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by KMag 2y ago
According to the Matt Blaze article, the Radio Havana numbers station sends 3 messages per hour. At the start of the transmission, three 5-digit message identifiers are sent for the 3 messages to be transmitted. My guess is there's so
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by KMag 2y ago
Yes, but it seems I mixed up some details between the disappearance of Gui Minhai and the disappearance of his colleague Lee Bo. Gui Minhai was last seen in Thailand who showed up on Chinese TV asking Sweden not to investigate, and Lee Bo
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by KMag 2y ago
Yes, in North Point, right over the Wellcome near the MTR station. It was also right near the pedestrian overpass to the Chun Yeung Street Wet Market. (The overpass was covered when I moved in, but one morning the homeless encampment on t
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by KMag 2y ago
I lived there 2012 to 2021, and left my heart there. I'd likely still live there if I felt it were a better place to raise kids. In the treaty between China and the UK handing over HK, the people were promised eventual universal suffr
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by KMag 2y ago
Not just the Kowloon Walled City, but other locations in Hong Kong inspire lots of cyberpunk scenes. After living in Hong Kong for a few years, I re-watched Ghost in the Shell and was surprised to recognize the final scene as taking place
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by KMag 2y ago
Note that the walled city is just a small part of Kowloon district. The famous Kai Tak Airport was also in Kowloon (now converted into an event space), where airliners flew scarily close to buildings on final approach. I lived in Hong Kong
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by KMag 2y ago
My multiple experiences with ChatGPT hallucination, even at minimum temperature, leaves me preferring a web search answer. Just last week, jq hallucinated three different jq syntaxes that failed to parse. That being said, I had been using
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by KMag 2y ago
Granted death penalty opponents are biased, but it's often said that barbituate overdose is a very unpleasant way to die. I've also heard opiod overdose is unpleasant. I was once helping take down a 10-foot weather balloon full
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by KMag 2y ago
> The funny thing is that equipment wasn't even mine, Did you have a reputation for being good at debugging things? Expertise and experience in one area often has crossover in connected systems. I got pulled in to advise on an auto
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by KMag 2y ago
You'd probably want an alternative libc implementation rather than a compiler flag. However, calloc everywhere won't save you from smashing the stack or pointer type confusion (a common source of JavaScript exploits). Very rarely
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by KMag 2y ago
More likely, it goes back to the origins of our 7-day week. The ancient Romans had an 8-day week. Our 7-day week comes from the Jewish calendar, where supposedly the world was created on a Sunday, and the final day of the week is the Jew
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by KMag 3y ago
You'd be hard pressed to find anything absolutely toxin-free. Many toxins have non-linear effects, negligible at very low doses, so there are advantages to diversification. Even if you could find a handful of foods that are absolutely
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by KMag 3y ago
The heavy lifting is done by GPG in a subprocess, taking information on stdin or outputting the decrypted data on stdout. The rest is just generating the passwords, organizing the encrypted files, and perhaps interacting with the clipboard
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by KMag 3y ago
20 years ago, I was told there was such a beast for turning an Excel spreadsheet into a C# application, targeted at accelerating/productionizing financial models. I never used it, though.
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by KMag 3y ago
Yea, the wife came to me in a bit of a panic that her Facebook account got hacked. I tried logging in to FB to check if I had been unfriended, and I also got errors indicating my password was incorrect. My FB password is 96 bits from &#x2
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by KMag 3y ago
One thing that seems not widely understood is that the assumption of normal or log-normal distributions in stochastic calculus is like the assumption of linearity in most engineering fields. It's known to be incorrect, but you can do
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by KMag 3y ago
Honestly, the fan should ramp up to maximum speed if not explicitly set within the past 500 ms or something, and also have a high-water mark temperature that if crossed while the fan isn't at maximum speed causes the fan to run at maxi
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by KMag 3y ago
But, it might be possible to have a material that has different characteristics at different temperatures, as long as it's symmetric. If it's nearly opaque to IR in its cold state, hopefully sunlight at dawn would warm it rapidly
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by KMag 3y ago
I think you mean x <= 4, right?
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by KMag 3y ago
> You can take any high voltage power line and a metal plate and power a blinking light just by getting close to it! Well, for high-voltage DC transmission lines (typically used for longer distances to minimize induction loss), you'
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by KMag 3y ago
The short answer is that if you could answer that question in advance to a high accuracy, you could make billions as bond trader. In theory, you get paid similarly to regularly going out into the bond market and buying US government bonds
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by KMag 3y ago
The basic idea here is to use unused physical registers in a register-renaming processor as a level-0 cache. I imagine this is much easier to get good performance out of this technique on architectures with weaker memory models than x86.
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by KMag 3y ago
... and AoT-compiled at installation time! We didn't get this in mainstream software until Android Runtime started AoT-compiling Dalvik bytecode. As I've mentioned elsewhere, Android Runtime shows that AoT compilation doesn&#x27
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by KMag 3y ago
I was surprised Sun/Oracle's JVM (or Apple, after their 3rd architecture migration) never took a page from AS/400's TIMI (Technology Independent Machine Interface) and compile an architecture-independent representation t
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by KMag 3y ago
When I was young, we had kind of a surrogate grandmother who was a retired nurse anesthetist. She told us stories of the old days counting the pulse of patients, holding an eye dropper full of chloroform to add to the gauze mask over the pa
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by KMag 3y ago
It's conjectured, but not proven, that there is no efficient algorithm on classical computers to compute discrete logarithms over elliptic curves.
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by KMag 3y ago
I totally agree that joint failures by the British and Spanish government shouldn't be paid for by the victim. I'm just saying that there isn't any evidence that British intelligence asked for any restitution. I think they
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by KMag 3y ago
That's a great statement. DDG seems to think you came up with it. Is that so? Thank goodness I'm not inebriated near an all-night tattoo parlor.
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by KMag 3y ago
Who is the "We" in "We messed up" here? Presumably, the "We" is British intelligence, but it's Spanish prosecutors that were asking for the kid to reimburse the Spanish government for the cost of scramblin
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by KMag 3y ago
I'm not sure about adverse possession, but my understanding is that the church behind Cheung Kong Centre is the only place in Hong Kong that privately owns land rather than leasing land from the government for 99 years. It would be be

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