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by 13of40 3y ago
Considering people make a hobby of shooting tiny clay disks out of the air with shotguns, and anyone can buy a pump action 12-gauge for less than $500, I don't see how a DJI style drone can be a threat to someone who's prepared t
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by 13of40 3y ago
The case I bought from Frys for my last desktop build a few years ago has a power LED that lights up half the room. I taped a penny over it.
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by 13of40 3y ago
The strange irony there is they seem to be making the mobile site worse over time to drive people to the app, and if that's intentional they must be paying some developer to do it and some manager to tell them the game plan. Imagine b
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by 13of40 3y ago
The real question is does it turn nut brown on one side if you leave it next to the window for ten years.
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by 13of40 3y ago
The only reason I haven't bought one of those at Whole Foods is I don't want to deal with the cops seeing it in the cup holder in my car. Much better to buy the plastiboard container that says "Just Water" on the side[1
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by 13of40 3y ago
Conspiracy theory: Hacker news is actually just a thin layer of code with a subreddit as its back end.
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by 13of40 3y ago
What I see is interesting behavior, though: 1. The page loads but no content is shown on either the home page or my profile page. 2. It says I'm not logged in. 3. It has a list of recent subs I've looked at. I have no idea what
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by 13of40 3y ago
It's a device for motivating horses to pull your carriage, which was high tech at one time but was obsoleted by the introduction of the motor car. It became a metaphor for technologies obsoleted by other advancements. The irony is th
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by 13of40 3y ago
I've actually wondered why projects like WINE and ReactOS didn't just start with Windows and replace one DLL at a time until there was no Windows code left. Then again, it seems weird that we hyper focus on the value of the sourc
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by 13of40 3y ago
It's kind of interesting that emotionally I agree with that feeling, but if you just look at the fact that I'm reading what you wrote in real time from the most remote island chain in the world, and with a couple of finger swipes
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by 13of40 3y ago
I haven't read it in years, but I think 35 was part of a bigger argument that past a certain point everything in modern life is either impossible or trivially easy to achieve, so people seek outlets in hobbies, etc. Not universally tr
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by 13of40 3y ago
Man, those are Hacker News numbers. About 300 times as many people have upvoted my drunken rants on Reddit.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Remember how the US went into Afghanistan with HMMWVs (aluminum bodied cars with canvas doors) and M16a2s (full length battle rifles with iron sights) and left with MRAPs and A4s. You learn stuff when you switch from training to combat.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think the Seattle Public Library has a complete archive of BYTE magazine if you ever feel like spending a weekend typing a Lunar Lander simulator into a TI-99/4a emulator. You know, for old times sake.
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by 13of40 3y ago
My point is that unless they can make a case that some random email from your inbox is 99.9% likely to be malicious, then they should not be able to read it. Yes they have a button that lets them read it, but they should not press that but
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by 13of40 3y ago
Assuming a security analyst is allowed to look at content that's been identified as malicious beyond some threshold like 99.9%... And in order to address emerging threats, they should be able to apply their judgement based on threat in
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by 13of40 3y ago
> something incomprehensible for humans This might be buggy whip talk, but I wonder if you could take the same system and apply it to smaller problems (e.g. computing an 8-bit hash) so the novel techniques could be identified and used by
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by 13of40 3y ago
Just to stay grounded in reality, yes there is intelligent non-human life in space. No, based on what we know about physics, we will never interact with them. Occam's Razor says the GP is correct and this is intentional deception - e
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by 13of40 3y ago
I actually had great success raising corn in a raised bed in western Washington state. Probably one of the easiest things I've grown. At the time we had galvanized steel mesh about 10 inches underneath the surface to keep moles out,
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by 13of40 3y ago
I don't think it was the idea behind ActiveX that made it suck, it was the implementation. Back when we were making Windows XP I found a ton of exploits where you could load an arbitrary COM component from a web page and buffer overru
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by 13of40 3y ago
This might seem crazy, but I can imagine a world where the first time my browser encounters a file of some new format it gives me the option to download a codec to render it and it doesn't matter if it's google software or not, ju
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by 13of40 3y ago
I implemented VBA in C# a few years ago for malware analysis, and my takeaway is...well, it's a hard project. Possibly as hard as I've ever done, but a big part of that was guaranteeing bug-for-bug and type conversion compatibili
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think google does OK with the syntax it still supports for text queries, but if you switch to the images tab it just thows all of that stuff out the window. I would love to be able to search for "cat eating watermelon" or whate
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by 13of40 3y ago
First of all, what makes you think that person is American? Secondly, "American" means a group of 350 million people who have a broader diversity of race, culture, religion, etc. than any other country on earth or even in history
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think my taxes would be the most boring audit ever, but the point is you need to have a system for indexing the stuff in case you need to find something and you need to set some kind of retention period (possibly a flexible one depending
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by 13of40 3y ago
After years of trying to perfect my home "office" system, I just have a 2-year stack of correspondence (electric bills and whatever) , which works out to about about a ream of paper. Upon intake I stamp the date in the upper righ
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by 13of40 3y ago
I think to an English speaker with no other prejudice those would both be pronounced "wine-er". We all know that it's pronounced "ween-er" but the idea that it means someone from Vienna or something in Viennese sty
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by 13of40 3y ago
From the Wiki page, the goal of this is to organize your work in a queue based on the due date of each item. The challenge for me would be that every work item I have in home or business life needs to be done ASAP as long as the next most
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by 13of40 3y ago
Perhaps, but that doesn't make it untrue and I feel like it's at least worth a thought.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I had pain in my right shoulder for a few years, so severe that some days I couldn't raise my arm higher than horizontal. I eventually figured out it was because my mouse pad was way off to the right, and that was because of the numbe

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