BenjiWiebe

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Located in central Kansas. Work with cheese/neighborhood IT guy/hobby programmer. Born and raised on a dairy farm (and ~1/3 of the milk gets turned into cheese). Random qualifications: Amateur Extra (ham radio), volunteer firefighter in a very quiet area for 5+ years, Rubik's cube PB 19 seconds, can pick open an American Lock 1100 series if given enough time. Contact: itsme at (my HN username).com.

Family business: www.jasonwiebedairy.com

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Comment · 4 hours ago

Just addressing the last clause in your post: There are only 5 countries with population greater than 1 million that have a lower population density than Canada: Botswana, Libya, Namibia, Australia, Mongolia.

Looking at all countries it ranks 233/246.

Comment · 4 hours ago

You can actually have non-static non-CGNAT addresses.

That's even what you'd get with IPv6 by default.

Comment · 10 hours ago

When I "pay cash" for a medical procedure it's actually with a credit card.

Just means I'm paying them directly instead of making them deal with my insurance.

Comment · 20 hours ago

Yep doing that (actually just countries) eliminated card testing on an e commerce site I maintain.

From hundreds a day, to zero.

Comment · 1 day ago

The calf is either kept for a replacement or raised for beef. Too much potential value to kill them straight away.

Comment · 1 day ago

A good chunk of lower class labor isn't tipped.

I don't actually even have DoorDash available, but I can put my money where my mouth is when it comes to restaurants; PLEASE pay your workers a good wage, and then I won't eat there if I can't afford it. I don't know what your wages are, or your operating costs; don't make me guess how much I need to pay your employees for you!

Comment · 1 day ago

I guess you're talking a much higher minimum wage then Kansas. Minimum wage here is $7.25/hr, which isn't enough to live on practically, so it's not hard to find a job for significantly more than minimum wage.

Comment · 1 day ago

How do you figure? 5MW for 1 hour is 5MWh.

20.2 GWh is a 5MW plant supplying power for 4,040 hours (5½ months).

Comment · 1 day ago

And in fact, a lot of washing machines these days use a 3 phase motor. BLDC and a controller.

Comment · 2 days ago

I wish no one would tip them. Then they'd quit working for minimum wage, then the costs would go up, then I could see the actual cost of the service and make a decision to use it or not.

a tip for an unusual order/circumstance would be fine. Say if you ordered a 50lb bag of cat food, and live on the Nth floor, and the elevators are not working.

Comment · 7 days ago

Your quote didn't indicate that you were specifically asking about the infectious particles.

So you got responses about smoke and dust which are a very very common air quality problem.

Comment · 7 days ago

You wouldn't need a humidifier unless you need one anyways - air filters don't remove moisture.

Maybe it was something from manufacturing that was irritating your throat? Idk.

Comment · 10 days ago

So with that logic, AI won't find a vulnerability in my newly written code, since that particular vulnerability wasn't in its training data?

Comment · 11 days ago

Citation needed. Apparently the methanol is only slightly concentrated in the heads, and might even be higher in the tails. Plus most of it codistills with the ethanol.

Comment · 11 days ago

I can't even legally distill ethanol for my amateur chemistry hobby.