banku_brougham

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by banku_brougham 1y ago
Yeah the Chinese govt has far less incentive to mess with me personally than the US govt does. Its hard to convince people of this point of view I have found.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Yup those Greek gods were nothing but drama and problems.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Got it. Then why the first step of go to the effort of getting real serial numbers from the big box store. If the dots signature going to be randomized?
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Why is the randomizing step needed?
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Do black and white laser printers produce tracking dots? Also, what is the meaning of this tracking, must every corner of our lives be tracked just on principle?
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Well said, believe this is it
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Its basically a dead letter now, and has been fading for at least 20 years now >No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
It really is bad though. I search a lot daily, and every search seems to be 50% pages of this sort: yoursearchterms.info
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
exactly, though I think the current cohort of HN readers have no memory of this.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
"...first of all they must be arrested and brought before the court, and the [criminal code] articles will be found" - Molotov, June 14, 1940
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
This made me remember a news story out of Mississippi last year of hundreds of graves behind a jail with no accountability of whose body is placed there. It only came to light after much struggle from people searching for missing family mem
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Why is it so hard to understand this? Five years ago on HN stories like this would collect comments with general revulsion to this sort of surveillance. Today there is a troubling sentiment that "we can't have a society without un
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Respectfully, this is naive and doesn't consider defacto judicial process. Basically, defendants are getting railroaded unless they have resources to mount a defense, and charges are inflated to incentivize plea bargaining.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
The repo man is truly a changed character.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Have you considered buying a new phone? For some reason I notice my older model getting slower /s.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Agreed - I was shocked to discover NY State curriculum has nothing about Native Peoples. I mean, the five nations were influential on early colonial life.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Calling it a "famine" is a controversial choice.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Patat looks great, is there a means to export to pdf? Thats one thing I think I need, to be able to share a doc of the slides I present.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
This is great if you are fine managing npm packages, seems the only smooth way to install mermaid-cli. I'd say this is a mermaid limitation not a presenterm limitation.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Trying to make a presentation right now. In order to render mermaid charts I need to install 'mmdc', or mermaid-cli perhaps -- but this is npm territory and I dont really want to get into the whole node ecosystem, it would be open
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Ask HN: Logging in with Firefox Extensions Enabled
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
this looks amazing, goodbye google docs
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
From what Ive read about stingrays here on HN, the device is fooling your cell phone to make a tower connection using the movile network. This does not depend on you making a call, the cell phone is normally doing background activity to con
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Really cool article, I've enjoyed your work for a long time. You might add a note for those jumping into a sqlite implementation, that duckdb reads parquet and launched a few vector similarity functions which cover this use-case perfec
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Is your example of a float32 number correct, holding 24 ascii char representation? I had thought single-precision gonna be 7 digits and the exponent, sign and exp sign. Something like 7+2+1+1 or 10 char ascii representation? Rather than the
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
It's not a pet theory, it's exactly how the Five-Eyes system is meant to work. I remember when Total Information Awareness was announced and they even had a cool badge designed for the new govt department. It wasn't a popular
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
So compel speech from a person? "Congress shall make no law..." Really the most basic civics education would benefit us all, I think there are some youtube videos about this.
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
oh darn, i just read the comments
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
this is exciting! the mail app on my mac is the one place that makes me feel like its 1995, in a bad way
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by banku_brougham 2y ago
Its seems the chinese govt is pretty open (? maybe) about what topics are forbidden. In the US we are clouded in talk of free speech, but the allowable topics are ever shifting with events.

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