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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
> or driving the the pharmacy JUST TO TALK TO a human It’s nice that this remains an option. It’s a dying one. So much is better handled and more easily handled in person than over the phone/mail/web/fax/email/bl
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Tbh, this is most industries. Very few have much of a moat and have some wedge/pressure from their suppliers (land/labor/capital), their clients and competition. Insurance companies and PBMs would probably say the same they h
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
tbh, it probably works. I'm vibe-coding a thing and just told it to figure out why it runs so slow: put in some optimizations. It ran some tests and stopped loading an entire-something at opening because there's no value to doing
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Hey now, I'm totally incompetent, so my code writes entries in a log file for virtually everything because otherwise I have no idea if it's doing what I expect. Would've caught some critical function not being called at all.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
in other words, this attack could link together different wallets created on the same coldcard?
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Conceivably, the funds could be sent to an address that they send to before. Very far from perfect... could work if it's a centralized exchange, one could deposit to the same address more than once (or maybe there's a time limit f
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
More likely the higher fees forces through the transaction faster. If it sits around waiting for a miner to pick it up, there's a chance the real owner or competitor could replace-by the transaction with a higher fee and redirect it. I
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
What makes it easier on 240v systems is that your entire household is on the same “circuit”. If you’re on a 120v system, there’s a ~50/50 chance that your load is on the wrong side (except for 240v loads where you’ll imbalance things a
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Gamecopyworld continues to exist, which has been a while without any unnecessary interface changes.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
rather common amongst (ultra)-long voyages?
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
At some crossover point, the reduced fuel carrying (and max capacity requirement) makes up for the additional takeoff+landing. When we're talking ultra-long-haul, constantly fighting against more gravity due to incr fuel weight adds up
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
It's basically the business model for some airlines like the Icelandic and middle eastern ones. Hub in the middle so you're not paying (potentially extra) staff to rest on an aircraft and/or hotels at each end. Be at home mor
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Assuming you can regularly land with your fuel tanks half-full. You could overbuild everything to support that, but usually airlines don't want to pay for a niche design to support that. I'd bet military aircraft do get that treat
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Would make sense to offer packages with lay-flat seats in shifts (possibly formally/informally for people on the same ticket).
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
may not be worth the aero hit. Kinda like running a/c in a car at high speeds instead of opening the windows. Not sure where the crossover point is. In my dreams, my ultra-advanced car would open the windows when braking to get two ben
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Also bad for fuel economy (and/or take a hit on cargo/pax/luggage carrying capacity): You have to take off with all that fuel even though you only need X / hr. Increased weight = more flying at a lower altitude (+ air re
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Dunno if admitting defeat like that is a sign of strength or weakness.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Time to create some esp32-in-a-lightbulb open weight model dead drops. Please don’t open-circuit the light for several hours.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Some enterprising ISPs get into the hosting business because most of their traffic is ingress, so adding some egress revenue is effectively zero cost.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Proxies/vpns to enter/exit comms through non-banned countries.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
A lot of plastics aren’t great at blocking/absorbing UV. And normal umbrellas, not being designed for UV, may lose a lot of their strength with heavy UV exposure from what they do absorb.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Heh, deepseek is known to randomly switch to Chinese output for no reason at all. As I was using Claude chat as a poor man’s reviewer, I just pasted it over and Claude interpreted it without skipping a beat and responded in English.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Though I do then wonder about some of the iptv apps even the ones provided through paid subscriptions but that’s already on the dark side; but not as dark as these “buy once” 1000s of pirated channels devices
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
Or straight up unavailable on paid services. There’s often no way to legitimately subscribe to programming from $HomeCountry, especially if you’re not in a big Diaspora country.
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by Scoundreller 2mo ago
I recall the “free to air” receivers being pretty easy to configure. My main pita was getting a cheap ftdi usb->serial adapter because that’s how old the underlying tech was. Still easier than jtagging an official receiver. I migrated in
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
I’m surprised the concept of drivespace/double space died off. Maybe most files self-compress well from their native app, but I’m sure it’s not universal. OSs don’t seem to offer a prompt to compress relatively unused files and transpa
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
And the O in RTO stands for Oral-communication-only
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
You should see what I’ve seen in France! I now realize a lot of the bad bathroom smells are because of traps siphoning dry. Tho the general lack of exhaust fans doesn’t help. Anywho, AAVs to the rescue! And mineral oil in their version of a
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by Scoundreller 3mo ago
> I also have a freezer and washing machine this year You need a heat pipe between your freezer/fridge and outside. Then it will “function” when it’s colder outside than in your fridge and otherwise sit idle(ish). Sure you’re bringi

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