Ottolay

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by Ottolay 6y ago
U2F is freaking awesome. It's rare to have something which is both high security and not a pain to use. I just wish the banking and financial industry would get onboard. For customer accounts, they are mostly using SMS, but some of t
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by Ottolay 6y ago
I could see Yubikey going to a NFC ring at some point. For PCs all they would have to offer is a USB NFC transceiver. There are probably still some engineering challenges getting all the cryptographic functions and NFC power transfer into
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by Ottolay 6y ago
It is interesting to compare the security of a yubikey+pin vs yubikey+fingerprint. Both provide similar and really good security compared to popular authentication mechanisms like static password, sms, and even authenticator apps. But a so
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by Ottolay 6y ago
The problem is that your fingerprint is really just a set of information attached your body, similar to a long static password. Not very secure and you can't change it if it was compromised. The fingerprint on the yubikey is really jus
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by Ottolay 6y ago
The key in the video was flexing from being pressed for the fingerprint. Hopefully that does not cause longevity issues. My USB-A yubikey has proven durable so far, but it only requires a very light touch to activate.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
The construction labor rate difference between the US and Europe is surprising, especially given the stronger unionization rules in Europe. "Although the material and equipment costs are similar (within 10%) for projects in the United
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by Ottolay 6y ago
In addition to a pointer replacement, there is an idea of using eye tracking on a virtual keyboard with a swype type entry.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
"unless you reuse the reusable bags thousands of times." That is not what the report in that article says[1]. In Table IV, for a conventional cotton bag, it has to be re-used 52 times in order to equal the LDPE plastic bag in the
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by Ottolay 6y ago
Or you could just use reusable bags... That said I fully agree with the larger point. We have to be willing to weigh and accept tradeoffs.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
From my experience, if the frame of the vehicle is functionally damaged then the car often totaled anyway. Maybe that is not true for expensive cars like the Model Y.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
(not sure if you are still reading this thread but I would love to convince you) So if the poor get back more than they put in, how can they be disproportionately be funding it? A carbon tax+UBi is not regressive, if the rich pay in more th
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by Ottolay 6y ago
Again with this red herring, "Jeff Bezoses of the world remain largely unaffected". Jeff Bezos consumes and releases way more carbon than the average person. Private jets, multiple mansions, a fleet or cars, a private rocket com
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by Ottolay 6y ago
This is a red herring that keeps being brought up with respect to UBI way too often. "Carbon taxes unquestionably fall hardest on the poor, as do consumption taxes generally." Yes, but rich people consume and release carbon at a m
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by Ottolay 6y ago
I hate that most people just respond to the title and don't respond to the contents of the article.
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by Ottolay 6y ago
The lithium and other metals in that battery though can be recycled at its end of life. Subsequent batteries will have lower life cycle carbon footprint.
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by Ottolay 7y ago
I wish more businesses would do similar promotion type things during this pandemic to either help people out or give people something to do. The only other one I've seen is a MMORPG doing free DLC: https://www.polygon.com&#x
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by Ottolay 7y ago
Silver is down because it is largely an industrial metal used heavily in many electronic components. Gold is also used in industry (e.g. Gold plated connectors) but less so compared to its use as a value store by governments[1] and private
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by Ottolay 7y ago
At NASA the standard seem to be SI units for anything in space and Freedom (English) units for anything inside the atmosphere. It is bizarre. The funny thing is looking back at Apollo documents from the 60s is that many of those were in SI
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by Ottolay 7y ago
Citation please?
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by Ottolay 7y ago
Your number assumes the car is driven 100,000 miles a year, which would get it to 400,000 miles in 48 months (4 years). The original comment assumed 10,000 miles a year, which is on the light end.
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by Ottolay 7y ago
There are a fair bit of tech aware services which use it. I wish Paypal/banks would support it though. - Twitter - Bitwarden (password manager) - Dropbox - Google - Gitlab - Github - Nextcloud
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by Ottolay 7y ago
I read that post and wished that there was a Firefox extension but could not find out. Glad someone made one.
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by Ottolay 7y ago
GroupMe is another alternative which works similarly. Have two sets of social groups which use that instead of Facebook.
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by Ottolay 7y ago
They really should have done both Windows and Linux for these type of non-gaming processors. Expect more from Anandtech.
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by Ottolay 7y ago
The point would be to reduce the carbon footprint, for which currently there is no practical technology for aviation (which can make more than a small incremental reduction). If you are just considering a companies bottom line, obviously th
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by Ottolay 7y ago
I like Yang and it is kind of insulting to be dismissed as a bot for posting a comment supporting him. It feels dismissive and similar I would imagine to being a Bernie supporter and being called a "bernie bros". I know lots of B
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by Ottolay 7y ago
The difference though is that financial debt is very easy to measure and quantify but technical debt is not. I like the Tetris analogy because that game has a type of debt that anyone who has played it can understand, yet is not as easily q
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by Ottolay 7y ago
I hate how well off people assume poor people are getting large benefits. Most people under the poverty line do not receive over $1k in means tested benefits. Also, millions of Americans living in poverty receive no benefits at all.[1] [1]
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by Ottolay 7y ago
There are PC power supplies with Ga-N transistors these days, but seems they are so far used only for the very top end. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12645/the-corsair-ax1600i-psu...
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by Ottolay 7y ago
Good discussion of SiC vs GaN for EV applications: https://chargedevs.com/features/opinion-sic-vs-gan-semicondu...

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