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Worms were discovered that eat styrofoam. There was a lot about it going on the news last summer[0].

0: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superworms-eat-an...

I had a 486 go through a tornado where the entire building was torn apart. Completely soaked.

Brought it home, let it dry for a few weeks. Worked fine for a few years after as a mp3 player.

9yo boy.

Current favorites are Geo History and History Scope. Although we've almost exhausted both.

Lately he's been on a kick about camping, so lots of videos on how to build and maintain fires, survival shelters, how to manufacture tents(in a factory), etc.

Last night was on the design and construction of the Abrahms and the Blackhawk pavelow.

Tonight will be videos on CFCs and how they combine with Ozone, since he's been asking questions about that. (And I have no idea what the end molecules are, so I guess we'll both find out tonight).

Highly curated YouTube to strictly educational content is all he is allowed on YouTube. His attitude during/after watching game streamers resulted in a ban about two years ago. We give him an experimental day where he can watch streamers every six months or so, always regret it when we do.

Joining is a young man's game. I saw many 25-35 year olds at Basic Training suffer broken bones and dislocated joints. Many more than the 18 year olds.

As to recommending it, I do not. There can be greatly positive outcomes, but the risk of injury or death is too high for me to recommend to anyone. Unless it is your way of escaping poverty, which is the story for many veterans, the risk/reward isn't there.

I'll leave you with what I tell everyone who asks me in real life: Do I regret it? Sometimes. Would I do it again? Absolutely not. I saw too many of my friends die in a bankers oil war, or a politicians re-election strategy. Take your pick, they're all equally valid.

You can fail. You can't even enlist with a score of 11 without a waiver, and that would be a sight to behold for a score that low.

Strangely enough, the minimum score is significantly higher for GED holders[0]. The minimum Army score goes from 31 to 50.

0: https://uniontestprep.com/asvab/blog/minimum-asvab-afqt-scor...

The heat and constant fan noise was a real problem.

That's the entire reason we upgraded my wife from a 2015 15" MBP i7 to a 2020 MBA M1. The extra hours of battery was a nice bonus, the main gain was the lack of noise.

I really enjoyed my T460s from a job back in 2017. My main complaint was the rather anemic 2c/4t CPU.

I have a LG Gram 15 that is pretty decent, but very wobbly/flexy. It's saving grace is the lightweight of it.

My 16" MBP M1 Max is phenomenal, but very heavy, and I move it 5-10x daily.

I plan on replacing it with the ~2025 MBA 15". My wife's 13" M1 MBA is great, but the 13" is not nearly as comfortable for a single display as the 16".

I have the Alienware 38" Ultrawide. The ratios are just slightly off for my eyes comfort. At a full 1:1 pixel ratio, the text is too small. Scaled up slightly the size is right, but the blur is really annoying. I think it would be prefect for me if it were like 45" with the same resolution, or if it were still 38" but instead of being 3840, native it was 3200 or something like that.

If I scale it to 50%, it looks phenomenal, but who wants to work on a screen with the equivalent real estate of 1920x720?

I now spend most of my time on the built in display of my 16" M1 MBP. The text sizing is fine for me.

I'm personally happy about this whole situation. Not because I agree with RH at all, but because it will accelerate the decline of RHEL and the entire EL ecosystem and mean I have to support those distros less in the future. (In a DevOps capacity, I'm not a contributor.)

There is a lot of back and forth as to why RedHat is employing this footgun now. It comes down to them feeling, in part, that they are footing the development labor bill while rebuilders (Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, Alma Linux) reap the rewards and undercut them on support contracts. The other part is enterprises and SMB running thousands of CentOS/non-subscription EL variants and having a token number of RHEL subscriptions to use for support any time they get into trouble.

The real solution to the second problem is to explicitly forbid it within the RHEL support contracts and enforce that. You are either a RHEL shop or you are not. Make it a binary decision. This weird tactic of trying to kill off the customer alternatives is going to just kill off the EL ecosystem in the end. I know I abandoned the EL ecosystem entirely when CentOS Stream became the thing.

Why? The article has a paywall about half way through.

This is exactly how I remember things.

My stance has always been that Lab Leak required the least number of assumptions. Intent was never factored in, just that it seems awfully strange to so vehemently deny even the possibility of it being a lab leak and not want to investigate. Could it have been the wet market? Sure, but it seems less likely.

There may be some interesting reckoning happening in a few years, but probably not. Like safe and effective vaccines. It turns out, that if you did a RCT with two placebos and only called the people with placebo A vaccinated after two weeks, and called them unvaccinated if the got COVID in those two weeks. Placebo A would have the same efficacy numbers as the vaccines they rolled out.

I also thought RFK Jr was full of shit when he said the current childhood vaccines have not been tested against placebo. I was wrong there. Turns out they only test against previous versions of the vaccines, some of which are known to have serious side effects, and most of the time the previous version goes back to a time when they didn't do much testing either.

Oh, I'm not doing the pink salt because of the health benefits. I'm doing it because I like the flavor and how it interacts with my food better.

I've never really like iodized table salt, the pink salt tastes "right" to me.

Quite often when ordering cheap Chinese junk that I can wait a month for, I do use eBay and AliExpress. I'm generally pretty happy. I save quite a bit of money, and the experience is no worse than Amazon 99% of the time.

AliExpress does manage to have a search feature that is massively worse than Amazon's, if you can believe that possible.

I prefer course grained and no anti caking agents or iodine added.

It's nothing special, some no-name Himalayan pink salt in a plastic grinder.

Best popcorn you can make is cheap and easy cleanup.

Take one large pot (the kind that holds like 10qts).

Cover the bottom with kernels.

Add a bit of oil, basically just enough to swirl and have everything covered in an oil sheen, not enough to have them submerged.

Cover, put on high (I use gas). I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water.

Once popping slows, turn off the stove. Dump popcorn into large mixing bowl.

Toss 1/8 cup butter in the hot pot, melt the butter with residual heat.

Pour popcorn back in and toss to get the popcorn evenly lightly buttered, transfer back to the mixing bowl.

Salt(I prefer a salt grinder) and toss, add a bit of grated Parmesan and toss.

There should be less than 10 unpopped kernels, no burned popcorn at all.

Cleanup is a wipe down of the large pot with the moisture capture paper towel.

I imagine it will initially be migrated to SquareSpace hosted services for your interaction that you then use your Google account to oauth into, so a pretty seamless transfer from the end-user perspective.

Likely the total transition will take over a year to complete. You will probably get a notification a few months after the transfer of control that the registrar name is changing and you dont need to do anything but make sure your contact info is up to date. At some point, probably 2-3 years down the line, domains.google will cease redirecting to SquareSpace domains.

See, even myself as someone that generally understands a lot about certs got that part wrong.

Well written.

If I could suggest another article subject that I think very few people are aware of and would make good hay.

How certificate SKIDs work, and why everyone can tell from the transparency logs every time you reuse your private key and every certificate ever issued to that SKID.

144kbps(IDSL, actually ISDN), 384kbps, 768kbps, and 1.5mbps were incredibly common speeds during the early days and especially not in major cities. I was on dialup in BFE, switch to 64k ISDN in 97/98, and cable came alone at a whopping 3mbps in 99, complete game changer.

Higher speeds of DSL came along with ADSL2 in 2002/2003. There were higher than 1.5mbps before that, but you basically had to be across the street from the CO to get that.

It seems weird to attribute the rise to an even smaller fraction of the population than digital nomads. In Portugal, Golden Visas accounted for a grand total of 11,535 households in a time span of October 2012 to December 2022.

We have no stats on how many of those actually live in Portugal, but it should be noted that the Golden Visa holders only have to visit Portugal for one week per year and that counts towards the five years for citizenship. This was a major draw of that visa.

On the second point, with the introduction of Cloudflare WARP VPN, that's not quite true. Additionally, I believe Safari Private Relay may end up looking like it originates from CF as well.

And yet the context was:

> PepsiCo and Frito-Lay

Which I would assume that the PepsiCo product is about as heavy and dense as you could expect in normal freight scenarios, being liquids.

Minisforum NPB7 is a i7-13700H for $490 USD. No RAM or SSD included.

I use a RedPocket (GSMA Flavor) $60/year for my resume and 2FA number as an eSIM.

I turn it on when needed, which is almost never. When not job searching, the voicemail plays the classic "this line has been disconnected" tones and message on repeat for two minutes. WiFi calling means I can use it anywhere I have WiFi.

I get incredibly few spam calls using this strategy.

Wild speculation is a combination of one insurance company offering it and it becoming a relatively low cost competitive bullet point on one hand.

On the other hand, insurers probably have better actuarial data because of annual checkups and can better align their profit margins with fees. Thus reducing their own reinsurance fees.

What's your redundancy setup in the 45 drive configuration? I would guess 20-22 mirrors with 1-5 hotspares, but it's not clear.

Because outside of F500 and legacy tech, VMware is largely irrelevant now. It's an interesting footnote, nothing to get excited over as for most of us it makes no difference.

Nope, 100% of my external users go through CF tunnels. The downside is that the caching results in the entire file being cached immediately if the user is not using transcoding, but most of my users are utilizing transcoding. I put a bandwidth limiter on my Cloudflare tunnel to limit it to 100Mbps

I don't have any actual stats, but there appear to be about 10-20 hours a day of remote streaming, mostly at 3Mbps. So we're only looking at 400-800GB on average per month.

Also, you can use Cloudflare unregistered free tunnels just like the article, but using registered tunnels makes it so you don't have to update the Plex url every time you reconnect. I used unregistered tunnels until Cloudflare made tunnels available on free tier accounts with no bandwidth charges.

I've had my Plex server behind Cloudflare Tunnels for years, never had any performance or reliability issues.

Another great use case is for SSH to a server quite some distance away. I find that the latency when using a cloudflare tunnel to SSH on average better than whatever route my ISP would normally take.

I switched to full time macOS in 2019 from a 15 year background professionally on Windows in IT admin/architect type roles.

Granted, at that point Windows was web browser, IDE, and remoting into Linux machines for 95% of my work.

I appreciate having first class support for all my command line tools and utils, which I generally get on macOS. I have linuxified my macOS experience, installing and pathing gnu versions of everything you would normally expect. I rarely use the utils from macOS.

I have a Windows gaming PC that hasn't been powered on this year.

I like my MBP battery life and lack of futzing needed for my work (I do use better touch tool, but that's it).

I have turned down further interviews if I find out I'm going to be saddled with a corporate locked down Windows laptop.