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by avian 7y ago
Thank you for sharing these!
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by avian 7y ago
> Just want to counter this sentiment and say I love the fact they are targeting KiCad. Me too. Altium is a reasonably good tool, but I would be super happy if its monopoly on professional electronics design would be broken.
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by avian 7y ago
> I don't know why it became such a piece of breaking news. Popular buzzword (Raspberry Pi), surprising unexpected outcome (most consumer electronics people are familiar with don’t react to light), manufactured outrage/schadenf
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by avian 7y ago
Did Twitter already delete inactive accounts in the past? When I created my account in 2008 my preferred handle was taken by an empty account that seemingly never posted anything. With this recent news about account deletions I was curious
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by avian 7y ago
CRTs were default black, yet we went from dark to light backgrounds during their heyday.
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by avian 7y ago
That number of combinations is not consistent with the $300 offer from the locksmith company to have a robot try them all in "up to 3 days". 90^5 / 3 / 24 / 3600 = approx. 23000 combinations/s That rate seems m
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by avian 7y ago
These are usually called "near field probes". You can easily make a basic one yourself with a piece of thin coax [1]. As leoedin mentions, they are useless without some instrument to attach them to. Ideally a $100k+ spectrum analy
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by avian 7y ago
I had the same experience. Not on VPN/Tor/anything. Before I even posted a single tweet I got blocked by a generic "our algorithms think you violated community guidelines" or something.
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by avian 7y ago
I just stick a piece of black tape over it. It doesn't even void the warranty.
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by avian 7y ago
Very likely the image was taken using only one MVIC filter (it has seven according to Wikipedia) [1] and is hence monochromatic. Since this is near sunset and hence very dark, maybe they chose one of the panchromatic filters to admit as muc
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by avian 7y ago
> The article mentions a possible orbiter mission to Pluto. Is it even possible? I can't read the space.com article about the orbiter mission, but a lander concept was proposed in 2017. Their idea was to use aerobreaking with a gian
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by avian 7y ago
The bug happens because a loop that prints zeros after the decimal point [1] doesn't reset the character to be printed after each iteration. The buggy code stores the character '0' to be printed in register A and then calls P
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by avian 7y ago
Operation WizardOpium, Lazarus attacks, DarkHotel, ... The executive summary reads like something out of a Charles Stross novel.
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by avian 7y ago
"On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load" according to Google back in January 2010 [1]. This was about the same time as Intel introduced AES instructions, but the post suggests t
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by avian 7y ago
> The problem with this is that it's prone to error (doesn't have error correcting bits Doesn't the use of the latin alphabet act a bit like an error correction code here? In contrast to a pure binary code you know that on
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by avian 7y ago
For a while now Google has been rejecting some mail they classify as spam at SMTP delivery time. You don’t see mail they reject that way in your spam folder.
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by avian 7y ago
You’re using gmail which does the filtering for you.
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by avian 7y ago
Yes. Years ago I realized that hiding simply doesn't work and now I just assume that any existing email address is known to the spammers. I also assume people's address books get scraped by malware, since I've seen email addr
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by avian 7y ago
1 mm of PTFE on a 10 kV cable is not even remotely close to human safe. Nick the insulation on such a cable and you turn your user into a quickly expanding cloud of plasma. Cables for that sorts of voltages and currents come heavily armored
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by avian 7y ago
Because you must really be confident in your firmware before you start disabling debug interfaces. Most people aren't. They see more value in being able to fix their bugs after the fact than locking out potential hackers. Imagine just
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by avian 7y ago
It's not really similar to hyper-threading. You still just had one thread of execution, you just didn't have the overhead of pushing CPU state to working memory (RAM) on context switch. Hence the CPU could switch contexts on every
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by avian 7y ago
> If it was unsafe, we would probably know about it. The article claims this is in fact the case. Quote: "We are seeing increases in certain types of head and neck tumors in tumor registries, which may be at least partially attribut
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by avian 7y ago
I wouldn't really call what happened to email a success. In reality, email these days looks much like your first scenario. Email is GMail and a few other large sites. Everybody else is a rounding error in statistics. For all intents
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by avian 7y ago
Have you asked yourself how they can make everything free? What are their incentives? When they successfully centralized majority of DNS resolving, what could they do with that power? Keep in mind that even if their motives are pure at the
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by avian 7y ago
The non-removable fuse is probably there so that in case of a fault you have a non-functional fridge instead of a burnt down house.
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by avian 7y ago
I liked reading HPMOR and it's certainly among the best fan fictions I've read, but in my opinion it has all the usual benefits and shortcomings of fanfics: It's based on fascinating ideas and a new perspective on the known w
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by avian 7y ago
I recently encountered dietlibc while trying to debug a segfault in integrit [1]. As packaged in Debian, integrit is a static binary using dietlibc. For some unknown reason I found it completely impossible to get any usable stacktrace out o
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by avian 7y ago
Maybe not completely dead yet, but each time any webpage gets a redesign these days, they usually kill RSS feeds. It's more or less a niche "old web" tech now.
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by avian 7y ago
"The Sentinel" collection has a bunch of Clarke's early short stories, some of which he later developed into novels: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149070.The_Sentinel
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by avian 7y ago
> few people read commit messages That very much varies. In a project where 90% of commits are “fix”, “foo”, “commit”, etc. then yes. Nobody will ever read that (or do pretty much anything else useful with a VCS). On the other hand, when

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