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by adolph 2y ago
> storage/playback is now trivial Both storage (and retrieval) and playback are based on software. Basically, the recording is in an obscure video format. People at the NSA can’t easily watch it, so they can’t redact it. So they wo
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by adolph 2y ago
Yes, this specific specific duration has to do with the choice of launch vehicle. (No shade for any particular program as all have different tradeoffs and I'm gratified to see the probe successfully on its way.) The SLS option would h
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by adolph 2y ago
> If you store your secrets in the Keychain (and you should!) As part of the OS, Keychain suffers from the same sorts of sharp edges as using a built-in interpreter. An alternative is to use a password manager. Below is an example of the
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by adolph 2y ago
> Women's healthcare isn't an issue that resonates with young (read: unmarried) men. This seems to be an oblique reference to something specific about that healthcare. If someone doesn't articulate a proposed specific amou
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by adolph 2y ago
> The worst of both worlds is Touch Buttons. No screen, just a touch-sensitive surface that's divided into areas that activate upon any kind of skin contact, whether intentional or not. Douglas Adams in 1979 knew the coming future:
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by adolph 2y ago
Sounds like a recipe for permanent lawyer employment.
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by adolph 2y ago
Thanks for mentioning that! One of my libraries does a 3 day code. It looks reasonably insecure and scriptable to fetch since it is hard coded as a hidden element in the page that opens the NYT page upon successful login.
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by adolph 2y ago
> They would also be notified of deaths by the department of health and the social security administration. Is your claim that the social security administration sends a death notification to the deceased person's voter registrar?
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by adolph 2y ago
Imagine if this were conducted by screen readers and I were to ask if thats what they called cole slaw in yonder region.
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by adolph 2y ago
plumbing for the water Really? Not glycol? [0] 0. https://www.towerwater.com/how-does-a-glycol-cooling-system-... .
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by adolph 2y ago
Thanks, two peoples separated by a common language and all that. My intention was for the error to be humerus, but maybe it was a stretch.
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by adolph 2y ago
Seems like it’s filings and meetings are done about this time of year. [0] The move to Singapore is super interesting, esp with dsivers input. Thanks for linking to it. 0. https://www.tis.bizfile.gov.sg/ngbtisinternet/f
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by adolph 2y ago
> Operating as a profitable non-profit foundation with no owners, where all profits are reinvested into the project Neither myself nor Hannah own any shares, assets, domains, trademarks, or other companies related to Ghost. Everything i
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by adolph 2y ago
Their about page claims non profit, Wikipedia and others say registered in Singapore but I don’t see anything under “ghost” as a society [0] or as a charity [1]. For something that has “believe in being transparent” in the about page, the l
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by adolph 2y ago
Since the 1990s the first line treatment has been microdosing meth, not crack. [I]n late 1984 and 1985; this rapid increase in use and availability was named the "crack epidemic", which began to wane in the 1990s. The use of anot
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by adolph 2y ago
I think a difference between an application and a library (or module, etc) is that it is ok for the latter to expect sanitized input and be wrapped in try/catch blocks. The world is less finite than code and a module might be deployed
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by adolph 2y ago
A possibly apocryphal didactic story relevant because if an HTTP implementation misses 418, what else does it miss?: The story goes that Van Halen had stipulated on their concert rider that they wanted M&M candy backstage, but with all
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by adolph 2y ago
Did Friedman utter those words to any member of Congress? Was he at a podium in an empty room at midnight?
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by adolph 2y ago
“PEN America today sharply criticized some Republican members of Congress” The press release claims that the org sharply criticized but did not provide any evidence that actually occurred. Did they do this via a text message, visit offices
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by adolph 2y ago
Rule one for reading headlines: the relationship between each component of a sentence is often not what you would expect. In this example, an understandable misreading might be that the astronauts who rode in the Starliner to the ISS return
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by adolph 2y ago
As long as your satellite can withstand 10,000 Gs, spinlaunch will work great. Founded in 2014, SpinLaunch has secured significant funding and has collaborated with major organizations like NASA, Airbus, and Cornell University, using their
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by adolph 2y ago
> vscode is developed by VPs borged from github Other way around: In 2011 [Erich Gamma] joined the Microsoft Visual Studio team and leads a development lab in Zürich, Switzerland that has developed the "Monaco" suite of compon
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by adolph 2y ago
Lock or not, the main story is that there is no OSS baseband. Locking would not be possible if people had the ability to choose the baseband software that best fit their needs. https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband&#x2F
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by adolph 2y ago
> The problem is, that as soon as a paper is published in a peer reviewed journal, it can be used to justify public policy positions. That’s not a science problem. That’s a political problem. Making choices based on a single paper that m
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by adolph 2y ago
> life can perhaps be seen as extreamly complex assemblies Sounds similar to Assembly Theory as promulgated by Cronin et al https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
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by adolph 2y ago
> Imagine the sorts of things that are going to be sold to whoever is buying. Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken
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slippery slang slingers
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boo, book cover on lock screen not available for Scribe (yet)
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I disagree that the current state of an art will not change. Consider the solution-state as a vector. 18 years ago people were performing reflow repair with candles! [0] Pathfinding hackers are able to perform the task now more precisely an
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by adolph 2y ago
Something of note that creators like that of Mothbox might find interesting (if they didn't already know), Haikubox was awarded about $1m from the NSF: SBIR Phase II: Building a Nature Monitoring Network for Birds [0]. More about the a

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