Good to hear! Are the comparable areas of similar population density? I'm wondering what incremental steps (non-partisan hopefully) can be brought to the Bay Area to slowly move it towards a similar environment.

I lived in the Bay Area for about 30 years, so here's my (probably biased) opinion. The biggest issue is the lack of community, and in my experience, this is due to the high turnover of residents. From my high school graduating class of 400, fewer than 100 are still in the community; everyone else has moved to Florida, Phoenix, Austin, etc. You can't encourage long-term planning (good public education policies, systematic reductions in the drivers of crime, etc.) if the community changes every two decades. My personal opinion is that the Bay Area won't improve because everyone is out to get 'theirs' and then leave. While I do miss the weather, the lack of humidity, and, honestly, a more educated population, I believe raising children in a strong community is more important. So, I'm more than happy with the trade-offs for a better overall quality of life.

Assuming these terms are all correctly spelled, this has to be the shortest sentence I've understood the least of on HN.

Guess I've got some googling to do.

UHMW = ultra high molecular weight. Each molecule is literally heavy because they have a lot of atoms.

PE = polyethylene. The most popular plastic on this planet.

HDPE = high-density polyethylene. One of the most common plastics. Milk jugs, glue bottles, etc.

Stick some UHMW tape on anything that needs to slide easier. Its surface is quite slippery

HDPE is also what Nalgenes and the like are made of (or used to be anyway), and is very popular for storing chemicals as well. It is very nearly completely inert.

you cunninghammed me: nalgenes are polycarbonate, which is a lot less inert

all the polyethylenes are relatively inert, because polyethylenes are in some sense just heavy paraffins. paraffin is germanized latin for 'relatively inert'

And you have Cunninghammed me :-)

Some Nalgene's are polycarbonate, like those commonly drunk from. But not all, some are HDPE[0,1,2].

Some are Polypropylene co-polymer[3] but those are more for specialist things I guess.

[0] https://ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/ultralite-1-litre-wide-m... [1] https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/nalgene-hdpe-125ml-wide-mo... [2] https://www.elitemountainsupplies.co.uk/camping-trekking-c4/... [3] https://www.thelabwarehouse.com/products/bottle-nalgene-ppco...

oh, thanks! i only knew the pc ones

The clear Nalgenes are polycarbonate, but the opaque ones (sold as "Ultralite Bottle" on their website) are made of HDPE

they are! sorry to be telegraphic

Not sure why this was downvoted, but I also assumed they were referring to this scene, the Hammond + Grant + Sadler + Malcolm + Gennaro lunch debate in the original.

And in turn, Microsoft blames the EU for forcing them to allow an external vendor having kernel level access https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/22/microsoft-says-eu-t.... Lot of finger-pointing going around here.

> no exact match but this site has a bunch of strings with most of the same characters

I suspect it's something similar, but more like partial string match which may score as "close enough to display". I get consistent results with the same hex string - dealerships - but if I quote it (exact match), I get no matches.

I suspect there's a single word embedding for WTF_IS_THAT.

Repro'd in an incognito window so it's not a history thing. 1st 3 of OPs strings if anyone else is experimenting (remove spaces):

    3344cfb4 78ead204a49b88 1da6079adf8a
    e2c75c64 eef8087f6f36df 57
    eb944335 73626fe9b73550 b02a651620d8

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Shoot, depending on crawling, this may end up causing this page to match. I'm injecting spaces above to deter this, but maybe it'll also prove out the partial string match theory...

I'm only getting back 2 results: Citi.com and FDIC.gov

Clicking on the 3 dots gives me this info:

     Your search & this result
     This result seems relevant even though this search term may not appear: 
     3344cfb478ead204a49b881da6079adf8a

We carry a physical analog of this in real life: work badge. My policy-enforced visible picture identifies who I am and that I match that photo and also gatekeeps me into and out of places I'm allowed to enter.

> terminology implies that the two concepts, authentication and authorization, are more closely related than they are ... There are some links ... because what you can do is tied to who you are. But they're also very different

AuthZ being entirely dependent on AuthN is not "some links". That's an unbreakable dependency.

I can agree that these two words being a single letter apart are easy to conflate though. But as they are related, we're more likely to increase training/education around the concept rather than rename them.

Probably every single health or wellness "Find a Provider" portal lists them A-Z. That's a multi-billion dollar industry. If I was Dr. Zachary Zane, I'd change my name.

AAA Aches and Ailment

Or that an online bookseller would try to rent out compute.

GP might have an illness/disease and fully aware of their condition, none of us know. No need to lose the main point by flexing our superior health against them.

That point being: All of us deteriorate. We all reach an age/state where conventional medicine has reached its limit and snake oil begins to be look attractive. Not all of it is proven wrong, none of it is proven right.