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by souterrain 8y ago
In legacy “low pressure” systems, regulators aren’t used at the residential end at all. Our neighborhood was recently upgraded to a “high pressure” system, and regulators were introduced, along with vents cut through the foundation to the o
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by souterrain 8y ago
Here's[1] a recent article that supports the OP's point-of-view. Interestingly, Environmental Research "publishes original reports describing studies of the adverse effects of environmental agents on humans and animals,"
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by souterrain 8y ago
Petitions are not science.
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by souterrain 8y ago
> For the love of all that is decent with humanity, use push to talk. I’d love Zoom, WebEx, GoToMeeting, et al., to implement push-to-talk, and give an option for mandatory use to conference call organizers.
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by souterrain 8y ago
An article[1] on org-publish[2] made it to the front page of HN[3] just yesterday, in fact. [1]: https://vicarie.in/posts/blogging-with-org.html [2]: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org
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by souterrain 8y ago
Go is apparently well suited to minimalist static site generators, see zas[1], zs[2], and z[3]. [1]: https://github.com/imdario/zas [2]: https://github.com/zserge/zs [3]: https://github
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by souterrain 8y ago
Agreed. Google's ubiquity coupled with the proposed change to Chrome threatens to morph a user's experience of the open Internet into something akin to AOL and its keyword feature. That puts the Internet back fifteen or more years
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by souterrain 8y ago
It's a bit disingenuous ars technica ledes with a screenshot of a homograph attack that Chrome mitigated in March 2017, and really doesn't relate to the article. https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phis
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by souterrain 8y ago
Yes, because $dayjob uses zoom.us which has frustrating defaults.
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by souterrain 8y ago
Plain text websites load just fine with HTTPS/TLS via very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) ISPs. This is based on my experience with 1024k/256k Hughes service in rural US.
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The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine(secretlifeofsynthesizers.com)
151 points by souterrain 8y ago|29 comments
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by souterrain 8y ago
I’ve considered Dvorak, but I’m very reluctant to make the investment in lost productivity while learning. I’m not certain my slow suffering would be limited to about a week.
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by souterrain 8y ago
Passwords really do need to die.
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by souterrain 8y ago
I never learned to type "properly", or, should I say, never completed learning. We were told very sternly in catholic school typing class not to fiddle with the IBM Selectric "golf ball" lest the typewriter malfunction a
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CloudBees Raises $62M in Growth Funding(businesswire.com)
4 points by souterrain 8y ago|0 comments
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by souterrain 8y ago
Is 811 10th (NYCMNY54) even interesting from an Internet perspective any longer? Yes, the building is part of AT&T’s network (AS7018), but as far as I’m aware, no peering occurs here at all. I’d look for equivalent shady racks or rooms
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by souterrain 8y ago
> The use of particle filters necessitates a level of server affinity. Each new request to our service must be routed to the same back-end server for processing in order to update the correct particle filter. Was implementing this on the
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by souterrain 8y ago
From a client perspective, QUIC seems like it would provide the most value on mobile devices. Any word on how well supported this is on Android clients? I'm assuming iOS adoption will take some time. In many enterprise networks, TLS Mi
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Verisign to Sunset Their OpenID Service, Personal Identity Portal(pastebin.com)
3 points by souterrain 10y ago|0 comments
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by souterrain 11y ago
This is a master stroke. The masses want to cut science funding. Rebrand as "planetary defence" and the spigots re-open.
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by souterrain 11y ago
Really reminds me of this guy https://youtu.be/bajOUNg9_ms?t=280
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by souterrain 11y ago
Could costs be reduced by using hydrogen?
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by souterrain 12y ago
Note that no one would have clicked on this article if it said "Why mDNS in OS X 10.10 is broken..."