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by Vexs 11y ago
In a similar vein, you can find the fountain pen. It's not quite the cost advantage, but a 20$ lamy pen and a 12$ bottle of ink will last you a long, long time. It will also feel better too, ballpoints particularly need an offensive am
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by Vexs 11y ago
There was a review of SSD lifespan a while back, they found the samsung 840 pro was able to survive something to the effect of 2 petabytes of wear before failing. The worst of them all started to fail at 100TB, and failed at 900TB. Unless y
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by Vexs 11y ago
Haha, true. Computers are so mainstream now versus the 60s-90s that being a nerd (or rather, geek) is a positive benefit in the right circumstances. They provide a service that is basically the hottest commodity around these days.
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by Vexs 11y ago
To my mind, the animatrix was a better successor to the matrix than the sequels ever were. (Then again, just about anything would be.) It showcases the history of the matrix, pleads a case for the machine, and shows life in the matrix. It&#
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by Vexs 11y ago
There's ways around that. Simply put notches that don't go all the way through the dials and you've effectively defeated that method of attack. Kinda like trying to rake a lock with spool pins.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Same here, moleskine notebooks just hold up better in general, vs rohdia where by the time I've filled it up half the pages have fallen out. The paper is of good enough quality that it doesn't matter too much, and I use a fountain
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by Vexs 11y ago
Which is really great. I hate looking for some obscure problem, find where someone posted a fix online, then discover the account of the fixer was deleted and the fix is gone now. Even worse when it's a program or file or something...
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by Vexs 11y ago
I'm curious about that too actually- I suppose from their view it's a safety thing for the officers- which, IMO, is reasonable. Police probably aren't the most popular people in prison, and posting a picture of their face doe
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by Vexs 11y ago
That statement is like saying "This antivirus works really well on my computer that's not connected to the internet, I haven't gotten a virus yet!" If there was a threat, the TSA would probably do a pretty crap job at st
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by Vexs 11y ago
There's a LOT of discussion on mech keyboards out there, WASD makes pretty good keyboards, and das makes pretty good keyboards as well- some actually credit them for the popularity of blank keycaps. As soon as you figure out what keysw
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by Vexs 11y ago
Well there's some pretty amusing abuse. I recall there was a botnet a while back that got it's commands from a subreddit as well. Quite brilliant actually- who would suspect reddit as a command server?
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by Vexs 11y ago
I seem to recall that last bit being a reason in china, some guy took legal action against someone who gave him cpr and broke his ribs and won.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Probably the most reasonable option really- but it would add a little bit more to the manufacturing costs, so it would probably be available on a handful of drives.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I never thought of that! Hopefully if vault becomes a common thing, we'll see more phones with microSD card slots! To be honest, a large part of choosing my phone was if it had a card slot or not, they give so many extra capabilities.
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by Vexs 11y ago
We always called them transparencies or "the overhead". I suppose the modern incarnation is the smartboard, which isn't too bad.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I don't know if I would call it ahead of it's time today, but I definitely think it's on par with a lot of electronic music today. It's actually quite good!
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by Vexs 11y ago
I saw a pebble watchapp that displayed google auth codes, worked pretty well. Transmitting to a keyboard to then be typed out seems like a lot of extra hardware (and difficulty)
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by Vexs 11y ago
AdAway is the only way I've found to do this with any sort of reliability, though it seems a bit funny (to me anyway) that hosts file editing is still the way to go. I have to ask though, what do you mean by "app data"? Do ce
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by Vexs 11y ago
As per the usual, there's a relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/1451/ Seeing any sort of code, hacking, programming or just about anything computer related in movies is always interesting, I've always thought it
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by Vexs 11y ago
Instant.io is pretty much, hands down the best way I've found to transfer a file to a friend or coworker. No waiting for uploads to finish, no mucking about with accounts and permissions, just copy a hash and go. Really simple, very ef
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by Vexs 11y ago
In regards to hardware startups, I would think Europe should have the leading edge in comparison to America due to their proximity to China- in America, if I want to start sourcing parts from china, or go into production, It's a signif
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by Vexs 11y ago
Doubt it, but getting a pencil beam is nigh impossible with radio, there's going to be leakage somewhere. Also, you'd have a bunch of physicists asking about how you got a beam that thin.
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by Vexs 11y ago
This is one case where security by obscurity works- at least for now anyway. Only a very, very small percentage of people have implanted RFID chips- I doubt anyone would anticipate that. Furthermore, if you coupled it with a non working bio
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by Vexs 11y ago
It's a poor analogy in general, but given the context of the school, it's a bit more like a kid walking into the open front door that everyone else used, and then hanging up a poster. Computer security doesn't really exist in
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by Vexs 11y ago
Eh, I don't think so. The bit he used is designed to be a wrench bit, it's not designed for the oval screw used by the nspresso, it just works coincidentally.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Hah, I always liked the rubber-band-over-the-screw trick, had a couple inky experiences with bics. The one way screws were pretty easy to beat with a bit of superglue!
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by Vexs 12y ago
I can't blame them for double guessing a prototype synth. I'm pretty sure they use them in movies for "hacker" rooms or whatever. Doesn't mean they're not asses.
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by Vexs 12y ago
Yep, physical access is total access. However, this trick falls under cool-at-school-tech-labs, I'd hope enterprise systems would do something to prevent this kind of low-level shenanigans.
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by Vexs 12y ago
Yes, I would think so. AS some people say, and I agree with this, to enjoy a job it has to be fulfilling. If you are an amazing compsci guy that's stuck making highschool-grade java programs, it's going to be a bit soul-sucking I
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by Vexs 12y ago
I really can't even use a computer that's less than 4 gb these days, especially once chrome gets it's grubby hands all over my RAM. Just running baseline I find that most windows systems take up about two GB of RAM, and after

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