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by ustolemyname 3y ago
1. Larger vehicles pose a much greater threat to pedestrians and cyclists, both from frequency and consequence of incidents. 2. Tire emissions are more toxic than exhaust [1] and tire wear is dramatically greater on heavier vehicles. This i
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by ustolemyname 3y ago
Passwords need to be sent both with the request, and to the requestor. I think GP is referring to sending credentials to the service making the request. It is far better to give service XYZ a time-bound and scope limited token to perform a
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by ustolemyname 3y ago
This is challenging to answer with the nonspecific, "regular ones?" What, to you, is a "regular tax?" Payroll taxes? Income taxes? Property taxes? Sales taxes? Carbon taxes? Gas taxes? Cigarette taxes? All are as dissimi
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by ustolemyname 3y ago
I think in this case "better" reduces to convincing the upstream data source to not use json. Putting that frustration on jq seems like a case of transference.
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by ustolemyname 3y ago
Few people have screens as high resolution as even a mediocre phone camera. Before someone brings up future screen tech, there are additional reasons that's not a trivial workaround. Additionally there's a higher benefit to having
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by ustolemyname 3y ago
Only 19% of electricity generated today in the US is from coal, trending toward 0. Then consider larger fossil fuel power plants are far more efficient than the tiny engines in vehicles. "Coal is used to power electric vehicles,"
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by ustolemyname 3y ago
There's an off by one error in the above statement. Not sure if it's the right or left hand side.
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by ustolemyname 3y ago
Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1...
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by ustolemyname 4y ago
This has given me a brilliant idea: deferring maintenance downtime until some larger user-visible service is down. This is terrible for many reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone has done this.
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by ustolemyname 4y ago
I disagree. In both cases the observer benefits from reaching beyond their current knowledge. They have the same solution.
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by ustolemyname 5y ago
Not treated as, only backed by byte sequences. If you range over them you get a series of rune values that can be multi-byte code points. There's a few other differences, strings cannot be directly mutated or have the address of th
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by ustolemyname 5y ago
I'm going to nit this for several reasons: 1. Walking on the moon implied a return trip which requires an extra ~3km/s. 2. Under the rocket equation the fuel requirements for more delta v grows superlinearly, which then awkwardly
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by ustolemyname 5y ago
11 cubic meters seems like a fairly small amount of water for a car fire. That's less than the capacity of a typical water truck. What, "applied directly to the battery," means raises questions in my mind. Is this a calculati
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
A PCIe 4.0 x16 link is 32GB/s in one direction. Capital B. Quite a bit faster. It's also fully bidirectional, allowing for the same speed in the other direction at the same time. Thunderbolt is capped at 40Gb/s total bandwidt
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
Well, the US federal government thinks this is fine. Citizens still have to file, and often pay taxes if they move out of the country. If one renounces their citizenship they are liable for up to 10 years of exit taxes.
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
To have this analogy encompass the full situation, you're also a residential landlord who owns 50% of all residential housing in the US. Your tenants are only allowed to have things in their home that came from the market you control.
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
Huh, so they did. TIL.
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
Intel's fault? Uhm, they've had some misses recently, but your statement about RAM support is incorrect. The 7200u supports 32GB or RAM. That chip is over 4 years old and nothing special. Not sure how long that's been support
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
The issue is your defect rate for larger chips. If a small laptop CPU only has 25% of chips being fully functional, a 4x the size server chip will only yield 0.39% of chips being defect free. I say this having no idea what Intel's defe
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
That is a problem that has not been thoroughly explored. What has been motivational historically, and what is necessary to motivate in the future, do not have to be the same. And even looking at history, the motivations of scientific develo
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
That could equally be a consequence of technological and scientific development than any particular economic structure.
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
If the client doesn't trust the server, the crypto protocol is a little irrelevant. I otherwise agree that we (ostensibly) are in a better place now with pre-defined curves.
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by ustolemyname 6y ago
Giant Magellen and Thirty Meter Telescope are both $billion+ projects. So, no.
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by ustolemyname 7y ago
Yes it does. If you capture the authentication handshake, it's as straightforward as putting the passphrase into Wireshark.
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by ustolemyname 7y ago
It's worth noting that this guarantee also only applies to messages between a client and broker. The protocol does not guarantee messages are consumed, only that they reached the broker. So if guaranteed delivery of a specific message
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by ustolemyname 7y ago
Does not. What it should and should not do is a subjective matter.
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by ustolemyname 8y ago
Maximum non-commercial penalty for copyright infringement in Canada is $5000 (about $3700 USD today). I don't think taking people to court has a great cost-benefit ratio.
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by ustolemyname 9y ago
How do you mean? The formal disclosure was supposed to be earlier this month. [Edit] I see, link implies the problem is that the 6 month disclosure process lacked urgency, and many affected parties were notified late in the cycle. Perhaps t
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by ustolemyname 10y ago
That's like saying there's no difference between 99.9℅ the speed of light and going all the way there, from an engineer perspective. Turns out, one of these requires an infinite more expenditure of energy than the other. Similarly
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by ustolemyname 10y ago
Well, maybe not Bash, but it seems a dozen years ago referring to Perl as a systems language would not have caused anybody to blink ;) I apologize for how glib my remark above was, it didn't add much to the conversation, and was more a

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