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by MertsA 5y ago
For context on the reference to following gps into a lake: https://youtu.be/DOW_kPzY_JY?t=20
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by MertsA 5y ago
Why does it not have basic sanity checking to make sure the configured flight path is not going unreasonably close to terrain? Is it solely controlling heading and altitude or does the flight director incorporate waypoints and topology?
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by MertsA 5y ago
Not to mention all his videos on the Oroville dam spillway failure and reconstruction process. Top notch reporting on the subject from an individual.
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by MertsA 5y ago
If you hid close to the floor in front of the driver's seat and covered your head you'd stand a very good chance of being able to walk out. Even though the back is gone on a lot of those vehicles that section is just large flat wa
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by MertsA 5y ago
I'm generally quite suspicious of lying law enforcement covering up evidence collected via illegal and inadmissible methods, but I doubt that's the case here. Rather than use Tor he decided to just wing it and use his personal con
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by MertsA 5y ago
My comment from back then stands. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21451666 There's also some random community post here: https://community.amplifi.com/topic/3296/gpl-source-code-ava... T
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by MertsA 5y ago
Curious what you think Telegram has over Signal. If your motivation for leaving WhatsApp is because of privacy concerns both WhatsApp, Signal, and even iMessage for that matter are technically superior to Telegram. Was it personal preferenc
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by MertsA 5y ago
They've also already received flak from the Indian government over taking preorders before they're licensed to provide service.
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by MertsA 5y ago
>Telegram looks great on this chart because of policy, not technology. This is what puzzles me about Apple, they absolutely have the capability to mitm iMessage pretty discreetly. Because Apple just completely hand waves away key distrib
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by MertsA 5y ago
Telegram only uses end to end encryption for secret chats. All other chats are only encrypted on the wire with Telegram's keys. Your comment was encrypted on the wire to HN but that's not going to do anything to keep it away from
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by MertsA 5y ago
At its core it seems like identity services are something that the government should be the source of truth for. They're already being used for that in one way or another whether it's checking a driver's license or SSN, but t
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by MertsA 5y ago
To elaborate on why this doesn't bridge the gap between heavy trucking road wear and all other traffic, road wear primarily comes down to environmental causes and impact loading. Wear from impact loading scales with IIRC roughly the 4t
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by MertsA 5y ago
The CEO was charged with fraud afterwards and they undoubtedly had some contract with Apple committing to it. It would seem that the supplier lied about their capabilities. https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-06-apple-sapphire-
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by MertsA 5y ago
It also has a switch that's turned on by the weight of a slice of bread. A letter falling into the opening would slowly lower itself down and light on fire. Furthermore the thermostat is shielded by the carriage before it descends. If
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by MertsA 5y ago
If you read closely the ingredients don't list celery, they list "celery seed extract". They're extracting the nitrates, it's just a ploy to avoid having to list nitrates in the ingredients but still use it. Next to
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by MertsA 5y ago
If they're selling them to a shady repair shop it's not to use on another vehicle it's to launder the stolen catalyst so it's coming from a "legitimate" source. Thieves don't carefully unbolt anything, the
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by MertsA 5y ago
Actually they make variants of stud finders to locate rebar in foundations and walls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Qn3Eu87h4
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by MertsA 5y ago
Amazon is the FAANG of last resort where engineers go to do their penance and show that they can put up with a year of working for a terrible employer. Their company culture is garbage among engineers and are notorious for abysmal practices
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by MertsA 5y ago
> despite being on the wrong continent. Unless that continent is Antarctica I don't see the problem here.
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by MertsA 5y ago
I can believe there was a bizarre bug setting the timeout to zero and that there was a small delay handling the timeout leading to only quite low latency connections working. I don't for a second believe that the author didn't int
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That's actually used for neighbor discovery on IPv6 to unconditionally limit it to unrouted packets.
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The NSA will never do that as it would be tipping their hand about whatever novel technique they reveal. In the past the NSA actually did provide some constants that went into DES and people were suspicious as the constants weren't ran
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by MertsA 5y ago
I've always thought 3D printed houses were a dumb idea. Even when you get your concrete monstrosity to print properly you're still left with some gnarly walls that only some "freethinker" of an architect could love. Any
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by MertsA 5y ago
When you have a power supply that's not SATA 3.3 compliant and a drive that supports it. The SATA 3.3 revision revised one of the 3.3v pins to be a power disable pin. Almost no hard drives support it so it's not really something y
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by MertsA 5y ago
Isn't that basically the status quo from Apple and Google as well? Not to mention Steam. 30% feels high but at least for Roblox they built the game, I feel like that's much more justified than Google and Apple where they're j
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Even the question of "this dog" still misses the mark. We're talking about a social interaction between the dog and the handler that takes him home every night. The dog might be well trained to alert on the presence of drugs,
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Dogs being able to identify the scent of illicit substances is not the question at hand. The issue is that it's all too easy to manipulate the dog into signalling whatever the handler wants. A neutral handler would probably show that t
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Not only will police occasionally destroy vehicles in a search without being liable for the damages, often any insurance policies also do not cover it. You can do absolutely nothing wrong and obey the law and buy comprehensive coverage and
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by MertsA 5y ago
Q: What's the fastest way to go from L4->L5 at Google? A: Get a job at Facebook at E4, get promoted to E5, and get hired back at Google L5. https://youtu.be/8DYje57V_BY
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by MertsA 5y ago
Uranium is pretty cheap, they don't need enriched uranium (although I'd be interested to know if using the fusion as a neutron source could trigger a decent amount of fission in the hohlraum), they just need a very dense metal. Yo

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