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- paulnpaceWhy not link to the archive.is page in the HN feed? I failed to discover how to open the original article link.
- I found Stephen King's On Writing a worthwhile read for anyone thinking about writing, no matter your opinion on King's other works (I am not a fan). A hard lesson well expressed is using fewer words, which King describes as "kill your babies".
- "Back in my day," Lake Helen (~10,000 ft) on Mt. Shasta had a pit toilet without walls that faced the valley. Depending on the weather, it could even be above the clouds/fog and IIRC on a clear day you could see the ocean.
- > Why. Why are they doing this.
Back in my day on the cattle ranch, the cattle had unique magnetic identifiers on their ears. They put their head in the feeder and get fed only what the rancher wants each specific one to to eat.
- They fear juries (jurors, really).
- It took less than two years for the Navy to train me to work on nuclear power plants.
- It also not necessary to use external fonts. I'm finding many pages that run fontawesome are looking something other than "awesome" right about now.
- I read it in a book called The Epigenetics Revolution, so I'm going to stick with what the author wrote there.
- For whatever reason, epigenetics is somehow considered by a great many people to be some whackadoodle conspiracy theorist woo-woo.
When I posit the following explanation-question that helped me to understand at least that epigenetics does akshually come from science, either the light bulb goes on over one's head or it's seething hate:
How come all of the cells in our bodies have the same DNA, but they can be so different? In other words, why are we not comprised of an amorphous blob of identical cells?
- I don't like the terms "dumb" or "smart" when discussing switches, because it isn't very useful.
The term "configurable" is more useful, because it means that the switch can be configured (vs. non-configurable switches that may also be "smart", i.e., a "dumb" switch is really just a hub).
IIRC, the TP-Link models with this "feature" hard-coded into the GUI would enable a VLAN on all physical ports with VLAN enabled.
Oh, and it was fixed with a firmware update, so it's not like there was some hardware limitation.
- They aren't usually accessible until the network is compromised.
TP-Link cheap consumer configurable switches used to have, IIRC, a VLAN permanently available on all physical ports, giving access to everything going through a switch. After many complaints, they "upgraded" the firmware to support disabling the VLAN from the GUI, though it remained default enabled, and included a note with something like "we only had it that way because customers demanded it".
- I've largely given up on trying to secure networks for people when they just run overt compromises.
What does this really matter when everyone is running agentic AIs on all of their devices?
Installing "apps" that have access to everything on a device?
Those same "apps" record everything around the device and upload that to the "cloud"?
For the average user, security doesn't even matter any more. I used to say people are running around in plain text mode, but it looks like that has been degraded to broadcast mode.
- Using a sword to stab someone is evil, therefore, stabbing someone who is stabbing me with a sword is evil?
- It is truly criminal that such a bright and brilliant model of ethics, Amazon, should endure such an attack.
- It is the future: I own nothing, and I've never been happier. They can sue me and take nothing.
- Likely there just aren't enough of the right people to support such a project, sans a sustained revenue model.
- The only shorts I've clicked were an accident.
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- My experience has been that people living next to newly constructed solar farms are unhappy about living next to a solar farm. It is also my experience that this is a fringe opinion because a very low percentage of people live next to solar farms.