Wingman4l7

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by Wingman4l7 1y ago
Apple, policing use of an API on a privately-owned device for purposes of a consensual, non-violent activity that is only technically a crime in some legal jurisdictions? Sounds about right.
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by Wingman4l7 1y ago
You sure about that? They were pitching cuts to air traffic control in the past: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/national-fact-s...
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by Wingman4l7 1y ago
Yeah, this is 100% wish-cycling -- and honestly, the total amount of shavings you'd be throwing away after using this device heavily wouldn't even amount to a single small cardboard box.
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by Wingman4l7 1y ago
You've likely worn knit socks and T-shirts -- they're machine -knit. A lot of clothing is knit, not woven. Fabric does not have to use big and chunky threads to be knit; the loops can be quite a small gauge in size.
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How Virtual Banking Made Saving Risky Again [Yotta, Y Combinator](bloomberg.com)
2 points by Wingman4l7 1y ago|0 comments
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Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry(leonarddavid.com)
406 points by Wingman4l7 1y ago|281 comments
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by Wingman4l7 1y ago
First place I ever heard it was in the FPS game Homefront, where you're part of a "resistance movement fighting in the near-future against the military occupation of the Western United States by a reunified Korea".
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
This sort of thing has been known for a while -- it falls under the category of "mycorrhiza". Indeed, the Wikipedia entry on that refers to a whole article dedicated to orchids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
There was also the more relevant (defunct) Distributed Hardware Evolution Project from the University of Sussex, which was using genetic algorithms to evolve circuits: https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Distributed_Har
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
If you increased the cost of the GPU by the upper end of your estimate ($200), that's a 10% increase of the new top end GPU (MSRP $2000 for a RTX 5090). That seems significant... until you realize that that 10% is what would prevent t
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
The long tail of knock-on effects is more severe than you could even imagine -- this is going to immediately ruin the NSF grant review process, which is already lengthy and fragile and backlogged.
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
Who said I was comparing it to Phillips? Sure, Apple used to use Phillips for their case-back screws on their laptops, but Torx (superior to Pentalobe) already existed, and may have already been used by Apple elsewhere (I don't readil
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
Or, the company leaves the accessibility alternative broken, and shrugs.
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
Might want to not rely on Wikipedia for your nitpicking rebuttal to my point -- the Sony "Pentalobe" was NOT the same as Apple's, it is 5-flanged but has clearly cut-off tips: https://preview.redd.it/mdo85jqd6
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
Given that Apple moved the goalposts in the first place (they literally invented an inferior screw head -- the Pentalobe -- to stymie repair), I'm steadfastly disinclined to give them much credit for slowly backtracking on anti-repair
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
...on hardware that's soft-bricked if you have any issues with your account.
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Jigsaw Puzzle Robot, Or: How We Solved a Puzzle in 15 Months(docs.google.com)
1 points by Wingman4l7 2y ago|0 comments
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
It's a major tactic of car salesmen to delay the selling process repeatedly; it physically and mentally wears down the customer and they are more likely to accept aspects of a deal they don't like, to get it over with and complete
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
There was a poll with probably more signatures than that for adding "swipe to queue" to Android that they sat on for years until they finally implemented it.
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
My first thought as well. I'm guessing they're less likely to accept the liability of poisoning people from co-mingled third-party counterfeits if they're delivering FDA-approved drugs instead of unapproved supplements.
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
A robotic moon landing with sample return? Luna 16 called, it wants to remind you that the Russians did this in 1970.
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
You need to run your SVGs through some path optimization! Your Axidraw is doing a lot of unnecessary traveling between lines. Check here: https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters#vector-utiliti...
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
I was initially pretty unhappy with the price bump when the Axidraw was re-released by Bantam Tools (who purchased the Axidraw IP from Evil Mad Scientist). It went up $150! However, if you use Archive.org to look at the old prices on EMS&
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by Wingman4l7 2y ago
The ultimate method of defeating copy-protection: re-typing.
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
They didn't have the expertise nor care to do proper repair back even when they could. I had a friend in ~2006 take a Windows desktop PC to them that wasn't booting; they told her to buy a new (needlessly large capacity) hard dri
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Depending on the model of the phone and the version of iOS, they won't need Apple's help.
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Here One earbuds, by the defunct Doppler Labs. Their precursor, Here Active Listening, didn't even stream audio -- they were focused on just augmenting your auditory environment. IMO way ahead of its time, they unfortunately came out
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Very click-bait of them to use a still video thumbnail of the massive Chinese surveillance balloon of last year.
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Alternatives that exist openly in the US would not be suffered to exist in the PRC -- for instance, Signal.
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
You don't need to speak Chinese to know that any large corporation that exists in the PRC does so at the behest of their government, and must kowtow to their surveillance demands accordingly.

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