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by throw0101b 1y ago
> I don't think that this is a defining characteristic of Americans […] You just need the right/wrong ones to think that way and get a critical mass of folks that want "change" and want it now: * https://
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> There are 249 countries with an iso code; so 8 bits might be enough. There are 249 ISO 3166-1 country codes: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes But 193 sovereign states recognized by
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UK Moving Ahead, Wants Input on ELoran Program(insidegnss.com)
1 points by throw0101b 1y ago|0 comments
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> So NYC + Fed + NYS taxed […] A recent video on NYC, "The Absurd Lengths Billionaires Go to Not 'Live' in NYC": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veJfMypXWtc
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> You sound like a physicist who thinks mechanical engineers are unnecessary because we have physicists and car mechanics. Or I sound like someone who recognizes that physics and computer science, and mechanical engineering and compute
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> [0] https://ofdollarsanddata.com/climbing-the-wealth-ladder/ New book from the writer (his second): * https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770215/the-wealth-l...
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by throw0101b 1y ago
For anyone that gets worried about splurging too much, one way to perhaps assuage yourself about it is the "2X spending rule": > The first tip is what I call “The 2x Rule.” The 2x Rule works like this: Anytime I want to splurg
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> […] a lot of top schools don't even really teach programming in their computer science programs. It's something you just pick up on your own. "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telesco
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> I was curious what it was for so I YouTube'd and searched for instructions on what the soap dispenser was for and (kind-of) to my surprise it was soap to lather and clean your anus with your other free hand. After you lather and
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The peculiar bathroom habits of Westerners (2019)(bbc.com)
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US HHS cancels $766M in Moderna contracts for vaccines for flu pandemics(statnews.com)
14 points by throw0101b 1y ago|2 comments
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ChatGPT recommended my wife for a job to a client(old.reddit.com)
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Jo: A shell command to create JSON(github.com)
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> This is just exhibit 8345346 that this type of "free market" doesn't result in lower prices for consumers […] I think it's worth asking if you have a free market at the point there's consolidation and it appr
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> When two people make a deal, voluntarily, at least rationally (unless it is charity) both expect to be better off. That is not how the current US administration seems to see (foreign) trade. :)
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> i.e. doing actual tests (with humans) on what kind of things work to convey information. E.g., "Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users": * https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-w...
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> PATH_MAX is still comically small today. Per getconf -a , I see PATH_MAX (and _POSIX_PATH_MAX) as 4096. Is that small? What would be not-small?
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by throw0101b 1y ago
Given the title, as good an excuse as any to point people to the Vsauce video "Do Chairs Exist?": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW-QjBsruE (Can't believe a half-hour video on ontology has >13M views
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Three Coin Monte(prospect.org)
2 points by throw0101b 1y ago|0 comments
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Link dump at the ready. Links to three books which I've read recently (some owned, some library), and a link to an overview of the topic which they cover. > The author Christian Smith is apparently a Roman Catholic. What do
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Literally one government ago we elected a leftist party. Over the last (say) 50 years, how many left-leaning governments have there been in government? It's basically been right-ish since Lougheed in 1971: * https://e
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> You're not handling sensitive data, so unencrypted is just fine. Except when an adversary MITMs your site and injects an attack to one of your readers: * https://www.infoworld.com/article/2188091/uk-spy
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Some people don't want to be forced to run a bunch of stuff they don't understand on the server, and I agree with them. There are a number of shell-based ACME clients whose prerequisites are: OpenSSL and cURL. You're p
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by throw0101b 1y ago
Diana = Dianna "Physics Girl" Cowern * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianna_Cowern * https://www.instagram.com/thephysicsgirl/
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> Cooling fans (in servers) pull 150W total most of the time but can be up to 300W. Oxide Computer found that going from tiny 20mm fans to 80mm dropped their chassis power usage bigly: they found a rack full of 1U servers had 25% of it
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> no way is that worth fucking £600) Liability coverage, and UL certification (or UK/EU equivalent), for the company is. Though see perhaps: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEVSE > I would really love
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The five platforms we have to cover when planning systems(utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by throw0101b 1y ago|0 comments
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> We made Jimmy Carter sell off his family peanut farm for this? https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-fa...
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> It’s best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It’s how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. > It’s not an inconsistency. It’s very consistent to the only
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by throw0101b 1y ago
> California should just place an excise carbon tax on gas and diesel cars. They already have cap-and-trade: * https://www.c2es.org/content/california-cap-and-trade/ * https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/o

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