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aaronaxon U.S. details gambling cases involving pro athletes and mafia families

> Of course they were rigged.

I think there is a pretty big gap between wrestling being fake versus NBA, NFL, etc. being fake/rigged. The latter is a very uncommonly held belief AFAICT.

aaronaxon Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server

You can put multiple IPs on a computer. (Or VMs, LXCs, etc. which would each get an IP)

Now what size of machine?

(I don't really care, and the original question does have a whiff of malicious intent, but scaling discussions are sometimes interesting...)

aaronaxon Nine things I learned in ninety years

https://www.onedayyoullfindyourself.com/

aaronaxon Native ACME support comes to Nginx

Slow adoption of ACME by corporate customers that pay the bills. Must be a bigger effort than one would initially think, too.

aaronaxon Margin debt surges to record high

The advertisers can see the traffic coming in from clicks, I would think. There would remain some opportunity for fraud by FB if some of the ad money is just for impressions but it seems like it would be difficult to keep click rate up while shorting the buyer on impressions.

aaronaxon US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years

Of course...dang it!

aaronaxon Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect

https://bitwarden.com/help/database-options/

"All Bitwarden self-hosted server deployments, except for unified, ship with an MSSQL Express image by default."

aaronaxon US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years

That is the rise from one year ago in the "less-volatile PPI metric that excludes food, energy and trade services". This month was a 0.6% rise. So some people might think about how more months of 0.6% rise would cause the yearly one to increase gradually, up to 7.2% eventually if there are 12x 0.6% months. That would be pretty high.

And then headline figure PPI was even higher at 0.9% for the month, 3.3% year.

aaronaxon United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown

I don't know, everywhere I look I see IT staff who don't care that much and can't problem solve. One possibility is that the IT leadership is herding cats very effectively and that things could be much much worse.

aaronaxon Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)

Unless they mean beyond the reach of the flood waters.

aaronaxon Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)

"Beyond" is completely ambiguous in this case. Do you mean above or below?

aaronaxon How Hyper Built a 1m-Accurate Indoor GPS

Home Depot, Lowe's, Menards, and Wal-Mart are examples off the top of my head that have this product locator functionality on their websites.

aaronaxon The United States withdraws from UNESCO

That (95,000 / 600 = 158 trucks) is actually much less than 500.

aaronaxon Petabit-class transmission over > 1000 km using standard 19-core optical fiber

Consider that a QSFP28 module uses four 25gbps lanes to support sending one single 100gbps flow. So electronics do exist that can easily do what you are asking. I think it is just the economics of doing it for the various ports on a switch, lack of a standard, etc.

aaronaxon Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day

A firewall. For example, Palo Alto firewalls can easily be configured to block domains newer than ~30 days old.

https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?...

aaronaxon Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

Way more likely that it was /r/the_donald. In my humble, biased opinion--since I was around there but never really active on Twitter.

aaronaxon Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood

30-60% RH range in a house surely must not be this strongly related to moisture content of wood? ("10% change in moisture content over the year")

https://www.wagnermeters.com/moisture-meters/wood-info/how-r...

This table shows up to a 4% moisture content seasonal difference in a climate controlled house (20-50% RH).

aaronaxon Wharton Esherick and the Armstrong Linoleum Company

Perhaps it is stashed in a location where it can't be used because it is ergonomically terrible? (Appears so to me at least.) And for the same reason you have not been able to come up with a satisfactory variation.

* Leg corners extending above the seat are suspect

* Narrowing back is the opposite of how most chairs get wider towards the top, where you actually need the support.

* Back appears to angle back too much.

* Reclining is going to generate shear force on the T joint at the bottom of the back sticks...not optimal. Also you are going to get some crazy forces on the mid-joint of the back sticks.

I conclude: it is just for looking at.

aaronaxon Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)

So...don't you get value from the newly created software for ~5 years?

aaronaxon Denmark to raise retirement age to 70

How about ND? Steele, New Salem, or Turtle Lake for example.

aaronaxon 1,145 pull requests per day

Yes, Dilbert comic reference.

aaronaxon A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house

True fiscal self-sovereignty. Albeit quite volatile.

aaronaxon Preparing for When the Machine Stops

Very similar to Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites, etc. I imagine. Draw the line of what you think makes life good and follow as close as is reasonable, and if others agree they will associate.

aaronaxon The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

Their position within the grasp of the first-world "stay in line or go to jail" mechanism is fake. They cannot be trusted, because they are essentially above (beyond) the law.

aaronaxon Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference

8960 chips in those 140 racks. $4.20/hour/chip or $4,066/month/chip

So $68k per hour or $27 million per month.

Get 55% off with 3 year commitment.

aaronaxon John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change

And that the highly-refined citizens of that future era think that your BO and deodorant are incredibly overpowering.

(as described in Vogt's "Far_Centaurus" short story.

aaronaxon Has the decline of knowledge work begun?

Only three real examples on that page.

Petrification: no real loss to society but I will concede that this appears to be an example of actual loss of "progress". Very few people are saying "oh diety, if only I could preserve this animal with perfect color and texture (but discarding all other characteristics).

Greek fire: the history of when this knowledge was lost is unclear. Also it was intentionally kept secret. Certainly we have functionally similar tech now. I'll give 50% credit.

Panjagan: We don't even know if this was a weapon or a technique? Everything about this is incredibly vague.

In summary, this has happened approximately 1.5 times in the past. Not "quite often".

aaronaxon If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling

Don't they generally do the opposite of bend over the horizon? Two towers that are observed (visible wavelength = tiny Fresnel zone) to have line-of-site can easily be obstructed (microwave = huge Fresnel zone).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_zone

aaronaxon I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

Need more Doug Jacksons (SV Seeker) in this world.

Safety third.

aaronaxon I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

If only a person were to do some math and realize that spending four hours installing a dishwasher is less time than doing dishes by hand for a month. (and dealing with 50% odds of getting a terrible install by grumpy people who ding up stuff in your kitchen)