FabHK

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by FabHK 8mo ago
Anytime there is any law about anything you can say that it's ultimately backed "using state violence". That's just silly. As silly as the notion that there shouldn't be any rules and limits whatsoever about what y
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by FabHK 8mo ago
Tim Cook memorably said (in 2014): "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI." How come the board hasn't eliminated him?
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by FabHK 8mo ago
> If you do not like working with the military, ... Eh? But they do like to work with the military. How else are you going to "defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries"? They want
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by FabHK 8mo ago
My point is that it's ok to use unencrypted plain text if you don't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret"), AND furthermore you don't care if it's modified. If you don't care that it's re
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by FabHK 8mo ago
Sure. But, contrary to what some people seem to think, "it's nothing secret" is not a sufficient justification to use an unencrypted plain-text protocol.
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by FabHK 8mo ago
Traffic could be tampered as well.
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by FabHK 8mo ago
Still a bit of a bummer that with Apple, you pay a premium to escape the ad-based ecosystem^W cesspool, both for the hardware and then here for Apple News itself, and then still not only get served ads, but tasteless scam ads.
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by FabHK 8mo ago
Maybe the more appropriate conclusion would be that both cooling and power supply would constitute very tough challenges.
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by FabHK 9mo ago
First, thanks for your knowledgeable input. Second, are you saying that we basically need to have a radiator as big (approximately) as the solar panels? That is a lot, but it does sound manageable, in the sense that it approximately doubles
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by FabHK 9mo ago
The other two methods of heat transfer apart from radiation are conduction (through “touch”, adjacent molecules, eg from the outside of a chicken on the BBQ to the inside) and convection (through movement, eg cold air or water flowing past)
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by FabHK 9mo ago
Pet peeve: T^4 is not exponential in T, it’s polynomial. For exponential, T must be in the exponent, e.g. 2^T or so. Still, pretty effective. Having said that, agree that Elon is full of it.
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by FabHK 9mo ago
> it's not (necessarily) related to Windows at all here as described in TFA. The article doesn't claim that it's Windows related. The article is very clear in explaining that the spec requires =CRLF (3 characters), then me
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Data Centers in Spaaaace(blog.dshr.org)
3 points by FabHK 9mo ago|0 comments
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by FabHK 9mo ago
It should be detectable if it sends twice the data.
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by FabHK 9mo ago
Telegram defaults to not e2ee; you have to initiate a "secret" chat to get e2ee.
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by FabHK 9mo ago
And Apple won't let you add all your "trusted phone numbers" to all those accounts. So, if you are in country A and your country B phone can't receive SMSs, and you get a new device, you can't log into country B acc
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by FabHK 9mo ago
FWIW, there is a hidden option to automatically resize columns to accommodate the longest (up to a point) visible file name: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/26/hidden-pref-col...
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by FabHK 9mo ago
They detected one of the very small Victorinox pocket knifes in my hand luggage at HKG airport and kept it; but I was given the option of picking it up at the carrier's airport office upon return.
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by FabHK 9mo ago
From what I can gather, the best estimates for pre-vaccine, 2020 Wuhan/Alpha strain IFR are about 0.5% to 0.8%, approaching 1%, depending very much on the age structure (age 75+ had an IFR of 5-15%). The current effective IFR (very oft
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by FabHK 9mo ago
John Ioannidis is a weird case. His work on the replication crisis across many domains was seminal and important. His contrarian, even conspiratorial take on COVID-19 not so much.
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by FabHK 9mo ago
"US firm confirms it will comply with US law if asked."
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The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally.(electrek.co)
16 points by FabHK 9mo ago|2 comments
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Tesla to stop selling FSD package, moves to subscription-only: why a big move(electrek.co)
3 points by FabHK 9mo ago|1 comments
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by FabHK 9mo ago
And tax is not theft.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
BMW sells baseball caps. It's a luxury fashion brand.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
> That's millions and millions of dollars in savings year over year compared the cost of paying humans, and it gets rid of the perverse incentives that lead to things like sub-standard materials being used, so that you have to repla
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Hong Kong (while obviously quite different) is similar in the sense that many urban areas are fairly compact and walkable, and regions of very high density housing alternate with parks, forests, playgrounds, zoological gardens, water front,
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by FabHK 10mo ago
In Mandarin you're also well advised to learn the measure word for any noun along with it.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Not an expert, but some "to IPA" websites I checked transcribes "the huge human" as "ðə hjuːʤ ˈhjuːmən", but "ich" (voiceless palatal fricative) as "iç" (and "ach" (voiceless velar
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by FabHK 10mo ago
In his book The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy , John DeFrancis calls the English orthography the worst among the alphabetic ones, and Japanese the worst among the logographic ones.

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