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811.
by ansible 7y ago
Not individual ebooks directly from O'Reilly. I used to do that. But they've pushed the Safari initiative, and gone wholly on the subscription route.
812.
by ansible 7y ago
This is somewhat off-topic, but has anyone else been disappointed by O'Reilly's website these days? I was disappointed to learn about them discontinuing the sale of individual ebooks, but sort of rolled with it by just buying them
813.
by ansible 7y ago
Rocket Lab regularly streams their launches on YouTube, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/user/RocketLabNZ While they are currently a leader for smallsat launches, they've got some competition ramping up. Exci
814.
by ansible 7y ago
My goodness. I transferred most of my retirement savings out of stocks in early March, realizing a 9% loss. The market had a little upswing that day, so that worked out as well as possible for me, considering. I was hearing advice from an
815.
by ansible 7y ago
If all you're going to do is just securely delete data without drawing suspicion, that's a good plan. If you wanted to hide data in an encrypted partition that looks like random data, that's not going to work.
816.
by ansible 7y ago
From your point of view, it doesn't of course. You know that you don't have an encrypted partition. But from the authorities' point of view, they will beat you until they're convinced you don't have anything of int
817.
by ansible 7y ago
In no way am I arguing that you shouldn't wipe your data, use encrypted filesystems, or anything like that. That is a totally legitimate thing to do. We're just talking about drawing attention to yourself from governmental agenci
818.
by ansible 7y ago
> A previously-used disk, wiped to NIST standards, will be filled with random data - that's exactly the point of the wipe. Yes, and that is suspicious. Random data is suspicious.
819.
by ansible 7y ago
> The discounting model works well for Steam... For many people I know, we all have a backlog of games we haven't even gotten to yet. And there is a convenience with digital goods that doesn't work so well with brick & m
820.
by ansible 7y ago
I'm like you with most things I buy. If I just want a shirt, or a bag of rice, or some other commodity, I just want to buy it. I've previously selected a brand with the quality I like, and I don't want to expend any more me
821.
by ansible 7y ago
> This is only half-true. Any secure encryption is going to result in ciphertext that is indistinguishable from random data. A new SSD with very little data in the filesystem isn't going to have many, many sectors filled with rand
822.
by ansible 7y ago
You can turn off the prompting for the app in the top-right menu. You don't even need to log in for that.
823.
by ansible 7y ago
> Invasion of privacy and leeching of attention. Oh gosh the visual noise! I couldn't stand it the moment I saw it. What is all this stuff, changing every second? It completely disabled my ability to focus or find anything.
824.
by ansible 7y ago
> The metro is also super efficient, you can get everywhere "intra muros" in 30-40 minutes. Yes. Both times I was there visiting, we didn't bother with even the buses. The Metro was usually a short walk, and a short wa
825.
by ansible 7y ago
Yes, the basic business model of a coffee shop worked. What Starbucks did was codify best practices, and worked on efficiency to scale-out.
826.
by ansible 7y ago
> No computers that project images on eyeballs... Actually, we have something close to that now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiltfive/holographic-ta... It doesn't use lasers though. The tech is
827.
by ansible 7y ago
That oven loader robot looks like an ABB IRB 2600. I don't know the exact cost, but it has to be around $50K new, minimum. Has anyone explained to Zume that the restaurant business is low-margin?
828.
by ansible 7y ago
> It is definitely car theft. But...if he claimed that he parked the car in this neighborhood and came back to find it stripped he could conceivably get away with it. That sounds more like insurance fraud, actually. Which you can also g
829.
by ansible 7y ago
If you are interested in making your own terrariums and such, check out the Serpa Design youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SerpaDesign/videos You can get started with just stuff you have lying around a
830.
by ansible 7y ago
It was sooty enough that the moths evolved to be darker colored, so that they would blend in better with the tree trunks that were darkened by soot.
831.
by ansible 7y ago
It is definitely car theft. This is just a way of getting a clean (-ish) title for it afterwards. In the USA, it will still be a salvage title.
832.
by ansible 7y ago
I've been running a small, low-traffic SQLite3 instance for many years. Actually, too many... I need to go and upgrade it.
833.
by ansible 7y ago
MediaWiki (the actual Wikipedia website) runs on top of a traditional SQL database (originally just MySQL, but others are now supported too): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide There have been var
834.
by ansible 7y ago
Shadow recently dropped their price to $13 USD a month for a year contract. The $34 USD / month for month-to-month is still pretty steep.
835.
by ansible 7y ago
I really liked having the keyboard on the G1. Great keyboard on that little thing. It was only surpassed by the Samsung Sidekick 4G. That had nicely spaced keys for quick typing, and a decent sized screen for the time. I regret not gettin
836.
by ansible 7y ago
The "browse regular websites" was the killer feature of the original iPhone. Up until that point, browsing on a mobile device was either horribly limited or various kinds of impossible. The iPhone showed what was possible, and l
837.
by ansible 7y ago
"Economically viable" isn't very glamorous these days. Or difficult. You can pick up a used i5-3xxx or 4xxx system with 8GB of RAM real cheap. If you get one that has at least a 300W power supply, you can then put in a GTX
838.
by ansible 7y ago
At this point, it may be prudent to just block off that entire district. Can you legally claim "hostile regulatory environment" or something like that for denying service?
839.
by ansible 7y ago
My understanding of conventional wisdom from maybe 15 years ago was that we'd run out of memory bandwidth for high core-count processors. Is this now a factor? I know memory has gotten faster, and multi-channel of course helps, but is
840.
by ansible 7y ago
It doesn't eliminate the need for monitoring. I'm looking for a program that is going to connect to all my SSL sites, and report back a problem if the cert is within 30 days of expiration. It is easy enough to write a client that

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