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811.
by tempestn 3y ago
Are you thinking of a magsafe connector? A lightning connector definitely does have a little end that can snap off, and that in my experience (with children) is less robust than a USB-C.
812.
by tempestn 3y ago
This can be largely mitigated by rinsing/soaking the device in fresh water to dissolve the salt.
813.
by tempestn 3y ago
You refer to it as a "backup account", but it doesn't sound like a backup if it was the only place those messages were stored. I use gmail as my primary email client, and use both a gmail.com address and several of my own dom
814.
by tempestn 3y ago
> Now, as a disclaimer, I should remind you of the rule that anyone writing a blog post advising against X is himself the worst Xer there is. At work, I have a history of painful languished projects, and I usually have the most overdue a
815.
by tempestn 3y ago
There was a time when they made sense, but it's been many years since the benefits of running a third party antivirus program outweighed the drawbacks.
816.
by tempestn 3y ago
Children really are peak Dunning-Kruger.
817.
by tempestn 3y ago
It might be both. An over-correction made more likely in part due to religious beliefs.
818.
by tempestn 3y ago
Er, killbots that refuse an order to kill innocents sound good. Killbots that can, under any circumstances, wilfully kill their masters seem like a bad idea.
819.
by tempestn 3y ago
No, I didn't see a way to access the full article. Appreciate the clarification.
820.
by tempestn 3y ago
You are correct; the Earth has experienced CO2 rise of this speed before (as far as we know). But not for millions of years, and each time would have been a mass extinction event. https://earth.org/data_visualization/a
821.
by tempestn 3y ago
He's not advocating injecting smoke or ash into the atmosphere.
822.
by tempestn 3y ago
Cold is far from the only thing that makes Mars inhospitable. Also where are you going to get the electricity for heating on that scale? Assuming you're talking about the whole planet. If you're just talking about heating habit
823.
by tempestn 3y ago
Once you're talking about millions a year rather than billions or trillions I don't know if that's true. A government (or a group of several) could decide to do it because their citizens would benefit from a reduction in war
824.
by tempestn 3y ago
The point is that it would suck to be the one kid in grade 6 or 7 that doesn't have a phone. If parents collaborate on waiting until a healthy age - ideally if it becomes a societal norm - then kids don't need to feel left out.
825.
by tempestn 3y ago
My kids don't yet have phones, but they do have PCs and access to tablets. I don't think a phone is necessary to get involved with technology.
826.
by tempestn 3y ago
Note that the campaign is wait until "8th" (grade), not until 8 years old. I didn't have a cellphone in school either, because no one did, but that's not the situation anymore.
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Jim Abbott(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by tempestn 3y ago|0 comments
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by tempestn 3y ago
Agreed here too. Pretty much all my experiences with these kinds of features have been poor. I turned off the emergency breaking on our Tesla after it slammed on the brakes for no reason on the highway a couple of times. Could easily cau
829.
by tempestn 3y ago
I don't think it is orthogonal. The US can pretty reliably shoot down ICBMs. Not perfectly, but well enough at this point that if in some extreme scenario Russia actually did launch a barrage of nuclear ICBMs, it wouldn't necess
830.
by tempestn 3y ago
It's funny, I was just chatting with a friend at brunch today about this thread, and he mentioned the same thing. Turns out we both do keep a dedicated box of extra house parts for this reason. There are indeed things that aren'
831.
by tempestn 3y ago
I don't have a tendency to hoard, but I do find it useful when I'm considering whether to keep a thing, to consider whether I can easily buy an equivalent or better thing on Amazon or eBay and have it at my house within a couple o
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by tempestn 3y ago
Yeah, this is what I do for email as well. Lets you seamlessly transition your backup to another service if/when you stop using gmail too. Though I use imap rather than pop, so that I don't end up with duplicates or other weirdn
833.
by tempestn 3y ago
Were you using mpm_prefork on apache, or one of the threaded process managers?
834.
by tempestn 3y ago
Is that true even if you configure Apache to use a static number of processes? IE set startservers equal to serverlimit and maxsparethreads equal to maxrequestworkers? IME that allows Apache to respond to load spikes more quickly. But is th
835.
by tempestn 3y ago
What do you consider the Canadian format? Most people I know prefer YYYY-MM-DD as it's non ambiguous. Anytime you see XX-XX-YYYY (or XX-XX-XX) it could just as easily be be little endian or weird American.
836.
by tempestn 3y ago
Is nginx still considerably more performant than Apache when both are configured well? (IE. Using mpm_event, not needlessly recycling processes, using mostly threads for concurrency, etc.?) I'm one of those who always just stuck with A
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by tempestn 3y ago
I believe there's a fair bit of evidence to the effect of, any "diet" that restricts one's food options - be it calorie restriction, low fat, low carbs, low protein, intermittent fasting, no sugar, whatever - will result
838.
by tempestn 3y ago
Didn't say I would enjoy it, but I'm sure there are some out there who would. I can more easily imagine it being productive though.
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by tempestn 3y ago
I guess it's not necessarily a poor use of time if you can study in the airport and/or on the plane. Or if you just enjoy flying.
840.
Supreme Court hands tech companies a win, and not just about Section 230(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by tempestn 3y ago|0 comments

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