Tharkun

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by Tharkun 10y ago
I rather like my 20 year old super basic thermostat. It works. It doesn't require wifi. It doesn't consume any power whatsoever. It's never been bothered by bugs that magically turn my house into a sauna or a freezer. It was
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by Tharkun 10y ago
You're right. You would think that insane housing prices would at least include a bit of soundproofing here and there.
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by Tharkun 10y ago
The video states that dialysis doesn't perform all the tasks of a healthy kidney. If that's the case, then wouldn't a better dialysis machine be a more logical first step? That removes the size issue from equation.
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by Tharkun 10y ago
I agree. Plant watering really doesn't require any kind of electrical solution. There are oodles of self watering planters which rely on a reservoir and gravity. But for the HNers with a slightly greener thumb: I have a big sanseviera
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by Tharkun 10y ago
I'm sure we'll get used to this awesome feat eventually. But three good runs does not a routine make. Hopefully they'll keep it up, and then we can have manned flight success stories instead!
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by Tharkun 10y ago
That's a load of cynical and simplistic crock. Yes ITER is super expensive, and maybe it's not the best use of research money, and maybe it'll never get anywhere. But the project's aims are very ambitious, and potential
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by Tharkun 10y ago
I've given up on Jolla. Their OS got worse with every release. Their hardware was very sloppy (three dead batteries in a year time, design flaw which required me to keep a piece of paper under the battery to keep it in place). Their su
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by Tharkun 10y ago
Zimbra works remarkably well.
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by Tharkun 10y ago
I agree, but I can't really articulate why. Does anyone have a good list of reasons? I'd love to eliminate modal dialogs in the application we're building.
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by Tharkun 10y ago
Yeah, that's vague garbage. What it should have said was: "Our password database was stolen and we fucked when we tried to roll our own password hashing. Your password is likely compromised and you should change it. If you use the
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by Tharkun 10y ago
I got an e-mail from LinkedIn today saying that I would be forced to reset my password upon my next login. They didn't say why. I guess this explains it.
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by Tharkun 10y ago
You know how we're still hunting down and jailing formers nazis and concentration camp guards? Why aren't we doing the same to these CIA agents and decision makers?
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by Tharkun 10y ago
> If I don't trust Signal to host my communication reliably, I want to pick my own provider... whilst still being able to talk to other Signal users. I couldn't agree more. And it's not just a matter of trusting the host.
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by Tharkun 10y ago
Bloody murder, basically. Whenever I try to communicate with someone under 30, e-mail is simply not an option. A Facebook message is often the only way (or worse).
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by Tharkun 10y ago
> An open source infrastructure for a centralized network now provides almost the same level of control as federated protocols, without giving up the ability to adapt. That's simply not true. Unless you're Google/Facebook&
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by Tharkun 10y ago
He's not wrong. But after 25 years of nobody liking PGP, there's still no alternative that addresses all of its shortcomings.
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by Tharkun 10y ago
What happens after that?
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by Tharkun 11y ago
From my understanding, there are two passphrases. One to encrypt the private key in the usual way. And another one that's used for storage on the IMAP server. The RNG is, as far as I can make out, only recommend to ensure that users do
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by Tharkun 11y ago
Why is there no "buy now"-button? I want this. For reasons.
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by Tharkun 11y ago
What a load of crock. I work in fintech. And every week or so, someone will mention 'blockchain' completely out of context, presumably because they think it makes them sound intelligent. Blockchain won't solve anything. Sure,
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by Tharkun 11y ago
Why would you want to delete merged branches? i like to keep them. It's not costing you any storage.
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by Tharkun 11y ago
Not every query is parallelizable. Maintaining performance is a lie. An easy to grasp is example is computing a median. And I mean an exact median, not an approximation.
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by Tharkun 11y ago
That's not true. The whole point of a smart card is that it's NOT just an "if statement".
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by Tharkun 11y ago
(1) Not really. The liver does a good job of handling small amounts of fructose, as present in many sweet fruits and such. But in high quantities, as in HFCS soda, it's unable to cope and you will end up with waaaaay too much triglycer
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by Tharkun 11y ago
Beating someone with a rubber hose is probably cheaper. Good guy CIA, trying to save water.
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by Tharkun 11y ago
This is certainly true for the optical sensors. I wonder what the long term effect is of shining a bright LED at a small patch of skin like that?
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by Tharkun 11y ago
Your point is nitpickery. You know perfectly well what OP means when he refers to processed food as man made food. No one would misunderstand it. What you consider to be an arbitrary distinction (which in itself is an arbjtrary distinction)
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by Tharkun 11y ago
Really? That's interesting. Do you have a source for that? I can't imagine how talking about "bags of air" and "bags of yellow water" is any clearer than talking about "lungs" or "bladders".
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by Tharkun 11y ago
Yeah it's called "thing explainer", but it's more like a "thing convoluter". It's a work humour, not a book of science.
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by Tharkun 11y ago
I wish people wouldn't post april fool's crap like this.

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