nbailey

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on Valid point · c/lemmyshitpost · 4 pts · 27d

I once accidentally ran over my credit card with my car after a mishap at a parking garage pay station. Still works fine, though it does have some road rash. Lets see an iPhone do that!

on Addiction.... · c/selfhosted · 33 pts · 34d

There’s probably a bunch of permissions errors, filesystems warnings for cross-filesystem mounts or links, etc. all going to stderr. Linux output streams are a bit odd, 1 is stdout and 2 is stderr. So the command is redirecting the “noise” to null and just printing the actual command output. That would be my assessment, but OP could probably give a more correct answer..!

Miata is always the answer! They’re cheap, fun, simple, and very rewarding. Parts are super common, and there are plenty of neat upgrades you can tinker with when nothing’s wrong with it ;)

Don’t our bills have to go through a legal review process? The charter is pretty clear on stuff like this… It’s pretty obvious this is dead in the water whether our MPs like it or not. But they’ll keep trying until they get what they want.

A very effective first step is to put it on a vhost with a domain you control, and drop traffic to the default vhost. 99.999% of scanners are just going through IPs looking for stuff, so don’t give them anything. Better yet, block any IP that scans you more than a dozen or so times.

Obviously some stuff will find you through cert issuance logs, but most of the bastards don’t bother with that level of sophistication.

I’m not an expert, but I think it has to do with AC vs DC electrification. With a DC third rail subway you can just feed it back into the lines no problem, but with AC you have to get the phase sync exactly correct or it will cause pretty serious problems. It’s the kind of thing that depends a lot on how old the system is, how energy distribution works, etc.

If there is an actual expert here I’d also like to know more..!

Something interesting about locomotives is that they do quite a bit of braking by using the motors as generators, but it’s NOT regenerative braking! There’s basically no electrical storage system that can handle that amount of energy that quickly, all batteries available today can NOT handle that kind of power surge safely. Some catenary systems can handle back-feeding, and it’s becoming more common, but it’s not something a diesel-electric can do. Instead they have massive resistors and radiators at the top of the locomotive and they bleed it off as heat. It’s less wear on the brake pads, so it’s often preferred when they don’t need to stop quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_braking

The cool thing is that you can make basically any combination of parts into a router if you install Linux or BSD on it. Not terribly helpful for end user consumers that will get shafted by this, but at the end of the day it’s just a small computer.

Otherwise, smuggle some “foreign routers” in from Mexico or Canada like it’s the prohibition era?

on Jealous? · c/dull_mens_club · 11 pts · 114d

It is THE e-commerce site I like to show people what I mean when I say “good UX”. It’s basically perfect. You can find the perfect part in less than 10 clicks, It’s lightning fast, no useless white space, no pop ups or cookie banners. Every site should be built like that.

on 401 Not Okay · c/comicstrips · 13 pts · 130d

People said similar things in Japan in the 90s, and then had three decades without growth. When an asset bubble pops it’s not guaranteed the bubble will blow back up. This is a good strategy of course, but there’s no law of nature that the line always goes up. With the instability and debasement of the US economy it’s the most vulnerable they’ve been in many decades. I hope you’re right, but there’s a terrifying possibility things get even worse.

on Working outside · c/programmer_humor · 3 pts · 137d

A coworker of mine specifically built a little gazebo on their deck to be a summer-office. They wired a little wifi repeater in the roof, retractable shades and curtains, a ceiling fan, and got a desk that specifically fits a comfy deck chair. Obviously all of this can be moved out of the way for normal back yard stuff, but it’s become the absolute envy of all my remote colleagues.

To be fair, it was a lot dirtier before the last couple weeks of rain rinsed off the layer of crusty salt scunge that was caked onto pretty much everything…

They slow it down for sure, but there’s only so much it can do… salty shmoo can still get inside doors and rocker panels, get in the trunk lid, rot around the edges of the windows, get up inside the fender liners, all kinds of nasty places that it’s difficult (not impossible) to properly rust proof. Probably worth it, but most people can’t even be bothered with winter tires at this point…