timrice

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by timrice 2y ago
The magic of the existing hourglass model, and the entire premise of the end-to-end principle [1], is that you can build all those features on top of the infrastructure provided by IP. IP as the skinny neck allows service providers to focus
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Send Your Friends Birthday Cards, They Love It(timothyrice.org)
1 points by timrice 2y ago|0 comments
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by timrice 3y ago
This is not entirely true with PON (passive optical networks). The ONT is more than a media converter (optical -> copper), it facilitates the conversation with the OLT (Optical Line Terminal) further upstream. That connection is not an
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When Is Cash an Appropriate Gift?(timothyrice.org)
3 points by timrice 3y ago|1 comments
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by timrice 4y ago
Upsetting that in an article all about photos being used to scam people, there's not a single sample of an offending image! I mean, I think I get why. But still, it's the first thing I want to see when I read a story like this.
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by timrice 4y ago
Spec fiction - Nona the Ninth (my review: https://timothyrice.org/nona/ ) Third entry in the absolutely fantastic Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. Highly, highly recommended it. https://www.goodreads.com&#
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by timrice 4y ago
The bandwidth depends on the equipment connected to it on each end, which I don't think is public information.
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by timrice 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you're hinting at. Are you saying that the US military and intelligence agencies use metadata to track down and kill people that they deem as enemies? And that Meta/Google/etc. are in cahoots w
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by timrice 4y ago
Yes, I am very aware of all the potential dangers, which contributes to my blocking everything in the first place. I am curious if, in the United States, there are any realized dangers to these privacy violations. The Udemy thing is int
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by timrice 4y ago
So I have a pi hole for my home network, and a wireguard connection back to it when I'm out and about. I run ublock on everything, block all the javascript, all the stuff. But I do it because ads are annoying -- I don't like how t
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by timrice 4y ago
Author here Surface contact is one reason you want an ice/water slurry instead of just ice, but the real reason is that ice melting consume a lot more energy than just ice being warmed up to it's melting point. The ice will quic
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by timrice 4y ago
Author here, thank you! It's been bouncing around in the back of my brain for a long time. I couldn't find any clear and concise explanations about what really happens when salt is added to ice, so I did some research and wrote it
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Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?(timothyrice.org)
298 points by timrice 4y ago|106 comments
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by timrice 5y ago
Didn't Rogan emphatically endorse Bernie last election cycle? Have the alt right become socialists when I wasn't looking?