3chelon

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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yeah I know the place, drive past it often (although the name change had passed me by). Was wondering where the UK intelligence link was in the original article.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Dark fluid, negative mass? Rubbish, it's turtles all the way down!
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes, I would have thought (pure speculation) that GCHQ could tap the backhaul at many different points and not have to depend on having backdoor access to every piece of equipment.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Not often I find my local rag referenced in HN, but I'm intrigued... where in the article does it mention UK intelligence? Martlesham is BT's R&D facility.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Happy to have found "antidisestablishmentarianism" in there!
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Perl has always let you split regexs across multiple lines, with freeform formatting and even comments. Absolute godsend for those (rare?!) times your regex gets a bit too complex for its own good...
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I remember trying to explain this to a bank I worked for a few years ago. The trouble is, they're all so hyped up by the buzzwords they don't listen. And before I knew it they'd hired a self-styled "blockchain consultant
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Wow, that's bad news. Whereabouts in the world are you?
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes I came pretty close to adding a PIR, but that was actually to catch rats that were coming in and stealing eggs. A camera with IR LEDs would work equally well, esp. if activated by a PIR.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
That's the same problem as Raspberry Pi. For output-only digital signals there are some 5V peripherals that will accept 3V3 input levels. And for input-only, you can use a potential divider. It's bidirectional where you need a pro
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by 3chelon 8y ago
The problem with fences is the underground part. I have relatives in France whose chickens were all killed by a fox digging under the fence. They say you need as much fence under the ground as you have above it. Your problem with being real
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Stop Being Afraid of Regexes(appcodelabs.com)
4 points by 3chelon 8y ago|0 comments
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by 3chelon 8y ago
+1 for the Slack idea - never even considered it.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Because there's simply no comparison in taste. Supermarket eggs taste like plastic in comparison to home-laid ones. Plus the hens recycle all your waste food into fresh eggs daily. What's not to like?
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by 3chelon 8y ago
If I was building it now I'd use an ESP8266 to replace the Arduino, XBee and RPi for a faction of the cost.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I've had my own design of one of these up and running for about 5 years now. I should probably write it up. I used a normal (non-stepper) motor with some gearbox I found in an old cassette player. The door limits are detected using ree
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Each z14 has "approximately 20,000" C4 solder bumps, i.e. connections! That's astounding.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but my real friends are those I actually stay in touch with. I have their phone number, email address, whatever. The point is, I don't need another social network for that. Social networks always gr
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by 3chelon 8y ago
You are right, but that's not really an apocalypse but a localised civil war. Admittedly, it would be good to be prepared for that, but I think leaving the area altogether would be a more optimal solution than grabbing weapons.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes, electricity is a massive problem. You need solar or a wind turbine, and a lot of car batteries too.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I'll grant you that the media representations are bad. I've never met a real live prepper, only ever seen them on TV, and I guess the ones they interview on TV are the ones who make the best TV. You're right the basics are bo
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by 3chelon 8y ago
What's more, how are they going to make it out of the city on clogged highways? Especially when the ICBMs are already airborne? I live in the country already. We have chickens, and a well. We won't get murdered in the urban panic.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
And this is the problem with preppers in general. I don't know if it's too much Walking Dead or just a mindset they have to start with, but as someone else pointed out they seem to be far more obsessed with guns than with clean wa
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I've been thinking this for years. I have no idea where the western powers are going to find the number of skilled hackers they'll need to counter the state-run threats coming from China and Russia. Unfortunately in the free marke
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App Store Connect Has Been Down All Morning
1 points by 3chelon 8y ago|0 comments
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by 3chelon 8y ago
We might be being trolled by Trump.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
> Having four USB-C ports with identical capabilities on a MacBook pro is a more pragmatic and flexible solution to have, when compared to MagSafe. A more pragmatic solution to what? Everything I plug into these ports is via some ugly
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by 3chelon 8y ago
lol (if you'll pardon the irony of that)... Although I grant you that plenty of baby boomers (and even older folks) do in fact use emojis, you can't seriously be arguing that they do so more than younger generations? I would love
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by 3chelon 8y ago
This is why I so love the millenials' habit of communicating via hieroglyphs when we have perfectly good words.
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“Teardown” of a $1.3M Oscilloscope(hackaday.com)
3 points by 3chelon 8y ago|1 comments

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