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I can bet Please install JAVA and Flash plugin to continue... ): Oh lord. Even Supermicro BMCs from 2020 still have Java applet support. On the plus side, it only does TLS v1.2 and…

If you're going to be inflammatory and rude, please use another site. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's not a valid critique of lean or TPMS, it's the liability introduced with sole-source vendors. This a problem in every company that isn't vertically integrated and makes physic…

Not a huge deal and not a surprise. This aims to stop opportunists profiting from dual-purpose items sent to war zones and arming US adversaries, and to maintain domestic supplies …

I don't really care what YT does. I already know they're going to silence meaningful content if their algorithms determine it to be "sad" or "violent". Interestingly, there is much…

I believe there were or are arbitrary pass generator apps that can slap a logo and various data into a custom pass. Alternative solutions to barcodes are RFID/NFCs and geofenced au…

Incorrect in multiple respects. The molar mass of N is 14.006747 g/mol, while ammonia is 17.03052 g/mol. Gas expands to fill the container, so it's only worth discussing in mass te…

Yellow vests protests and Occupy Wall St. are examples of ineffective movements: lacking identification of root causes of problems, lacking specific demands to redress, lacking lea…

Commercial, profit-optimizing meat and dairy ag inexorably lead to GMO corn megafarms, CAFOs, and overuse of antibotics bringing the risks of antibiotic resistance, pandemics, clim…

TEL is incredibly bad stuff*, but it's rarely used in commercial flight operations as they predominantly use jet aircraft. Leaded avgas is completely unnecessary as non-TEL fuel fo…

Most problems stem from users conflating for-profit corporations for public commons. Nonprofit co-ops must provide critical infrastructure. Who exactly is this prerogative "freeloa…

A cynical perspective is also potentially possible: that it's greenwashing to distract from continued FF extraction. Both realities can coexist. Until they make a commitment, timel…

Anyone recall Egenera? Compute only, virtualization, and fault-tolerance with the Ferrari of servers only MAANG-equivalents could afford in small numbers. [PDF] https://web.archive…

TL;DR: Google doesn't have to do a damn thing. Apple won't enter search or social networking because Erik Neuenschwander would poke holes in its privacy and Tim Cook would ask how …

Record profits. Record layoffs. It's all about wage suppression by megacorps following the management consultant playbook. The only path to workers seeing a fraction of their real …

More ground mystery meat in tube shape than a nightlight venue in Man Jose.

FZ is a toy that's easier to demonize than question the lack of security of systems and protocols in the real world. But let's ponder what could possibly go wrong™ with autonomous,…

Yes. PDE5's are stereotyped as "enabling dirty old men".

There's no mention of it in the abstract. It's probable men who are sexually active also have higher T-levels and are generally in better health. There aren't many other reasons to…

Antibiotics of all classes are widely-abused clinically and in dairy and meat ag in America. However, if someone wears a seatbelt in a car, VLA15 and Lyme PrEP are similar to vacci…

PSA: Let's refrain from diagnosing people with medical or mental health problems over the internet please. Thank you.

I used to live where it was endemic to western black-legged ticks since the 80's, the tiny ones that carry LD. If ticks are that much of a problem there, I would look into the Lyme…

Makes you wonder about the conversion factor between Roomba years and human years.

Mine are named Trouble (S9+) and Mayhem (m6). They're dressed in vinyl wraps to be less boring.

A failure to appreciate both are alkali metals.