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by wiml 6y ago
It's probably a safety requirement. The door has to close firmly and evenly to keep microwave energy from leaking, and there are (sometimes multiple) interlock switches to keep the oven from turning on when the door is open or even par
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by wiml 6y ago
It's not really messing with anything fundamental about Git — in fact it's providing a very common workflow for Git users, just in a way that is confusing for people who mainly use Github. Obviously if lots of people are getting c
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by wiml 6y ago
If they're "reaching into the edges of their vocabulary" they're doing it wrong anyway. People are terrible random number generators. Don't do that. Use an actual random number generator to select a sequence of word
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by wiml 6y ago
I know nothing about the tunnel boring industry in particular, but in some cases this is a form of regulatory capture. A large established industry player can afford to navigate the difficult regulations (either through scale, expertise, ba
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by wiml 6y ago
I've had my CapsLock bound to Compose for ages; it's a great use of that piece of keyboard realestate. I still don't have a good way to discover compose sequences other than by groveling through xkb and compose files. I reall
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by wiml 6y ago
Anecdotal, but I wouldn't expect it to count against you. I live in a traditionally lefty city (one of those "anarchist jurisdictions", heh), company culture skews left, etc., and I haven't observed any animus towards my
607.
by wiml 6y ago
It always reminds me of that line from Snow Crash, which is set in a future when "the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would c
608.
by wiml 6y ago
I've heard it put more pithily, but, the practice of following the rules, obeying the laws, is itself no more than a tradition.
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by wiml 6y ago
It's multi-valued, I suppose. tan^-1 (tan (x)) is equal to x plus any integer multiple of pi (or of 180°). Same for the other pairs of functions. But one of the values results in a division by zero.
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by wiml 6y ago
If only there were some technology that could verify whether a DNS query/response had been spoofed, without interfering with caching and proxying, and without the privacy and centralization-of-control problems of DoH. If only such a te
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by wiml 6y ago
QMake, probably (it's a Qt program and there's a `.pro` file in the root)
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by wiml 6y ago
As a general category of theories that's called "cold dark matter" — it needs to interact with something in order to clump up / cool off, but perhaps not in a way that's very visible to us. A wikipedia excursion wil
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by wiml 6y ago
Here's a brief piece on the practice: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20629671
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by wiml 6y ago
Here's the paper (found via Slashdot!): https://friends.cs.purdue.edu/pubs/WOOT20.pdf It's fairly readable.
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by wiml 6y ago
I think the theory is that there is enough proton degenerate matter to form a superfluid and hold a magnetic field, even if the majority of the star's matter is neutrons.
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by wiml 6y ago
There are a number of "sub-hobbies" within amateur radio. It's a lot like asking what people with a Linux box actually do with their setups. From a completely practical point of view, the internet and cell phones can do most
617.
by wiml 6y ago
Smoke me a kipper, Skipper, I'll be back in time for breakfast.
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by wiml 6y ago
There are some laptops still with the transflective display technology that the OLPC used. Fewer than I'd like, since I have the exact same situation as you.
619.
by wiml 6y ago
Non-synchronous interconnects are more expensive, inefficient, and complex than synchronous ones.
620.
by wiml 6y ago
> Is there name for boilerplate with "popular" features? "batteries-included framework"?
621.
by wiml 6y ago
“Kill switches” on equipment are switches that shut the equipment down abruptly and reliably, but usually are not expected to damage the equipment. They're common on things with engines, motorcycles, boat outboards, etc. It's also
622.
by wiml 6y ago
What do you want to achieve? The preparation could be any of a zillion things depending on what your goal is. Do you just want to be able to successfully vote? Or exchange short "im ok" messages with friends and family? Organize r
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by wiml 6y ago
An alternate approach, which I think I read in a spy novel somewhere: glitter nail polish. It'll be a random pattern when it dries; take a photo of that pattern.
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by wiml 6y ago
Or made naturally on terrestrial planets (Radon's colored brown).
625.
by wiml 6y ago
"The day I realized my camgirl sex website was being used for business meetings"
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by wiml 6y ago
I assume that 99% of the point of techniques like in the article is to make the communications graph unobservable. If two people have regular communication over Signal, and one is suspected to be a mole or spy, then the other one is suspici
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by wiml 6y ago
I've read a number of reports saying that there was a large amount of sodium nitrate stored at the port (some sources say ammonium nitrate).
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by wiml 6y ago
It's fairly easy to memorize a password with >64 bits of true entropy using techniques like diceware; if you use it regularly and/or have a good memory, 128 bits is completely feasible.
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by wiml 6y ago
Nice project! On the subject of different optimization goals for route planning, I was thinking about car travel. Google optimizes for travel time, but I often want to weight "route simplicity" higher than time — I'd rather t
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by wiml 6y ago
This could be a really entertaining version of Wheresgeorge/Bookcrossing, but with returned Amazon shipments...

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