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I would be wary of using a stainless steel RO system. Extremely pure water tends to leach more. You may avoid a bit of plastic in exchange for heavy metals. Stainless steel tends to be 10% Nickel, 10% Chromium, which are bad and worse for you. If you do so, I would recommend getting the water tested.

Otherwise I would recommend a good plastic RO system. One where the plastic doesn't leach loads of harmful plasticizers.

Is lying always a sin? A mortal one?

I very much dislike lies, do not want to lie and would rather tell the truth even if it may harm me, but I'm not sure about the absoluteness of such an approach. A few days ago I was reading a book about a christian family helping Jews during WW II (Corrie ten Boom) and I was quite lost when Corrie marveled at the realization she doesn't have to do what the authorities say, or when she lied to the police. I would like to believe telling the truth would be better, but .. it seems suspect. Telling Nazi Jews are hiding in my house .. very much not sure what to think about that.

Note for casual readers: We are not here to live a comfy life, so, even if saying the truth leads to bodily mortal consequences for another, I can't with 100% certainty say lying would be the right thing to do.

It seems to me, there are cases when even God used / instructed Jews to use deception or something very close to it, to scare off attackers or make them kill eachother in a frenzy (different times), so I am dumbfounded on what is right.

Even God puts Himself behind a veil, for our benefit, so going around pushing truth for the sake of truth can not be correct. That would be one extreme. But I'm not sure what the criteria is.

Do you have any thoughts, or basis on criteria, when is volunteering truth / answering truthfully if asked / refusing to answer / deceiving / lying good or not. Or maybe even what is to be considered lying?

While rsync is different than cp and mv, I dislike the cp and mv destination-state-dependent behaviour.

With rsync, destination paths are defined by the command itself and the command is idempotent. I don't usually need to know what the destination is like to form a proper command (though oopsies happen, so verify before using --delete).

With cp/mv - the result depends on the presence and type of the destination. E.g. try running cp or mv, canceling then restarting. Do you need to change the arguments? Why?

  mkdir s1 s2 d1
  touch s1/s1.txt s2/s2.txt
  # this seems inconsistent
  cp -r s1 d1  # generates d1/s1/s1.txt
  cp -r s2 d2  # generates d2/s2.txt

  mkdir s1 s2 d1
  touch s1/s1.txt s2/s2.txt
  # I don't use this form, but it is consitent
  rsync -r s1 d1  # generates d1/s1/s1.txt
  rsync -r s2 d2  # generates d2/s2/s2.txt
  # Same as above but more explicit
  rsync -r s1 d1/  # generates d1/s1/s1.txt
  rsync -r s2 d2/  # generates d2/s1/s2.txt
  # I prefer this form most of the time:
  rsync -r s1/ d1/  # generates d1/s1.txt
  rsync -r s2/ d2/  # generates d2/s2.txt

I simply try to use trailing slashes wherever permitted and the result is amply clear.

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When I was little, my mother tried to teach me how to tie my shoelaces, but she had shown me a method I did not understand and did not like, so I invented my own way. I was proud of it for 20 years or so. A friend I trusted more than anyone, tried to tell me in a kind way, that many people tie their shoelaces in a bad knot. When one knows, it's easy to see even from a glance and such a knots gets untied, but I wouldn't listen. Thought of not knowing how to tie shoelaces seemed absurd.

I was the only one I know that would stop randomly to re-tie his shoelaces, occasionally with people piling up behind me. It may be considered incontrovertible evidence in truth, yet at the time, it didn't bare much relevance to me. It was obvious that bad shoelaces were always at fault, or I didn't apply enough force. In my mind it would be too humiliating to even consider bad technique a possibility.

It wasn't until I had the grace to look at a knot-tying website alone, try it, accept I was tying a granny knot, learn how to tie a standard knot, in a recommended fast way, then proceed to one-up it in my own point of view. I didn't get much humbler, but at 23 years old, at least I knew how to tie my shoelaces and they didn't get untied anymore.

If it wasn't for the love of the one who had grace and has given up his grace so we would have his grace, acting through those who follow him, Himself and His Spirit, I would not have seen and felt the loving self-sacrifice, which paled my self-righteousness in an humbling and emotionally painful experience of the pain I've caused, setting me off in a search to do better, so that after nearly a decade I would once and then many times again in humility accept what I cannot deny, that Lord is better than anything I could imagine and Jesus Christ is our (our = all those who accept Him) Lord and Savior.

This is enough evidence (for me, for others it's just word of mouth) to love and worship Jesus. I've seen much more, and for that I accept what is written. It seems I may understand and see more than many, yet still, easily and often, I forget what I know, ignore and blank my mind, to doubt and void the uncomfortable. Only hours ago I've yet again given in to what I know to be bad, to lull and dull the mind, close my eyes and ears so I would not see what I had a longing to avoid.

I write this as an admission and hoping it will be useful to someone. To perhaps understand, that one cannot just see and one cannot just be explained, if it affects him dearly and he does not wish to know.

Speaking of others, but showing the principle:

“Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. ...<<specific judgement of specific people>>... Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’...”

Matthew 13:13-15

There an additional trick - you can put include inside a Host/Match directive.

  # in ~/.ssh/config
  Host proj1.*.corp
    Include ~/.ssh/proj1.conf

  # in ~/.ssh/proj1.conf
  ...

This way, I can put project-specific matches at or near the top, while being sure I don't have to wade through numerous of individual files during review.

Note that the listed probabilities of surviving N-disk failures are not correct, though after calculation, though the differences may not be that important.

Listed survival probability of N-disk failure in 8-drive/4-vdev mirror.

1: 1; 2: 0.857; 3: 0.667; 4: 0.400; 5: 0; 6: N/A; 7: N/A; 8: N/A

Proper survival probability:

1: 1; 2: 0.857; 3: 0.571; 4: 0.229; 5: 0; 6: 0; 7: 0; 8: 0

Comparatively, survival probability for 8-drive RAIDz4 with equal amount of usable space:

1: 1; 2: 1; 3: 1; 4: 1; 5: 0; 6: 0; 7: 0; 8: 0

Personally, I'd use multi-vdev mirror pools only for data that is either backed-up or data I can afford to lose completely.

If we were to only compare survival after a fixed number of drives failed vs. storage efficiency, RAIDzN should always come out ahead in any configuration - with mirrors you can get unlucky drives choice fail, with RAIDzN any choice is a good choice. Only way to have RAIDz fail sooner than mirror is to have a comparatively less redundant setup (your choice of N and K).

Realistically though, RAIDz recovery is longer and more stressful, so more of your drives can fail in the critical period, and, assuming you have backups, your storage is there for for usability - mirroring gives you a performant usable system during a fast recovery for the price of a small chance of complete data loss (but you have backups?) vs RAIDz that gives you long recovery pains on a degraded system, but I expect a smaller chance of data loss on a lightly loaded system.

GPS doesn't send full time. It wraps every 1024 weeks, or about 20 years, hence you need a (very) rough basis in case the system is over 20 years old.

I'm not sure why people keep talking about teflon pans and dental floss. There are PFAS in products that necessarily release them into human bodies and the environment, in dispersed form rather than flakes that would usually pass the digestive system.

A few examples:

- food containers coated with PFAS (usually single use, often cardboard) - water-repellent PFAS spray for clothes, shoes, cars/whatever - surface PFAS treatment of clothes/shoes/whatever (better but still rubs off) - PFAS bike-chain lube

Why are any of these things legal? They cause much more exposure, by design cannot be contained and spread PFAS everywhere you go. They are the reason there are PFAS in snow on Mt. Everest.

Pans, medical tubes and maybe even inner layers in clothes can at least theoretically be responsibly disposed of, e.g. by reasonably contained incineration. I don't want to support unneeded PFAS, but pans seem a whole different category than spray-on PFAS for "weather-proofing" that people use because shrug "it helps I get less wet".

While I don't like proprietary firmware, I'm not sure if the line is drawn at a useful place.

If you have firmware/software/whatever in a device, which is updateable (as opposed to mask-rom or hard logic), I'd much rather have it transparently managed by an OS I can control, than some EEPROM with often proprietary, inscrutable, I-ask-you-nicely-please-update-your-firmware update mechanism.

IMO, the difference is:

- with OS provided firmware (and preferably no writable storage), I can be sure my device is running the same SW as the rest of the world

- with dozens of EEPROMs in my device, I can never be sure what is running on it.

Firmware that is legally not redistributable is a non-trivial, though perhaps less bothersome issue. Firmware that requires manufaturer's signature is bothersome but I would still prefer it over inscrutable hidden firmware.

I really like the storj concept - distributed storage, local encryption. Comes from tahoe-lafs I believe, except you don't need to find 10 buddies.

There is one main reason I don't use it besides web share: Despite being OSS, uplink-cli is not available in linux distribution packages, which

- makes me uneasy about stability/maturity of the platform (e.g. do you not provide packages because you don't have a stable API, and if so, should I really rely on you to keep my data?)

- it increases friction - either build from source or manually copy binaries; and you have need to do this on all your machines and servers; and it means no automatic updates

- binaries/packages without trusted update channels may be against corporate/personal policies, and you usually want your storage accessible on all/most of your computers

- if available in non-distribution package repositories (didn't see in quick-start) - it would still create trust issues

Have you considered getting your cli packages in distributions?

If I could just `apt install uplink-cli` or similar, I would already be using it.

Don't have experience, but I'd guess a buyer/renter won't see a difference between grades of paint quality, but a resistive vs. induction cooktop will be very noticeable and may raise the value far beyond the price difference.

Even in the four scriptures Jesus makes it pretty clear several times that the chosen people are first but they will refuse and salvation will be passed onto others. E.g. the address to Jews when he healed a (gentile) centurion's servant [Matthew 8:10-12]

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&ver...

I don't mind food sovereinty per se, but do we need to subsidize meat?

Lately, in the supermarket, there would usually be some meat at about 2€/kg, which I could not comprehend, as most other groceries have gone up. Pricewise it's competitive with carrots, potatoes and bananas.

How can meat end up cheaper than ordinary pastry? Measured per kg and yes, meat has a lot of water, but still..

When talking about a small polymer, I was mainly commenting on microscopic flakes and lakes laced with "chemically inert" molecules that have devastating physiological effects.

Either way, what you claim is simply not true by any reasoning [1], though I do agree eating teflon flakes in moderate amounts should not pose much concern.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2020-08-micro-nanoplastics-human-tissu...

Small chemically inert substances can gunk up your cells and tissues even if they are soft.

Is it more precisely: don't use PFOA or PFOS anymore, switching to less-proven-guilty chemicals with different lengths?

Either way, my concerns are mostly: how much fluorinated waste they release from factories and what happens at the end of product lifetime. Solid fluorinated compounds don't seem atrocious, as they can be reduced to safe minerals if burned properly unlike the spray-on compounds and factory leakage.

I don't know about your experiences, but systemd is leaking preconceived notions and self-imposed limitations like a broken sieve where one is left to sift manually through documentation and bug-reports, collecting and evaluating rules, exceptions and idiosyncratic notions to determine whether systemd will do what one wants.

Latest example: I have a service I want running, so I set it to Restart=always. Read the long Restart= documentations - seems ok. Does it work?

Failure 1: Well.. you also need appropriate RestartSec/StartLimitInterval. Ok, I I set it up. Does it work?

Failure 2: Well.. restart doesn't actually apply to failed dependencies, so .. don't have dependencies that fail, ok? That's not a bug. [1][2]

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1312 [2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/213185/restarting-s...

This is fusion. Different working principle, different composition - I would expect orders of magnitude less radioactive working materials.

Battery minerals are not an issue, as you say. I'm still worried about the electrolytes and stuff - not in scarcity, but eventual pollution. They don't typically advertise them and I have a hunch they are nasty stuff.

We will likely have sufficient battery storage where 1.5h would be acceptable though not quite ideal. It still requires quite a bit of storage, but its entirely doable for seasonal variations (the harder problem) and perhaps even daily cycles (the lesser problem).

IMO, iPhone SE is the perfect form factor and overall very good hardware (though you might want to go for more storage).

Only reason I begrudgingly got a Pixel is the alternative OS availability.

As said, use some pipes and pumps to move it away. Don't forget to dilute (again, use pipes and pumps or whatever you prefer).

Why would you store it, instead of mixing it back in the sea?

I guess you would need some pipes and pumps to move it away from your inlets, but that seems comparatively cheap.

I think those don't actually have any PV in them. I.e. concentrated solar to thermal then turbines for electricity.

Just because it is easy and achieves a purpose doesn't make it necessary or right.

People could be making backhanded deals on their phones or they could be having an urgent confidential conversation with their doctor or spouse. Should the company record and review phone calls?

People could be stalking customers/coworkers or making deals in the bathroom. Or they could be using it for more personal purposes. Should the bathrooms have CCTV with audio?

People could be selling company data in the company parking lot, in the mall or at home near/using the company laptop/phone that is permitted to be used for personal reasons, or just mandated to be near them, or they could do the same thing without presence or use of any company equipment. Where do you draw the line, and at what point is it even sufficient to prevent losing information etc.?

Do you trust your employees? All trust can be abused, yet how can the company function if they don't trust their employees at all?

I assume he is trying to establish a dividing line between acceptable and not. For example, I'd consider all mentioned uses to be unacceptable and hopefully illegal, but I think others may be fine with it.

I wish we could and I think we should.

I'm just very sad we don't have safe hardware w.r.t. memory corruption via rowhammer and I don't think any of the typical formal methods or seL4 account for it. Safely running untrusted code is nearly impossible on modern computers.

If that is the height of his crimes, then it's no comparison to the extent US (or whomever) went to frame him for: sexual assault (coerced charges), fabricated hacking conspiracy (from a protected pedofile at that), or just about anything.

Note that even in the quoted allegations he pretty much didn't actually even do much at all. I don't know Assange, but I don't have doubts about who to side with.

You wouldn't accept diamonds, it would reflect poorly on you.

They are mostly a non-scarce fleecing operation backed by a marketing gimmick.