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by rz2k 3y ago
The king’s role is to make executive decisions. He can make them for good and bad reasons, and good or bad results for himself personally and for his subjects. Even if he decides he wants to make the best decision for the best benefit to hi
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by rz2k 3y ago
My take is a little cynical, but I think, “I’ve never given my best” means that the poster takes some pride in what his potential best is, and it has the side effect of never challenging the idea of what your best is. Doing good work, and b
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by rz2k 3y ago
I think, "It wasn't very effective" is just the author filling space on a page with copy, not the assessment of an engineer. The conventional wisdom among experts is relayed here by The Chronicle : > Van Ness was once the
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by rz2k 3y ago
The fuel will only burn when oxygen is available. Dynamited buildings would expose more raw wood that catches fire easily to the outside, but with everything on the ground, it is difficult for all of the fuel of the building to burn simulta
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by rz2k 3y ago
That sounds absurd, but the $5 pressure sensor on my weather station could detect a volcanic explosion 5,000 miles away. Is there even a difference between a submarine and the surrounding water's gravitational fields when the sub has n
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by rz2k 4y ago
Compared to every other search engine, it suddenly seemed like Google had everything that was on the web, and it was likely to find whatever obscure thing you were looking for and put it as the first result. It really did feel like magic
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by rz2k 4y ago
Similarly, IBM bought Weather Underground, deprecated both Storm and Wunderstation apps with excellent visualizations, and then never bothered to release anything that was worth using. I keep Storm on an iPhone and look at it every so o
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by rz2k 4y ago
I remember reading Luigi Barzini claim that competition between the Carabinieri and Polizia was intended to limit coordinated corruption. In practice the Guardia di Finanza has been especially important in many corruption cases in Italy. I
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by rz2k 4y ago
Kagi search lets you block, lower, raise, and pin results by domain.
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by rz2k 4y ago
I've never used it, but your description made me think of Webmin that I used a long time ago, and apparently the same creators have developed Virtualmin and Cloudmin that give you a web interface for managing Docker images and containe
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by rz2k 4y ago
That seemed like the future ten years ago, but my impression is that the trend has gone the other way. There were a lot of really buzzy courses back then, but the communities don't seem motivated in the same way any more, with a large
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by rz2k 4y ago
This makes me think of the wpost story I just read "States love jokes on road safety signs. The feds aren’t laughing."[1] I imagine any effective humor will have an audience that is smaller than the audience you are trying to reac
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by rz2k 4y ago
The US government bailed out banks by effectively purchasing large portions of their assets and tasking the banks with continuing to administer these troubled assets. In the end it worked in that the US eventually was able to sell those ass
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by rz2k 4y ago
When bailed out banks paid bonuses it was understandably unpopular, but there was a certain logic that retaining talent optimized performance of the remaining bank, and therefore it was ultimately in the interest of taxpayers. It seems surp
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Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend(semianalysis.com)
376 points by rz2k 4y ago|286 comments
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by rz2k 4y ago
… ROT13 is known to be a very insecure method of encryption, therefore you should run it twice on your messages to keep adversaries from reading your secrets. Unless you’re completely certain it’s impossible for the VPN providers to coord
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by rz2k 4y ago
I've tried using LiveReporter[1] with an old iPad to send a RTSP stream to Frigate[2] running in a Proxmox virtual machine because I wanted to find out who was stealing plums from my trees. However, I never caught the plum-stealing-per
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by rz2k 4y ago
They very rarely need to plow snow in New York city, but when they do there are hundreds of miles to plow, and it is much faster if they begin the plowing before even an inch accumulates. It is much more efficient to press the thousands g
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by rz2k 4y ago
And that graph does not include the 2022 experiment with 3.15, which also happened to be the first one with net positive output.
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by rz2k 4y ago
That reminds me of a series of prints at Ansel Adams' house implying that "Moonrise over Hernandez" was heavily doctored, with each version having elements like very different sized moons. Of course it was all an inside joke
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by rz2k 4y ago
There are a few browser add-ons that will list about a dozen archives for every page you visit. However, that doesn't include non-public services like the one mentioned above.
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by rz2k 4y ago
When he mentioned the steel cable, I wondered why they don't use an arrangement more like cable cars. It sounded like it is in case they break loose during a storm or emergency, so it useful to have the engine on board along with the b
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by rz2k 4y ago
Furthermore you could charge them during the middle of the day and at night, and use the batteries during morning and evening commutes, which is pretty ideal. As for the additional mass and displacement, the video mentions boats having to p
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by rz2k 4y ago
For a while I reread William Langwiesche's 2003 article in The Atlantic* about Columbia's last flight[1] every year or so. I find it very easy to empathize with the insiders who actually understand all of the minutiae and imagine
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by rz2k 4y ago
I wouldn't want to have tons of 600°C (1112°F) sand stored near a wood frame house or a forest either. > Wood placed in an oven at 700°F. catches fire almost immediately. At oven temperatures of 450°-500°F., the wood gradually chars
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by rz2k 4y ago
Mid-2007 I walked into Grand Central, clueless and exhausted after having worked over the entire previous night, I only half-registered that it wasn't very crowded. However I needed stuff at the Rite-Aid before going home. No one was a
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by rz2k 4y ago
Historically, the uninspiring and underwhelming major releases of OS X and macOS have ended up being the ones that users ended up having the most positive feelings about over the long term. They have tended to focus on faster performance, r
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by rz2k 4y ago
That might not help without the size of the astronomy building, the size of the models, or how long the walk was to the nearest star. Here are some approximate dimensions. In Miami the sun would be 9in or 22cm[1], the inner solar system cou
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by rz2k 4y ago
In addition to the explanations of the turbulent water smashing victims against the rock walls, presumably a very turbulent flow could also turn into a mixture of air and water, with a corresponding decrease in density such that it would be
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by rz2k 4y ago
If a planet with ten times the surface gravity of Earth had an intelligent species like humans that had evolved to tolerate acceleration equal to a multiple of their surface gravity for a given time, perhaps that would open up additional la

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