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721.
by ale42 4y ago
Still 114 bits of entropy...
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by ale42 4y ago
There are 25 characters, each of which has 36 possible values. So 36^25 possibilities, and log2(36^25) = 129.2. There are basically 129 bits of entropy in there, so good luck bruteforcing it. This makes me think of a shareware app (I think
723.
by ale42 4y ago
The current version (Altium 23) is a mix of Delphi and .NET (I guess C# but couldn't quickly find evidence). I don't have time to try to exactly figure out what's used for what, but a quick test shows that the main executable
724.
by ale42 4y ago
At the current electricity prices we're paying here (~$0.35/kWh), this would be around 4 W of continuous consumption. That's not a lot, you can basically power you Pi with it, but not the screen... count at least 10x more cos
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by ale42 4y ago
Note that ANSI is not BBS-specific and was not _created_ for BBSs... it was already around and BBSs made heavy use of it. EDIT: what I find is missing on the post is Teletext art (see e.g., http://teletextart.co.uk/ )
726.
by ale42 4y ago
Very nice project! Wondering if a 4$ RP2040 microcontroller would be usable for this...
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by ale42 4y ago
So slow right now... looks like the server is getting a HN hug...
728.
by ale42 4y ago
Yes it is. The Arduino framework has been ported to many platforms. However, the OP is about CircuitPython, not using any Arduino software.
729.
by ale42 4y ago
There's nothing about Arduinos there... the project uses an Adafruit board based on the RP2040 microcontroller (the one of the Raspberry Pi pico). I guess they used "Arduino" to mean "microcontroller board".
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by ale42 4y ago
Previous discussion about the same issue (but different article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32537073
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by ale42 4y ago
Current Firefox supports filling regular PDF forms properly, they can be read by Acrobat and Apple's Preview without problems. It also allows creating annotation, in which case it's actually like drawing on top of the PDF.
732.
by ale42 4y ago
Very nice set of tools! I'd love a native version that doesn't require a browser, though ;)
733.
by ale42 4y ago
Nomination approved ;)
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by ale42 4y ago
You can keep stocks only for milliseconds if you wish... (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading ). And for the less extreme version there's day trading ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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The world’s farms are hooked on phosphorus, and that’s a problem(wired.com)
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by ale42 4y ago
Ah I think I wasn't clear in my message... I was speaking about the performance of WSL on Windows 10 compared to a native Windows system. The only time I tried ReactOS in a VM I didn't feel it was slow either.
737.
by ale42 4y ago
Is that as slow as it used to be on Windows 10? In my experience it didn't compare at all to a native Linux distro.
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by ale42 4y ago
The one I liked the most was saying "Leave everything to us" in full screen... everything what? Give all my belongings to MS? :-P
739.
by ale42 4y ago
Why legacy? They're still current, and WebRTC is fairly recent. The SS7 mess behind PSTN networks is perhaps more legacy.
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by ale42 4y ago
Do you know what the actual product is?
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by ale42 4y ago
Except that... while the German-speaking one sounds relatively well, I am definitely unhappy with the new system in French. It sounds more unnatural (and harder to understand in certain cases) than the old system. Maybe it's just a lac
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by ale42 4y ago
Maybe helpful? "Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947618
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by ale42 4y ago
Broken on Firefox/Win10 on my HiDPI screen (150%). Works on the "normal" screen (100% ratio).
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by ale42 4y ago
I usually use SumatraPDF on Windows, it's super lightweight, fast, and can handle large documents. However, I never tried it with more than 1500 pages or so. No idea if it would survive a 24k pages PDF, would be a good test...
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by ale42 4y ago
I'm not about the 80 MB... but I'm rather concerned by the proliferation of Electron-based applications. They use way too much system resources. Like Chrome does... but for a browser (which is kind-of a "heavy" applicati
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by ale42 4y ago
I remember that as a teenager I did observe that in some cases, I was able to see partial teletext pages from VHS tapes recorded from TV (like a few characters of the date/time in the top row that did make some sense). Now, seeing that
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by ale42 4y ago
This would be useful if there was an API to dynamically setup the guest network (for example with a password that changes every week or something). Some routers might have that. Otherwise, besides the novelty, I don't see a practical c
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by ale42 4y ago
> Landline is even worse. Do they rent burner landlines? You can try with VoIP, usually works as well. The point is, some people seem to assume that "no-SIM" means "anonymous", but to many others "no-SIM" me
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by ale42 4y ago
> but for some reason did not realize it was possible with Signal. I don't think it's something they make very obvious. It also used to be broken for non-US numbers for more than one year at some point...
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by ale42 4y ago
Signal already allows you to sign-up without a SIM card: you can use a landline number and voice call verification... WhatsApp Business allows landline numbers too, by the way.

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