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by zrail 3y ago
Nice. This is a class of error with the delightful acronym TOCTOU (Time of Check to Time of Use) which is present in an astonishing number of places. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use
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by zrail 3y ago
Amazon's transaction engine is bananas. I've seen it split an order for multiple items across two unequal card transactions. Try reconciling that without parsing every single invoice page.
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by zrail 3y ago
They're pretty common where I live (SE Michigan) because the electrical grid is quite a bit less reliable than the gas distribution network. To the point where 5-10% of customers in the service area lose power in any given big storm. W
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by zrail 3y ago
That's how most podcasting platforms work. For example, that's exactly how https://transistor.fm/ works. You make an account, upload an MP3, get an RSS feed.
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by zrail 3y ago
Completely sealed power plant packs. Refueling requires swapping the entire power plant and sending it back to the manufacturer for recycling.
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by zrail 3y ago
Regular people have been carrying house keys and/or car keys around for practically their entire lives. A physical key for their computers wouldn't be weird, except it's different than what they're used to.
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by zrail 3y ago
Ridiculous and working exactly as intended.
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by zrail 3y ago
> But the typical well-insured US mother-to-be doesn’t spend a moment thinking about that difference vs., say, the reported quality of the food. Your definition of "typical" apparently is very different from my own, or we are t
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by zrail 3y ago
I don't know if you've ever had to try to get that designation by SSA, but in my (second and third hand) experience it is extremely difficult to qualify. SSA regularly denies and then you have to get a lawyer and sue them for bene
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by zrail 3y ago
Yep, I remember seeing a variant with 2x Cat5e, 2x coax, and fiber. Iirc the argument against them was that they were a pain to install in typical residential framed construction because the bend radius in reality was like 3 feet (probably
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by zrail 3y ago
I bought a set of optical HDMI cables for my TV. Not because it's a long run, although it is, but because they're significantly thinner and I had to get four of them through a pretty small conduit. They're pretty nice, althou
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by zrail 3y ago
Honestly it probably only helps installation costs, and not by much. There are no code issues with running standard direct bury copper in the same trench as direct bury fiber, nor are there any code issues (iirc, I am not an electrician) wi
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by zrail 3y ago
> a copper pair going along the fibers I learned the other day that this is actually a thing one can buy. Direct bury hybrid fiber copper, up to looked like 2 OS2 strands and 2 12awg copper conductors. It's fantastically expensive b
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by zrail 3y ago
I have a compromise setup but it seems to work ok. Two MacBooks, one pro, both M1. One is plugged into a TS3+. The other is plugged into a USB-C dock to get Ethernet and a USB-A input, but I don't use the video out. Instead, I run a Th
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by zrail 3y ago
It's a tech demo.
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by zrail 3y ago
Yep. The 10th amendment, in it's entirety: > The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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by zrail 3y ago
Yep, very same. Mine isn't technically a separate building anymore but it was built that way in the 1950s. The second owners combined them with a second garage stall. The privacy implied by two locking doors between me and the tiny chi
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by zrail 3y ago
Sure. UBI would probably work best paired with universal healthcare that covers special needs cases.
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by zrail 3y ago
I don't really care how it's delivered, as long as it's a regular payment throughout the year that people can depend on. (US specific) The monthly advanced child tax credit, effectively a negative tax, lifted hundreds of thou
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by zrail 3y ago
The government is very good at giving people money. It's less good at adjudicating whether people require that money. Replacing every government assistance program with direct, unconditional cash transfers would almost certainly be che
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by zrail 3y ago
I think this is _the_ key point. ERCOT not being accountable to anyone except the legislature means that things like this will keep happening.
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by zrail 3y ago
I was working for a flash game hosting company that you probably remember if you were ever of age to care about flash games. We had like 30 different payment methods for buying in-game currency[1] and a good number of them had this stupid p
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by zrail 3y ago
How do these cables split in the middle of the ocean? Is there a fiber switch laying on the ocean floor?
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by zrail 3y ago
> Usually the tantrum is not a great indicator of what the child needs. They say they need the iPad or fruit loops. What they actually need is layered under that, and they're likely unaware of it. I have had success with "body
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by zrail 3y ago
> her small violent waves at just the right moment may cause large, violent waves in you. In my (admittedly limited) experience, this isn't really how it works, at least with little ones. They start having these really big feelings,
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by zrail 3y ago
How would you approach towing a 1500 square mile chunk of ice?
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by zrail 3y ago
I learned the business context before the spec ops context and honestly the former makes way more sense to me than the latter. A business operator is like a machine operator. You're pulling levers on a machine that someone else built w
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by zrail 3y ago
Operator in this context refers to someone who successfully runs a business that someone else founded. Often the visionary founder is not good at the nuts and bolts of running and growing a business so they hand off the reins to someone who
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by zrail 3y ago
Weird flex but ok. In any area big enough to have a Starbucks in the US you'll find at least one local cafe that has better coffee. You'll also find at least one with much worse coffee that thinks they're better. As you say,
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by zrail 3y ago
Why would it?

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