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by avidiax 1y ago
When's the last time anyone actually dialed a phone number by hand into their own phone? These days, you just click a tel: URL and the phone number is in your dialer, ready to go. So the idea that shorter dialing codes would ever be a
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by avidiax 1y ago
Publishers could just put "Guaranteed playable until 2026-07-02", and then extend those games that are profitable. You really need either a minimum term of support in law, or a requirement to publish a docker of the server into es
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by avidiax 1y ago
My understanding is that ekranoplans aren't such a good idea except maybe for high speed short haul. If slow is ok, use a boat. If going further add more wing, fly higher and faster for less fuel. As other comments suggest, there is on
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by avidiax 1y ago
I would like to see laws against constructive illegal practices, or at least an assumption that any forseeable outcome of the company's policies is considered by the court to have been the intentional outcome. Codify "the purpose
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by avidiax 1y ago
FPGAs are an amazing product that almost shouldn't exist if you think about the business and marketing concerns. They are a product that is too expensive at scale. If an application takes off, it is eventually cheaper and more performa
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by avidiax 1y ago
I somewhat support being unscientific in this case. It's not as though food dyes are being used to make healthy foods more palatable. It's quite the opposite, that food colorings are used to make processed foods more stimulating,
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by avidiax 1y ago
I feel this would be more useful as a utility to manage your MAC addresses. That would let you, for example, clone a MAC address or IP address between your computer and a phone, and maybe automatically resolve contention. That way, you can
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by avidiax 1y ago
You are mostly right, but I would hope that certain core security companies and organizations would get paged. Root CAs and domain registrars and such should have DNSSEC validation. Unfortunately, DNSSEC is a bit expensive in terms of suppo
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by avidiax 1y ago
Why not forward to another open tracker? Then you host nothing, and any legal letter you receive you can just tell them to talk to the open tracker.
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by avidiax 1y ago
I'm using the Monoprice multiviewer. It negotiates HDCP without a display attached. Other than being a bit big and expensive, and being unable to strip HDCP, it's a good solution. I found the same device in generic packaging on Al
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by avidiax 1y ago
One caveat of these dummy plugs is that they don't do HDCP. They handle the typical use case of forcing a specific resolution output for headless machines rather well, but fail for the use case that you need to run something that expec
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by avidiax 1y ago
What I see here is thousands of dollars of hardware that should be a few digital filters in a sound production software suite.
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by avidiax 1y ago
I would guess that the locksmiths have some gatekeeping in just the same way that lawyers and doctors do. Can you pay for ad placement on Google Maps and answer locksmithing calls? Yes, probably. Can you join all of the professional circles
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by avidiax 1y ago
> We must starve ourselves of fun so that the barest excitement at work feels good. Much like people that struggle with their weight need to turn every meal into accounting for lean protein and leafy vegetables. Eventually, you crave the
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by avidiax 1y ago
I had the same question. Seems the UC schools use Publicsurplus.com, but last time I looked, I didn't see anything interesting.
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by avidiax 1y ago
The absolute cheapest thing is just to never update the position unless it significantly changed. Doesn't require anything except the GPS chip. Bluetooth beacons would need to add an accelerometer, but that undermines their use in pinp
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by avidiax 1y ago
> I do find it incredible the lengths people will go to argue in favor of violence to defend law breakers. I'm arguing against disproportionate and escalatory violence. Police in other countries somehow deal with rock throwing witho
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by avidiax 1y ago
So you are saying, some people in the crowd throw rocks, therefore, innocent people in the crowd should also die? So you are saying, guy throws rock. Now he has no rock. He should be shot despite having no rock? So you are saying, police ri
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by avidiax 1y ago
In official contexts, this is effectively the same as a royal seal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(emblem)
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by avidiax 1y ago
> OTOH it would be cool if random websites were able to open up and use ports on my computer's network That's what WebRTC does. There's no requirement that WebRTC is used to send video and audio as in a Zoom/Meet call
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by avidiax 1y ago
> Retired people need to live where shopping, health resources, and their offspring are. Their offspring can't afford to live near them, and can't afford the time to visit with such long commutes. Maybe if retired people moved,
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by avidiax 1y ago
This is a more reasonable version of California's Prop 13. A fairer system would be to allow unaffordable property taxes to be deferred indefinitely, while accruing fair interest, with the property as the collateral. "Unaffordable
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by avidiax 1y ago
A practical implementation of such a system would allow arbitration by the courts, have limitations such as a minimum bid increment (e.g. 10%), etc. If you can demonstrate that the purchase offer is made because of personal animus, or the b
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A Closer Exploration of Residential Proxies and Captcha-Breaking Services(trendmicro.com)
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by avidiax 1y ago
> The proof of work (implemented here) is a certain verifiable delay function (VDF) known as "sloth". VDFs are cryptographic primitives which prove that a nontrivial amount of time has passed by requiring a long, serial computa
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by avidiax 1y ago
No, I was meant to book a one-way ticket, since I was moving offices. But I had to have evidence to show that booking round-trip was cheaper in case anyone questioned why I had purchased round-trip instead of one-way.
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by avidiax 1y ago
I had this a year ago on ZRH->SFO. One way business 6,032 Swiss francs. Round trip business (with a return 6 months later) was 2,530 Swiss francs. So I screenshotted the horrible one-way price to go in my expense report, and then booked
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by avidiax 1y ago
> In fact, none of the [problematic readers] ever questioned their own interpretations of figures of speech, no matter how irrational the results. > these students had full use of dictionaries and even their phones when reading the pa
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by avidiax 1y ago
Seems like it would be good for marking cards. Make some cards reflect in the NIR. These contacts don't focus, however, so you can't get a clear perception of where the NIR is coming from.
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by avidiax 1y ago
Yeah, the sense at that time was that you master the machine . Now, increasingly, the machines will master you if you aren't careful. Of course, the machines haven't really done anything to us. They've just been locked

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