parshimers's comments

This is the exact method by which many classic Tiki cocktails were kept secret and therefore nearly lost to time. For example the original recipe for the Zombie is disguised twice. It uses “Don’s Mix”, which is made with grapefruit juice and “Spices #4”. It took a very dedicated historian, Beachbum Berry, to track down the real recipe: https://beachbumberry.com/recipe-zombie.html

It can get kind of confusing though. Consider the Navy Grog, a classic Tiki cocktail. The Trader Vic’s recipe is very different than the original Donn the Beachcomber version. This is because the recipe was secret and so all other attempts at it were basically guesses.

Airbnb is such a joke now. I had a host steal from me with no repercussions in November. The host said the room wasn't ready through text, and then, when they said it was ready, someone (not the host) walked up to us on the street outside the building the room was supposedly in and said it still wasn't ready- there were men working inside it.

He would take our bags up but under no circumstances would he let us actually see the room or have the keys until it was "ready". Obviously it was either a scam, or an illegal sublet that he didn't want to level with us about.

Airbnb refused to refund a room that for all intents and purposes, didn't exist. Their rationale was that they hadn't been informed the same day, which is ridiculous considering how much of a timesink finding a last-minute hotel is. It should be open and shut, but they simply bought the lies the host told them, despite the fact they were never even there.

This reads like a less amusing version of the UNIX-HATERS handbook. The citation on the Linux kernel containing "a whole lot of very low quality code" is a Slashdot post. The author claims that there is "No high level, stable, sane (truly forward and backward compatible) and standardized API for developing GUI applications" like it's something that exists anywhere, and cites Win32 as an example to be followed instead of a painful business decision by one company.

I built a custom home server using Mini-ITX form factor parts and I would have to agree with this conclusion. ECC ram in that form factor is very expensive. The biggest issue I had was that fanless ATX power supplies are not reliable. There was also a hardware bug that was bricking Atom C2xxx processors.

I think that if form factor is not an issue, one of the i3's that support ECC ram are low enough TDP to be cooled passively. Especially if it is not expected to run at full load for long periods. However I simply switched to using a big case with low RPM, good quality FDB fans. It hasn't been a problem since, and is much less cramped when I do want to tinker with it.

The Google Voice dialer sucks. If you're not on Wi-Fi it won't call over data. Maybe this would have been a sensible restriction 10 years ago but now it's totally silly. I used the Hangouts dialer all the time when travelling internationally to avoid ludicrous international call fees.

Yes, but once it becomes laden with powdered, precipitated silver it is far less benign. Silver is still a heavy metal after all, even if it is not the most acutely dangerous one.

pfsense can do this pretty easily, i wouldn't call it out of the box though. the adblocking can be done via pfblocker-ng, and it has an openvpn client of course.

Interesting. I haven't had that happen because I do split-tunnel, but I will have to keep that in mind in scenarios when I try to forward everything thru the tunnel. All I needed to do for split tunnel was just adjust the route metric. (https://tujun.ga/2020/02/18/wireguard/) Agreed about the lack of GUI though, I do wish there was a GTK applet for it.

If you're using NetworkManager and wireguard, try out the integration between the two as well. It lets you treat the tunnel as any other VPN in nm, and also easily avoids some issues with routing loops if you roam back on to your home network. Before, I always had to manually use wg-quick when I came back home or left.

http://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2019/03/15/wireguard-in-netwo...

Their return policies are not good. Amazon will take things back, without fuss. Newegg will charge a very hefty restocking fee, or might not even take it back at all. It is very unfortunate to see this have happen, because I remember in the early 00's they built their business on providing the exact opposite kind of experience to that kind of nickle-and-dime technique that was commonplace at the time.

No one (in this thread at least) is claiming it's a weapon. The point is that the research lab at the center of this pandemic has, and continues to, research and collect viruses just like SARS-CoV-2. The authorities in Wuhan also tried to cover up the outbreak before it became too severe to deny. It may be a coincidence, but it also may not.

It wouldn't be the first time something like this happened, either. Russia accidentally released Anthrax[1] from one of their facilities in the late 70's, and it killed over 100 people in the neighboring town. Of course they tried to cover it up, and the truth did not come out until much later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak

Yes. I have an Atom on one end of the pipe as well, but it's over 10Gbe and to a 6 drive mirrored and striped vdev. Using SSH as the transport it would only approach 100MB/s, using mbuffer it can max out the storage at about 250-275MB/s.

I wanted to use this tool for backing up my laptop to my NAS, however it only allows SSH to be used for data transfer, which is a real bottleneck for speed. It basically means you can only transfer as fast as one core can decrypt or encrypt data on either end of the pipe.

I ended up using https://github.com/oetiker/znapzend instead, because it can use mbuffer for the actual data transfer, which is much faster.

Query languages that came after it that weren't concerned with compatibility realized this. XQuery has "for" first, which is to a first approximation FROM, and "return" last, which is like a more powerful SELECT. SQL++ and its brethren also had it this way very early on. However there's so many applications and users that are accustomed to it the original way, that it is not usually possible to fight against the inertia.

What absolute garbage, it defies the entire point of tipping. Is this even legal? If a restaurant got caught doing this, they would definitely lose many customers or even get run out of business.

It's pretty funny that we still talk about HSR in California as a hypothetical, over 10 years after it was approved. Obama wasn't even in office yet. There's not a single piece of it you can ride, anywhere, despite the $9 billion it got approved for from day 1. The first transcontinental railroad only took 6 years to build, in the mid 1800's.

>In the past 30 years, the biggest coal seams were mined out in Appalachia, leaving thinner seams coursing through sandstone.

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>And because there's no coal, it is considered development mining or construction. So sampling the air for toxic dust is not required, even though it is the most dangerous dust. Former MSHA officials told us some inspectors did it, but most did not.

Hopefully the lawsuits cost them. However the folks that make these decisions never see the consequences; they've taken their bonuses and gone by now. Furthermore the mine doesn't pay for medicare. We all do.

> . While Sayoc carved out ugly niches on Facebook and Twitter, Bowers found even safer harbor for his racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic passions on Gab, a two-year-old social network that has served as a nursery for white nationalists.

pretending people couldn't find places to air antisemitic or white nationalist sentiments before the internet, or that the internet makes it easier, is silly. if anything the internet makes it harder for these fools, because now if they show their faces or use their real names, they're doxed and harangued at every turn by an internet lynchmob.

> I don’t know exactly how we square free speech and free expression — which are paramount — with a better policing of the internet, but I’m certain that we need to approach that challenge with more urgency than we have mustered so far. Democracy is at stake. So are lives.

right, as opposed to the rosy times before the internet, with timothy mcveigh, the DC sniper, and the unabomber. or how about john wayne gacy?

why this guy is paid to spew inane opinions like this is beyond me