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by atoav 6mo ago
It would be possible to implement age verification in a way that would somewhat work and that would be to use the correct crypto on an government issued ID card. Crypto where the OS (or a website) can ask the card: "Is the holder of th
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by atoav 6mo ago
If there is a tech-person problem it is this one. I constantly have to interrupt collegues when they try to explain a thing as their explaination attempts are usually way too low level or even bordering on being self-referential. So they ex
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by atoav 6mo ago
I am a developer, I also have worked enough other jobs to know how important communication is and how bad developers can be at it. A typical pattern I recognized is that many developers communicate like bad medical doctors: they do "Mh
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by atoav 6mo ago
It is basically the same as turning a motor into a generator.
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by atoav 6mo ago
Huh? The standard stage mic, the Shure SM58, certainly is dynamic and has no preamp. But you probsbly think about smaller form mics like found on headsets (Electrets).
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by atoav 6mo ago
I like using units that are already used to describe what is meant, e.g. if you have a periodic frequency Hz is totally fine and easy to math with. Now I wasn't aware of Bq, but it makes sense to have a separate unit for the stochastic
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by atoav 6mo ago
An effective rate limiting system has multiple bases in my experience, depending on what the goal is. But I usually implement the configuration as a list where you can define how much requests are allow maximum per how many units of time. E
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by atoav 6mo ago
For me it was pretty clear from the start that costs will have to increase. It is the classical drug dealer model: first you hook them with cheap supply, maybe even free, then you slowly jack the prize up to a level that can (just) be sus
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by atoav 6mo ago
I used cadquery to programmatically generate 3D models for an electronics library for a 1000 or so parts that only differ slightly in their measurements. It literally saved me days of manual work.
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by atoav 6mo ago
My small brother is part of that hype. At his age I had a few lucrative freelance jobs under my belt, but he is oddly fixated at getting money without putting in anything that could be specified as work. I did what I loved doing and got pai
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by atoav 6mo ago
As a musician in a small band: find a venue that sells tickets at the door and just go look at some bands whose name you have never heard of. If they sell tickets at the door, that means they may not be in one of the big ticketing monopolie
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by atoav 6mo ago
The word for this in media is container file format
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by atoav 6mo ago
I mwan a key isn't that long. Convert it to a QR code, print it out and stick it somewhere safe.
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by atoav 6mo ago
File system is the wrong word. What they should have used is file format . It is not wrong that you can have a file (bits and bytes encoded in the shape described by a file format) on some remote point. If you have an index of those file
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by atoav 6mo ago
Yes, if it was actually spent on welfare and not lost as friction in a system of cronies.
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by atoav 6mo ago
Just make sure you use cyber periphery (e.g. a cyber keyboard) to type out your cyber prompts and you will be cyb.. ahh.. fine.
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by atoav 6mo ago
Yes, but if the budget of the whole thing is high(er) they don't tend to cheap out on details that could mske or break it. Or phrased differently: If your shoot codts a million a day it doesn't matter if your camera costs 400 buck
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by atoav 6mo ago
No it really isn't. How do I know? I have grown up in a country that had this my whole life. Will there be "some" fraud? Sure, but unless your system is really broken it will be a drop in the ocean. Some abuse is the price of
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by atoav 6mo ago
Oh, the social media was much, much better. People much more open, tracking didn't exist. All the idiots still thought computers were only a thing for nerds and kids.
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by atoav 6mo ago
That is the thing. If I sign up to a fonts website, I may be interested in fonts . Finding new fonts, the history of fonts, obscure lineages, how to use them, that stuff. Give me that in a newsletter and I might read it. Give me some inf
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by atoav 6mo ago
This is when I send them a GDPR data request followed by a deletion request. If they send me spam after, I sue them with the receipts.
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by atoav 6mo ago
Yes they do. A kindergardener can lead their kindergarden in an autocratic style. That means they (=auto) decide (=cratos) things and don't e.g. ask others (=demos) in a democratic sense. Then they can still end up being fired. Autoc
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by atoav 6mo ago
To be honest I think FTL is likelier than magical "sticks you to a fixed point in space relative to a rotating planet"-technology. Sure you can do that with pushing air and a global positioning system, so if eventually we invent a
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by atoav 6mo ago
Yes but it collides with our understanding of physics as well. Floating anything with significant weight within an air atmosphere requires constant power, you will at least have to profuce an upwards force that is equivalent to the downwa
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by atoav 6mo ago
Aha, and which of the fundamental forces in our universe would it work with?
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by atoav 6mo ago
Deathmachines that in their mechanical hubris angered the gods?
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by atoav 6mo ago
Ok, and where does the energy to consistently keep a weight in the air come from and is it really worth spending? I know flying cars are some sort of futuristic trope, yet I cringe at it every time I see it. They always assume magical inf
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by atoav 6mo ago
What advantage would hovering have?
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by atoav 6mo ago
To play the advocatus diaboli: Violence is always condemned the most if it happens to a member of high society directly. The members many people on this very website picture themselves to be in the future. But if you structually starve half
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by atoav 6mo ago
The sociologist Bourdieu has written about social capital and the impact of the ductus people aquire. Simplified this is why rich people of old money do not respect the new rich: Sure they have the money, but they do not have the taste, the

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