MrRadar

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No-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)(pdfa.org)
187 points by MrRadar 4y ago|68 comments
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by MrRadar 4y ago
That's the premise behind this amusing presentation: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by MrRadar 4y ago
Human society survived just fine with one quarter the current population 70 years ago. Why can't it survive with that again? Especially now that we have better technology that makes each human much more productive? Unless you can only
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by MrRadar 4y ago
So... by that argument isn't "gay culture" actually counter-cultural? As in it goes against the mainstream opinions held by a fairly conservative society?
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by MrRadar 4y ago
About a month ago the Antique Wireless Museum posted a presentation about this phone system (MTS) and its successors (IMTS and AMPS) to their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRqg8INF9s0 The presentation inc
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NYT Worries Big Brother Is Not Watching You(fair.org)
48 points by MrRadar 4y ago|11 comments
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by MrRadar 4y ago
What are you talking about? America's financial system is the worst of the world's major economies from the perspective of people wanting to send money (to the point that the easiest way to send money between individuals is with p
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by MrRadar 4y ago
The blog post describing their effort to implement fillable PDF forms is well worth a read: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-...
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by MrRadar 4y ago
Next year the Federal Reserve will be launching their FedNow service which should provide equivalent functionality to Europe's SEPA or Canada's Interac service.
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by MrRadar 4y ago
I mean, the US Dollar is a "pegged" currency under that definition too. A while ago I read an economic analysis that said the US would optimally have five regional currencies (instead of the single one that it has today) to accoun
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by MrRadar 4y ago
Ugh, Centurylink. Their networks, both DSL and Fiber, support IPv6 but you need to go into the router config and explicitly enable it which is why they show up as 0.5% IPv6 supported in that first link despite every other top-10 US ISP havi
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by MrRadar 4y ago
One of the already-announced features of the Gen 2 satellites is the ability to connect directly to standard 4G LTE handsets to send emergency messages (similar to the SOS feature on the latest iPhone, but not limited to any specific phone
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by MrRadar 4y ago
El Salvador has their own national wallet app called Chivo. I would be surprised if El Salvadorans regularly use the actual Bitcoin blockchain (as opposed to just shuffling BTC between Chivo accounts) due to the huge and inflexible fees for
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by MrRadar 4y ago
Business in El Salvador do not accept Bitcoin because it is superior (or even equivalent) to fiat, but because they are forced to by the government. I do not see how that is a point in favor of Bitcoin having a place in this world.
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by MrRadar 4y ago
I tried that tool against my Raspberry Pi which should have a reasonably-secure SSH configuration and I got a lot of warnings about: > NIST P-curves are possibly back-doored by the U.S. National Security Agency Is there any evidence of t
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by MrRadar 4y ago
As noted in the header, there are also versions of this for TLS 1.2, DTLS 1.3, and QUIC: https://tls12.xargs.org/ https://dtls.xargs.org/ https://quic.xargs.org/
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by MrRadar 4y ago
5G can be deployed on the same spectrum as LTE, including the low frequency bands that support long range. For those deployments you do get faster speeds compared to LTE but not significantly (I've read it's about 25% faster for t
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by MrRadar 4y ago
These wells may not have been profitable if you had to run a pipeline to them to deliver the gas to a market where it could have been put to use, and therefore the headline would have been correct.
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by MrRadar 4y ago
Let me tell you a story about the long-term value of fiber. I live in an area where the incumbent teleco is CenturyLink, though it was originally AT&T (pre-breakup) and then USWest (post-breakup) then Qwest (after a merger with a teleco
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by MrRadar 4y ago
Ebon's reasoning at the time was that he wanted a standardized computer you could build a curriculum around, that was cheap enough that schools could issue to kids without fear of them breaking it, and which was small enough the kids
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Unfortunately you are not correct. Pointer arithmetic is only valid if the resulting calculated address is within the bounds of the same array as the original pointer, or calculates an address that is just past the end of the array. Otherwi
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Look at an analog 12-hour clock. Ask yourself what the "natural" way to read it at midnight would be (what number is the hour hand pointing towards)?
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Since 2020, Youtube can put ads on all videos, even those that are not "monetized" by the uploader (in which case Youtube just keeps the revenue for itself). https://www.searchenginejournal.com/youtube-is-showing-a
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by MrRadar 5y ago
It does, but not Voice over LTE (VoLTE) for phone calls.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
It's the reason why vehicles have a separate "city" and a "highway" fuel economy rating, since the former takes into account the expected stopping and starting you do in city traffic which you would not on an uncong
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Mr. Carlson has one of those, and had a video demonstrating it: https://youtu.be/ZzpVhCL5aPg
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Thank you for addressing the problem.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
The article link doesn't appear to be a valid Internet URL? Why is this being upvoted?
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by MrRadar 5y ago
A few years ago I saw this documentary on the incident, including technical details on how the video was produced and examining and then debunking a number of theories about the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgbc
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by MrRadar 5y ago
It's possible to keep cats indoors all the time.

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