PhantomGremlin

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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Apple's patch only partially addressed the flaw as it can still be exploited by changing the protocol used to execute the embedded commands from file:// to FiLe:// At some point some manager has to look at code li
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
You need to live in a quieter area. Too much noise pollution in NYC. In a suburb of Portland Oregon I routinely hear helicopters up to about 2000 feet. I hear many planes at over 5000 ft. When jets take off from PDX and climb over my house
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
So if they rent the device to you for $5 Sadly at Comcast the rental hasn't been $5 for a long time ... a very very long time. It's probably now about $14. https://20somethingfinance.com/comcast-xfinity-raises-mo
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Google search has turned to shit (pardon my French). Here is a recent HN discussion about it. I rant about it there. I won't repeat myself here. You can read plenty of other people say the same thing. https://news.ycombinato
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Almost assuredly vxworks My Arris modem says Kernel 2.6.18 That refers to a very very old version of Linux. VxWorks probably costs money to license. Linux can be downloaded for free. :)
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
these modems run a full OS. But why? ... Couldn’t an FPGA or ASIC handle that better? These modems don't just have an OS (Linux in my case) but a kitchen sink of additional software. I have a similar Arris modem, the SB6141. The mode
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
it's not as easy as it looks I'd love to see Apple try, even if it's just for the lulz. Apple struggled for years to deliver a functioning laptop keyboard. A car is a bit more complicated. How many dongles would you need to
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
IIRC Soekris basically decided they couldn't make any money. Is PC Engines acceptable as an alternative? E.g. https://www.pcengines.ch/apu4d4.htm It does have limitations, e.g. only 1 GHz clock speed. The bigger proble
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I hate this meme. It's false. Nacchio simply tried to use it as an excuse. He was just throwing shit against the wall and hoping that some of it stuck. Here's his claim: he was not in a rightful state of mind when he sold his sha
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Nice link. Loosely speaking, that park is about equal to a nuke (most nuke plants are in the range of 800 to 1000 MWe). At about 5% of the cost of the Southern Energy nuclear plant I mentioned. (pedantic note: I think of a "nuke"
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I haven't done the math, and I could be way off, but probably 22 square miles of solar panels could replace a nuclear plant. At probably less cost, considering that the latest nuclear plant (perhaps the last to ever be built in the USA
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
In addition to the concerns already raised here, one other thing stuck out to me: the whole system is easier to manufacture, build, and maintain. Heggheim says it has a design lifespan of 50 years My naive feeling is that it's extrao
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
That sort of thing isn't new. About a dozen years ago I worked for a company that partnered with Intel on a big project. Ultimately the project failed. The biggest problems I saw were: 1) Too many cooks. Different groups from several l
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
We had a similar one yesterday: "Cancer treatment breakthrough". @dang wound up changing that one to a different article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28342527 The thing about batteries and about cancer tr
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
You forgot to tell him the email address: Boris.Badenov@kremlin.ru
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
If someone downvoted this because they disagree, I'd like to know why. I didn't downvote this. I'm just now reading the comments. But here's what sticks out to me: 1) the fine article only briefly mentions Los Alamos,
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
we have manufactured a housing crisis I agree there's a housing crisis, not sure how we arrived at one, "manufactured" or whatever. Just one data point, personal. As a young professional I bought a fairly new house in the P
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Whenever someone loses their account the first thing they do is run to the vendor and flip their shit when the vendor is unable to do anything. They certainly turn to Apple for help, but I think it's sometimes simply despair and not
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
petty xenophobia Was it facts? How does stating the facts of how things were done in the late stages of the USSR space program and are done in the current Russian space program translate to petty xenophobia? If you want xenophobia, didn&#
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Wait, the USA can revoke citizenship? It's generally only possible if you're an immigrant. (The story mentions immigrants) If you're a native born US citizen, the US Supreme Court has said it's not possible for the gov
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I have a different solution to the seat conflict: the only winning move is not to play I've taken far fewer flights in recent years. It's just too uncomfortable to travel in steerage, and I'm too poor to afford first class.
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Most of the car is exactly the same. The drive train is enormously different. And that's the part that breaks the most. Here are a few differences, off the top of my head (I'm not an auto engineer): Much simpler cooling. Extract
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Hitching your future to hydrogen This is absolutely baffling to me, given, as you noted, generation, transport, and fueling issues. Stevie Wonder would have no problem seeing the problem with hydrogen, and yet Toyota still can't se
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
I don't think this is realistic any more. There's just too much noise, too many chatty processes, too much traffic. A while ago I tried to track the start of a single application, a new install of Firefox. IIRC the first start gen
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
It's not just contrast. It's also font size. It's also the font itself. All websites should be readable in Firefox or Safari (or Chrome but I don't use that) with the minimum font size set larger than the default. I use
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
In the US I'm bullish on hydrogen-powered trucks (fuel cell). Natural gas (CNG and LNG) trucks haven't exactly set the transportation world on fire, even though they make much more sense than hydrogen. Natural gas is still routi
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Trucking refers to the big 18 wheelers and such, not the little four wheeler trucks and vans. This reminds me of some truck weigh station on some Interstate back east. (It's been years so I don't remember exact details). WE
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
the distances are much longer, though I'd really like to see more of our long-haul freight being hauled by rail rather than truck. It's not uncommon for a factory in Oregon to ship something by truck on Friday and have it arrive
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
We can do it, just not with ships flagged in Panama and manned by child labor from third world countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Act_(sailor_rights) the Jones Act ... requires that all goods transported b
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by PhantomGremlin 5y ago
Using double quotes has been busted (at least for some searches) for literally years. This isn't, in general, a new phenomenon. You were lucky it worked for you as long as it did. Double quotes don't work. Putting '&tbs=l

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