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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I’d tend to agree on that. Even beyond the security issues, nuclear has the potential to be a safe, but it also has the potential to be disastrous if mis-managed.

    We see plenty of issues like this already, including what occurred here: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/fukushima-daiichi-accident

    Now imagine a plant in Texas, where power companies response to winter outages has basically been “sucks to be you, winterizing is too costly”.

    Or maybe we’d like to go with a long-time trusted company, who totally wouldn’t throw away safety and their reputation for a few extra bucks. Boeing comes to mind.

    I like nuclear as a power source, but the absolutely needs to be immutable rules in place to ensure it is properly managed and that anyone attempting to cut corners to save costs gets slapped down immediately. Corporate culture in North America seems to indicate otherwise.







  • My car’s a stick, my wife’s is electric. One of the reasons I don’t really like automatics as I don’t like how it always felt the car wanted to “drive itself” as soon as I let off the brake, and the ability to still gear down it up for conditions.

    My wife’s car pretty much covers most of that. It doesn’t go until I hit the gas.

    The thing has a huge amount of torque and acceleration for a passenger vehicle, and engine braking actually recovers power on downhill.

    It corners very nicely. The balance is more towards center than my car due to the battery weight in the bottom-middle.

    If I have to give up my clutch, an electric is probably the best choice IMO




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    Amazon’s trick seems to be to offer products at a certain price, but often with i.e. a $60 off “coupon” or whatever. Then when Black Friday rolls around, it’s the regular price, no coupon, but with “20% off Black Friday sale” (which may or may not actually be less than $60 off)










  • They have some additional services they advertise that supposedly deals with these, though I’d imagine they require installed software which would give them more visibility into systems than I’m comfortable with.

    For trackers and to some extent malware, they could potentially block some by disallowing outgoing traffic from the VPN to known tracker IP’s/domains or C&C hosts/networks, but I could see that being fairly infectivity overall with potentially for false positives.