People have been tracking the actual "true" front lines since the war began with that IR "fire early warning" satellite from NASA. Turns out a satellite that's good at detecting natural fires is also good at detecting explosions / fires started by explosions.
Another interesting tracking mechanism was the use of Apples Wifi Positioning database, which allowed researchers to track front lines via Starlink wifi access points.
That's definitely me. I'm generally not social, but I love clubbing, dancing and raves. Not just the music (top reason) or the physical aspect, but all the chatting with randoms too. I love the bullshit we talk, the temporary friendships and the places you find yourself at 5am. (and if anyone's wondering, nope, just alcohol)
But I can go once and be good for months. See friends a few times a year as well, and I'm sorted.
This is hard to explain, but I think it's about "who you are/how you see yourself". As if there's a tension in my head, "am I my thoughts, or am I how other people see me?" When I have been more social recently, I ruminate less and am generally happier, but I feel I lose a bit of "depth" in my psyche. I just feel kind of "thin", like a minor character in a TV show. Though writing that, maybe that's just depression trying to pull me back in.
The question wasn't "what's nic mean?", it was "is buying your own top level domain going to be the new normal?" Presumably if you have enough cash, I'd say yes.
For the second question nic.* is conventionally the domain utilized by the TLD operator. So nic.brand may contain info and functions related to the .brand TLD and then www.brand and about.brand be other sites. E.g. nic.google redirects to registry.google, Google's domain registrar whose engineers also operate .google, whereas about.google can be considered the actual brand home site.
> E.g. nic.google redirects to registry.google, Google's domain registrar whose engineers also operate .google
Negative. Google's TLDs are operated by Google Registry, as shown on that site, which is an entirely separate team from Google Domains (the registrar).
OTOH, if that sort of data is not purged, it could be far richer than any letter. Many people pretty much use their phones/devices as extensions of their minds, and phones are a very personal, private place.
Like many things in systemd, timers are a bit complex, I always find myself opening 2-3 manpages at once when doing one. But when you get them set up, it's just a much better system. I still use cron for basic one-liners, but that's it.
Minimum four slice toaster with proven experience to deliver results and work autonomously in a fast-paced family kitchen. Ability to cook eggs a plus. Must comply with government product safety laws.
Speaking as someone with a hot air rework station and no experience soldering SOICs, I can make a whole bunch of melted crap in 5 minutes all while burning my fingers.
5-minutes sounds insane to me, but I know it's accurate (the key being "experience").
Any tips for learning how to do this sort of thing with proficiency? How long does it take to become that proficient? What kind of coating/weirdness would present a problem? I'm asking for a bit OT reasons -- it's always been something I've wanted to learn/teach my kids.
For disassembly practice, I used to collect broken electronics, and desolder various components for fun. You learn the different heat requirements of eg 2 layer boards vs motherboards with many layers.
For assembly practice, you can buy "SOIC breakout boards", the cheapest chips you can find, and go to town. Either with a solder stencil and some paste, or a syringe of paste and a blunt needle (this gets old fast!)
Coatings tend to make lots of nasty fumes when heated. Some can also prevent solder from wetting the pads or legs. Depending on the coating, overheating/burning may change its electrical properties.
I have some experience soldering SOICs, but the difference between me and a pro is insane. I've seen someone remove and replace a half-dozen 0805 (2x1.2mm) SMD components with a fairly standard fine-tipped Metcal iron (not even a rework station) in under a minute.
During my B.CS, most power I needed was whilst doing Android and iOS development, and even then that's just for the VMs. Otherwise did it all on a beat-up 2014 MacBook Air. Specific programs we used like SPIM, the pan/spin verification thingo, gcc/g++/etc, you can run wherever you like.
EDIT: Uni provided computers with VM stuff installed, and let us remote into them during COVID.
