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by soneil 5y ago
I was under the impression the UK builds it’s own warheads at AWE/Aldermaston. What we bought was the delivery platform.
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by soneil 5y ago
I see this a lot when it's things you can compare on paper. The difference between a $200 lathe from banggood and an actual machine-shop lathe is pretty obvious even if you've never used one. But the difference between a dollar s
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by soneil 5y ago
Particularly in England & Wales, most hiking trails are well-mapped. Because we have no legal right to hike on private land (which is why I call out England & Wales separately from Scotland, Scottish law differs), most hiking trail
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by soneil 5y ago
It's not an unreasonable distance for a refraction mirage, however. My math reached the same number as yours, but it does assume the light goes in a straight line. Reminders me of this article; https://www.abc57.com/ne
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by soneil 5y ago
Bits per second is really the only honest way to sell linespeed. Right from the start telegraphy used symbols per second because anything else gets difficult to explain (eg hello is 5 symbols, Hello is 7 symbols). 200 years later we've
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by soneil 5y ago
I don't think you need to be working, but you do need to have a purpose. There's a heavy overlap between the two, but it's not the only option.
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by soneil 5y ago
Many years ago, I knew / worked for one of the co-founders of Waste Management. He retired (at retirement age), moved to our neck of the woods, and bought & expanded several working properties (farm, hotel, golf course, etc). His
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by soneil 5y ago
Exactly. At one end of the scale, you're not travelling through space (or practically-zero on a relativistic scale), and you're experiencing the full affects of time. At the other end of the scale, you're travelling through
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by soneil 5y ago
The simplest way I could ever wrap my head around this, is to understand that everything travels through spacetime at the same speed. There is no travelling faster or slower, just crossing the graph at a different angle.
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by soneil 5y ago
The argument is essentially that the only thing worse than no security, is the illusion of security. Encryption on email is like a padlock on a suitcase. It makes you feel good, but really doesn't prevent much. It's common knowled
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by soneil 5y ago
I'm not sure how this relates to Apple. I have a Thinkpad, and still vastly prefer the one-cable-solves-all for monitor/power/peripherals.
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by soneil 5y ago
I don't think putting it in a NUC gives it the groundswell it sounds like. There's no reason the 12th gen couldn't have a processor on a dinky motherboard just like every generation before it. What the compute element really
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by soneil 5y ago
I was under the impression 8314 was a "done deal". IANA have listed 465 as submission over TLS since december 2017. (The previous iteration was submission over SSL in the late 90s on the same port.)
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by soneil 5y ago
There's industries where mandatory vacations (or "Required Absence") are a thing - in finance it's not unusual to be required to take at least one two-week block each year. It helps reduce bus-factor (if you can't
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by soneil 5y ago
Interesting that they don’t define free. I prefer my freedom of privacy over your freedom of expression, so which wins in a pithy contest?
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by soneil 5y ago
As I understand it the NN "perceptual hash" is supposed to hash the image, not the file. eg, if I take a photo of my cat, and hash the file. Then remove my geo data from the exif - the hash no longer matches. It is still very cle
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by soneil 5y ago
I was actually relieved to find the opposite, that this only concerns the store until it goes out of the door. There was a story the other day that Office 2010 was no longer activating in some regions because the activation servers just are
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by soneil 5y ago
The fun parts of 'shades of gray' is this can actually lead to increased sales down the line, if you end up with that quiet nagging "I owe them for .." in the back of your head. Almost like goodwill that the store did n
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by soneil 5y ago
I used to work in a coffee shop in a touristy town, in the great white north. There was a theme - milk the tourists but butter the locals. That guy that comes in for the same simple drink at the same time every morning, is worth more than
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by soneil 5y ago
That was my thoughts too. Go look up Tory Island on google maps - most of us would very quickly redefine our understanding of 'exposed'.
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by soneil 5y ago
> The reason Neville had returned to the island in the first place was a letter from the local council warning this house had been damaged by a storm, but an engineer’s report found that the house was most likely brought down by mechanic
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by soneil 5y ago
I've been using a Pi for some similar timers, and given the price-point, there's a lot to be said for them. The most relevant example here would be one that reads my calendar (ical over http) and only fires on days I'm worki
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by soneil 5y ago
They can be cherry-picking without being lying.
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by soneil 5y ago
I was going to explain that the only difference between the raspberry pi & generic pi is the support that comes from having the mindshare/marketshare. But honestly, I think in the scope of the real issue it's mostly bike-shed
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by soneil 5y ago
osx provides /etc/paths.d/ for this too, editing dotfiles isn't necessary. This one arguably makes sense though. Because it's being used to install separately from the OS (eg you can use brew on linux to provide a
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by soneil 5y ago
I find that interesting because Wil is usually a reader I'll go out of my way to avoid. It just doesn't work for me. (Which really confuses me because I've been a fan of pretty much everything else he's touched - I cer
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by soneil 5y ago
There is a web UI, so I have a JS "bookmarklet" in my toolbar. If you go to the web UI and Add a url, right at the bottom of the page there's a link you can bookmark to do the same. So that's my workflow - click Archiv
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by soneil 5y ago
I use it like permanent bookmarks. I can go back to it and trust it'll still be there. And this isn't just "things disappear eventually" - for a specific example, I was working on something rather last-minute recently,
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by soneil 5y ago
A few other oddities were born out of this too. For example, major universities using two letters with a full-length alias (eg UK.AC.OX & UK.AC.OXFORD - seeing .ox.ac.uk is still the more common today), and also the British Library end
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by soneil 5y ago
It was inherited from JANET pre-DNS, which had UK.AC.FOO for academic and UK.CO.FOO for commercial. So instead of .edu.uk and .com.uk, we kept the established inertia and just flipped the word order. It's also why we ended up with .

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