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The magic of the existing hourglass model, and the entire premise of the end-to-end principle [1], is that you can build all those features on top of the infrastructure provided by…

This is not entirely true with PON (passive optical networks). The ONT is more than a media converter (optical -> copper), it facilitates the conversation with the OLT (Optical Lin…

Upsetting that in an article all about photos being used to scam people, there's not a single sample of an offending image! I mean, I think I get why. But still, it's the first thi…

Spec fiction - Nona the Ninth (my review: https://timothyrice.org/nona/ ) Third entry in the absolutely fantastic Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. Highly, highly recommended it. …

The bandwidth depends on the equipment connected to it on each end, which I don't think is public information.

I'm not entirely sure what you're hinting at. Are you saying that the US military and intelligence agencies use metadata to track down and kill people that they deem as enemies? An…

Yes, I am very aware of all the potential dangers, which contributes to my blocking everything in the first place. I am curious if, in the United States, there are any realized dan…

So I have a pi hole for my home network, and a wireguard connection back to it when I'm out and about. I run ublock on everything, block all the javascript, all the stuff. But I do…

You're right, I should have said equivalently :D

For a little while, yes. Ice has middling thermal conductivity, it'll eventually homogenously warm to the melting point.

Author here Surface contact is one reason you want an ice/water slurry instead of just ice, but the real reason is that ice melting consume a lot more energy than just ice being wa…

The ice actually comes up to the temperature of the water while it's melting. That's what the equilibrium temperature is: the temperature of the entire ice / water system until it'…

Delicious, of course! And yes, the other commenter is correct. LNO2 works so well because it freezes the ice cream so fast that the crystals don't have time to grow very large, whi…

OP author here. Yes, though you have to be careful. If you add too much alcohol you'll prevent your mixture from properly freezing. David Leibowitz, author of "The Perfect Scoop" r…

Author here. Hah, that's true, but I didn't want to mention it as it's not entirely in the aim of the essay :)

Author here, thank you! It's been bouncing around in the back of my brain for a long time. I couldn't find any clear and concise explanations about what really happens when salt is…

I've always figured you could just do an auction. Say you have 500 tickets. You give everyone who wants to go 48 hours to submit how much they're willing to pay for a ticket. At th…

You're really going to write an entire diatribe about how the image quality of new lenses is aesthetically inferior to old lenses and not include a single example comparison??

Wait, is this an official MS utility? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ Why aren't these just bundled by default??