Kadin

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by Kadin 4y ago
If I had access to a time machine, while I'd certainly kill Hitler and Stalin first and second, whoever invented the concept of a "captive portal" would end up dead before I ran out of bullets. Just a stupid idea, badly imple
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by Kadin 4y ago
Doesn't make sense for a couple of reasons. First, unless the satellite / bomb dispenser happens to be in the right orbit at the right time, you'd have to do some significant maneuvering on orbit. This is expensive in terms
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by Kadin 4y ago
> the airforce demanded more cargo space for reasons they never fully elaborated on I have read in several places that one of the USAF's requests, re the dimensions of the Shuttle's Cargo Bay, was that it be big enough to hold
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by Kadin 4y ago
Really? Don't think I've ever seen a LoraWAN product in the wild. Lots of ZigBee stuff, lots of ESP8266-based WiFi stuff (which generally requires a crummy phone app to perform the initial WiFi setup), and a bit of Insteon stuff h
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by Kadin 4y ago
Last time I looked into it (I run a mailserver and mailman list for one of my hobby groups), S/MIME wouldn't change your "spamminess" reputation score. DKIM, DMARC, and SPF do, though, and basically are table stakes if y
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by Kadin 4y ago
Most filters (especially the 1" and thicker ones) are surprisingly sturdy across most dimensions except for torsion. Thinking about 3D printing, you could probably print a nice corner bit, that would hold the corner of 3 filters togeth
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by Kadin 4y ago
Old furnaces nearly always have big-ish squirrel cage blowers in them, and many are replaced before the fan motors fail for various reasons. In my area they are a reasonably frequent sight by the side of the road on bulk garbage day. If y
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by Kadin 4y ago
Because masquerading a controversial "feature" as a bug would be a good way to trial it, and see what the pushback from your users is like. Twitter doesn't have enough credibility left to deserve the benefit of the doubt.
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by Kadin 4y ago
Given the lead time of building a fab and producing components, trying to incentivize the production of specific devices that happen to be in short supply right now is probably not a great plan. The market does a pretty good job of sending
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by Kadin 4y ago
> If you're buying "tax-free" from a supplier, that part goes "onto your books" when it goes into your inventory. If you don't put that part into a product and sell it relatively quickly, you owe tax on that
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by Kadin 4y ago
Seems a bit strange that Phoenix would be a desirable place to build a fab, given how water-intensive most processes are. Yes, the water can and should be recycled... but it just seems weird to build a plant like that in one of the parts o
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by Kadin 4y ago
> dissolved copper You would think that dissolved copper would have some recovery value, given the price of copper. I am reminded of the waste from silver halide photographic processing, which at one point was just dumped into rivers (an
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by Kadin 5y ago
Well, he only ended up doing 6 months in jail -- maybe not the strongest motivation for "OPSEC".
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by Kadin 5y ago
I think the idea was more than just for display purposes. There was an idea that the telephone-switching address space and public Internet could be combined, because the devices were converging towards each other. So an address in .tel wou
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by Kadin 5y ago
Yes, but the speed at which the behavior spread (at least on Twitter) was clearly a sort of viral phenomenon, and certainly looked like a fad. Maybe it'll stick around if it's useful to enough people, maybe it won't, maybe a
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by Kadin 5y ago
> I’m absolutely certain that Elon musk isn’t the first person to come up with the idea of reusable rockets, and the people who actually did the work of designing those rockets were already around before Elon musk hired them. Tom Mueller
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by Kadin 5y ago
The draft standard was an IEEE proposal, not an IETF one (RFCs are specific to the IETF standardization process), but it seems like the author was pretty familiar with the IEEE process and is involved with that organization. Maybe it was ju
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by Kadin 5y ago
I think Amex's sales pitch to merchants probably revolved around their cardholders being particularly affluent or spendy customers, likely to spend more. In the past they owned a big chunk of the corporate credit card space, so a busin
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by Kadin 5y ago
Nothing about "put it on a blockchain" helps that. If you are actually putting the page contents onto the blockchain, you have basically constructed an append-only, replicated database. Which will almost certainly become unmanage
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by Kadin 5y ago
I've used several Dell business laptops, most from the Latitude Exxx series, and they are great machines. From what I can tell, they were made to compete directly with the IBM/Lenovo T-series Thinkpads. Similar form factor, abili
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by Kadin 5y ago
Seems arguable -- but if that's the case, they are one of the lesser offenders in the market right now. The lifespan of much of Apple's hardware is considerably longer than most competitors' products. This is especially true
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by Kadin 5y ago
RCS has been a "thing" for years but nobody has bothered using it, because it's terrible. Last time I checked it didn't even have E2EE.
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by Kadin 5y ago
> Those I know on iphone also rarely using iMessage. I think there is a significant US vs. ex-US difference in how people use messaging. I am in the US and very few older adults I know use over-the-top messaging apps, with perhaps the e
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by Kadin 5y ago
So, it's brand new. Got it. Hell, I have shirts older than the language it's written in. In 20 years, I might not even be able to find a working compiler to build it, after the shiny-object crowd moves on to something else. You k
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by Kadin 5y ago
Maybe he doesn't want to create a permanent record of the router/AP hardware that they are using, that could easily be found by someone Googling their username?
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by Kadin 5y ago
> There are still a lot of things I don't understand here but gotta give Youtube a slow-clap moment for their devious ingenuity. Well, sorta. They have basically come up with a DRM scheme by another name. They're always just
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by Kadin 5y ago
Web Rings: the original social media network.
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by Kadin 5y ago
Honestly, at this point we should classify "Email HTML" as a different subspecies than regular ol' Web HTML. They evolved from a common ancestor, sure, but Email HTML is like some sort of flightless bird on a remote Pacific
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by Kadin 5y ago
Yeah, I clicked over to see if this was a joke or a mistake. I'm still honestly not sure. It was definitely "Dynamic HTML". Just a few weeks ago, I threw out a bunch of old issues of MacWorld... one of them had a cover artic
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by Kadin 5y ago
> When everything is reality, there can be no satire. Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

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