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by Zak 2y ago
It's not enough in parts of the world usually considered free and democratic for an information services provider to know that some of the data they're transmitting might be illegal. If it was, everyone from ISPs to messaging ap
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by Zak 2y ago
Something I've seen in flashlights is voltage sag detection: if voltage drops faster than expected, power is reduced. A temperature sensor built into the handle would also help; the risk of thermal runaway starting while the battery is
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by Zak 2y ago
Yes. The Sony VTC6, for example is rated to deliver up to 30A with temperature monitoring to ensure it doesn't exceed 80C. At 3.0V (partially discharged and with voltage sag from the load), that's 90W. I don't actually need 9
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by Zak 2y ago
What I'd really like somebody to do is just stick a field-replaceable 18650 or 21700 battery in the handle. If you want to get fancy, add a dial for temperature control. Webserial and such makes for a cool tech demo, but I just want po
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by Zak 2y ago
You've described the legal mental state of negligence , and it's true that some crimes use it. Some jurisdictions have "criminally negligent homicide" as a crime with a lower penalty than manslaughter (reckless homicide
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by Zak 2y ago
If the prosecutor can't convince the jury that they did know, yes. That rarely happens in practice because prosecutors are usually pretty good at their jobs, and tend not to bring cases they can't prove.
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by Zak 2y ago
Ignorance of the law is not generally accepted as a legal defense, but ignorance of facts is. Most crimes involve a mental state of knowledge or intent with respect to the wrongdoing, and an exit node operator does not know what users are
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by Zak 2y ago
It operates legally because there isn't a law against it in the jurisdiction in which it operates. What part are you surprised isn't forbidden? The part where it accepts connections anonymously? The part where data is encrypted in
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by Zak 2y ago
I looked up teardowns of Dewalt, Milwaukee, and Makita battery packs and saw LG HB4, Samsung 30Q, and LG HD2 cells, respectively. Those are all off the shelf cells.
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by Zak 2y ago
There are semistandard cylindrical Li-ion cells. Common sizes include 14500 (14x50mm; AA-size), 18650, and 21700. Many devices with built-in or proprietary batteries use these cells, but it seems like flashlights are the only category where
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by Zak 2y ago
Editing high-resolution video comes to mind as an example of something that will still stress most PCs. Being able to scrub through footage and preview the effect of edits in real time without using low-res proxy files demands a lot of perf
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by Zak 2y ago
It seems to me that it's based more on the use cases than the speed of improvements to the technology itself. There were times when a CPU four times as fast changed what I could do with a PC. For a long time, with Moore's Law in f
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by Zak 2y ago
My camera isn't pocketable, but if I'm doing photography such that I really care about the result, I bring it. If I'm not, I usually use the phone camera to document things I want to remember or show other people, and doing
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by Zak 2y ago
I think that everything that runs software should have an unlockable bootloader and sufficient hardware documentation for third parties to develop software. I'm not big on government mandates, but I might make an exception for this.
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by Zak 2y ago
I'm a technically sophisticated user, and I don't want a new phone. I would almost certainly like it less than my current four year old phone. It would have a faster CPU, more RAM, and more storage, but it's rare I run into a
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by Zak 2y ago
Advertising "unlimited" leads to the need for limitations like that. A wireless provider probably can't provide 1TB of data for a monthly price that most customers are willing to pay. Service with a fixed data limit, however
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by Zak 2y ago
A quick look around the web suggests you can do high performance driving events on serious race tracks with no experience at all. You may be required to do some laps with an instructor in the car and they have tight restrictions on passing.
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by Zak 2y ago
I've gone to drag strips and autocross events in more than one US state and the extent of "bureaucratic shit" was roughly "Do you have a driver's license and a helmet? Is the car leaking fluids? Sign here that you w
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by Zak 2y ago
> Get the average speed, add 5, and post the sign. A common method for setting speed limits in the past was the 85th percentile speed. I agree that changes to road design are a good idea when a significant number of people drive too fa
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by Zak 2y ago
Something I've found to be more true of Clojure libraries than those in most languages is that they can be finished . Once the code does the thing it set out to do, there's often no need to do anything else. The language is unlik
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by Zak 2y ago
Paying a phone bill and paying rent are close enough to the same kind of thing that it's rational to conclude someone who pays late or fails to pay one of those might also be delinquent on the other. A score based on bill payment histo
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by Zak 2y ago
If it's based in part on where you live rather than your history of paying bills on time, debt to income ratio, and net worth, it's not just a credit score.
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by Zak 2y ago
I don't believe the previous proposals contain penalties for end users, just operators of noncompliant services. There were also some exceptions that mean educated and determined users would still have access to secure options. I think
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by Zak 2y ago
> limiting people to exactly one offsite link per account which may not be to onlyfans I think this has more to do with Instagram wanting people to stay on Instagram than discouraging sex workers. I'm guessing there's a long
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by Zak 2y ago
You could do something like this in Clojure: (first (filter identity [(and (condition-three) (action-three)) (and (condition-one) (action-one)) (and (condition-four) (action-f
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by Zak 2y ago
And here's what cond could look like in Python syntax: def color(word, letter, idx): cond: word[idx] == letter: return GREEN letter in word: return YELLOW True: return GREY
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by Zak 2y ago
This comment responds to the idea of native look being important with a list of performance issues. Whether software should be efficient and responsive is separate from whether it should look native to the OS it's running on.
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by Zak 2y ago
As an experienced Clojure programmer, I found that code easy to read. It uses quite a few idioms that are specific to Clojure or at least Lisp. Examples include cond, let [{:keys ...}], for being a list comprehension rather than a loop, #(%
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by Zak 2y ago
The success rate will not be 100% when the searches actually finds something illegal. Most of them will take a plea, but on occasion, one won't. I'm not saying it never happens, but the legal risk is too high for most cops to do i
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by Zak 2y ago
A friend recently asked for budget speaker recommendations and was leaning toward a soundbar. I helped research; I'm a big fan of checking enthusiast communities for product guides, perhaps in part because I maintain one for flashlight

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