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by bdamm 3y ago
Decompilation is not the same as source availability. Any binary can be converted into source that will compile back into a (nearly) equivalent binary. Whether that source code is economically viable to use in some derivative work is an ent
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by bdamm 3y ago
"Camera sensors" have been able to do this since the dawn of digital photography, seeing as these parameters are so fundamental even for selfies. A sensor that can't adjust exposure time is one that cannot function in almost
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by bdamm 4y ago
Both of these are exactly the kind of problem where our AI future is going to deliver cost effective modern alternatives. Primitive sensors wake up more sophisticated analyzers and use deep sensors (including video) to determine if there is
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by bdamm 4y ago
This is exactly the thing. If the difference between python 2 and 3 is so small that a program can be easily ported, then WHY did there need to be a difference at all?
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by bdamm 4y ago
Depending on the crash, the engine being pushed under can launch the car into the air, where it is more likely to roll over. Contrast this with EVs where the battery is basically a giant puck that the occupants are sitting on top of; the de
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by bdamm 4y ago
Is there such a thing as "a glass of wine"? Usually it is "two" unless you happen to always dine in groups of four.
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by bdamm 4y ago
If you took the gasoline that powers one car and put it in a power plant that powered EVs, you could power maybe 4 or 5 EVs with that gasoline. So even that is a net positive. Why? Because converting gasoline to electricity in a large-scale
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by bdamm 4y ago
Yes. There is a lot of information on the manufacturing cost of EVs in terms of environmental footprints. One thing we know for sure is that mining resources from dead cars is far less resource intensive than mining resources from tradition
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by bdamm 4y ago
Elon keeps hinting about competing with airliners for trans-oceanic flights. My bet is that Starship is going to become the suborbital trans-oceanic machine that shrinks the world in a way not seen since the airliner was invented.
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by bdamm 4y ago
There are all kinds of things I don't want Apple employees to hear, or developers of some random app that runs on iOS or Mac OS. Little brother can in many ways be far more threatening than big brother.
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by bdamm 4y ago
They've been claiming microchip shortage for the last two years. Didn't sound like a stockpile. Ford and Tesla both had production slowdowns or product regressions specifically due to difficulties getting certain chips, and surely
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by bdamm 4y ago
Sounds like a reliability and auditability nightmare. And, in securing software systems, full bill of materials and even reproducible builds are used to lock in the software to known good versions. How could software that can change thanks
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by bdamm 4y ago
The unique capability is active radar. As far as I know, combined arrays of smaller dishes can't pulse out a radar beam, they can only sense via interferometry. Unless there have been some advances in large scale wave forming, a giant
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by bdamm 4y ago
Quality steel nails are expensive, roads are very plentiful, and sensors have noise. Also, staying in a lane is not the problem. Teslas and pretty much all other quality brands sold today do it already. The problem is complex behavior like
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by bdamm 4y ago
Perhaps space itself is the spacecraft, with extra-dimensional links between matter hiding in dark energy, creating an almost infinite capability for sensing and affecting matter? Perhaps black holes are the homes from which these aliens re
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by bdamm 4y ago
Wouldn't one good usage be enough?
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by bdamm 4y ago
Yes, for the sake of your visitors. If your site is only http, then middleboxes can use your site load to opportunistically attack the visitor. Of course, the probability that a visitor would not visit any other non-TLS site that day is low
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by bdamm 4y ago
No, it’s quite common. Planes collide on the ground all the time, at airports all over the world. Normally minor “oops” in ground handling, by the pilots but also can be pushers and such who are ferrying around airplanes. Runway entrance an
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by bdamm 4y ago
$2/kWh is insane though. My power rate is $0.12/kWh. $2/kWh is still 6x California’s most expensive power.
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by bdamm 4y ago
Well, not every manufacturer. There is one notable automaker that has, is still, and will continue to invest enormous sums of money on the software.
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by bdamm 4y ago
I've been doing it for 20 years. Yes, or conversely, seeing "You need to update your Capital One password" being sent to my custom addresses for AAA, Telecom, Linkedin, etc.
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by bdamm 4y ago
Many models have a pyro fuse in the battery pack high voltage hook-up that blows when the airbags deploy. Also common is that if the 12V battery is disabled, the high voltage pack is also disabled. And many models simply disconnect the high
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by bdamm 4y ago
Then we mine more from whatever is convenient. Lithium is abundant in the earth, and can even be extracted from ocean water. Lithium is one of the easiest elements to acquire.
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by bdamm 4y ago
Are you proposing writing a replacement for gcc in lisp? If the goal is to have executable machine code then the turtles must end somewhere.
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by bdamm 4y ago
The accelerator is actually two sensors, each independently sampling the pedal position. So, yes, not that likely that both fail simultaneously. In fact, the pedal is not even a Tesla part.
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by bdamm 4y ago
Usually the planks under a balcony are protected by the balcony itself, so they remain fairly dry, especially if there are drip flashings that redirect rain drips and rivulets away. Or, they may be pressure treated wood, in which case it&#x
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by bdamm 4y ago
Wood generally doesn't rot unless it gets wet. Wood is typically treated so that if it gets wet there is a mechanism to prevent fungi from eating it. Painting it, for example, causes the water to slide off the wood before the underlyin
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by bdamm 4y ago
Or would we have transitioned to highly directed laser pulses, or perhaps using a medium not yet discovered? Since we are still fumbling in the dark about fundamental physics, having no grand unifying theory between large and small, or even
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by bdamm 4y ago
Because the interaction with the hardware authenticator is local. OIDC and WebAuthn can work together.
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by bdamm 4y ago
Normally you can assign multiple keys to one identity. That's baked into WebAuthn and pretty much all the implementations I've seen do it.

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