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For secrets management, I basically just use fnox everywhere ( https://fnox.jdx.dev/ ). It's a frontend to tons more options than sops, although `age` is still included. I also thi…

You're thinking of Phase II E911 in the US. That's true, but you can always be triangulated down a couple hundred meters by figuring out which towers you're connected to.

I spent ~5 years volunteering for a search and rescue team in New Mexico. We definitely got the cellphone tower triangulation data. I never once saw GNSS data provided by a carrier…

Good thing expectations are perfectly constant!

>assuming you have formalized the statement correctly That's a pretty big assumption, though, isn't it? As we saw the Navier-Stokes psychosis episode over the New Year holiday, for…

Is there an option for an NFC reader that doesn’t require 3d printing or soldering?

You don’t need a watch. You can estimate VO2 max yourself by doing a max effort 1.5 mile run and applying a regression equation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC479574…

Sam publicly asking for a 10x bigger power grid and 7 trillion dollars is a pretty clear sign that they're out of short to medium-term ideas other than "MOAR PARAMETERS".

GiveWell can point you to various charities in 3rd world countries where you can be reasonably certain you can save a life for about $5000-7000. https://www.givewell.org/ Save 1 li…

I volunteered in SAR for five years, and the topic of W3W would occasionally come up. For me, it’s just already damn hard to make sure you can hear numbers correctly over the radio…

If what you care about is climate change, you should be in favor of cramming people into the smallest possible spaces in urban areas, not putting them in rural areas where they hav…

All your points about 25-year-old safety standards is perfectly valid. However, re: "crumple zones": The streets of the USA are basically an arms race. Bigger and bigger and bigger…

That may be true. My unit didn't have a thermal camera setup. However, we're not always looking for live subjects that will give off a thermal signature, and thermal cameras don't …

I volunteered for a SAR team in the US southwest for 5 years, the last half of that or so we had an active drone unit. Drones are good at covering terrain that's difficult to trave…

What language/stack?

Generally players like this target specific games for specific reasons, so I agree that there might be something to the table surface that makes it easier to slide dice.

It’s partly electronic. Players still throw real dice, there is no computer RNG.

I did the same with Streets of SimCity.

The bit about Sacramento not having water meters is particularly mad. Driving through the Imperial Valley was a big wake up call for me as to the dire state of the water situation …

Woof. Postgres 11+ also has some nice speed improvements with each version as well.

There’s “USB condoms” available everywhere. Fundamentally it’s just a USB-> USB connector with only the charging pin. Not a complicated device.

If you buy a residential property only to rent it out, it is not housing for you, it is solely an investment.