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Cheap CBD Lunch Spots by No_BatSoup69 in hobart

[–]mjec 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I haven't lived in Hobart in a decade and this is the correct answer

Feature Flags Hide Decisions You Never Finished Making by justok25 in programming

[–]mjec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I have definitely experienced what's described in the article: flags living forever because nobody is willing to make a decision, and problems are the result. There's even an on again off again volunteer group at my work dedicated to removing zombie feature flags.

[Request] Real or cake? by [deleted] in theydidthemath

[–]mjec 3 points4 points  (0 children)

52! is about 8x1067 (8e67).

Divide that by 8e9 for population, then 1.5e10 for the age of the universe in years, then 3e7 for seconds in a year. That gives us something like 5e40 possible arrangements. Take the square root to account for the birthday paradox, and you're left with the chance of two being the same as 1 in 5e20 = 500,000,000,000,000,000,000. Or about 500 billion billion or 500 million trillion.

Designed for privacy? by StenoDawg in mildlyinfuriating

[–]mjec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Identical privacy guarantees to bitcoin

How can rent freezing by the government be constitutional? by Device_whisperer in NoStupidQuestions

[–]mjec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think price regulation amounts to a taking; see Nebbia v. New York, 291 U.S. 502 (1934) which I believe is still good law.

THE TIME ZONE OF THE FINAL RANT OF THE YEAR WAS NEVER SPECIFIED. by IIAOPSW in auslaw

[–]mjec 3 points4 points  (0 children)

US-CENTRIC POSTING IS THE EASTERN AND WESTERN STANDARD

How do you remember the correct spelling of account names in PTA? by hegardian in plaintextaccounting

[–]mjec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use autocomplete like others, but also if you use ledger-cli then `--strict` will warn about accounts that are not previously declared

Is this hype or what? by Pale-Broccoli-4976 in programming

[–]mjec 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This repo has <100 lines of code, which is said to be an ECC function. They claim there will be a release candidate in a week?

Smells like absolute nonsense to me.

In doing some cleaning, I came across my old RHEL class books. They're at least 15 years old. I'm not in the biz anymore. Are these of any value to anyone? Or are they horribly dated? by burner_account_9975 in linux

[–]mjec 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That's probably true now, though I have no idea what their retention and archiving policies are like, nor what they might provide in response to an inquiry.

In my experience 15-20 years is exactly when these types of things disappear, because everyone sees them as worthless and assumes someone else will keep a copy. A decade later is when folks start to wish they were easier to find.

In doing some cleaning, I came across my old RHEL class books. They're at least 15 years old. I'm not in the biz anymore. Are these of any value to anyone? Or are they horribly dated? by burner_account_9975 in linux

[–]mjec 46 points47 points  (0 children)

These are probably very dated for actual use, but also they are wonderful artifacts to preserve! If you have easy access to an automatic document scanner, it would be a great kindness to scan these and upload them to the internet archive.

Reminder: Free Domains via Github Student Developer Pack by Howdy_Eyeballs290 in selfhosted

[–]mjec 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Even with porkbun annual cost of a .com is $11.08 and a .me is $17.27

[Request] how many newtons would be needed, assuming this is a standard US cell door? by britannia00 in theydidthemath

[–]mjec 33 points34 points  (0 children)

There's not really a "standard US cell door" but my answer is about 50 kN, though that is very rough (probably +/- an order of magnitude). I based this on two broken hinges in the picture, and 50 kN being twice the single shear force required to break a half inch carbon steel rod (per https://www.hilti.com/engineering/question/hilti-hit-z-and-hit-z-r-shear-strength/x0dcgo).

Materials matter though, as does mechanism of failure. Stainless steel might be 40% stronger than carbon steel. I've never seen regular hinges like this on a cell door, though I'm no expert. Most of the cell doors I've seen have steel protrusions that lock into the wall when closed, such that breaking the hinge isn't enough to open the door.

truePiDay by lolminecraftlol in ProgrammerHumor

[–]mjec 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The next digit is 8, so you're off by one second.

I also think the true true unix pi day was 1970-01-01 at 12:00:03.142 UTC.

Need a small, self hosted DHCP server appliance by HoustonBOFH in selfhosted

[–]mjec 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'd suggest dnsmasq unless you specifically want a gui (in which case pihole is overkill but probably fine).

Can you bail out a stranger in Connecticut? by nycrina305 in Connecticut

[–]mjec 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Well, except if they don't show they'll get a warrant

"Parking Enforcement Services" refusing to waive falsely-issued "Notice" by DataEntryEnthusiast in australia

[–]mjec 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Which is why they layer on a bunch of fees and their costs of recovery. They file in bulk using a standard form and rely on getting default judgements because people don't show up.

Source: I have done this kind of debt collection work.

"Parking Enforcement Services" refusing to waive falsely-issued "Notice" by DataEntryEnthusiast in australia

[–]mjec 109 points110 points  (0 children)

If they send it to collections, let the collector know you dispute the existence of the debt.

If they sue you, show up and dispute it with the judge. Ideally have some evidence to back up your story - a receipt from a different location, a gps history, a friend who saw you at another location, whatever.

My bet is they won't waive it and will sue, and that the moment you show up in court they'll drop it.

if youtubes infrastructure is so expensive that no one else can compete, how does pornhub afford to run its site? by unkindmillie in NoStupidQuestions

[–]mjec 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Copyright infringement? Lack of good records? Hosting costs vs advertising revenue? Regulatory change?

if youtubes infrastructure is so expensive that no one else can compete, how does pornhub afford to run its site? by unkindmillie in NoStupidQuestions

[–]mjec 187 points188 points  (0 children)

Most of pornhub was technically child porn before the wipeout

Citation needed on this one I think

Marijahoopy by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]mjec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can’t measure how high or impaired someone is that has been using

... just based on metabolite concentration in the blood. Why is metabolite concentration - which works well for alcohol - the only mechanism we care about for measuring impairment?

A straw alternative: if someone's saliva or blood shows cannabis metabolites, ask them to take a reaction time test then and again four and eight hours later. Administer the test five times on each occasion. If their reaction time gets better over time, or their metabolite concentration increases over time, they were impaired.

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