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- Comment on The less complicated life of a male 1 week ago:
Carnauba wax would like a word…
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 weeks ago:
If you can build up intuition around Fourier decomposition I think it gets much easier to understand.
Multiple things going on at the same frequency are indistinguishable (up to a phase). Lots of stuff going on at different frequency can be separated. Light also has frequency (color) and volume (intensity)—it may be more intuitive to conceptualize in this way.
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
If you search around you might find free ones. Oracle has/had a free tier (though it’s Oracle, so…).
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but you can run multiple VPS, from different providers, simultaneously.
What I like is that while it does depend on an external provider, it doesn’t depend on a specific external provider. Any VPS with a public IPv4 would work.
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
VPS+VPN, this is what I do.
VPS has public IP and runs WireGuard “server”* and a reverse proxy (and fail2ban…). Reverse proxy points to my home computer over the WireGuard link. No open ports on my home router.
For private facing/LAN-only services I just don’t have an entry in the VPS reverse proxy. DNS on the router points everything to my local server, so if at home I access everything directly. To access internal services remotely requires VPN (i.e., WireGuard to the VPS).
Works well; I have a tiny free tier VPS but even so, no complaints.
*Yes I know there are no wg clients or servers, only peers, but it plays a server-likr role.
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 5 weeks ago:
When the son of the deposed King of Nigeria emails you directly asking for help, you help. His father ran the freaking country, okay?
- Comment on PC Master Race 5 weeks ago:
Flagship Nvidia is around $10k. Easy to spend at least another $5k on the rest of the computer…
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 5 weeks ago:
Alt text from memory: #4: Boston
- Comment on the TB lion 1 month ago:
health.osu.edu/health/…/metallic-taste-workout
In an otherwise healthy person with no other symptoms, there is no significant medical concern.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 month ago:
Why are fruit special though? Leaves and roots are also part of a plant, so why would a tomato not be a vegetable, but lettuce (leaf) and carrot (root) get exemptions?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 month ago:
What exactly is a vegetable, by your definition?
As others point out, vegetable is a culinary term; fruit is a botanical and culinary term.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your fifth idea for a Group Costume 2 months ago:
I know right? Almost like it should be called Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money.
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 3 months ago:
The think the objection is that this is specifically targeted at women, and it’s something that someone might be self conscious about.
“Free coffee to shortest/tallest/skinniest/fattest man” would be also be offensive IMHO, because it’s singling out people for a trait for which they maybe don’t want to be singled out.
Crude humor is great, if all parties are in on the joke; I believe the point that parent was making was that all parties are not necessarily in on the joke.
- Comment on Jesus gets the job done 3 months ago:
I once took a Lyft and the push alert was, “Look for Jesus in a white Toyota Camry.”
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 3 months ago:
Maybe in the before times, but with the LA residents’ response to the fascist in chief, I think most of us in San Francisco are honored to share the state, and be confused with, Angelenos.
Just keep the Dodger’s in SoCal. This is the Giants’ city.
- Comment on Anon saves up 3 months ago:
California doesn’t allow “use it or lose it” vacation policies. Vacation rolls over up to a reasonable amount, which apparently isn’t super well defined, but my employers have generally set a limit of 2x annual.
- Comment on Eh close enough 3 months ago:
No doubt related to Johnson noise.
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 4 months ago:
I am becoming increasingly more appreciative of the fact that I have root access to “my” company provided work device.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 4 months ago:
99 what you did there…
(I know, IC isn’t valid Roman numeral representation of 99, but it was the only joke I could think of.)
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 4 months ago:
Because it’s not an X at the end, it’s a Greek chi. Same with the arXiv preprint distribution — it’s “archive,” not are-ex-iv.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 4 months ago:
(…I think you may have gotten whooshed…)
- Comment on Planck units 4 months ago:
Yeah it’s missing the text, “…then the Planck X would be…” for the first two.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 4 months ago:
npr.org/…/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-roc…
You’re not just “sticking it to the man” when you do this though — you’re being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 5 months ago:
And a big plastics shill, unfortunately.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 5 months ago:
Move ‘em 2 millimeters in the wrong direction and you’ll have a bad time
Are you referring to getting, I dunno, yogurt in places outside the digestive tract?
My understanding was that gut bacteria play a pretty crucial (beneficial) role in overall health, not to mention the whole gut-brain stuff.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 5 months ago:
Pretty sure those “horrible little scalawags” play some pretty crucial roles in the human microbiome…
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 5 months ago:
Or just a San Francisco resident — these ads are everywhere on BART (+Muni?) right now. (As far as ads go, they’re pretty good I guess — and no, I don’t even use them, much less work for them.)
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 5 months ago:
For back-of-the-envelope or mental calculations, pi is often 3 or 10^(1/2).
The latter is better than 1% accurate, and has nice properties when doing order-of-magnitude/log space calculations in base 10.
- Comment on As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave 5 months ago:
Not parent, but when a minute isn’t quite enough, 77 seconds might do the trick. Multiples of eleven are quick to enter, and with a simple number with no “minute” button, 66s is easier than 1:00.
- Comment on Hell 5 months ago:
It’s a pretty standard bandwidth/latency tradeoff in my view: email is high bandwidth (it’s in writing, you can re-read, etc.), whereas phone is low latency (several back-and-forth explanations can happen in seconds). Each has its place.
If social anxiety is a factor, that’s a perfectly valid, but separate, issue.