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@feld @clacke @davoloid I'm just going to say that given the test methodology I am not concerned by the IRL implications.

Doubly so since I am not particularly sensitive to Ni or Cr.

It does, however, make a really good case for using something like an enamel-lined dutch oven for long-cook time acidic foods.

@feld @clacke @davoloid I'm pretty sure my current $200 set won't be replaced because it wears out.

All metal, good finish, basic stainless alloy, basic aluminum core.

A heritage steel set like that would probably last generations, but so would a lot of less expensive sets.

@feld @clacke @davoloid The cost is on the high side for those.

Maybe if I were single

@clacke another vote here for stainless steel clad cookware.

I've got a set of 3-layer (steel-aluminum-steel) that was about the same price as a non-stick set and is very well behaved on my electric stovetop.

The set I have doesn't have any visible seams inside or out, and the heat distribution on it is amazing

@feld @wolf480pl striped and mirrored is The Way no matter what you are using to strap the disks together

Which does mean adding disks in pairs, which can be annoying for homelab work

@wolf480pl zfs has caching support, AFAIK

It takes some getting used to, but it is nice

@patrickcmiller again. Hasn't this been a general best practices issue since the 90's?

@feld when we started with https it was a significant load that not every site could bear.

But all we get from blockchain is a mechanism for validating document integrity

Maybe that will percolate down to news sites and blogs eventually, but that's all we get

@feld @briankrebs I have seriously looked.

Document integrity is really it.

A few places are using it for that already, but it doesn't get much hype because for most people it's too boring

@briankrebs the second case is why EHR is one of the few good uses for blockchain

When you absolutely must be able to verify the validity of a document

Also a great reason for off-line backups to become standard again

@patrickcmiller the AI said it was OK

@inthehands They should have their own server, as if it were e-mail.

@barubary @doctormo @babe SQL clearly stands for SQuirreL

@clacke Closest I know of is a verse in "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim

@inthehands I'd feel safer living next to a nuclear power plant than a MPD station

@Dasy2k1 @inthehands if the rewards are aligned with the right goals, you'll get the results you want

Training helps get there more efficiently, but it is literally a case of getting the result you pay for

In the US we buy military armored infantry vehicles and body armor for our police departments, what results are we paying for?

@inthehands do the police solve more crimes than they commit?

Prevention is an illusion, the only thing the police can provide is after-the-fact accountability

@goatsarah @thomasfuchs and maybe, just maybe, their recent successes have left them overconfident and inclined to cut corners

Because building a Saturn V quality launch pad would have slowed them down, a *lot*, it isn't something that you just bang together over a couple of months.

Sometimes "move fast and break things" actually, you know, *breaks things*

@goatsarah @thomasfuchs landing rockets was hard, but even there it had been previously tested out in the DC-X program.

Just nobody cared enough to try to scale it up before SpaceX.

Launchpad design had been done wrong before, and the lessons learned were incorporated into heavy launch facilities in the US, Europe, and even Russia.

SpaceX got overconfident and built a pad that wasn't fit for purpose and that they should have known wasn't fit for purpose.

Period.

That wasn't "oooh, let's try something new!"
It was "let's cheap out on stuff while the regulators have their backs turned"

@goatsarah @thomasfuchs
This was so predictable that at least one person predicted it before the launch.

This wasn't unknown territory that needed to be tested, this was all tested 60-70 years ago and people took notes.

And amazingly enough the physics involved hasn't changed.

https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to