Osmium

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by Osmium 13y ago
Note that the UK's new high speed rail (HS2) is budgeted at £33bn ($51bn) and likely to exceed that[0]. Being mostly straight, and across land already approved for rail use, it seems like an ideal candidate for a hyperloop alternative.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks–I think it was the fact that the pylons could presumably be scaled that was making the sentence difficult to parse (I wasn't sure how they were meant to prevent access). That, and that the pylons themselves are also presumably &
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by Osmium 13y ago
Reading the entire PDF is highly recommended; it contains a surprising amount of answers already (including many to comments below). I think, if anything, safety aspects haven't been sufficiently explored in the pdf. I'm quite hap
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by Osmium 13y ago
> The way to prevent substance-related rape is easy: (1) don't drink excessively and (2) drink with somebody who will look out for you, preferably someone who is sober. Maybe some people want to drink excessively (1) and with frie
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by Osmium 13y ago
Ditto – (also commenting to temper the confirmation bias). I give up caffeine now and then, usually have a day or two of headaches but after that my life becomes no different without caffeine compared to how it was with caffeine. Except I e
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by Osmium 13y ago
Tragedy of the commons – I know my individual purchases are a drop in the ocean to Amazon, and hence any boycott I make would be worthless, so why should I pass up some good deals even if (hypothetically speaking) I did disapprove of the co
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by Osmium 13y ago
It'd be nice if there was support for multiple versions of characters and ligature support. But still, pretty damn cool. Edit: Seems like they have a new version of the tool on PaintFont.com which does have support for ligatures! Edit2
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by Osmium 13y ago
> For one, even if a super-efficient FHE scheme was published tomorrow, it'd probably take at least 6-10 years of powerful, sustained cryptanalysis for the community to trust it. Even so, for the use cases suggested (e.g. search eng
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by Osmium 13y ago
It depends what you mean by "full MD" too. That term can cover a multitude of sins. Truly accurate MD would be even more computationally expensive.
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by Osmium 13y ago
One suggestion is to reduce the influx of new users. Maybe keep new registrations closed except for a few days every month or so. It allows older users time to help the new users adjust to the community, and prevents opportunistic/anon
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by Osmium 13y ago
As long as they don't hold onto your passwords too, then it's not too bad right? A compromise for the sake of convenience, to be sure, but even in the worst case – if all Authy tokens are compromised – people still shouldn't
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by Osmium 13y ago
Has anyone here used both Authy and Duo Mobile and would like to recommend one over the other?
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by Osmium 13y ago
Right – but reflectors at the base of your cell still help. Any photons that pass through the first time, not being absorbed, are reflected back, effectively increasing the path length of your photon in the material.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Indeed; I believe they currently do that in some solar cells. I personal favourite are "distributed Bragg reflectors" – they're mirrors, but don't work in the traditional sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by Osmium 13y ago
Any recommended CAs for S/MIME for personal users? And is it possibly to transparently use both, e.g. sign all outgoing mail with S/MIME by default, but also encrypt with, say, GPG if you happen to have that contact's public
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by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks -- it turns out the the update checker on my version wasn't working (for whatever reason), so I mistakenly thought I had the latest version.
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by Osmium 13y ago
I thought they just announced a new version recently? Is this a new version again, or just a new website?
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by Osmium 13y ago
"Most of FastMail.fm's pages have an outdated look to them - only the Minimal theme looks modern. Apple's success should be enough to convince everyone that design matters." Ironically, Apple could take this advice too;
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by Osmium 13y ago
If you mean encrypted data storage on the server, you're better off just storing all its files in an encrypted volume using something tried and tested like dm-crypt rather than having to trust ownCloud to get it right.
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by Osmium 13y ago
I tried ownCloud recently on a Raspberry Pi and found it dog slow. I'm not sure if I just found it at a bad time, or if it requires some more serious hardware, but it wasn't usable for me personally.
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by Osmium 13y ago
I remember reading somewhere that due to how the vitamins are compressed into tablet form, you actually absorb very little of them anyway. But I can't verify this, because I can't find a citation right now...
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by Osmium 13y ago
This looks cool, but of course you can also use encfs directly with Dropbox or, if you prefer a graphical interface, Boxcryptor[1] have a fork of encfs specifically for cloud storage along with some platform-specific apps. [1] https:/
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by Osmium 13y ago
They have apologised: http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/pm-apology-to-alan...
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by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks :) The links are much appreciated! I have to say, purely from an artistic point of view, there's something a lot more dramatic about the raw images than the final one (at least to my eyes). I think it's a combination of the
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by Osmium 13y ago
So I've seen some gorgeous images from Cassini, but I could've sworn they're all much higher than 1 megapixel. Do you have any info for how that works?
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by Osmium 13y ago
I just did recently, and I'm very happy with the decision. Two feature requests though: 1) Push support for iPhone 2) Have my email encrypted on disk (in the unlikely event there's a security hole or a rogue sysadmin or something,
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by Osmium 13y ago
There are some MPlayer-powered releases for OS X too, e.g. http://mplayerx.org There are others too, though I'm not sure what the differences are.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Exactly. 100,000 "seconds", 20 "hours" (each hour = 5000 seconds), 50 "minutes" (each minute = 100 seconds). If you're gonna do it, something like that seems sensible. Easily divisible, neat, etc. That sai
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by Osmium 13y ago
Does anyone have a link for a spec for the RNG? Specifically, where does it get its entropy from? Couldn't find it in the source link. Only mention I could find is a vague mention of "thermal noise" which could mean anything.
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by Osmium 13y ago
I actually find lame edit wars kinda heartening. It suggests that the people running wikipedia have principles regardless of the topic; that it doesn't matter if it's silly; that if you want to talk about it, it should be done r

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