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  • Information security and data management for the most part.

  • kwah

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  • I had an employee who made them from scratch and they were amazing. Then he showed me how and I've never eaten another croissant since. So much butter.

  • Prove me wrong: Fine art is a money laundering scheme.

    Why would I try when it is a fact? I would caveat that fine art "can be" a money laundering scheme (quite easily). It isn't always a money laundering scheme.

  • kwah

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  • That Pillsbury renamed croissant to crescent roll for the American market. Good thing too because calling those things croissant might be considered libel.

  • I was going to note that and the fact that Russia's attack on Kyiv killed four innocent people, but I didn't have the actual casualty report of the Ukrainian operation and I didn't want to be one of those people that makes statements without being sure of the facts. So, I left it out...but yes, I think that is a fairly safe assumption.

  • If you're an astute collector, fine watches are (like art) a solid form of investment.

  • If you need to point out the watch and explain its value, you've already lost.

  • kwah

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  • Meanwhile, in America...

  • "ICE officers continue to feel ill with symptoms such as coughing, difficulty breathing, fever, and achy joints. These symptoms align with bacterial upper respiratory infection...

  • Ukraine does a methodical surgical strike against military targets. Russia responds with chaotic attack on the civilian capital.

    Life rarely gives you such clear "good vs evil" distinctions yet plenty of people refuse to accept it.

  • 5yr old me: I just want to go outside and play.

    25yr old me: I just want to go outside and play.

    50yr old me: I just want to go outside and play.

    The demands remain the same.

  • I only play AAA games on GeForce Now (cloud). If the game can't run on my Linux system or on the cloud, I ain't touching it. Also, there are so many wonderful games that do not require a colonoscopy into your personal data to be played.

  • I work 80+ hours a week (this week I'm gonna clock 96+) and things don't break on a schedule. I started at around 6:30am after going to bed at ~2:00. Normally I have a window around 10:00am, but no such luck today. I also ran out of protein bars.

  • I can shitpost on my phone while monitoring a code run and listening to a conference call. I don't have serving staff and I don't eat fast food (delivery), so breakfast requires my time and attention for preparation.

    PS: Finally had breakfast at ~1:15. I should really meal prep but alas, ADHD.

    PPS: I only post and comment on Lemmy when I'm busy working as a way to destress and keep focused. Otherwise my nervous energy starts to eat at me. If I'm here, I'm busy.

  • Impressive. I have been on fiber for a number of years now and when I switched the fastest pure cable (not fiber to the curb) I could find was 300 down and 10 up. Because of my work, upload speeds are as important as down, which is why I had to switch.

  • Where does this magic cable go?

    The answer is either "it goes on the threaded port of your cable modem" or "it goes to a distribution panel somewhere outside". It really depends what you meant by the question.

    How long is the cable?

    Normally you want to keep the cable as short as possible.

    How does so much data go through a single-pin coax cable?

    Technology has continued to progress but I think many cable providers are capping at around 100 mbps. I could be wrong.

    Wouldn't it be better if there were more pins, like in a twinax configuration?

    Not necessarily.

    There are also other houses in my neighborhood. Are their cables connected to mine?

    It depends on the configuration your ISP used. Many would in fact share a pipe's bandwidth amongst blocks of homes. I not sure how prevalent that practice is today.

    Can their routers see the packets sent by my router, similar to ethernet?

    No. Every single home is on a different network.

    How has your day been?

    It's almost 1:00pm and I've been so busy that I haven't had a chance to have breakfast yet.

  • There is a comment in the Reddit thread linked by the other user that sums it up nicely. Ukraine was the California of the Soviet Union. Sevastopol was San Diego and Ukraine housed a lot of the top universities and aerospace engineering in the Soviet Union. Think Stanford and NASA's JPL in California. In great part, those scary planes, missiles and submarines could be traced back to Ukraine.

    (All of this is an oversimplification, of course)