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For extra clarity:

> Nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers are powered by onboard nuclear reactors. Atoms in the nuclear reactor split, which releases energy as heat. This heat is used to create high-pressured steam. The steam turns propulsion turbines that provide the power to turn the propeller. Additional turbines also make electricity for the ship. As the steam cools and condenses back into water, the water is directed back through the system, and the process starts again.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/nuclear-submarines-and-aircraft-....

And receiving email at your own server is trivial.
Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:48PM (#38271945)
There is no restriction on encryption, just a restriction to not obscure the meaning.

See (PDF) https://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/Data%20Encrypti...

Re:Unpacking Elixir: Real-Time and Latency on Saturday September 09, 2023 @10:54PM (#37452472)
"Elixir compiles into BEAM byte code (via Erlang Abstract Format). This means that Elixir code can be called from Erlang and vice versa, without the need to write any bindings. All Elixir modules start with the Elixir. prefix followed by the regular Elixir name."

From https://elixir-lang.org/crash-course.html "Erlang/Elixir Syntax: A Crash Course"

You could become a volunteer EMT.
> Ultimately, unions' power comes from the threat of striking.

The power comes from the NLRA, a federal law, which is enforced by the NLRB, a federal agency. It’s about agreeing to and enforcing a contract between the workers and the employer.

Whether or not to strike then becomes a part of contract negotiation.

an append-only log became non-writable earlier than expected
Re:Are sockets the wave of the future? (1990) on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:40AM (#35870581)
An implementation of auth is identd.

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

It is a way for the server to verify which username initiated a connection from the client by connecting back to the client on a privileged port and announcing the local and remote port.

"phlebotomy [...] A procedure in which a needle is used to take blood from a vein, usually for laboratory testing. Phlebotomy may also be done to remove extra red blood cells from the blood, to treat certain blood disorders. Also called blood draw and venipuncture."

https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-term...

Polio was absolutely terrible for those who had it. I wouldn’t blame him for having it. Or for ending it. However, for other reasons, I agree with you.

http://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/bulletin_open_access/v31-2/v...

The government incentives were based on employees.
Re:Ask HN: What “special” app you are using? on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @06:02AM (#34411157)
Many gauges are typically designed to work best in the center 50% of their range.
Re:OpenSMTPD on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:34AM (#31705265)
Or try https://openports.se/mail/opensmtpd-filters/dkimsign

And it has support for ed25519.

Re:OpenSMTPD on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:08AM (#31705004)
OpenSMTPD is the right answer if you want a general purpose mail server [1] that is secure by default. [2]

[1]: https://poolp.org/posts/2021-01-31/january-2021-opensmtpd-li...

[2]: https://www.openbsd.org/security.html

Re:Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:00AM (#31324337)
Oxygen candles smell bad. I would never want to use one except in an emergency situation. No scrubber necessary if I’m just evacuation.
Re:Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email? on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:16AM (#31180959)
I also self host but on a VPS. Incoming mail works great. Outgoing mail not so much unless I send it to a trusted third party SMTP server. No outgoing mail fees if low traffic. Might be an option to consider while building up reputation?
Re:The economics of pumpkin patches on Sunday October 31, 2021 @01:03PM (#29058404)
A pumpkin size detector is also known as an eyeball.
Re:The economics of pumpkin patches on Sunday October 31, 2021 @01:00PM (#29058375)
I’ve sold pumpkins on a farm before. It’s a social experience where you pay for the pumpkin “ticket” at the end.

Whole families dress up for the experience. People love being in a pumpkin patch and searching for their favorite pumpkin. They love doing it with their family. They enjoy the risk of wheeling them and guessing how much they weigh.

And the farm makes more money when they grow heavier pumpkins.

This isn’t an activity to be taken so seriously.

Scales and measurement aren’t really necessary. I could eyeball and wobble a pumpkin very quickly and give a fair price. But then I am having all the fun, not the customer.

Put the tech into making it a better experience!

Oh is that tractor pulling a wagon? Got to go!

Re:The economics of pumpkin patches on Sunday October 31, 2021 @12:26PM (#29058115)
How do we know what the environment wants? When we are saving it, it’s from our perspective. We are saving our environment. There are plenty of pests that don’t like what we’re up to.

We are important. :)

Here's an example of legally blind...

  Higher Standard Deduction for Blindness
  ...
  1. You can't see better than 20/200 in the
     better eye with glasses or contact lenses, or
  2. Your field of vision is 20 degrees or less.
See https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p501.pdf

I believe 20/200 means you can read only the top letter, E, on vision charts.

Reminds me of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). I don't need to be perfect, just consistently good enough.
Wasn't the financial incentive the reason for this in the first place? If that's the case then just remove civil forfeiture...
Re:DNS alias mode (2020) on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:06AM (#28266059)
You can also play with DNS by registering a domain name and running two VPSs as nameservers. I also run my own mail server and find this setup amazingly convenient.
Re:Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio? on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:10PM (#27767198)
This brings up a good point. Be prepared for a situation like this. Even if your radio set up is correct, your neighbors might not know where to get help to solve interference problems.

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/Neighbor_Info/Neig...

I halfway self host. Incoming mail comes right to me, no problem. But outgoing mail, by default, goes through a relay.
Nuclear power is only as safe as the people who are involved in it. In this case, the Fukushima power plant wasn't funded like it should have been because people weren't interested in nuclear power. Turns out that's both extremely dangerous and hard to control.

Also, what do you mean by paranoia and unnecessary evacuations? Nobody could even guess what was going to happen. When will explosions happen? How many? What direction will the wind blow? The power plant was out of control. The US government didn't assist with evacuations until AFTER the first release which spread contamination south hitting Tokyo, and east hitting their own USS Ronald Reagan.

Paranoid? Unnecessary? Sorry, that's a cruel thing to say to those who were contaminated.

"That's how safe nuclear is."

Re:Understanding Certificate Pinning on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:20PM (#23534618)
OpenBSD does something like this. In the current release, they provide the public keys for the next release. After trust-on-first-use it's a never-ending cycle.

I call it trust-on-first-use because I didn't verify the initial signatures. Hmmm..

I use vimium[1] to close most pop-ups by typing "f" and then hitting the letter that pops up next to the close button.

If that doesn't work, I use a bookmarklet called "Remove Sticky"[2]. I type "bre" and hit enter when sticky things pop up to get them gone.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23446504

Re:An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (2007) on Monday May 25, 2020 @01:24PM (#23302966)
> Am I wired incorrectly? :)

Doubtful. Reminds me of when Grover was accused of saying a bad word.

https://youtu.be/HfwF5cuAMsk

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