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by MertsA 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File:Ene... Man I wish HN had reply notifications.
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by MertsA 7y ago
Try changing the last two characters and see if it still lets you in. It's not that uncommon that people mix up when to filter input and when to validate it.
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by MertsA 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-9fEoeNc3I
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by MertsA 7y ago
The 2010-ish model Jeeps had a habit of doing exactly that. Here's a video showing a bunch of similar catastrophic fires in Jeep Wranglers occurring without any sort of collision. And of course Chrysler's special investigators alm
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by MertsA 7y ago
It's "collateral" for the contract. Locking the phone is their way of putting a "lien" on it. Taking people to court over relatively small unsecured debts will eat through a good chunk of the margin that telecom com
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by MertsA 7y ago
The only reason a squatter ever registers expiring domain names is to capitalize on someone else's mistake and to see if they can extort some cash out of someone or take over a domain with existing backlinks for black hat SEO reasons.
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by MertsA 7y ago
Is that really an issue though? Unkillable is fine so long as it immediately handles the kill -9 as soon as it's unfrozen without running any additional syscalls.
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by MertsA 7y ago
Not to mention, if you want to make sure that the waste won't be left just orbiting in the solar system or irradiating Venus or something then you need to either bring its orbit down into the surface of the sun or accelerate it to the
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by MertsA 7y ago
>the (unverified) rumour that I was told is that they built a matchbox sized singe use battery that in theory could power a car for 400 kms. Unless it was run off of antimatter this is just flat out made up. Even if you start with the as
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by MertsA 7y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, on the flipside, this is a completely custom prototype for only a little over a week of machine time and a few hours of hand finishing. It would be absurd to try and manufacture that case at volume using 3d
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by MertsA 7y ago
Argh, no support for WPA Enterprise??? We're literally stuck with open unencrypted networks with captive portal sign on because the configuration process for WPA Enterprise is so convoluted. This would have been far more helpful if it
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by MertsA 7y ago
Er... I don't think you've completely taken into account what you're proposing. Due to the square-cube law, splitting a pipeline into two smaller pipelines means that in order to have the same total cross-sectional area you w
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by MertsA 7y ago
My current driver's license photo is over a decade old and doesn't expire until 2023. At least when I renewed my license they didn't want to update the photo of me when I was 16 and just renewed it for 8 years. In theory I&#x
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by MertsA 7y ago
That might be an interesting problem for a generative adversarial network. Train it based on some large corpus of faces and then refine it based on searching for the input vector that most closely matches the original image and then just ch
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by MertsA 7y ago
Ugh, this is the worst part about this mess IMHO. U.S. law enforcement has time and time again shown that they are more than willing to argue in bad faith about statistics. This is going to turn out no different than fishing expeditions bas
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by MertsA 7y ago
Any paper in a landfill is going to decompose back into CO2. You'd be better off recycling it and reducing demand for lumber.
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by MertsA 7y ago
That's dangerous advice in many areas of the United States. In NYC if a police officer finds any kind of folding knife, regardless of how harmless, if he wants to arrest you he probably can under NYPD's absurd perversion of the la
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by MertsA 7y ago
That said, LED backlit LCDs are better than the old CCFL screens.
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by MertsA 7y ago
So is the backdated blog posts edited after the fact (thank you internet archive for proving that). So was the fake PGP key, again backdated and created with a version that didn't even exist back when it was dated. Craig Wright is an i
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by MertsA 7y ago
The wireguard kernel implementation can't but AFAIK you should be able to run a userspace implementation like the rust version just fine.
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by MertsA 7y ago
Yeah but this is different. The cost of adding e.g. MACsec on a long haul link is a rounding error compared to the costs of the link.
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by MertsA 7y ago
>Thorium [...] can't be used to produce weapons-grade Plutonium Sure it can. Thorium breeder reactors do not burn Thorium as Thorium is not fissile. Thorium is fertile and a blanket of Thorium is used to generate fissile Uranium. It
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by MertsA 7y ago
> Helen Caldicott is the laughing stock of many respectable scientists. Don't make me dig up some of the ridiculous stuff she's said. She's a true clown. Oh please do, she truly is a quack. https://www.youtube.c
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Ask HN: What do you personally host on your servers?
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by MertsA 7y ago
Especially given that key distribution is totally up to Apple and the end user has no practical way to verify that the key for "My iMac" is really the same key that's actually used by your iMac.
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by MertsA 7y ago
Also one big deal is how Apple handles key distribution. They absolutely could MitM that connection to get access to the user's keychain and the UI doesn't really give the user any feasible way to detect that Apple has added their
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by MertsA 7y ago
One way or another highways have portions where there has to be a solid, flat, vertical surface on the edges of barriers, exit ramps, etc. It's similar in many ways to the hairy ball theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by MertsA 8y ago
And yet, their accuracy is poor to say the least and no objective, informed, reasonable person would conclude that a drug dog scratching someone's paint would be considered probable cause. But here we are.
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by MertsA 8y ago
Unfortunately I can't edit the previous comment anymore but you're right. Originally I was under the assumption that the conjecture that the propellant valve failed or started leaking upstream from it was correct. However, it appe
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by MertsA 8y ago
There was no or very little monomethylhydrazine released. If there was, it would have reacted with the nitrogen tetroxide. Since it's hypergolic, it doesn't need to be under high temperatures or pressures to react. Just the two su

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