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by Maxious 4y ago
Post MH370, ADS-B data is relayed by Iridium satellites: > Aireon has deployed a space-based air traffic surveillance system for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped aircraft throughout the entire globe. Aireon is
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by Maxious 4y ago
Actual weather balloons transmit on internationally agreed common frequencies https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/wmo-and-itu-update-radi... Amateur radio operators monitor these frequencies https:/&#x
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by Maxious 4y ago
> If you give an AI a simple 3-digit addition problem, it will certainly fail. Q: what is 123 added to 321 ChatGPT: 123 added to 321 is 444.
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by Maxious 4y ago
> Adderall increases the level of serotonin in your body, which can cause your appetite to decrease, leading to weight loss. This can be a good thing if you are trying to lose weight, but it can also cause stomach pain.
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by Maxious 4y ago
At least 830 documented incidents in 2020 including over 140 police violence incidents against journalists specifically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_violence_incide... There have been 104 incidents of
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by Maxious 4y ago
alternative meaning "a foolish gullible person" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sap
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by Maxious 4y ago
There was an unexpected package update released a couple of days ago, the first in over 2 years https://twitter.com/Y4tacker/status/1580193254665920513
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by Maxious 4y ago
> ThreatExchange (aka TX or TE) is used by multiple companies to share signals on a variety of topics intended to prevent real world harm. Some examples of how TX is currently used include sharing malware, phishing scams, and terrorism s
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by Maxious 4y ago
Extensions are being deprecated anyway https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/release/4.0#:~:text=Your%...
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by Maxious 4y ago
Windows 95! Apparently the band didn't even know about it, the record label approved it https://genius.com/a/weezer-had-no-idea-the-music-video-for-...
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by Maxious 4y ago
It seemed like ISPs with east coast Vocus backhaul (going to SYD rather than MEL/PER POPs - TIL there's also CBR/BNE/ADL) had it worst trying to get to the status page but as the timeline shows, cloudflare was probably a
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by Maxious 4y ago
20k was the December 2017 peak of the ICO craze. I guess NFTs are the new ICOs/DAOs?
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by Maxious 4y ago
It's not exactly a great name for the team but it gets across the point - we handle developer experience from the point you want to push your code to when you merge it, so we also work on communicating with CI/CD, code review&#x2F
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by Maxious 4y ago
As mentioned in the blog "we are moving towards providing a known version of git", probably Microsoft Git which includes the scalar command but also upstreams many of the optimizations to git core https://github.com&#x2
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We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned(canvatechblog.com)
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> California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN Act). Under this Act, the right of employers to lay workers off for reasons bordering on business necessity is curtailed. Employers who plan to lay 50 or more employees o
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by Maxious 4y ago
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act says layoffs of >100 FTE within a 30 day window have to be reported 60 days in advance. California state law is even stricter at >50 FTE.
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by Maxious 4y ago
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/mobile-phone-location-data... The Melbourne CBD pedestrian counters are open data... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-08/victoria-melbourne-co...
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by Maxious 4y ago
As sibling comment has pointed out the protocol for a cellular service to request GPS data directly RRLP, is part of the LCS (LoCation Services) section of 3gpp. And if you run your own cellular service using OpenBSC you can try it out... &
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by Maxious 5y ago
Ironically, the most credible evidence is leaks of internal wikileaks communications: The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/
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by Maxious 5y ago
> “Out of an abundance of caution, we are removing user contributions like photos, videos, reviews and business information and all user-submitted places from Google Maps in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus since the invasion began, and are t
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by Maxious 5y ago
There is a sort of this thing for demand response - ie. the electricity company urgently needs to reduce load and are willing to pay you for it. Of course, the appliance manufacturers have to provide a way for electricity companies that use
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by Maxious 5y ago
The newest documentation is when the internet got turned off for Kazakhstan, the hash rates of mining pools went down. Alot. https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1478764142957846531
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by Maxious 5y ago
> Firefox Suggest sends Mozilla search terms and information about engagement with Firefox Suggest, some of which may be shared with partners to provide and improve the suggested content. https://blog.mozilla.org/data&#x2
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by Maxious 5y ago
> CBRS is a band of wireless spectrum – a 150 MHz wide contiguous band of the 3.5 GHz band > Though the FCC will auction CBRS licenses, called Priority Access Licenses (PALs), enterprises will still be able secure General Authorized A
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by Maxious 5y ago
> In 15 years, we'd get 10 doublings, which would make modern computers 1000x faster. Our original Toy Story frames were averaging four hours, which is 240 minutes, so we might naively expect that we could render frames in just 15 s
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by Maxious 5y ago
Yes it was immediately attempted to be challenged but as a result of Trump's supreme Court appointee, the case was not accepted https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/us/supreme-court-texas-ab...
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by Maxious 6y ago
> Apple Pay data that has been disassociated from you may be retained for a limited period of time to generally improve Apple Pay and other Apple products and services. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210665
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by Maxious 6y ago
> Don’t ever format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode > Because Apple doesn’t put a warning alerting that it doesn’t really format a drive and Big Sur installer is stupid and it doesn’t see it as a “clean” drive but it see the “Da
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by Maxious 6y ago
You can add Map Notes which aren't seen as threatening to the extent some apps that use OSM as their base map let their users directly send them in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes

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