according to LNT, if every human ate a banana a week, bananas would kill 1600 people a year. In the same scenario, SNT kills one person every 2.5 million years.
Now, class, let's get back to basics.
Repeat after me:
It's not dose. It's dose rate profile.
Good.
Repeat after me:
LNT does not say eating a banana is safe or unsafe.
LNT says eating a banana has a 4 in a billion chance of killing you.
Repeat after me:
SNT does not say eating a banana is safe or unsafe.
SNT says eating a banana has a 1 in a billion-billion chance of killing you.
Whether those risks are safe or unsafe is up to you.
Class dismissed.
In less than a few centuries, 250 groundbreaking hydrocarbon processing and refining techniques were discovered. Their impact continues today, benefiting the 8 billion people living on Earth.
Today, over 6,000 products derived from petroleum enrich our lives. They have reduced infant mortality, doubled global life expectancy from around 40 to over 80 years, and made it possible to travel anywhere in the world by plane, train, ship, or car — drastically reducing weather-related deaths to nearly zero. These were all unimaginable in societies before 1800. //
Today, “Net Zero” policymakers setting “green” policies are oblivious to the reality that so-called “renewables” ONLY generate electricity but CANNOT make anything. In addition, everything that NEEDS Electricity, like iPhones and computers, is made with petrochemicals manufactured from crude oil, coal, or natural gas.
Electricity came after oil, as all electrical generation methods, including hydro, coal, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar, are built with products, components, and equipment made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil. //
If we go back 200 years to the 1800s, we find a decarbonized society, i.e., a very different era and a society without products, transportation fuels, and electricity. Fossil-fuel products weren’t widespread, thus lifestyles were less prosperous, health conditions were precarious, and life expectancy was short.
A renewed shift toward decarbonization and zero-emission lifestyles severely restricts the use of fossil fuels, like coal and oil, and could bring us back to a world of more than 200 years ago. That might mean billions suffering again from disease, malnutrition, and weather-related fatalities.
Moving toward decarbonization risks depriving, or delaying access to, the standards of living and products that wealthy, healthy nations take for granted. Today, around 700 million people, which is roughly 9% of humanity, live below the international poverty line. In other words, halting fossil fuel production and use would reverse many centuries of progress.
Over the last 200 years, after the discovery of the products and transportation fuels that could be manufactured out of crude oil, the world’s population has increased from 1 billion to 8 billion. It was more than 6,000 “products” from oil that supported the tremendous growth in population. //
Wind turbines and solar panels can ONLY generate ELECTRICITY.
All the products and transportation fuels demanded by society, all the infrastructures, and the economy are made from fossil fuels.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
...
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail,
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
...
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say:--
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
...
Perhaps the most famous "holy relic" is the Shroud of Turin, an old linen cloth that retains a distinct impression of the body of a crucified mine (both front and back). The legend is that Jesus himself was wrapped in the shroud upon his death around 30 CE, although modern scientific dating methods revealed the shroud is actually a medieval artifact dating to between 1260 and 1390 CE. A 3D designer named Cícero Moraes has created a 3D digital reconstruction to lend further credence to the case for the shroud being a medieval forgery, according to a paper published in the journal Archaeometry.
Moraes developed computer models to simulate draping a sheet on both a 3D human form and a bas-relief carving to test which version most closely matched the figure preserved in the shroud. He concluded that the latter was more consistent with the shroud's figure, meaning that it was likely created as an artistic representation or a medieval work of art. It was certainly never draped around an actual body. Most notable was the absence of the so-called "Agamemnon mask effect," in which a human face shrouded in fabric appears wider once flattened.
Ep. 2.05 When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
Republic of Liberia Government Boeing 727-25, registration EL-GOL, c/n 18253/11 built in 1963 for Eastern Air Lines.
Please note the Beechcraft King Air hidden by the stairs and cars.
Iran’s wind catchers stand as a reminder of how ancient civilisations have adapted to the region’s harsh desert environment.
Streaming is now the most popular way to watch TV, yet many are unaware of what they’re buying. As Reingold's lawsuit points out, paying for content in the streaming era is different from buying media from physical stores. Physical media nets control over your ability to watch stuff for years. But you also had to have retrieved the media from a store (or website) and to have maintained that physical copy, as well the necessary hardware and/or software for playing it. Streaming services can rip purchased content from customers in bulk, but they also offer access to a much broader library that's instantly watchable with technology that most already have (like a TV and Internet).
We can debate the best approach to distributing media. What's clearer is the failure of digital content providers to ensure that customers fully understand they’re paying for access to content, and that this access could be revoked at any time. //
galvanash Seniorius Lurkius
17y
14
Subscriptor++
Is it really that controversial to expect that the word "buy" should have a legally binding meaning? Seems like a pretty simple and straight forward concept to me.
I give you money, you give me a thing. Maybe there are terms binding me as to what I can do with the thing, but assuming I never violate those terms if you can then take the thing away from me I never bought it.
Can we please get a judge to just settle this after like 50 years of this nonsense??? //
SimonRev Ars Praetorian
10y
434
You know, as long as I "bought" a digital asset, I have no ethical compunctions about creating/obtaining a more convenient copy for personal use. I don't do that with rentals.
If Amazon et al tried to provide a "non-fixed term lease" (and yes, I know that is what they really mean with the "buy button"), I would expect to pay roughly 1/2 to 1/3 vs purchasing the physical media. //
Check Listening Ports with netstat
netstat is a command-line tool that can provide information about network connections.
To list all TCP or UDP ports that are being listened on, including the services using the ports and the socket status use the following command:
sudo netstat -tunlpThe options used in this command have the following meaning:
-t - Show TCP ports.
-u - Show UDP ports.
-n - Show numerical addresses instead of resolving hosts.
-l - Show only listening ports.
-p - Show the PID and name of the listener’s process. This information is shown only if you run the command as root or sudo user.
The problem was that the new motherboard's BIOS created a host protected area (HPA) on some of the drives, a small section used by OEMs for system recovery purposes, usually located at the end of the harddrive.
ZFS maintains 4 labels with partition meta information and the HPA prevents ZFS from seeing the upper two.
Solution: Boot Linux, use hdparm to inspect and remove the HPA. Be very careful, this can easily destroy your data for good. Consult the article and the hdparm man page (parameter -N) for details.
The problem did not only occur with the new motherboard, I had a similar issue when connecting the drives to an SAS controller card. The solution is the same.
I was able to access the pool a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I had to replace pretty much all of the hardware of the host machine and install several host operating systems.
My suspicion is that one of these OS installations wrote a bootloader (or whatever) to one (the first ?) of the 500GB drives and destroyed some zpool metadata (or whatever) - 'or whatever' meaning that this is just a very vague idea and that subject is not exactly my strong side... //
I think I have found the root cause: Max Bruning was kind enough to respond to an email of mine very quickly, asking for the output of zdb -lll. On any of the 4 hard drives in the 'good' raidz1 half of the pool, the output is similar to what I posted above. However, on the first 3 of the 4 drives in the 'broken' half, zdb reports failed to unpack label for label 2 and 3. The fourth drive in the pool seems OK, zdb shows all labels. //
This did take a while indeed. I've spent months with several open computer cases on my desk with various amounts of harddrive stacks hanging out and also slept a few nights with earplugs, because I could not shut down the machine before going to bed as it was running some lengthy critical operation. However, I prevailed at last! :-) I've also learned a lot in the process and I would like to share that knowledge here for anyone in a similar situation.
This article is already much longer than anyone with a ZFS file server out of action has the time to read, so I will go into details here and create an answer with the essential findings further below. //
Finally, I mirrored the problematic drives to backup drives, used those for the zpool and left the original ones disconnected. The backup drives have a newer firmware, at least SeaTools does not report any required firmware updates. I did the mirroring with a simple dd from one device to the other, e.g.
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdeI believe ZFS does notice the hardware change (by some hard drive UUID or whatever), but doesn't seem to care. //
As a last word, it seems to me ZFS pools are very, very hard to kill. The guys from Sun from who created that system have all the reason the call it the last word in filesystems. Respect!
Stc is a command line tool for Syncthing. It can be used to quickly check status of Syncthing from a terminal / command line without need of a Web Browser. For example on a remote machine over ssh, without port forwarding or if you have large number of machines to query. Also run from a script, crontab, scheduled task, etc.
sed is a stream editor. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). While in some ways similar to an editor which permits scripted edits (such as ed), sed works by making only one pass over the input(s), and is consequently more efficient. But it is sed’s ability to filter text in a pipeline which particularly distinguishes it from other types of editors.
The basic key points:
10 inch 1U size rack system with 1 insert slot
19 inch 1U size rack system with 2 insert slots
modular insert system for easily push-in and pull-out
some pre-modeled inserts available at launch
2 blank inserts for customization: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1032228
The Elias Law Group is suing again – this time to kill an Ohio law aimed at blocking foreign nationals from voting in U.S. elections.
Certbot uses a number of different commands (also referred to as “subcommands”) to request specific actions such as obtaining, renewing, or revoking certificates. The most important and commonly-used commands will be discussed throughout this document; an exhaustive list also appears near the end of the document.
The certbot script on your web server might be named letsencrypt if your system uses an older package.
Designed for the pilot on the go, this 3-in-1 backpack has space for all the essentials without an overwhelming footprint. It’s ideal for pilots who prefer backpacks but don’t carry as much gear.
A D.C. grand jury has refused to return an indictment against a man accused of assaulting federal law enforcement during a confrontation in Washington, D.C. //
Compare and contrast this with the alacrity with which D.C. grand juries handed out felony indictments for people merely walking into the Capitol on January 6. Had either Dunn or Reid committed those acts on January 6, 2021, they would have been facing a decade or more in prison. //
The reluctance of DC judges and juries to support President Trump in tamping down violence in D.C. Former RedStater Bill Shipley, who goes by the handle @shipwreckedcrew on X, has a solid idea.
Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew
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The case is building for eliminating the District Court for DC, and making it part of the District of Maryland.
You cannot have a District Court that has a juror pool so extremely partisan that objective evidence is simply disregarded based on politics.
Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC
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The old saying is that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. But somehow this one didn’t indict the DOJ lawyer who threw sandwich at federal agent. https://nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html
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