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by bdamm 7y ago
I've heard some folks talk about TLS as a "session" layer, and it is fortunate that we no longer have to translate between ASCII and EBCDIC underneath the application, so the "presentation" layer now seems like it i
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by bdamm 7y ago
A rotary engine is not the same as a radial engine. Radial engines go in airplanes, rotary engines go in Mazdas.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Just like trucking rockets - it is done with careful planning.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Also I've never seen Poland Spring in California.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Well, this entire thread is about loneliness. If we want to understand it and help it then we probably should be talking about it.
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by bdamm 7y ago
It’s not like F-35 is the first at anything. I bet you can’t name one thing it is that hasn’t been done before.
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by bdamm 7y ago
It is worth noting that the dominant systems architectures of today help ensure vulnerabilities remain. Doing something about this could become a defining factor of computing in the 21st century.
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by bdamm 7y ago
From my experience, it's because some of the people that would need to be doing that have their heads in the sand about e.g. the necessity of middleboxes and application-layer proxies. Network-layer folks still seem to think that the I
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by bdamm 7y ago
Everything about exploring space and planets is a rebut to Murphy's law.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Would it be enough energy to compensate for the work you'd need to do to lift the robot back up? Presumably there's some energy gained from sending it down but not enough to bring it back, especially since it is coming back heavie
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by bdamm 7y ago
Then when she develops more serious health or mental problems, and you have nobody to help look after your children, relationship therapy has burned through a couple therapists, and you're telling each other how lonely you each are but
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by bdamm 7y ago
What a shame. The mission won't be operational as long as its delays. After all that I'd at least hope there could be an option for re-fueling, but I bet there isn't.
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by bdamm 7y ago
With the irony being that if BFR pans out, this mission could have ended up being launched on it and eliminate a pile of complexity in the process. The mirrors wouldn't have to be hinged, for example.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yeah, but it also is usually pretty obvious about what it is. That's hard to cover up.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Cameras recording displays also leave artifacts in the resulting stream. There would at the very least likely be a moire pattern somewhere, at some level, and somehow the capturing camera would need to resolve that. That resolution will lea
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by bdamm 7y ago
Declaring BS on what, TruePic as a business? The general problem is very hard, but the specific problem of taking photos with smartphones is tractable. Their approach makes sense, and in some cases can be made much easier with access to pla
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by bdamm 7y ago
Because if firefox hadn't nuked the user's config we wouldn't be talking about how to recover that config. Any time the advice is "restore from backups" then the product has exhibited a poor user experience. And thi
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by bdamm 7y ago
Appears to be crushed under the load of the flight enthusiasts found on HN.
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by bdamm 7y ago
And sometimes simply by sheer mistake; the leaning tower of Pisa was supposed to be supported by the Corinthian columns and limestone internal blocks, but it turns out that its structure is actually supported significantly by the marble faç
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by bdamm 7y ago
There's a movement towards industry building standards around how to meet the general requirements that aircraft need to meet. However, that's a step back from the previous approach, where fundamental architecture concepts are nee
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by bdamm 7y ago
GP has a point. Flying on Boeing airplanes is something basically everyone does. Even if the executives themselves don't, they have parents, children, aunts, uncles, best men, grand-children, friends, children of friends, lawyers, and
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by bdamm 7y ago
Paper letters and artifacts that show up in my actual physical mailbox that someone had to put an actual stamp on to get delivered gets my attention in a way that email rarely does. All of my email accounts are a dumpster fire of spam. Gmai
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by bdamm 7y ago
I know of a case where a banking system was corrupted due to a software problem, and account transactions were re-built by using paper receipts. Now granted this was ~1995 era, but as far as I know, banking mainframes haven't changed m
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by bdamm 7y ago
I agree, but Home Depot has been piling a lot of junk on their shelves lately. Think the $5 keychain package with strap when a $0.50 loop will do. Do they stock the $0.50 loop? Good luck finding them or anyone that will know where they are!
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by bdamm 7y ago
I like the touch bar too. I just want the Esc key back (although they did add the option to remap CapsLock to Esc, so hurray for that, but honestly it was a delayed feature.)
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by bdamm 7y ago
Honestly I'm tired of Home Depot. If you want real service go to your local Ace or similar. Plus they have a more refined selection of products.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Not true. Boeing is already manufacturing 787s with 3D printed parts. https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/making-3d-prin...
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by bdamm 7y ago
You just defined a tracking pixel. Ok, technically it is larger than a pixel, but if the server with the image is harvesting information about the client to learn something about the user, then it's tracking the user.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yes, describing my old car's odometer as "250 megameters" is oddly satisfying to let roll of the tongue.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yep, exactly. You know what works great? Airline service between SF and LA, with a matrix of three major Bay area airports to four major LA area airports, and a constellation of smaller airports being served by smaller companies such as Sur

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