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by yabones 3y ago
Chemical weapons are already a solved problem. By the mid 1920s there was already enough chemical agents to kill most of the population of Europe. By the 1970s there were enough in global stockpiles to kill every human on the planet several
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by yabones 3y ago
7" is a little small for typing, but it's so adorable. What I really want is a slightly larger 11-12" mini laptop that would be the spiritual successor to the ThinkPad X220 which is to me the gold standard for portable and us
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by yabones 3y ago
I've rescued pretty messed up systems before. In one case, a service went haywire and created tens of millions of <1kb files, eating up all the available inodes in the filesystem. The volume was only ~45% full, but you couldn't
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by yabones 3y ago
The original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema was about $500 on sale, but only shot in 1080p. The new generation is about $1300. And then you have to buy lenses :) So, overall it's not bad value. It's not going to replace pro gear any tim
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by yabones 3y ago
Not to say $1.2T is nothing, but that's over the lifespan of the program. It's like if you paid for your car plus all the fuel, oil changes, spare parts, tires, car wash, toll roads, all up front. > $1.2 trillion to operate and
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by yabones 3y ago
Have they said whether the transponder was active on the jet? They usually have the ADSB beacon live when flying near airports, but if it was turned off it would be a bit trickier to find. Also, if the retroreflector wasn't extended it
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by yabones 3y ago
One needs a FXS port, the other needs an FXO port. FXO's are only commonly found on telco gear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_service_(tele...
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by yabones 3y ago
To echo other commenters, it's simply because it's not needed as heavily anymore, and it's a very optimal design for the purpose. Consider what satellite imagery was like six decades ago. The CORONA program used massive and c
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by yabones 3y ago
A big problem for desalination is the brine, the highly saline solution left over after the fresh water is removed. You can't just dump it in the sea again, because its high salt content will kill all of the fish, coral, kelp, etc. S
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by yabones 3y ago
The most important feature of Debian has been its governance and focus on community. That's the difference between it and CentOS or its derivatives, and why I'll keep using it forever - it's fundamentally sustainable. Here&#x
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by yabones 3y ago
This is a complex one. On one hand, cracking down on distracted driving is absolutely a good thing. Thousands of people are killed by negligent drivers every year, and every single one is an unnecessary tragedy. But, there need to be some g
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by yabones 3y ago
Turns out the proliferation of open source was never because of "collaboration" or "community", it was actually just a result of zero interest rates and "growth".
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by yabones 3y ago
Some bad advice in there... Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force Should be: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process Turning off that feature permanently is a bad idea.
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by yabones 3y ago
It's even easier than that, the functionality exists inside rsyslog. All you have to do is set up a template in /etc/rsyslog.d and point it towards a mail relay... if $syslogseverity <= 3 then { action(type=&q
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by yabones 3y ago
Technically, “non-human” bodies and technology that can “turn us into a charcoal briquette” precisely describes Laika of Sputnik II fame. We also did have flying saucers in the 50s, but they kind of sucked compared to helicopters. https:&#
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by yabones 3y ago
She was right. Few people listened, and those who did took little or no action. That puts her in the highest of culture heroes to me. RIP.
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by yabones 3y ago
Metro systems in Japan work a little differently. The main difference is that they're primarily real estate hedge funds owning most of the property in & near the stations, rather than just being a transport network. Their main inte
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by yabones 3y ago
Data was the new oil, and now AI is the new plastic. Get ready for the rush of cheap mass manufactured plastic content.
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by yabones 3y ago
> I've always owned 15" laptops, and i've never had any trouble fitting them in bags, even in a sleeve. I understand why people might want 7" or 10" netbooks, but a 12" machine just seems like a waste of spa
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by yabones 3y ago
In my anecdotal experience, rapid tests are only really good for telling you if what you're sick with is covid or not, and barely even that. They will not give you a predictive result, and will not identify an early stage illness, only
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by yabones 3y ago
Well, that's concerning. A lot of orgs manage their entire fleets of endpoints and servers from JC.
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by yabones 3y ago
If this is real, $50,000 USD is a laughably small sum for the database. It reminds me of Dr. Evil's demand for 'one million dollars', you have to jack up the number to be taken seriously.
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by yabones 3y ago
Eh, the pressure gradient is a lot less dramatic in a jet vs. under 3500m of water.
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by yabones 3y ago
What can we learn from this? Don't go in pressure vessels; don't go in confined spaces.
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by yabones 3y ago
Snapshot from a couple days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20230531062024/https://natehoffe...
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by yabones 3y ago
I abuse mine to run a big-ass Elasticsearch instance with about a year of syslogs/weblogs for my personal machines. Not terribly useful, but a good outlet for my hoarding I suppose.
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by yabones 3y ago
Well, if your goal was to create an anti-ship cruise missile, I'd say you're about half-way there..! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brahmos_ER.webm
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by yabones 3y ago
I'm surprised they don't have the "lock fold" or "Nakamura Lock" design. When I was younger, that was the most consistent design for a good plane. Not always the best, but never the worst. Somebody talented c
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by yabones 3y ago
Kissinger's turning 100 this Saturday. The final horcrux of 20th century imperialism.
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by yabones 3y ago
By convention, all of your router interfaces (or multilayer switches) would have to be Hydrogen. Makes sense, given its abundance in the universe.

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