Gracana

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871.
by Gracana 10y ago
Manufacturers often apply some goopy glue on top of inductors to damp out some of the noise, like this: http://i.stack.imgur.com/144ui.png
872.
by Gracana 10y ago
I owned a thinkpad and I was not impressed with its repairability. It was a T61. You can get at the RAM and HD easily enough, but the rest is not made to come apart easily. Lots of taped bits and subtly different fasteners: I think I counte
873.
by Gracana 10y ago
I don't know if this will change your opinion any, but the danger of policing in the US has been in steady decline since the 70s or so.
874.
by Gracana 10y ago
There are laws against "brandishing a firearm," but different standards apply to cops.
875.
by Gracana 10y ago
LEDs can be pretty darn quick. My friend was able to use a status LED on his FPGA board as a toslink transmitter.
876.
by Gracana 10y ago
> some people on the 7-zip forums complained that users could unpack their installers and see hidden S/Ns wow I'll have to look for that in the future. I guess removing the disassembler from a common piece of software raises
877.
by Gracana 10y ago
> Most other operating systems are badly run as well. Doesn't mean that adding another layer of potential insecurity is justified. But if you go with another OS, that's the system you get and you miss out on the nice vulnerab
878.
by Gracana 10y ago
Oh man, this is wonderful. From the documentation: "The instructions that NSIS uses for scripting are sort of a cross between PHP and assembly. There are no real high level language constructs but the instructions themselves are (for t
879.
by Gracana 10y ago
With the amount of software you likely run on a desktop machine, your implicit web of trust is already pretty huge. Does trusting mtier really make that big a difference? How does it compare to the maintainers-and-build-bots infrastructure
880.
by Gracana 10y ago
> So many support people promised me good service but I never got it. That was my experience with comcast as well. So many friendly people who promised so much and they all delivered nothing. It was maddening. Months after I cancelled, I
881.
by Gracana 10y ago
For a while at the beginning, you needed a Lisa to program one. Maybe things will change with iDevices and we won't need the mac anymore?
882.
by Gracana 10y ago
You can disable those search results. I'm not on a Windows 10 computer right now so I can't tell you where to look, but I found the settings fairly easily once it gave up trying to search the internet for a "settings" pr
883.
by Gracana 10y ago
Investors will always want things cheaper, and they don't understand engineering. The responsibility of ensuring that the design is safe falls on the engineer who stamped the drawing. Situations like this are covered in engineering eth
884.
by Gracana 10y ago
Give a short answer and let them figure it out. Either they really don't need the details (maybe they can find them on their own, maybe they just need confirmation, maybe the details really aren't relevant, etc), or they suck at a
885.
by Gracana 10y ago
My TV does something similar. Best/worst example is if I display a black console with a blinking white cursor: the backlight flashes on and off from min to max brightness in time with the cursor. It is an abomination, a gimmick whose o
886.
by Gracana 10y ago
They seem okay as brain-dead action flicks, but they're star trek in costume only. I would to see a star trek movie in the style of a star trek TV episode, with suspense and strange phenomena and whatnot...
887.
by Gracana 10y ago
It's easier to find Linux admins and it's easier to look up Linux stack traces on SO. "Nobody ever got fired buying IBM," updated for the modern age.
888.
by Gracana 10y ago
A while back I posted a map of ordnance dumps, and there was some discussion about the danger: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923702
889.
by Gracana 10y ago
Would that improve your morale? I'd feel like I was in a cult. That is some next-level corporate lunacy.
890.
by Gracana 10y ago
That it doesn't matter how good they are; their skill could not explain the reason to spend that much money.
891.
by Gracana 10y ago
None of the trailers around here are like that, fwiw. All tall and open underneath.
892.
by Gracana 10y ago
I think you're making a big assumption about who is saying what.
893.
by Gracana 10y ago
That's a ridiculous interpretation of what I said. Nobody I know has ever had to bludgeon an animal to clean their yard, not even the person whose story spawned this whole thread.
894.
by Gracana 10y ago
It's entirely unnecessary cruelty. Taking a weapon with you so you can retaliate after you provoke an attack isn't a defensive strategy.
895.
by Gracana 10y ago
That doesn't sound anything like self defense.
896.
by Gracana 10y ago
> however, that will still be cheaper than completely building a 1st stage from scratch. For a lot of companies this sort of thing is not at all cheaper. They're set up for production, not for disassembly, inspection and refurbishme
897.
by Gracana 10y ago
Hell, look at canned vegetables. Most contain sugar; you have to buy more expensive frozen or fresh stuff if you want something unadulterated.
898.
by Gracana 10y ago
Whoops, yeah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
899.
by Gracana 10y ago
Micah Scott's toastermelt videos are another great example of reverse engineering workflow/techniques. More technical and detailed but still very accessible.
900.
by Gracana 10y ago
"The only proven methods of measuring intracranial pressure are invasive: the spinal tap or drilling a hole into the skull." Sounds like we need to test/prove something new. I did some searching for a wireless intracranial pr

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