ErikCorry

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by ErikCorry 4y ago
This smart plug has an ESP32 microcontroller in it. Using 200 lines of Toit code and libraries for NTP, HTTPS, JSON, etc., it fetches the current electricity price from a free online service and uses it to switch on a lava lamp only when th
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Using 3 is pretty dodgy, unless they are approximating pi.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Here another illustration of how slices sometimes alias each other, sometimes not. https://mobile.twitter.com/erikcorry/status/1561635841495236...
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
This made me want to re-read "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller".
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Fascinating
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
A super regressive tax for young people who live alone.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
According to Hersh the bombs were planted during joint naval exercises. That's a time when lots of people would be surprised to see a ship sailing around with its transponders off. Your link is about illegal electronic surveillance and
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
You didn't engage with the truth of their respective Skripal affair output at all. I could have mentioned Hersh's account of the killing of Bin Laden too. At this point his track record is a lot longer than it is good. I can'
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Compare Seymour Hersh's codswallop on the Skripal affair with the excellent work done by Bellingcat. It's clear that in this case the mainstream media got it mostly right and Hersh made a dog's breakfast of it. This colours m
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Counterpoint: People are dumb on average and their citizen journalism will be even worse. I don't think it's a good idea for journalists to proclaim that they are abandoning objectivity. https://reason.com/2020&#x2
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Complete red herring. The question as asked does not require a conspiracy. It doesn't even require all news organizations to be pulling in the same direction.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
That seems like the best explanation. See https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones... for a fleshed out version of that argument. I think what changed is that the US decided to stop ignoring th
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
"Many contactless cards issued outside the UK can be used to pay as you go for travel (overseas transaction fees may apply): American Express (AMEX) MasterCard and Maestro (some cards issued in the USA, Canada and the Netherlands aren&
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Seems like this could be fixed with a blacklist that was downloaded to the terminals periodically.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Good luck finding out ahead of time whether your foreign card is going to be accepted by the system. Also seems difficult for children who don't generally have credit cards.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Update: The NHS is actually imploding. It's a mixture of lack of money, lack of foreign (EU) workers, a wave of early retirement because of Covid and a huge increase in sick leave also mainly because of Covid. https://news.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
1) Ah of course, this is SHA256, my mistake. 2) If I and the upstream are both looking at a file that was generated by Github then the Sha may match, but that doesn't prove we weren't both owned by Github. Perhaps what I am missin
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
This seems like a weak argument. Firstly SHA is not a secure hash. Secondly if your build step involves uploading data to a third party then allowing them to transform it as they see fit and then checksumming the result then it's not r
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Do they let Github generate the archives as one of the build rules instead of performing the archival and compression locally and uploading the result?
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
You said "The Intel project is paying for highway development the power and sewer extensions and more."?
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
I think you are right, but this means the 230 haters will be super disappointed. Section 230 is absolutely clear that the social media companies are allowed to censor as much as they want. It's the express purpose of the section to all
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
It's worse than that. They sweetened the wine with lead. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-...
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
The letters pages controlled by billionaire newspaper owners were "the public square" yet the courts did not intervene.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
The Texas and Florida laws sound to me like compelled speech which the Court doesn't typically approve of. Section 230 increases free speech by limiting the liability of the platforms. I have a hard time seeing how that could be uncons
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
> "by following the program for manipulating symbols and numerals just as a computer does, he sends appropriate strings of Chinese characters back out under the door, and this leads those outside to mistakenly suppose there is a Chi
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Petrol engines get worn too.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
V8's Quicksort was written in JS so going out of bounds on an array access did the same as it would in any other JS program. As I recall, JS isn't super helpful about out of bounds accesses, but there's nothing memory-unsafe
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
I corrected the article.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Dart2JS is still a thing, but sort in JS is stable now since 2019 so DartVM should make theirs stable to stay compatible with Dart2JS.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Luckily this is a backwards-compatible change so sorokod should lobby the Dart team.

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