tomxor

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by tomxor 3y ago
No, real scientists use plank temperature ;)
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by tomxor 3y ago
> by preventing wall penetration, reducing jamming This is the main selling point I think, but not intentional jamming... regardless of the inherent lower latency, lower jitter and higher throughput, unlike wifi none of these aspects are
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by tomxor 3y ago
> but what they delivered always had "bugs" (either actual incorrect behavior, or edge cases that nobody thought of until they actually used the software) This is why they are not only inevitable but unending. Most real world p
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by tomxor 3y ago
> concealing data and facing minimal consequences. Yes, the delay in punishment is a huge problem. 3M is facing fines easily pushing them into bankruptcy... so even when the punishment is severe enough, it's too late, huge damage ha
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by tomxor 3y ago
Cleaning up? With what? We've barely figured out how to even detect a tiny portion of PFAS, and even then can't quantify it, we don't have any way of removing PFAS specifically, the best general purpose technology we have is
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by tomxor 3y ago
Thanks. I feel less alone now :)
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by tomxor 3y ago
Yeah, it's chocked full of CORS violations. If you turn off tracking protection it loads, but you aren't missing anything, it's just the word "Threads" a basic webgl animation and a QR code to install an app.
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by tomxor 3y ago
I found this: https://deno.land/manual@v1.35.0/runtime/http_server_apis#ht...
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by tomxor 3y ago
> SVGs in JS have a cost and SVGs do not belong into your JS bundle This article appears to do a reasonable job of weighing the the performance pros and cons to justify such a broad statement. However it fails to consider the use cases
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by tomxor 3y ago
> Gitee was chosen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government to make an "independent, open-source code hosting platform for China." [0] erm, sounds like that would just swap one government
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by tomxor 3y ago
> It dials in your mental space and all the negative thoughts flood away. You're present in the moment [...] You feel a lot better about life for days or even weeks at a time [...] the focus and calm. Does that make sense? I think y
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by tomxor 3y ago
> Have you done any stupid soloing? Did it happen when you were having a particularly hard time with your mental health? I have but it's a drop in the bucket (thankfully). I've done a few routes at a time in my life (over a dec
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by tomxor 3y ago
> For them, ignoring everyday risks is an essential part of navigating life. Oh this is totally a thing, and it's kind of interesting... there are two kinds of people when it comes to fear, the first does not acknowledge many of the
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by tomxor 3y ago
> You will eventually, as in the article, hit a loose hold and fall. It's not that simple, it's not a pure dice roll because not all routes are equal. It depends how hard the route is, what type of rock, what quality of rock, w
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by tomxor 3y ago
This is an absurd analogy from where this began... I'm at most slowing down a server in Russia that is trying to defraud people, no one is getting hurt, and It's unlikely I'm costing them any money. Come back to reality.
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by tomxor 3y ago
In Russia, against a website committing credit card fraud while reporting everything to service providers, and actively preventing people from being defrauded?... I really couldn't give a poop, if the USA wants to come prosecute me and
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by tomxor 3y ago
I was sent one of these SMS today. I usually ignore but today I was in weird mood and started pulling apart the site. Stuff I found: Google is the domain registrar. (reported) Hotlinked to ups.com images, logos and css... Opportunity for so
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by tomxor 3y ago
I haven't used any routers like that, and I don't know about vanilla OpenWRT support for RUTx devices, but RutOS is free and open source, continually developed, and they provide an SDK for customisation [0]. So far RutOS firmware
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by tomxor 3y ago
I've been using a couple Teltonika routers recently. I specifically chose them because their OS is derived from OpenWRT... it's a breath of fresh air compared to the myriad consumer routers OS I've been through before which a
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by tomxor 3y ago
> it would make the world “less unequal” if everyone was prevented from working longer hours. Yes, it would, but I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that
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by tomxor 3y ago
Yeah that's the first thing that drew my attention, if you normalise and then remove a component... now you know for sure length whatever you are doing is dependent on the direction of the input vector. I still find vector programming
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by tomxor 3y ago
Oh dear, green wash and downvote, what a time we live in.
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by tomxor 3y ago
> but he adds that households with more than one vehicle can consider diversifying their fleet to add an EV for everyday use, Right, so production costs twice as much Co2 (and ignoring other environmental affects), but that's ok bec
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by tomxor 3y ago
> The most common lesson is that customers don't want what you're making. It might be tempting to think this will always be obvious, which is dangerous because other scenarios can appear to be very similar on the surface. e.g t
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by tomxor 3y ago
This, this, this, audio matters! It doesn't matter how good your presenting voice is or your video editing skills are, if it sounds like you are in a tin can it's just unbearable to listen to and no amount of post production can e
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by tomxor 3y ago
You are referring to Teflon, there's some confusion with the differences in toxicity between the chemical used in the final products (today at least) and the chemical used in manufacturing. Although the human impact is only subtly diff
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by tomxor 3y ago
I think "can't profile" is probably the most accurate in summary. Although you can kinda benchmark, i.e training exercises, that allow you to test people physically and technically, but it's a really poor analogy, becaus
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by tomxor 3y ago
> Only the perception of what you can bring to the company in the future counts for anything. Like your track record for instance.
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by tomxor 3y ago
Yeah, even with the larger lanes you have to get used to judging minimal clearance often without a centre line which may be intentionally left out to encourage common sense negotiation. That's before we even get into City parking where
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by tomxor 3y ago
> Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 for PowerPC Wait what! That one slipped by me. MacOS on Intels and Windows on PowerPC feels like upside-down 90s.

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