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by jcrawfordor 9d ago
Yesterday I discovered that WayBackMachine appears to be serving 429s to all Chrome-based browsers, across all network connections. Using Firefox (or a firefox UA) fixes it. I assume this is a temporary situation, or even by mistake, but un
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by jcrawfordor 1mo ago
This article is just an over length summary of a very short preliminary notice published by NRC. Since it is non-emergency there will not necessarily be much follow up either, plants are just required to report any abnormality to NRC which
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by jcrawfordor 1mo ago
this was already hitting 200% of its original intended length, so there were some things where I said "just not going to get into the details." Naturally I have come to regret these. Another is the brief mention of party line prac
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by jcrawfordor 5mo ago
And that's all stuff that they bring in out of state contractors for. I know, it sounds odd, but this is pretty normal for any large industrial site.
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by jcrawfordor 5mo ago
For what it's worth, while I haven't found kdenlive (or shotcut, based on the same underlying toolkit) to be 100% stable, I've had significantly fewer lost-work incidents with kdenlive than I did with Premiere Pro. The frustr
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by jcrawfordor 5mo ago
The number the developer gave in a press release was "20-30." I find that reasonable as a very large Facebook data center near me has a permanent staff of around 50. Keep in mind that these large DCs use contractors for the majori
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by jcrawfordor 6mo ago
Very odd. Besides the Turbotax-esque over length loading process, every point I could find (in the Southwestern US) was a seemingly random location with no other details. Some of them just, like, the side of a road. I think the whole databa
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by jcrawfordor 6mo ago
TSA does more than just the security checkpoints, even at airports with privatized screening TSA does all of the back-office work, including some on-site staff. The physical screening is the only thing that can be contracted out, not the wh
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by jcrawfordor 6mo ago
First, you're responsible for knowing where you live. Historically, people who lived in more challenging areas geographically often did not have regular postal addresses at all. You would just have a box number in the nearest town or a
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by jcrawfordor 6mo ago
Unfortunately these USPS datasets are not public because USPS sells them. Or in some cases, the pattern tends to be that USPS has a contract with a provider (part of what I call the Postal Industrial Complex) that maintains the database and
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by jcrawfordor 6mo ago
USPS doesn't care; each ZIP code has a single preferred city name and a list of acceptable alternate city names to account for cases in which a ZIP code spans multiple cities. However, USPS's address validation will prefer to use
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by jcrawfordor 6mo ago
I've been peripherally involved in an early stages effort to build something similar for the entire nation ( https://reportapayphone.com/ ), and became aware of this just recently. It's a really great example to asp
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by jcrawfordor 8mo ago
Biometrics were a very crowded market during the 1980s and 1990s when it was a newer idea and electronics were starting to make things practical. Lots of ideas were tossed around before the industry pretty well consolidated on fingerprints
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by jcrawfordor 8mo ago
I don't know that there is much technology to sell, palm vein imaging is decades old in the access control industry. The reason you don't see it anywhere is because it was already a commercial failure in that application, by the e
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by jcrawfordor 8mo ago
Good data is hard to come by, but from a brief survey electronic precinct tabulation (the most common system in the US) is also in at least partial use in Canada, Mexico, India, the Phillipines, and Russia, and a laundry list of smaller cou
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by jcrawfordor 8mo ago
This is the system used in the majority of the United States. Direct-recording electronic voting systems were never that common, briefly peaked after the Help America Vote Act as the least expensive option to meet accessibility requirements
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by jcrawfordor 9mo ago
There have been diesel electric surface ships as well going back to WWII, although it hasn't proven a very popular design and they remain an oddity.
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by jcrawfordor 9mo ago
To be quite honest I've never seen a colo that didn't offer access at all. The cheapest locations may require a prearranged escort because they don't have any way to restrict access on the floors, but by the time you get to 1
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by jcrawfordor 10mo ago
It's very confusing in the text of the article, at times it sounds like the author is using heuristic methods (like timings) but at times it sounds like they somehow have access to network traffic from the provider's backend. I co
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by jcrawfordor 10mo ago
A major reason for the enduring use of satellite in radio distribution is that, for live events like sports or (more common in NPR's case) political events, the satellite system provides appreciably lower latency than distribution over
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by jcrawfordor 11mo ago
I'm not an expert in this topic but I've been working on a book in a related area and had to learn a lot. Here's what I can figure. Unfortunately radiation medicine is pretty complicated and the report gives us very little in
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by jcrawfordor 11mo ago
KCNSC is a large organization that will have hundreds of distinct networks at different risk and control levels. Every variation of "public internet" to "single-site air-gapped network" probably exists there, including m
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by jcrawfordor 1y ago
When the tower was constructed in 1887, multiplexing technology was probably not available (I'm not so sure of the timeline in Europe). By 1913 it likely would have come into use. However, multiplexing really isn't a factor here,
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by jcrawfordor 1y ago
I wouldn't take these Truth in Accounting reports too seriously. They're linked to ALEC and take a very hard-right stance on fiscal issues, and in particular, this report on NM (which is also nearly five years old) seems to ignore
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by jcrawfordor 1y ago
Yes! I will draw a slightly roundabout connection here to my pet topics, the British shared a number of fuze concepts as part of the Tizard mission and designs based in large part on the British concepts were developed and tested at the New
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by jcrawfordor 1y ago
I'm referring to the Tizard mission exactly, in which Cockcroft brought a magnetron to the US for show and tell. Nuclear weapons were less of an emphasis than radar (and jet engines, also a UK-led development) at that point in time.
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by jcrawfordor 1y ago
A tremendous portion of the truck market are people who live in urban to suburban areas and need to move things. For that audience, the ability to fit a 4x8' plywood sheet easily puts this ahead of a surprising number of conventional t
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by jcrawfordor 1y ago
You don't usually have to call any more, there's a captive portal provisioning process. It's not totally reliable and sometimes you might give up after a few tries and call instead.
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by jcrawfordor 1y ago
It's an interesting comment, it has the same "compliment the OP, elaborate, raise a further question" format I've seen used by apparently LLM-generated spam accounts on HN. But, the second paragraph is so incoherently st
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by jcrawfordor 1y ago
Silent films were inconsistent on frame rate, especially early on. The cameras were hand cranked and so the frame rate was determined by the operator. It wasn't unusual to speed up and slow down the frame rate within a scene to achieve

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