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by wolrah 9mo ago
Another important part is that a lot of microwave recipes specifically state to leave the food in the microwave for a period of time after it's done cooking, and often stir it after that. Almost no one actually does that. Most people
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by wolrah 9mo ago
> Instead it has endemic corruption which siphons off funds all over the place, perhaps with the exception of the big projects that command the full attention of central leadership. We also have endemic corruption siphoning off funds all
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by wolrah 9mo ago
> A concern: with all this computing onboard, does this mean a malicious USB-C cable could record screen and keystroke? Keystrokes: Easily. At least for USB 3 and 4, USB 1/2 data is a physically separate channel that just happens t
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by wolrah 9mo ago
Warnings only work if the person receiving them is either capable of and motivated to do something about it, or capable of motivating the person/people capable of doing something about it. A weak warning that's just an entry in a
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by wolrah 9mo ago
> They don't fit the image if they drive an e-truck because e-trucks aren't great at those "truck things. At least that's my theory why the e-trucks aren't doing well, even if they should be. A lifted dually with
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by wolrah 9mo ago
99% of computer users don't know any of the words that mean a computer is good. Those of us who do still want to have the good things if we're stuck with it being a permanent part of the machine.
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by wolrah 9mo ago
> Some review of the Lightning I read said it has less than a 100 mile range towing a full load. Because of course towing long distances is the only reason you'd ever want a truck. Obviously we can start by acknowledging that the va
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by wolrah 9mo ago
> I think the timing of the Cybertruck starting deliveries roughly aligning with when Elon got heavily involved in politics hurt it quite a bit. It is such a distinctive vehicle with a strong association with Elon, that there was an imme
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by wolrah 9mo ago
> great for kiosks and shared workstations. Absolutely not. For a kiosk, I want everything the user is touching to be effectively disposable. Keyboards and mice are cheap and trivial to replace, this design integrates the most important
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by wolrah 9mo ago
Having to switch to desktop mode and back. It's not exactly rocket science to add a "browser app" to the Steam system to use certain web sites in an appliance-ish mode, but it's not great for general purpose browsing. A
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by wolrah 9mo ago
It is definitely getting stretchy at this point, but there is the point to be made that a lot of roads are built in a way which not only enables but encourages driving much faster than may be desired in the area where they're located.
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by wolrah 9mo ago
> I feel like it's easier to just have Ethernet and a strict HW firewall with the admin interfaces totally disabled (have to full reset to get back in). Easier? Maybe, for certain values of easy, but as others have noted it's
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by wolrah 9mo ago
> 2. If you are an end user reading an XHTML file, it's not your file, it's not your fault if there are bugs, and there's jack shit you can do to fix it. You just want the browser to do its best to show you something reaso
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by wolrah 10mo ago
The "No IT Department" part of your marketing immediately turns me off because that's actively encouraging "shadow IT". We all get that sometimes companies have IT policies which are outdated and get in the way, but
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by wolrah 10mo ago
> Modern fire trucks, and police cars usually, are built to be able to push vehicles out of the way. Not so much police cars, anymore. Back in the time of the B-Body Caprice and the Crown Vic, sure. These days with the exception of the
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by wolrah 10mo ago
> Don’t blame your provider when they deploy CG-NAT, embrace IPv6 and global routing instead. In theory this makes sense, but in practice my personal experience is that not a single wireline ISP I've ever seen deploy CG-NAT offered
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by wolrah 10mo ago
Most smart TVs only have 100mbit ethernet, even "high end" TVs like LG OLEDs. They'd be terrible routers.
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by wolrah 11mo ago
> (Even for a fully self-hosted system you'd still have to figure out how to interface the certificate renewal mechanism with your DNS provider, so not as easy to set up as individual certificates for each subdomain.) That's ex
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by wolrah 11mo ago
> I'm talking about managing two certificates so I can share a static site with a handful of friends. Each one takes about 10 minutes a year to update. The personal site I started with is one certificate for a static site that I use
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by wolrah 11mo ago
As someone who also grew up on PC speaker, I think it sounds significantly worse than Wolfenstein 3D's PC speaker sound where it of course would be expected to be better than Wolf3D in every way. I think they could have made something
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by wolrah 11mo ago
For the same reasons as forcing companies to do it. 1. Revocation is a clusterfuck. Microsoft is currently failing to revoke tens of thousands of defective certificates for over seven months (the Baseline Requirements state that they shoul
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by wolrah 11mo ago
> For this specific regulation, it's illegal to prevent someone who passes physical security screening and has paid their fare from boarding a plane. Cite? Not that I'm doubting, just never heard this mentioned during the last
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by wolrah 11mo ago
About six months ago I had a Dell Optiplex motherboard fail and they attempted to schedule a tech to come out the following day. I was not available for that and scheduled it a few days later but they did make as full of an effort as can b
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by wolrah 11mo ago
Same problem though. The domain itself isn't the issue, it's that the redirect was only one way so mobile users always shared the mobile URL and desktop users who received that shared URL got the janky half-featured mobile site i
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by wolrah 11mo ago
I have always hated "m." domains for exactly this reason. They almost exclusively go one-way, mobile users get redirected to the mobile domain but desktop users never get redirected back, and all too often not only was the mobile
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by wolrah 11mo ago
whynotboth.gif I'd make the assumption that posters located in Russia, China, NK, etc. are likely to be in some way tied to the state, where posters in India, random African nations, etc. are more likely to be private actors of which s
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by wolrah 11mo ago
> Wouldn't that only matter if the bug has no affect on little endian? I don't know whether this logic applies to this specific sort of bug, but there is a long history of bugs that "don't matter" combining with
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by wolrah 1y ago
> None of that matters for the kind of creative work the grand parent likely had in mind. Some of that did, at least for how that creative work was almost exclusively delivered to the world. Those bugs were not just excessive resource u
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by wolrah 1y ago
There are very few cases where there's a good reason for a printer of any kind to be on WiFi and even less for a receipt printer. If it's being used in a portable application with a laptop or mobile device that's what USB or
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by wolrah 1y ago
On DOCSIS and PON networks my experience has been that dynamic IPs are generally stable as long as your DHCP lease is active, so my IP generally wouldn't change unless I changed equipment or there was an extended outage that kept me of

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