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by terom 3y ago
https://www.mouser.fi/ProductDetail/Diodes-Incorporated/PT8A... Now I want to buy a couple... 0.856 € unit price for 1pcs, available in stock. New evil plan: corner the market on toaster controller ICs and build u
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by terom 3y ago
https://photos.app.goo.gl/S6sFaEUxY89Tgxn56 here's an example of the safety/certification markings from a 24V power supply sold in the EU. Take a close look at the TÜV/GS logo and font. I seriously doubt the
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by terom 3y ago
Easy: just set up the WAF but with an empty ruleset.
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by terom 3y ago
> There has been one reported event of an explosion in 22 years of use. There have been no reports of injury or death.
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by terom 3y ago
It is indeed very regional, e.g. the UK has its own thing going on with ring mains and fused plugs. Over in my 230V corner of the EU, CEE 7/3 sockets are pretty much the only thing I'm aware of for new wiring, with the unearthed C
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by terom 3y ago
Yeah, the risks mainly come with extension cords, like plugging a bunch of 10A appliances into a single 20A outlet via a 10A rated extension cord with multiple 10A outlets. Appliances themselves with their own input fuses and captive cables
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by terom 3y ago
> But a 10 amp plug can still fit and sit snugly in a 15 or 20 amp socket, and a 15 amp can still fit into a 20 amp socket with no problems. It’s pretty clever. That sound dangerous. The larger fuse sized for the 20A socket will not prot
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by terom 3y ago
Bridges need regular maintenance or they will fail and come crashing down.
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by terom 3y ago
https://www.fingrid.fi/sahkomarkkinat/sahkojarjestelman-tila... shows a roughly +1GW (~12GW -> 13GW) rise in consumed power during the first two hours after the price hitting the negative pricing floor (-500€/M
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by terom 3y ago
> There are some things markets are very good at. This is one of them. Ironic in a thread about the market making up a totally imaginary generation surplus. 10-20% of Finnish retail customers are on spot market based contract, and stand
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by terom 3y ago
I'm guessing the paint is very fragile, and it wouldn't survive any wear and tear. > This show car is destined to remain a one-off because of the enormous difficulty involved in making Vantablack paint suitably durable for ever
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by terom 3y ago
Additional context from HS: https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009931214.html The suspect is accused of stealing tens of thousands of sensitive psychotherapy patient records from a MySQL server exposed to the public int
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by terom 3y ago
No, 192.168.1.110 is MY network printer, you must have gotten confused somewhere!
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by terom 3y ago
For USB C-C cables PD and passive 5V (5K1 pulldown) is negotiated over a separate CC pin from the USB2 D+/- pins, so it's theoretically possible if the D+/- lines are not connected/damaged. USB A-C cables are entirely se
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by terom 3y ago
System redundancy rarely covers software faults.
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by terom 3y ago
In the Finnish market the situation changed drastically during 2022-2023 as the energy market futures went through the roof and fixed-price contracts became crazy expensive (10-20× "normal" kWh prices). I'm not sure if there
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by terom 3y ago
The way that the "Postgres", "libpq" terminology is used in the article ("libpq, the API backend for Postgres") leaves me more confused than I was before. I would understand "libpq" as the client-side
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by terom 3y ago
The 5² limit seems small, but at least you can have 500,000³ teams in Microsoft 365 Office organization - 1.25E17 should be plenty, that's around 15M teams per person on the planet;) Perhaps they should rethink the use of numbered supe
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by terom 3y ago
That sounds like it's leaking across user/process boundaries on a single EC2 instance, which presumably also requires the processes to be running on the same core. Leaks between different EC2 instances would be far more serious, b
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by terom 3y ago
I think it would be a very bad idea to host the entire OpenTTD infrastructure on your MacBook Pro.
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by terom 3y ago
>>> 1, 2 File "<stdin>", line 1 1, 2 ^ SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier The reason for `xbd_options nbsp:none`...
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by terom 3y ago
HAProxy does not serve static files, so it's a poor alternative for this specific case.
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by terom 3y ago
It's more a question of which of the (tens of) thousands of various different healthcheck pings that GitHub has undoubtedly implemented across their infrastructure should be used to determine the status page status?
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by terom 3y ago
The exciting opportunities of getting to debug issues like this makes complex Kubernetes/microservice setups very appealing!
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by terom 3y ago
TLDR: Ubuntu unattended-upgrades and the systemd-networkd `ManageForeignRoutes=true` [1] default broke all Kubernetes networking globally, across multiple regions and cloud providers simultaneously, at 06:xx UTC. Recovery was difficult and
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by terom 3y ago
Digging into the status page history reveals a reference to an issue lasting for 7 minutes, caused by a "minor technical change" that was rolled back. [1] Still claims 100% uptime for May. https://status.slack.com/
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by terom 3y ago
> The second cost problem we discovered was about the way we were passing video frames (images) around different components. To reduce computationally expensive video conversion jobs, we built a microservice that splits videos into frame
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by terom 3y ago
It's about time someone gets a KPI for lines of code removed :)
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by terom 3y ago
Famous example of pedestrian bridge resonances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London#Re...
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by terom 3y ago
Per [1], there was a related issue affecting Cloud Console operations globally, starting from the point where the incident went regional at 23:00 PDT, and lasting until 02:00 PDT-ish. It is incorrect to say that this had zero impact elsewhe

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