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AFFF is used in far more than just military bases. Outside of the USA, AFFF extinguishers, small vehicle/building hazard suppression systems, etc. are much more common.

But yes Phos-check isn’t that

AFFF is being/has been phased out pretty much everywhere in the first world. There is still plenty of it around though - disposing of, and then filling with fluorine free foam can be an expensive process.

Personally, it’s about $10/litre to dispose of. Regardless of concentration. So properly rinsing out old equipment is expensive. But I know the situation differs by country, and what’s deemed “acceptable” varies too.

Powder doesn’t contain fluorinated compounds, at least to my knowledge. The role of fluorosurfactants is in increased wetting and emulsifying with hydrocarbons. Not really applicable to a dry agent.

Phos-check doesn’t contain fluorinated compounds.

Many oil filters these days are accessible from the top of the engine, and IME it’s possible to get under many SUVs/CUVs/trucks far enough to remove the filter/bung without lifting anyway. A set of drive-on ramps makes it kind of a non issue either way

If I had to guess, Alpine is a very popular choice for building container images in Docker/Kubernetes/whatever the new hotness is since I last worked with containers. Mostly because the aforementioned small size and low overhead add up if you’re at any sort of scale (even one instance on top of your desktop OS).

If you’re wanting to containerise the program, maybe it’s less resource intensive to add those things to Alpine than to run another distro with more support? Obviously only speculation

google’s new service: gResume, designed to solve the tech industry’s problems around recruitment

Espressif has also capitalised on this trend with the ESP32, having cheap (~$10) official dev boards available at or before the launch of a new Esp32 model

I found it’s a form of jargon, and once you know more about the field, it becomes much clearer.

Before I started working out at all, I found it really hard to follow any workout instructions (even videos). I couldn’t tell if what I was doing felt right or if my form was off in some important way.

After a few sessions with a personal trainer/physical therapist, and just getting comfortable with the sensations and movements, I found it much easier to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing from an instruction. I had more of the building blocks that I knew were correct already.

Text is still inherently a difficult way to instruct movements though.

A personal trainer is the service you’re looking for. Or a gym friend group

Just to add, in the Find My app, you can whitelist (or blacklist depending on how you look at it I suppose) addresses that it won’t notify you about.

So I don’t get a notification when I leave my iPad at home, but I do whenever I leave it at work, for example.

You’ll be missing out on some experiences for sure. Would it be a net positive? Probably not. But you really can’t quite comprehend the feelings you’re missing out on.

There might be tangential things you don’t experience too, places you’ll never go, and people you’ll never meet.

-Someone who has experienced “hard” drugs

This infuriates me. I know the video exists, that’s why it’s on my watch later.

It’s like adding an item to your cart, and then having an ad for it at the top of every search result.

Another thing I hate is if you watch a video from a playlist (or the “podcasts” tab on a channel), and go into your watch history to continue the video, you can’t. It just shows a link to the entire playlist

This is why I only name users, groups, directories, etc, with UUIDs

I’m curious if the chi-fi market will take over headphones in the coming years.

IEMs are a bit easier to be competitive at, not having to worry about acoustic effects of ear/head shape, ergonomics/comfort is much simpler with IEMs, etc.

But clearly good headphones are still working on a massive margin.

I’m far more addicted to scrolling on reddit than instagram. As good as modern social media algorithms are, my curated feed of niche interests and communities I’m a part of, is just a lot more addictive to me.

The format of mostly text based content (even if it’s an image on reddit, I’m mostly there for the discussion below) is a lot easier to open and look at for a few seconds than the mostly-video instagram/TikTok feed.

Is this not a thing in the USA/world? Here there is a government/school system website for careers. Listing educational requirements, average salaries and high/low end ranges, how much demand there is for the career, working conditions, and often interviews with people in industry.

“Your assigned password will be two random words and 2 random numbers”

“Pass”, “word”, “12”, “34”

I think it's so much harder now for developers to develop "mechanical sympathy"

This has always been something that’s fascinated me, how some people don’t have this feeling of “mechanical sympathy”.

Feeling “bad” (not the exact right term but I don’t know how best to describe this very intangible feeling) for a high-revving engine, or a CPU wasting cycles, or a structural component being under too much stress. Even if all of those things are within spec.

It feels like the drive to avoid that feeling ends up creating better solutions: more efficient code, a better distribution of stress across a structure, etc.

But I wonder if it’s something learned, or something that people just “have” to a certain degree. Not trying to pathologise everything, but it feels like the sort of thing that would be correlated with ASD

D&U

I've never heard this term before, what does it mean

From browsing various subreddits occasionally, robocough seems to be the go-to manufacturer for DXM-only products. I think they mostly sell online.

They definitely know that the people buying their products are using them to get high, some of their marketing in the past has been comical.

FWIW, I'm sick and am currently looking at a bottle of Robitussin Dry Cough Forte, and the only active ingredients are DXM. But yes, if you're wanting to do high doses, tablets are gonna be the least unpleasant option

The ability some people have to make everything political never ceases to amaze me. It's a conservative car because you can checks notes fit a wheelchair in the back?

It's simply an appliance. It's no more political than a toaster. Maybe more liberals like toast, but that doesn't make the toaster liberal.

More recent iPhones can do OCR into (any?) text fields - hold on the text field and select "scan text" or the little box with some horizontal lines in it. It's not perfect for some things (underscores and more unusual punctuation) but it's usually correct

I was waiting for the part where it indicates that it’s satire, but it never came

Bold of you to assume they will still have the working cloud infrastructure for you to enable that in 20 years

Square drive is very common for construction/diy in New Zealand

Your anti-drowning reflex kicks in, which is fairly unpleasant, and I don’t imagine the lungs are used to a fluid with that much viscosity or mass

Haha as if microsoft couldn’t easily ship a build for apple silicon. The thing that makes this a difficult project is that MS doesn’t seem to want it to happen.

I would he surprised if someone at MS didn’t have a build that runs on m1

I think what you’re referring to is a known issue with how their server handles cloudflares 1.1.1.1 DNS, not them intentionally being shady.

I have a USB switch, my keyboard and mouse go into the USB hub on my monitor, and that hub is switched between my laptop dock and my windows pc. The monitor input is changed on the monitor. A proper KVM would be easier but is also many times more expensive.

I use my laptop open though, so I can still control it when using the windows pc.

For audio, I use a simple 3.5mm splitter. They work in both directions, so with the right combination of male/female 3.5mm cables you can merge the audio for about $10. There are fancier audiophile solutions too.

Something like synergy (from symless, there are competitors and FOSS alternatives but I can’t remember their names) might be good for your use case, to carry over m/kb input to the non-windows machine.

YC 2023: buying me a Koenigsegg

Although it’s worth noting that “trickle down” tech advancements are quite a powerful force in the automotive industry