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by throw0101a 5y ago
Plenty of recent movies do that. Sorting by release date: The Father, Joker, Parasite, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Hacksaw Ridge, Room, Gone Girl, Whiplash, Prisoners, 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained. * https:/&#x2F
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by throw0101a 5y ago
First off, I'm on the east coast-ish, so I'm not sure how much traffic I get from APAC. Next off, the their front page says: > Carrier-Neutral with Access to 200+ Carriers You're telling me these 200+ carriers have no ot
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> As of 11/26/2021 10:53 p.m., the root server system consists of 1477 instances operated by the 12 independent root server operators. * https://root-servers.org * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by throw0101a 5y ago
The article is about BGP and Internet Routing Registry (IRR): routing.
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> Remove a few hubs and you have disabled a large portion of the internet. "A few hubs"? Just Hurricane Electric has presence in many, many IXPs, and they're not even the largest transit provider: * https://bg
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by throw0101a 5y ago
"K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system": * https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/k-cup-creator-john-sylvan-r... * https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35605927
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> 3-cup The sizes of "cups" when it comes to coffee seems to be a bit chaotic.
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by throw0101a 5y ago
Covered a few months ago: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28374523
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In 'Dopamine Nation,' Overabundance Keeps Us Craving More(npr.org)
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Interface Message Processors (IMP) for the ARPA Computer Network (1974) [pdf](apps.dtic.mil)
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> testing that all of it is valid is not trivial If it was easy then people wouldn't have to be reminded to do it—it'd just get done. :) One way could be to pre-compute checksums of the files in question and then verify them pe
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> I am still amazed by the shortsightedness of how these critical and strategic goods are off-shore. At what point do goods go from being non -critical/strategic to being critical/strategic? At what point did car companies h
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> Lithography is one of the 400 or so steps in Fab processing, but arguably the most critical and a bottle neck. In their ongoing series on supply chains, the Odd Lots podcast had episodes on both TSMC and ASML: * https://
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> erg For anyone wondering, this is a unit of energy (100 nJ): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg
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by throw0101a 5y ago
Don't forget all the stuff in GNU's info pages.
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> This is absolutely not a given. IoT has drastically changed the equation on how good it is to have devices exposed to unsolicited ingress connections from the internet by default. That's why firewalls exist. And they work with I
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by throw0101a 5y ago
Not sure if it's exactly what you're asking for, but a tweet a while ago: > Dean looks at GDP per capita. But Japan's aging population means that you really want to look at GDP per working-age adult. And by that measure J
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> Inflation can be psychological One's previous life experiences also flavour perceptions of inflation. The Odd Lots podcast had an interesting episode a little while ago: > Inflation is running hot these days. But, even whe
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> The core problems with biometrics are that: … is that they're treated as passwords instead of usernames. The three problems you list all have the biometric=password assumption in them. See also using the American SSN usage: it
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by throw0101a 5y ago
Instead of digging through that PDF, the charts on this post show how a higher speed can drastically increase the odds of fatalities: * https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/05/31/3-graphs-that-explain... Remember
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> […] but they're saying they want to eradicate all stroads. Correct. Because as a sibling comment notes, they are a "compromise" that serves neither purpose very well. See the Not Just Bikes video referenced elsewhere
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by throw0101a 5y ago
It's saying that currently only desktop computers are being built, and they're being shoehorned into both supercomputer applications (modelling weather) and embedded areas (controlling a lightbulb via a Dell OptiPlex). Havin
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> so-called road, it's comprised of a single lane of paved dirt Note the verbiage on road from the article: > […] where people board in one place, depart in another and there is a high speed connection between the two. See sp
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by throw0101a 5y ago
Another article that may be useful: > Americans do not understand the difference between a road and a street. [...] > The value of a road is in the speed and efficiency that it provides for movement between places. Anything that is
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Why the Netherlands Is the Best Country for Drivers [video](youtube.com)
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by throw0101a 5y ago
Further it's in the French ("fr") part of the tree so some of the links to go the translated page. Versus: * https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/new_features_2_6.html Or just: * https:&#x2F
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> Considering that trades are now free at major brokerages Those "free" trades may be costing people more than having a 'traditional' fee, and claiming otherwise will get you fined for false advertising as Robinhood
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by throw0101a 5y ago
Never fails: > Every time someone talks about free this or that in the Nordic countries an American will pop his head up and yell "It's paid for with your taxes" without fail. * https://satwcomic.com/ever
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> I wouldn't buy a new daily driver that doesn't have blind spot monitoring, collision avoidance, lane keep assist, etc. And here I am puttering along in my 2003 VW Golf with a manual transmission. :)
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by throw0101a 5y ago
> Major inflation like we haven't seen since the 1970s. The (demand-pull) inflation of the 1970s started because there was many years of war spending because of the Vietnam War. Once that wound down, then there was (supply-push) i

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