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by blincoln 4y ago
I always assumed having missiles behave like this would have some neat advantages (harder to shoot down, harder to predict the intended target, harder to automatically trace back to the launcher, etc.) and that the only reason real missiles
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by blincoln 4y ago
I think there are a couple of aspects of human psychology at work here. One is that if someone tries to dogmatically argue that some broad category of thing is impossible, because a small, specific subset of that category doesn't hold
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by blincoln 4y ago
Before I begin, let me start by saying that I know of no evidence that dowsing for water can work. To my knowledge, it's from there that the technique of using two L-shaped rods has been treated as discredited, even though the testin
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by blincoln 4y ago
Based on your description (wget + git), I think your bot is going to miss a lot of content on modern websites. Have you tried viewing the content you've archived recently? A lot of modern websites don't even download the actual pa
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by blincoln 4y ago
I was curious, so I threw the code from https://hackmag.com/coding/diy-keylogger/ into a C# project and ran it without admin rights. It captured the text I entered into a PowerShell terminal with no issues. So lo
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by blincoln 4y ago
It's a little trickier than that, because a KeePass user may work with multiple password databases (e.g. one for themselves, a shared one for their team, etc.), and the user almost certainly wants one configuration that applies to all
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by blincoln 4y ago
What security measures do you think would protect against someone installing a keylogger or extracting saved passwords from your browser data files if you let them use your computer? Also, are you envisioning setting up a new, non-administr
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by blincoln 4y ago
If I understand the captions correctly, the wireframe images overlaid on RGB images are from the algorithm run on the RGB images, not the wifi data, so having them match up is not surprising. The standalone wireframe images sometimes manage
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by blincoln 4y ago
I think it depends on the location. My car was stolen about 15 years ago in Seattle. The block I lived on at the time was a popular place for car thieves to both pick up and drop off cars.[1] When it was recovered, there were a bunch of sto
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by blincoln 4y ago
Or the voice actor could license their profile to {{ProductionCompany}}, and not even have to go to the recording studio anymore unless it's a project they're personally interested in or where the production team wants to pay extr
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by blincoln 4y ago
Flip it around and it works too. Anyone who wants to could potentially set all of the text-to-speech systems they use (their phone/house's voice interaction, listening to audiobooks, warning messages from their car/plane, etc
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by blincoln 4y ago
I agree. Now that I'm older, I've seen kids 30 years younger than me try to get their parents to use modern popular slang, and it feels super cringey. James Cameron would have been 36 when he was making Terminator 2, and he's
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by blincoln 4y ago
The ads have great production design and direction, but I remember watching them in 1993 and thinking that they had just read/watched a bunch of 80s/early 90s sci fi and decided to take credit for other people's ideas without
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by blincoln 4y ago
Vegetarians typically eat a lot of food that isn't plant-based, and that vegans won't eat. Eggs, dairy, honey, etc. Something that is literally only made from plant products is food that both vegetarians and (most) vegans would be
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by blincoln 4y ago
TLDR: I understand the author's sense of frustration, but I think DoS (including ReDoS) is trickier to handle than ignoring a class of vuln. Denial-of-service vulnerabilities in general are something I usually find uninteresting, becau
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by blincoln 4y ago
Filming CRTs is a headache[1], but if it's simulated they did a pretty convincing job of matching the curve of the screen, reflections (especially in the first photo) and whatnot. Amigas used to drive a lot of the background displays o
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by blincoln 4y ago
My guess would be that they customized something like https://taws.ch/WB.html Alternatively, they could have captured screenshots of the UI elements using an Amiga emulator and animated a video by hand to play on the screen
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by blincoln 4y ago
Allegedly Netflix updated the episode to correct some of the details, like replacing the modern code with something less obvious: https://twitter.com/OzzyDweller/status/1562078723683356675
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by blincoln 4y ago
I wonder if anyone's recovered any interesting data from these, like a digital palimpsest. My father has a croquet set that my grandfather made, and the signs on the hoops are made from University of Washington computing punchcards fro
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by blincoln 4y ago
Ah, thank you. That makes a lot more sense.
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by blincoln 4y ago
I wonder if a lot of the confusion in this discussion is for the same reason I was confused - most descriptions of a sea anchor are missing the details of why it works, and calling one style a "parachute" makes it even worse IMO.
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by blincoln 4y ago
I think it may not be that straightforward. I was part of a group interview with Gibson years ago, and I didn't fully appreciate one of the things he said at the time until years later. It was something about how everyone who loves a w
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by blincoln 4y ago
But it's not even copyright. Copyright does not protect general styles. It protects specific works, or specific designs (e.g. Mickey Mouse). It doesn't allow someone to claim ownership over a general concept like "a painting
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by blincoln 4y ago
As someone who's shifted careers twice because disruptive technologies made some other options impractical, I can definitely appreciate that some artists are very upset about the idea of maybe having to change their plans for the futur
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by blincoln 4y ago
Is one of you (saidmasoud vs. jandrese) using the Nest app and the other using Google Home maybe? I tried out a Nest thermostat briefly and found it confusing that there were two different apps with different featuresets.
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by blincoln 4y ago
Simulations and estimations about processes in the physical world always leave room for surprises when one is doing things that haven't been done before.
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by blincoln 4y ago
> a monkey riding a deer for fun I used to have a neighbour with a goat and chickens, and at least one of the chickens would ride around on the goat's back. There are a decent number of YouTube videos of other chickens riding goats,
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by blincoln 4y ago
Not sure if this is still the case ~25 years later, but when I lived in Vancouver in the late 90s, a lot of those DIY-finished basements were set up as (probably off-the-books) rental units to help cover the homeowners' mortgages. I li
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by blincoln 4y ago
It depends on what you want to do, and the kind of organizations you want to work for. Information Security is a big field. Is there an area of it that's especially interesting to you, or are you still figuring that part out?
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by blincoln 4y ago
> The sink supply connections (usually from a shutoff valve) are compression threads I've seen both compression and NPT. I only have three faucet-replacement data points to work from, but I haven't developed a feeling for why m

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