MertsA

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721.
by MertsA 9y ago
>There is no appropriate extinguisher when you have a thermal runaway on 20 kWh of chemical energy. Yes there is, it's called a hose. But you're right, that 20 kWh isn't just going to up and disappear. I think it's re
722.
by MertsA 9y ago
The first reports indicated that the driver claimed they didn't notice the pedestrian until they heard the collision.
723.
by MertsA 9y ago
When your resolution is low enough to not see this they stop calling it LIDAR and start calling it a rangefinder. If this was actually a fundamental limitation of the sensor then that's the crappiest LIDAR unit I've ever heard of.
724.
by MertsA 9y ago
Just run a local caching resolver, on Linux that is super easy and uses little resources.
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by MertsA 9y ago
To add to this, I've seen that stupid hosts file blacklist from SpyBot cause some Windows network service get locked up for 40 seconds every time the laptop was resumed from suspend or booted up in Windows 7. Parsing the hosts file too
726.
by MertsA 9y ago
Well it was a pedestrian but they were walking their bike across the road. It's not like the software should make a distinction between a cyclist in the way and a bicycle with no rider in the way.
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by MertsA 9y ago
Jury selection does absolutely everything possible to weed out jurors who wouldn't be impartial. Also the jury doesn't decide the punishment, the jury only determines if the prosecution has proved their case beyond a reasonable do
728.
by MertsA 9y ago
The thing that gets me is that they are simultaneously making claims that some of those vulnerabilities can't just be fixed with a quick firmware update and that they would allow for a backdoor that could never be removed. If the flaw
729.
by MertsA 9y ago
Aren't there pretty big unsolved problems with recharging Aluminum air batteries?
730.
by MertsA 9y ago
Not totally sure what they meant by that but in fairness the Trump administration has had a tremendously high turnover and there's a great deal of important positions left open in the government because the Trump administration either
731.
by MertsA 9y ago
Even the kernel can't modify its own code and persist through a reboot. The kernel only loads signed code that isn't malicious, the bootloader only loads signed kernels that aren't malicious and don't allow you to run ma
732.
by MertsA 9y ago
The whole point of signing everything from the bootloader on down is to make sure that even ring 0 control over the computer can't persist through a reboot. Allowing signatures to work the way it was suggested would break any hope of s
733.
by MertsA 9y ago
Checking at install time is effectively useless. The whole point of running signed code is that you can't just load some rootkit. Secure Boot only loads a signed bootloader which only loads a signed kernel which only loads signed kerne
734.
by MertsA 9y ago
In fairness, can you name a time in WW2 where the US government intentionally killed US citizens without regard to due process? There is supposed to be a strict separation of never using the military against the citizens of the united state
735.
by MertsA 9y ago
It probably wasn't sagging that killed it. Over time those elements will develop hot spots and eventually the hot spot fails spectacularly spewing sparks and plasma from the failure. It's kind of similar to a plasma cutter for a s
736.
by MertsA 9y ago
Switching the user agent isn't enough because it's not blindly relying on the user agent. It's actually doing feature detection so if your browser doesn't support whatever features used for remote desktop it'll give
737.
by MertsA 9y ago
Yeah but what exoplanet is going to have more oxygen sources than sinks? Just look at Mars, tons of oxygen, but none of it free oxygen.
738.
by MertsA 9y ago
In fairness, all of those private keys were already compromised from the start. I have no clue why the CEO decided to take such harmful action to his own company, but one way or another all of those certificates needed to be reissued.
739.
by MertsA 9y ago
I mean strictly in the sense that we already have root servers pointing to TLDs pointing to individual domains all the way down. I'm not suggesting DANE in particular here I'm suggesting trust one "Super CA" that signs a
740.
by MertsA 9y ago
Another thing to consider, HughesNet is up at 22,500mi but also at the equator whereas StarLink is basically going to be much closer to straight up.
741.
by MertsA 9y ago
Am I the only one who thinks the way we deal with certificates is just completely backwards? Why should there even be a CA at all for DV certs? We already have to trust the registrar as ultimately they can get whatever DV certs they want so
742.
by MertsA 9y ago
Cooling fins and a fan don't do too much in some applications like a starter motor dealing with heat soak next to a nice, toasty engine.
743.
by MertsA 9y ago
Or for something even cleaner than a program trying to parse plaintext logs you can use a PAM module. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pam_abl
744.
by MertsA 9y ago
Don't forget, brick and mortar also holds moisture and is porous. This can lead to spalling in cold weather and rotting whatever's behind it in warm weather. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1m5VShzxYs
745.
by MertsA 9y ago
It's not just new constructions, ground pin on the top has been the "correct" orientation for a long time. They've been installed "upside down" this whole time but that's what stuck. It's not in the N
746.
by MertsA 9y ago
>Both carry current. But not power. Power is volts * amps, and the neutral is defined as zero volts (if you ignore the voltage drop). What he has already pointed out is that voltage is a relative unit. Zero volts by itself is meaningless
747.
by MertsA 9y ago
> At least with the NSA there is some hope of reigning them in when they overstep. Honestly? The response to the Snowden leaks would seem to indicate the opposite.
748.
by MertsA 9y ago
To quote someone else on HN in the past You should be worried about the government who has the power to imprison you. The US absolutely does make lists of "suspicious" citizens. Just look at what the FBI did to protestors of the k
749.
by MertsA 9y ago
You got that backwards. Hard forks make blocks that are not considered valid by previous versions. Soft forks make blocks that are considered valid by previous versions. A soft fork does stuff like e.g. changing Bitcoin blocks to be 512KB i
750.
by MertsA 9y ago
The aftermath of this was the most confusing thing ever. In the screen in the background that they forgot about, right when the smoke clears the crowd started cheering. We also could only see the left half of the barge. It certainly left ev

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