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by blincoln 4y ago
It seems to have influenced Hollywood writers. The 1995 Stallone/Banderas Assassins film has a lot of details straight out of this book, for example.
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by blincoln 4y ago
That is how pre-shared key (PSK) WiFi works, but it's not how WiFi that uses strong authentication (e.g. WPA2 Enterprise) works. There may be bugs/vulnerabilities in the stronger authentication, of course. Using PSK for untrusted
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by blincoln 4y ago
The knowledge and equipment to hack WiFi-related systems is a lot easier to obtain on most of the world than the cellular equivalent. In the US, at least, tampering with cell service risks getting the FCC involved, so very few people do it
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by blincoln 4y ago
I'm with you. If it were possible to create apocalyptic doom AGI 150 years after inventing electronics, by basically making a very fancy, procedurally-generated Eliza, then the universe should be full of Berserkers. With septillions of
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by blincoln 4y ago
While I think some of it is the UX, the main thing in TikTok's favour is the massive number of people creating concise, interesting content for it. YouTube videos are frequently 30-120 seconds of relevant content padded to 10-15 minute
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by blincoln 4y ago
There was also Secrets of the Empire[1], but AFAIK The Void no longer exists. It's too bad - the haptic/physical-props-and-environment aspect worked really well IMO. [1] https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_W
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by blincoln 4y ago
There are still plenty of cleartext HTTP connections from most devices. An attacker only needs one to build the rest of an attack off of, e.g. wait for the browser to request http://banners.some-ad-platform.com/12345.html ,
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by blincoln 4y ago
It is a MitM attack on WiFi networks that seems to have an effect similar to the one provided by ARP spoofing, but works on networks with client isolation enabled, where ARP spoofing doesn't.
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by blincoln 4y ago
Thank you. It was an extremely confusing statement. I would have gone with something like "a wavelength about 7 to 40 times longer than the longest wavelength human eyes can perceive", or "longer wavelengths than a night visi
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by blincoln 4y ago
Do you believe that libraries should be barred from archiving material to microfiche? How is that significantly different from format-shifting a book to electronic form, as long as they use DRM to limiy concurrent viewing?
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by blincoln 4y ago
Do user namespaces still break ptrace and gdb? I know gdb versions from 8 onward are much better at handling containerised processes, but I don't know if the reason why is related to what you're describing.
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by blincoln 4y ago
I think there are a lot of valuable insights one can take away from Stephenson's essay (it's a favourite of mine as well), and one person's key point may be another person's side discussion. Stephenson did compare Linu
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by blincoln 4y ago
Did you figure out a way to recreate the fungal growth video yourselves, or is it the real intro video with the credits edited out somehow?
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by blincoln 4y ago
"The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency mission collected one sample from the asteroid’s surface in February 2019, then fired a copper 'bullet' into the asteroid to create a 33-foot (10-meter) wide impact crater." 10
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by blincoln 4y ago
Very impressive. The results remind me a lot of Psygnosis title screen typography from the Amiga era, e.g. Aminos.[1][2] [1] https://www.myabandonware.com/media/screenshots/a/amnios-a9a... [2] https:/&#
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by blincoln 4y ago
I think it's actually worse than compositing in a high-resolution moon image. With AI enhancement, the details will look believable but may be completely inaccurate.
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by blincoln 4y ago
I agree that the press release is way too long. I'd add one more specific recommendation for anyone who ends up in a leadership role: If you're ever in a situation where you need to lay off or otherwise end your relationship with
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by blincoln 4y ago
I'm not a materials scientist or display engineer, but the full paper[1] seems to describe something very different from an IMOD display. * IMOD is a reflective display. This display is a replacement for the LCD layer in LCD displays,
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by blincoln 4y ago
This is extremely disappointing, given their price point. I've seen an oil furnace still running after 50 years with just basic maintenance. Did it cost 2-5 times as much in inflation-adjusted dollars as a heat pump does now? No.
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by blincoln 4y ago
"No clouds" is supposed to imply "this device isn't dependent upon a cloud-hosted service of some kind". i.e. data is either stored locally or sent to another device configured by the owner, and any remote access is
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by blincoln 4y ago
I'm not a Thiel fan, but I see no reason to suspect insider information. Their stock was already down Wednesday night. Articles about SVB's conference call started showing up almost immediately it happened mid-day on Thursday.[1]
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by blincoln 4y ago
I don't think it's still manufactured, and maybe it's unrelated to this current situation, but around 8-15 years ago, one of the manufacturers of generic Adderall XR did something that made it much less effective. It was obvi
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by blincoln 4y ago
It looks nice in a lot of design contexts. I made a spinning progress indicator for an internal prototype at work in 2010 or so that had three concentric gear-like rings with rotations that were each a prime number of frames. It was less th
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by blincoln 4y ago
I see what you're saying, but I'm still not understanding how it becomes a generalizable rule for real-world code without adding a lot of exceptions to the rule, or doing something over-engineered like parsing into an increasingly
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by blincoln 4y ago
I like this explanation and approach, but how does it solve the first problem described in the article - the case where there's an array being processed that might be empty? There are plenty of cases in real-world code where an array t
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by blincoln 4y ago
> How is that related to the BBC? I think iso1631 is saying that there may be enough red tape for imports into India that the BBC could technically be breaking the law for failing to declare/pay duties on some equipment they or thei
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by blincoln 4y ago
I'm skeptical that it's a deliberate conspiracy, and this is not a scientific test, but I just checked the following news sites, and not one of them had any related hits for "Ohio" listed on their main pages: BBC America
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by blincoln 4y ago
I use enterprise Teams on a Windows 10 laptop and it is the worst overall chat/conferencing experience for me in over 25 years of technical work. About the only thing I can say in its favour is that I've rarely had trouble with vi
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by blincoln 4y ago
> I don't get why upper management thinks they have anything to do with how I communicate with my colleagues. The organization has to pay for whatever commercial offerings their teams are using, and any non-commercial offerings are
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by blincoln 4y ago
I could be wrong, but I think you misunderstand how the GPL works. The GPL doesn't require distribution of the source code along with the binaries. Most organizations do that because it's easier than the other option, which involv

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