexity in the reactor.
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by retzkek 5y ago
Can you have your employer split up your paycheck into multiple accounts? Account fees being waived when you have direct deposit set up is common in the US as well, but I can have my paycheck split into up to five accounts, so they all qual
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by retzkek 5y ago
And who exactly benefits from those optimizations? Do the delivery drivers get to take a leisurely drive, or are they just expected to make more deliveries "thanks" to their optimized routes?
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by retzkek 5y ago
I've generally had better experiences with DOs than MDs when it comes to listening and working with me to understand how and what I feel. On the other hand some people may prefer the more "clinical" (not sure if that's t

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