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by saulrh 6y ago
The parent comment claimed that prices of finished products were higher than the costs of raw materials because a "big chem" cartel has a price-fixing agreement. I disagree with this. My knowledge of the field and personal observa
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Do you have any citations explaining this in more detail, perhaps with some argument supporting intent or collaboration? I ask because it directly conflicts with everything I've seen about the economics arising from the fundamental phy
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by saulrh 6y ago
> For more radiation horror I'll skip, thanks. I already get enough horror stories and don't need wacky outliers leaning on my brain's various failure modes. Like, it took me less than ten seconds to find a news article fr
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by saulrh 6y ago
Correct. So putting your TOTP codes in your password manager is no less safe than using the password manager in isolation, and likely substantially more safe, because it requires attackers to compromise your password manager in totality
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by saulrh 6y ago
Right-click in firefox and "save image". Drop it in /tmp so it gets nuked on next reboot (tmpfs yay). Pick your favorite barcode reader tool; I ended up deciding on `zbar-tools` based on... not honestly that much research. In
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by saulrh 6y ago
Laziness, old Yubikey hardware that doesn't do TOTP natively, logging in to websites on my phone. I probably should upgrade, it's just pretty far down my to-do list.
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by saulrh 6y ago
Agreed. They live in BitWarden right next to the passwords. I lose some security, since compromising my password manager now also compromises my 2FA, but the password manager is itself behind 2FA, a Yubikey, and its backup codes are on pa
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by saulrh 6y ago
Re: Google Authenticator, I've started grabbing the TOTP secrets and storing those in backups. Download the QR code and decode it to get a string like the following: otpauth://totp/Domain%3Ayour%40email.com?secret=HXDMVJ
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by saulrh 6y ago
From the root post: > but often, not before risking their > lives and/or spending a lot of > government money on helicopters > and overtime. Every search and rescue operation the forest service mounts is a bunc
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by saulrh 6y ago
"Spend more money on your computer" is a fine solution for a bay area software engineer. It's not a solution at all for the half of America that would have to sell their car to cover a $400 ER visit.
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by saulrh 6y ago
> Which seems unlikely. No kidding. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2001-128/pdfs/2001-128.pdf?id... : The two most dangerous things in road work, accounting for half of all of the industry's fatal
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by saulrh 6y ago
What's the TCO of a few hundred teenagers? I haven't read the paper yet, but if the other comments here are accurate, that's about what you'd have to shell out for if you wanted to duplicate the productivity of this mdoe
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by saulrh 6y ago
You have to store high-level waste for hundreds or thousands of years before it's safe. Heavy metal wastes never become safe. A dump site for cadmium or chromium or lead or arsenic waste will be exactly as hostile to life around it i
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by saulrh 6y ago
That works right up until the content-creator community or HN or Reddit riots about "the algorithm".
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by saulrh 7y ago
`gmailctl` resolves a few of these, actually. The big one is that there's a command to diff your config file with what's in gmail, so you can capture any accidental changes that happen in gmail-land. This also helps with version-c
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by saulrh 7y ago
That sounds extreme. Do you have a citation?
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by saulrh 7y ago
On the contrary, the pirated media I've seen has been by far the highest-quality. It doesn't have to be delivered live, so encoding can be more efficient, and the source is almost always a 4k blu-ray or whatever else is the best t
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by saulrh 7y ago
> TLDR: I just feel I'm getting off track a lot more lately than I was the previous 14 months. Not sure what I should do, maybe go back to therapy? Maybe focus more on mindfulness/stoicism? Up my dose of Vyvanse? Go back to the
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by saulrh 7y ago
Attention Deficit isn't an inability to focus, it's an inability to exert executive control over focus. When there's nothing interesting going on this manifests as wandering attention. When there's something interestin
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by saulrh 7y ago
> Learning to spell isn't memorizing lists of words Funny you should say that in defense of classical methods of teaching literacy, which for me consisted of eight years of memorizing lists of words and regurgitating them on weekly
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by saulrh 7y ago
> Imagine every street corner equipped not only with CCTV, but augmented sniper turrets. I wouldn't bat an eye if a the next invaded city was blanketed with systems like these. We already do that. It's just that the computers a
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by saulrh 7y ago
> Firstly, it's about time we stop pretending that people wait until technology does something better than humans do before they deploy it. I think we need to stop pretending that humans are perfect, or even acceptably good. Compute
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by saulrh 7y ago
Doesn't have to be perfect, just has to be better than human performance. I heard a lot of stories out of Afghanistan and Iraq that ended up boiling down to "They had a big thing on their shoulder and it was pointed at a tank so
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by saulrh 7y ago
I know the story is intended to be "caveman science fiction" [1], but I can't help but think that that hole is probably still an excellent way to dispose of most of the things they're disposing of, particularly nuclear
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by saulrh 7y ago
I'm not sure why you say that like it's some kind of insult. Norman Borlaug and Ken Alibek used the same tools. Fertility clinics use the same tools you see in GATTACA and the same tools that will hopefully be used in the future t
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by saulrh 7y ago
> Engineering would be understanding the tradeoffs in advance and choosing them with consideration of the outcomes. You're not giving enough credit to the people that designed domestic animal breeds. Modern working dog breeds were
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by saulrh 7y ago
> We've just rolled the genetic dice repeatedly and selected the outcomes we preferred. And? That's just a particular choice of tool. I do the same thing when I'm working on a particularly tough problem; I might try five o
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by saulrh 7y ago
Dogs, cats, cows, horses, yeast, chickens, rice, wheat, corn, and sheep were fantastic successes. Humans have already designed and engineered literally thousands of organisms that are critical infrastructure for human civilization. So I thi
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by saulrh 7y ago
That was my thought too. And the article even says that the first evidence they had of a potential problem was when it was charging slowly earlier, so this is less "suffered a failure while parked" and more "suffered a failur
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by saulrh 7y ago
You probably could. I personally wouldn't attempt it because I mostly do software and wouldn't want to risk draining it dry overnight or voiding the warranty or something, but if it's a just a car battery it shouldn't be

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