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by 13of40 5y ago
It works on that generation of machines, but when I was young I carried that philosophy into learning Unix in the early 90s, and some of the results weren't as positive. It was a net positive, though.
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by 13of40 5y ago
I had a terrible experience with the Pixel 3a XL: Within a couple of months the daughter board with the main microphone on it died, so I could only make calls in speaker phone mode or on Bluetooth. Then the USB-C socket degraded to the poi
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by 13of40 5y ago
Secure boot is a prerequisite for having a walled garden. It was never an answer to the question of how to prevent rootkits from persisting by hooking into the boot process, because that was never a widespread problem. It's an answer
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by 13of40 5y ago
I know a guy who had two DUI arrests, but still has no trouble getting into BC. His trick was to get a lawyer to argue them down to reckless driving convictions. Proof that single digit millionaires actually do have access to the legal sy
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by 13of40 5y ago
Along these same lines, buy a used, trailerable sailboat. You probably won't do as much sailing as you expect, but you can spend lots of afternoons doing little upgrades and repairs.
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by 13of40 5y ago
I looked into that at one point, but IIRC, the challenge was that the alternator was tuned to have the most optimal output when it was running at thousands of RPMs, so it's not just a matter of hooking wings to an alternator.
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by 13of40 5y ago
In recent centuries, flowers have evolved to be more attractive to humans because we've intentionally manipulated the evolutionary pressure on them. So it's not accidental, but it's our volition driving it, not the flowers&#
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by 13of40 5y ago
I noticed my local Home Depot has done away with the security tag scanners at the front of the store, apparently in favor of a cluster of new cameras above all the exits. I wonder if we're headed for just having an AI watch everyone a
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by 13of40 5y ago
That's something that strikes me every time I come home from Europe and wake up in the (Pacific Northwest) suburbs. The streets are wide, the sidewalks are clean, there are trees all over the place, and not a soul in sight.
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by 13of40 5y ago
I just write all the comments first, which forces me to think about the obstacles up front before any code is written.
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by 13of40 5y ago
What was the start time?
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by 13of40 5y ago
Just from what I hear on the video, I would say a few things: 1. It sounds like it's around 9600 baud. 2. It sounds sparse. 3. At that bit rate, that amount of data doesn't contain an image. My guess would be that one track is com
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by 13of40 5y ago
The work I did at Microsoft helped build thousands of businesses, and later on I helped secure thousands more. I find it truly strange that I shouldn't feel proud of that.
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by 13of40 5y ago
If this was the kind of hash where flipping one bit of the input completely scrambles the output, the bad guys would just flip one bit of the input to evade it. Obviously a PhotoDna type of hash is going to be be easier to cause a collisio
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by 13of40 5y ago
False positives, what if someone can poison the set of hashes, engineered collisions, etc. And what happens when you come up positive - does the local sheriff just get a warrant and SWAT you at that point? Is the detection of a hash prose
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by 13of40 5y ago
I'm not sure about jpeg, but with an algorithm like 'deflate' the encoder is constantly making decisions about whether it's more efficient to represent a series of bytes as a literal or as a reference to a previous serie
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by 13of40 5y ago
Gmail will block you from sending a a password-protected ZIP with anything potentially bad in it, like an EXE, because they can see the individual file headers and central directory, like you say. Unfortunately, if you have a ZIP inside a
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by 13of40 5y ago
Cmdlets can have provider-specific parameters, so in this case I would add a registry-provider-specific data type parameter with sensible default behavior to New-Item and Set-Content. For example... Set-Content hklm:\software\xyz\abc -value
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by 13of40 5y ago
> THC concentrations are much higher It's funny, because as far as I recall, that trope was a cornerstone of anti drug propaganda in the 80s. You can almost extrapolate that all of those poor beatniks and hippies were walking aroun
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by 13of40 5y ago
The guy who implemented that really did a disservice to the filesystem metaphor, though. Instead of making values analogous to files, they're properties of registry keys, so instead of Get/Set-Content, Get-ChildItem, etc. you nee
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by 13of40 5y ago
IIRC, optimal was measured by how many quarters you put in the machine.
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by 13of40 5y ago
The answer to that question is the volume of the building minus some factor (let's say 40%) for other stuff like walls and floors, etc. times the number of tennis balls you can fit in a given space, like a cubic meter. Basically... x
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by 13of40 5y ago
When I worked there in the early 2000's I had a friend of a friend whose fiancée graduated with a bachelor's degree in either CS or EE and applied for a developer position. Somehow, and I struggle to understand the mechanics of t
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by 13of40 5y ago
At some point in the distant past I was working on a tool that would identify PowerShell script using the built in parsing API. It was astonishing the wide variety of files that parsed without error, including a lot of XML files.
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by 13of40 5y ago
The impact of that is asymmetrical, though. A company that's making 1% profit (thinking a rural TV station here, not necessarily Google) can't afford to lose 10% of it's viewers, so they dial down their programming to the le
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by 13of40 5y ago
No, I have simple ones by design. I don't need my earbuds launching me into a cardio workout or a meditative breathing session if I touch them in the wrong spot. (Looking at you, Samsung.)
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by 13of40 5y ago
I just ran into one of these. I just got a Garmin Fenix Pro 6 watch, and it has a Spotify client on it. Just create a playlist on your phone or computer, then download and play it from your watch with Bluetooth. Sweet! Unfortunately it
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by 13of40 5y ago
Or to the guy you're subletting from.
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by 13of40 5y ago
Or acknowledge that the "E" in "ETA" stands for "estimated", not "promised".

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