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Faaak··on If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
You can have them second hand for ~500€ on ebay
Faaak··on Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener
Cancer costs a lot. And surgeries, and palliative measures for people with bpco, etc..
Faaak··on Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?
Again, "as en European", it seems crazy to me that something you did when you were a minor can still follow you into adulthood.. crazily dystopian
Faaak··on Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas
Typical straw man argument
Faaak··on GPON FTTH networks (in)security (2016)
No
Faaak··on 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
I miss LAN parties... I miss the custom cases, the fancy drawings, the spilled sugary drinks that stuck to the table, and the open shares where you would copy the whole `Movies` folder on a 100Mbits connection..

I modded my case of course, and it was crappy. I'd integrated a glass window on the side, so people could (would!) look at my custom water cooling setup. And of course, the glass (held by hot glue), would fall down at the most unfortunate time. Great memories!

Faaak··on What was the Golden Age of Antibiotics, and how can we spark a new one?
Sad that the article is not talking about bacteriophages[1]. Basically viruses that infect other bacteria. The world is full of them (and even virophages: viruses that infect other viruses). The soviet union started experimenting them, and they seem to be used to treat hard-to-cure infections like Staphylococcus aureus, but I guess it died down somehow?

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

Faaak··on How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
Dumb question, but how do you use SQLite on kubernetes? Indeed SQLite doesn't work over NFS (and I guess other remote file shares) so how do you share access to it to other pods?
Faaak··on Ask HN: Why do laptop chargers have data wires?
USB PD without signaling won't work. It wont supply the needed voltage (e.g. 19V), and the laptop won't charge
Faaak··on Scanners Beware: Welcome to the network from hell
Yeah, I get they mixed up how arp works.. For requests on the same L2, and just TCP replies. When you connect to another network you'll never send/receive arps..
Faaak··on WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
Hetzner for example. An EPYC 48c (96t) goes for 230 euros
Faaak··on Is yt-dlp/yt-dlp compromised?
You mean this `systemctl kill -s HUP rsyslog.service` ? This just tells syslog to reload itself
Faaak··on Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
Sci-hub.pub
Faaak··on Toyota to buy clean power from a $1.1B solar farm in Texas
And what about the inverter, the mounts, cables, high voltage grid connection, monitoring, land purchase?
Faaak··on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales
Yeah, same. I'm all up for a "free country", and all that. But this was just absurd. I wonder if 30+ years don't the line, if maybe resources are scarcer, we'll think about these and say: "we were fucking crazy"
Faaak··on Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send
swisstransfer.com, up to 50GB
Faaak··on MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
you're lucky :-)
Faaak··on MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
Yet they still make a sound when powered on or resuming sleep (and curiously, when plugged into my usb-c monitor, keeps going to sleep and turning back on (with a nice sound) forever. No other laptop win or Linux does that)
Faaak··on Since spring of 2023, the world has been warmer than climate models anticipated
Because it will remove plenty of land https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z and displace plenty of people
Faaak··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
The crane lifts on the same axis as gravity, so the force is the same as the object. If the cable is horizontal-ish the the force is X/cos(a), which can be many times higher than the object
Faaak··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
Did you think about how you support the cables ? Surely they must be tensionned or else they will hang. How do you tension them ? Of course you know that the more the cable is tensionned, the more force you need. So you need a big-ass structure to hold all of these cables. They must be able to circulate around the perimeter, while being in tension, while not collapsing the structure that holds them, etc..

I'm sure you think it's easy, but I'm sure some people thought a bit more

Faaak··on Plugging abandoned oil wells and stopping methane leaks [video]
> I have no background here, but [...]

Indeed

Faaak··on SpaceX update regarding Starship FAA flight approval
Read the image
Faaak··on We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
Looks like they love to brag about their two founders who are ex-CIA. And by the way, they come from the intelligence community
Faaak··on &udm=14 for Safari (iOS/iPadOS)
For those that have firefox, there is a really simple extension for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/straight-to-t...
Faaak··on Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
Check ou r2ho.me, I'm sure you could have great synergies for lowering price
Faaak··on Ozempic is changing people's skin, say plastic surgeons
I though GERD was not caused by coffee [1]: "Drinking coffee or tea and adding milk or sugar was not associated with reflux symptoms or EE"

[1]: https://journals.lww.com/tcmj/_layouts/15/oaks.journals/down...

Faaak··on Massachusetts 'Reviewing' Kei Car Ban After Uproar over Canceled Registrations
I drive an EV, so I guess I'm now more sensible to certain gas smells. I've found that I smell much more "unpleasant" gasoline when driving behind motorcycles than cars?
Faaak··on Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees
Sure, I'm certain that the cleaning staff know the difference between an nmap directed at your raspberry pi vs the one targetting the TV vlan of the hotel. smh
Faaak··on AI crawlers need to be more respectful
5000$ for 73TiB seems excessive tough? Some EU cloud providers would price it 10x cheaper
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