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by secabeen 5y ago
I built one using these instructions and a ESP8266: https://www.pieterbrinkman.com/2021/02/03/build-a-cheap-air-... It publishes its data via MQTT, and you can use any system that can subscribe to a MQTT queu
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by secabeen 5y ago
> The US has excellent freight rail network. They lease their lines to Amtrak, but they only have secondary priority. Passenger trains often have to wait behind slow freight, or even allow freight trains to pass them. This is only parti
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by secabeen 5y ago
Perhaps, but that's still not something we consider state action. People lose their jobs or reputation all the time, and we don't consider it worthy of redress. Many people appreciate the American right to refuse service to anyon
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by secabeen 5y ago
Online orders save staff time, and are much less error-prone.
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by secabeen 5y ago
The UC system does the bidding of the state assembly here. I think the ultimate responsibility lies there.
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by secabeen 5y ago
My memory is that the computer you wanted always cost 4-5k, but you could get a machine at 2-3k that was okay, but with lower performance.
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by secabeen 5y ago
I've had that too, but when that happens, it's obvious to others; they can see you swiping again and again. Failed NFC just looks like you're standing there.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Even then, you are totally free to bring empty bottles through security, then fill them up on the other side.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Google-enabled Android is also fully supported. People without smart phones will be disadvantaged slightly, yes.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Apple PR is being really careful with their language: "This fall, the University of Alabama will be the first school to exclusively issue mobile student IDs to their 38,000 students with eligible devices ." The UofA action car
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yeah, this is an Apple article, so it's silent on Android support. No college with any form of public remit would roll out a student ID system that required an apple device; it would run into all sorts of equity issues.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Interesting. After ten years in higher-ed, I'm have 24 vacation days, 12 sick days, and 14 paid holidays (all annually), for a total of 50 days of leave per year. One of the few benefits that are better than the private sector. (Yes
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by secabeen 5y ago
The US pro sports are the tail that wags the dog.
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by secabeen 5y ago
The Deluxe calculator here is the one I used 10 years ago, it's quite good, but it doesn't have the best SEO, so it hide on the second page of the Google results, after a swarm of advertisement pages from mortgage companies: http
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by secabeen 5y ago
> However, any system that rewards only 10% of its participants, is essentially Hollywood. It’s not sustainable, and people will simply check out. The only way to prevent that is to either change the odds, or to sell propaganda. Hollywoo
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yeah, they also don't have a Linux client for the backup product. While you certainly can build a Windows-based storage server, and there's even some interesting storage tech in Windows, most data-hoarders store their data on Lin
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by secabeen 5y ago
One key thing to recognize is that terminal masters programs like this are different from the bachelor's degrees and the PhD programs. They are generally smaller, and are very much run as cash cows for the departments.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Apple has this. It's called Boujour sleep proxy, and it allows a always-on device like a Airport or AppleTV to claim the IP address of a sleeping Mac, waking it with a WoL packet when traffic for that device comes in. It's proba
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by secabeen 5y ago
It's just a different section of journalism. This is from the _Popular Mechanics_ sort of magazine, with an Editor-in-Chief who did her masters work in "digital communication and viral storytelling."
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by secabeen 5y ago
Thanks to both of you; this is better analysis than I've seen in other forums.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yeah, I've read _Normal Accidents_, and I follow AdmiralCloudberg's aircraft disasters. There isn't always a satisfying answer, but there often is, or at least one factor that's most damning.
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by secabeen 5y ago
> On the other hand columns fail by buckling when they become too slender…which is effectively what happens when a column loses steel and concrete due to corrosion and spalling. Okay, great. So you're clearly more qualified than I.
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by secabeen 5y ago
That's an interesting theory that I hadn't seen before. It would require the horizontal rebar in the pool deck to be strong enough that it could pull over the columns, which contrasts with that rebar also being weak enough to col
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by secabeen 5y ago
Possible. I wonder if there was some unexpected external force; a car crashed into the critical pillar at moderate-to-high speed (as high as you can get in a parking lot) or something like that.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Do you have a source for these claims? Concrete has great compressive strength, and that strength increases as it ages: > https://www.hunker.com/12003167/tension-vs-compression-of-co... I haven't seen any clai
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by secabeen 5y ago
The most important section though is buried in a late paragraph: >Engineers said it seemed unlikely that having less rebar would trigger a collapse in and of itself, even factoring in significant deterioration over many years. An inheren
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by secabeen 5y ago
That's true, but every structural engineer interviewed about those reports says something like "yes, that should be fixed, but it shouldn't have brought the building down." The smoking gun has yet to emerge.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Minimal zoning would be a bit much, but I think Japanese-style highest-allowed use zoning with few single-family home zones would be good.
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by secabeen 5y ago
There are exceptions allowed for various things: https://oag.ca.gov/ab1887/faqs
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by secabeen 5y ago
I'm not a constitutional law expert, but based on current precedent on money being a form of speech, this would probably fall under that. The state isn't banning interaction with or travel to those states, it's just saying t

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