I have a UPS that allows the server to survive an apocalypse of 15 minutes or less.

I agree it’s this, or the opposite: the stone is cool and the cat is hot. Either way, maximizing surface area for thermal transfer is smart.

Sometimes when I’m overheated on a summer run, I’ll find a brick or concrete wall in the shade and flatten myself against for a quick full-body thermal transfer.

The Impossible burger isn’t trying to be healthier than beans and rice, but even as a processed food it’s healthier than a meat burger.

As reported in this study, the plant-based options had less fat and fewer calories. They would also have no cholesterol, which is only found in animals foods, and they may contain some fiber, which is only found in plant foods. A number of processed meats have been food to be carcinogenic while I don’t think any plant-based burgers have.

The book How Not To Die reviews scientific studies of food choices if you want a deeper dive… finding animal-based protein is correlated with a range of diseases.

So no, I don’t expect veggie burgers will be less healthy than meat patties.

I felt like I saw more people die in the trailer then are in the cast.

Where does the $22 billion come from?

Ok, but can I use these batteries as RAM?

How does the floor of the apartments not collapse when storing 72,000 lbs / 36,000 kg of gold and cash in them?

Are non-human animals sentient?

Folks be downvoting facts.

No, you should ask how they measure it.

Store the secrets on a Yubikey. They are unstealable then.

Yubico has their own GUI app or you can wrappers for their CLI tool to use something like dmenu, rofi or Fuzzel to pick one.

“I only speak one language”… to a room full of mostly bilingual people who also live in (central or south) America. 🤦🤦🤦

Ok, this prompted me to root-cause the issue. A bad cable between laptop and USB dock seems most likely. Hardware issue, not Linux!

Linux revoked my mic permissions in the middle of a call today, on Google Meet. Happened before on Zoom.

I have not root-caused it to see if there was flaky hardware or what.

Ah yes, a twisted pair.

If you run for office to be different from all the rest and win, do you immediately become corrupted upon election?

There’s some truth to that. I’ve had some USB ports fail on phones that were quite a pain to fix or not really fixable at all.

Wireless charging of a phone avoids degrading the USB port through more use. The difference with a phone is that the absolute amount of inefficiency is so much smaller because a phone battery is so much smaller than a bike.

But it’s inefficient. In the 1 hour you are shopping, it’s going to charge far less than a physical connection and in terms of environment impact, you are wasting energy compared to taking 30 seconds to plug in a bike. Then there’s the issue that no bikes support this but several use compatible charging interfaces. I don’t expect this to go anywhere any time soon.

The marketing mixes metaphors, talking about gardening, growing, curating… all part of sustainable process that includes plants dying.

It also uses words like forever and permanent.

Having content live forever is at odds with metaphors of the natural world, where things naturally die.

Clickbait headline.

SSNs have been understood to not be a reliable “secret” for years and were never intended to be one.

The solution has always been to quite treating them that way, not to repeat the same mistake of creating yet another database full of new SSNs which would also be quickly compromised.