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by avian 7y ago
This reminds me that there's a company claiming to be developing a steam-powered booster for orbital launches. Scott Manley did a video about them a while back [1]. Where this stands on the spectrum between a scam and a real thing rema
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by avian 7y ago
Yes, you can debate how much imported (or for that matter, domestically produced) stuff is actually tested, but the fact remains that existing laws and regulations do cover this, even if enforcement is maybe lacking.
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by avian 7y ago
If your phone emits any non-trivial amounts of RF power at 100 kHz-1MHz frequencies, regardless of whether this comes from intermodulation products or something else, it doesn't pass existing EMC regulations and can't be legally s
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by avian 7y ago
Note that it says "personal Apple devices", not smartphones or laptops in general. I think what is probably meant is that they check whether someone for example swapped their old iPhone with a new one from the shop's inventor
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by avian 7y ago
> I'm using Firefox for years, after Chrome started to ask me for a login It's funny because Firefox has been pushing their login thing pretty hard (the yellow "oh no" exclamation mark icon if you're not logged i
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by avian 7y ago
"The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon." [1] Soap is not a modern invention and its usefulness in cleaning was recognized way before modern knowledg
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by avian 7y ago
I’ve stopped going to Makerfaire-like events because home-made laser cutters seem to be the thing now and I’m vary of visiting hackerspaces. I’ve seen too many of these things out in the open with zero protection, just waiting to blind some
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by avian 7y ago
Not GP. It really depends on the device in my experience. My Denon system has seconds of lag over Bluetooth, enough to even make the volume slider on the phone annoying to use. On the other hand, my wireless headphones from Sony have as far
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by avian 7y ago
Unfortunately in many (most?) cases I've seen the prescribed deployment practice for Python software is to use virtualenv (or some variant of it). Python dependencies are to be handled exclusively via pip (requirements.txt, install_req
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by avian 7y ago
There are two things being confused here. I was thinking about OpenSearch custom search engines (being deprecated apparently as another comment notes, these appear on desktop as icons under the search input field "This time search with
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by avian 7y ago
> Do they sync with Firefox Sync? No. > Do they work on Firefox for Android? Yes.
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by avian 7y ago
That balloon figure doesn’t make sense to me in relation to atmospheric pressure changes. It would mean that a tied-off balloon would randomly inflate and deflate itself depending on weather.
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by avian 7y ago
Some of the buttons on the ads say "Open Office" [1]. I guess the intended meaning is "Click here to open Microsoft Office", but the wording is suspiciously close to OpenOffice. I'm sure that will account for some c
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by avian 7y ago
No need for a time machine (or being snarky - I did say it's just for comparison, didn't I? I think it does put the "very high pressure" into perspective) That said, your time machine idea could be simply implemented wit
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by avian 7y ago
> Meme's are free advertising for the rights holder. Unfortunately, artists can't make a living from free advertising. Anyway, the "Germany to ban memes" is just a spin on the story to generate clicks and outrage (sim
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by avian 7y ago
> it provides a static pressure of 7.63 mmH2O If anyone else is wondering, that's about 0.8 mbar (roughly 8 ten-thousands of an atmosphere), or 80 Pa of over-pressure. To put this into perspective, my local atmospheric pressure vari
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by avian 7y ago
> Ideally in a form that would also work when the company closes shop You typically already have to provide full hardware schematic when submitting an electronic product to test labs to get various certifications. It doesn't seem th
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by avian 7y ago
> Smart home cloud services disappearing and bricking devices seems analogous to pre-Internet devices losing their circuit boards There used to be an electronic repair shop in every neighborhood. These were small businesses that would be
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by avian 7y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I had a similarly terrible experience with Tesseract. I spent days studying the docs and I failed to find a setup where it would produce anything useful even with the most perfect input. I was also left with
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by avian 7y ago
I’ve seen Pixel phones sold on Amazon UK and shipped to EU countries where Google doesn’t officially sell them at almost 2x markup.
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by avian 7y ago
> The image was made by combining data from multiple observations with the VLA's giant dish antennas arranged in different configurations to show both large structures and finer details within the galaxy. The naturally-emitted radio
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by avian 7y ago
If you're going for copyright infringement, isn't it then simpler and cheaper to just jump straight to step 7?
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by avian 7y ago
Ah, a star catalogue equivalent of non-existent streets in a map that are only drawn there to prove copyright infringers. Somehow I was expecting to read about a stellar equivalent of a D&D mimic.
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by avian 7y ago
RSS in the title is misleading. This looks like an email newsletter thing and has nothing to do with the syndication format you can subscribe to in a feed reader.
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by avian 7y ago
Years ago I used to run a few such small mailing lists. As far as I remember, I used minimalist [1] and mlmmj [2] at one time, maybe others. Over time they became major pain to maintain due to spam. Not so much in preventing spam messages f
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by avian 7y ago
Or maybe they just know that people that will pay five figures for a Mac Pro are not the kind of people that will fix anything themselves, or go to a non-authorized repair shop.
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by avian 7y ago
> some browsers even then did not send Referer headers reliably Apart from https/http thing mentioned elsewhere in this thread, there's also Referrer-Policy [1]. I don't know how wide-spread its use is, but I find that mos
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by avian 7y ago
> I'd be shocked if there aren't already cameras covering every square inch of modern airplane cabins Now that you mention it, I don’t recall ever seeing a camera on an airplane before. I see them on busses and trains, airports
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by avian 7y ago
Ford especially seems unfortunate with their model names. Another example is Ford "Kuga". The word literally means "Plague" in many Slavic languages.
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by avian 7y ago
Modern SSH versions only store hashes of domain names in the known_hosts file exactly for this reason.

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