Vexs

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by Vexs 11y ago
Oh, no doubt. Realistically I don't expect my phone to be secure from the lockscreen, it's more to keep pests out. Anything secure is from full disk encryption, passworded SU, etc. As far as person-looking-over-you protection, the
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by Vexs 11y ago
That story just makes me sad. Like, from the bottom of my soul and my hacker's heart kinda sad.
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by Vexs 11y ago
So? Out of the thousands of people that frequent this site, a tiny percentage of them make this, and it's cool for people that have never seen it. Also, relevant xkcd. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by Vexs 11y ago
Imo the pattern lock is really secure if you make it hidden at lockscreen.
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by Vexs 11y ago
You can also eat it, I've seen it on truffle pies. Silver can also be used as an antibiotic as well.
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by Vexs 11y ago
That sounds racist. /s Seriously though, this is a core part of dietary concerns, it's almost a certainty that a Russian is going to have a slightly different reaction to foods than a European, due to centuries of eating different
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by Vexs 11y ago
"with one (UK-government-owned) bank, two wrong password attempts simply lead to an invitation to set a new password." Good lord! Reading through this document is like reading a primer in how not to make a secure form.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Seriously, it's pretty strongly worded. Also: big suprise, some startups fail, and some succeed. Much like Harvard graduates. In the news of the trademark, it is the name of a programming idea after all. It's also a very good name
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by Vexs 11y ago
Me too... I really wanted to know what an MRI heap was. Any ideas what it could be?
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by Vexs 11y ago
Same kinda thing with reddit/HN- getting one or two upvotes within the first couple minutes of posting is essental to a post getting anywhere. It keeps the post afloat long enough for people to notice it, instead of getting lost with e
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by Vexs 11y ago
There's also ublock matrix which is noscript but easier to work with.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Gah, that just makes me unconformable on so many levels. It's not helped by the content of the video either...
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by Vexs 11y ago
Honestly, I had a very similar thing happen to me at an even younger age. Almost got expelled for hacking when I was just making stupid shit with batch programming. Similarly, I made a crappy little audio amp a couple years later at the sam
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by Vexs 11y ago
I don't even think quadcopters could produce 20% thrust at that height... which is pretty bad as consumer quads have something like a 2:1 thrust/weight ratio, maybe 3:1. High quality racing quads can get 8:1, but those have tiny b
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by Vexs 11y ago
There was a post on reddit/r/multicopter a while ago of prop thrust at different air pressures with the same current. It's pretty much exactly what you're asking for. https://i.imgur.com/Z5toIVm.jpg Assu
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by Vexs 11y ago
Honestly, we could probably support the same sized military with substantally less money, due to all the waste and mismanagement. Honestly though, it's not just the military- massive waste occurs at all levels of govt. All this focus o
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by Vexs 11y ago
AFAIK it's because they last a long time with very small amounts of reactants, are low maintenance, and are potentially very small. I mean, it kinda makes sense but RTGs are better for space applications because you really don't n
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by Vexs 11y ago
Unicorn just pokes my brain the wrong way, like bad kerning. On the other hand, it does describe how rare these things are, which I feel does make it an accurate term- it also explains how companies like this are essentially legends. It&#x2
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by Vexs 11y ago
I mean, one could claim it hampers gun innovation. Not sure the laws about that though- I wonder if they have laws that allow the creation of guns that would normally be illegal.. Not sure what afsina's point is though.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Flare guns in your checked luggage is actually a really good thing to do even if you arent concerned about it- I have a friend who works at an airport and he says that protocol dictates they have to flag and keep special track of anything g
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by Vexs 11y ago
Don't forget the 900mhz range! Plenty of cool stuff going on there. Oh, and you could make a searching antenna pretty easily- basically a shitty antenna that you can use to find signal strength easily, because it picks up so poorly.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Occam's razor. Burglars using fairly technical methods of ingress, or stealing keys?
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by Vexs 11y ago
AFAIK some/most garage doors now use rolling-key encryption, like car keys.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I hope I see qualcomm chips on racing quads- the STM chips used by stuff like the naze32/cc3d are great, but they still could be better. Heck, quadcopters just recently got floating point math in their algorithms.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Hah, that's fun. Who doesn't like a terminal gui?
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by Vexs 11y ago
Defraggler is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I love that kind of interactivity in applications, so much better than a loading bar.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Israel is pretty upfront that they do discriminate at airports. Whereas the US/UK has those ridiculous random path mats.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Minecraft can be an immensely powerful learning tool, but it has to be carefully curated and controlled by a teacher- having played a lot of modded MC, most kids just do the bare minimum, or follow some tutorial online to get what they want
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by Vexs 11y ago
No worse than the Turing movie with Bernard Cumbersnatch. Tragedy is great movie material.
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by Vexs 11y ago
It's because it's so damn convenient. No dicking about with ads, settings, codes, authentication, drm, whatever. Just look, download, and go. Usually higher res too.

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