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by blincoln 4y ago
I generally go out of my way to avoid Walmart, but the one recent datapoint I have was a flour sifter bought there. It didn't work even when brand new. The design was physically flawed, not a one-off defective item.[1] It was essential
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by blincoln 4y ago
When I took a digital forensics course about ten years ago, the instructor (who'd been in the field since the 80s) said that in the US, if one finds suspected CSAM on a device they're examining for any reason (forensics, tech supp
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by blincoln 4y ago
I am not a member of a forcible entry team (IANAMOAFET), but that sounds like a bad idea. Walls are likely to have plumbing and/or electrical wiring in them. Putting an axe or chainsaw through a 220v circuit would not be a good way to
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by blincoln 4y ago
I actually really like brutalist-style angular concrete, so I think this piece is pretty neat. My only complaint with brutalism in actual buildings is that the entrance is generally hidden. It's OK for different people to have differen
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by blincoln 4y ago
Can you not have a queue of whatever type of containers the users are likely to be using already ready to go, like the GP suggests?
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by blincoln 4y ago
I have a lot of mixed feelings about Twitter, and resisted setting up an account for many years. But I realized that there are a lot of interesting people out there with AD(H)D, and a platform like Twitter is literally the only place that t
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by blincoln 4y ago
For standalone houses, seems like a bank of traditional lead-acid batteries like datacenters use is a better option. Doesn't require exotic materials, EOL handling is well understood at this point, etc. If I'm doing the math right
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by blincoln 4y ago
I came to this thread to suggest what you've labelled "Lipsum Mode", because it would preserve the typography style of the page, among other things. I like your other two as well.
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by blincoln 4y ago
This. I started working mostly from home in 2015, and entirely from home starting in 2018. I was a little apprehensive, because I'd worked in an office from 2000-2015, and believed all of the "it will make collaborating harder&quo
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by blincoln 4y ago
> The technical details of the physical security systems are nonsense. Which parts are nonsense? The details of the "man trap" (including the voiceprint) are straight out of a late-80s Computer Security book I found at a garage
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by blincoln 4y ago
I skimmed over Crane and Westmoreland's paper[1] and an article that discusses specific designs[2], and I'm still unsure how one would keep the vehicle and black hole moving together while also generating thrust. It seems like the
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by blincoln 5y ago
In the early 2010s, I did a security evaluation of Styku's Kinect-based fitting room. Back then, it was in a similar vein as what you described - the sensors would build a 3D model of your body, and then recommend the jeans that would
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by blincoln 5y ago
<i>However, if you have for example a federated system you don't have a central instance issuing identifiers for objects. So you create a hash. In reality it doesn't matter if you used SHA1, MD5 or even a random identifier.&
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by blincoln 5y ago
<i>No one wants 'real names' online.</i> I think some people legitimately do. If someone is pretty close to the typical mainstream archetype for their culture, it's easy to get caught up in idealism about how
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by blincoln 5y ago
I wonder if uranium glass would work for this as well. I can't find the link now, but I remember reading years ago about someone's DIY UV imager where they used something like that as a fluorescent screen photon converter so a con
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by blincoln 5y ago
It's a really, really long tunnel. GP's estimate of 5 minutes travel time sounds reasonably accurate. If someone ignored the light and went down it while someone was coming in the other direction, getting traffic unsnarled could b
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by blincoln 5y ago
Most likely a laser guide star[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star
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by blincoln 5y ago
HttpOnly doesn't make sense for most apps anymore, because so much of the logic in modern web apps happens on the client side in Javascript. The takeaway I'd suggest instead is that when one gets a pen test report back with a bunc
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by blincoln 5y ago
My father once told me that a lot of machine shops used to be set up that way, except that the powered shaft ran along the ceiling instead of in a floor trench. "Just throw a belt up over the shaft" and attach it to the machine yo
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by blincoln 5y ago
This may go without saying, but a word of caution for anyone who wants to try this themselves: doing any sort of automated scanning of ECU hardware (e.g. the equivalent of trying to find undocumented opcodes in a CPU) stands a good chance o
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by blincoln 5y ago
I'm sure there are a lot of significant factors, especially for different types of chip, but also pretty confident the shortages related to GPUs and similar are due in no small part to the massive buildouts of digital Chuck E. Cheese t
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by blincoln 5y ago
You should see if you can perceive UV-A with that eye now. Some replacement lenses will let that through.
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by blincoln 5y ago
Or an electrified grid, like the electric flyswatters that are easy to find now. If one wants to shoot them down instead of some reason, why not a laminar flow water nozzle instead of a laser? Seems like that would be way safer.
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by blincoln 5y ago
Also, my understanding is that Java deserialization (or deserialization in general) wasn't intended to explicitly allow actual code execution, just reconstitution of an object's state from storage on disk, the network, etc. Someti
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by blincoln 5y ago
> In a purely electric car world, all street parking will have charger stations like they would have analog parking meters a few decades ago. Will it? Every city parking spot in every city in the world potentially pulling ~220V @ ~60 amp
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by blincoln 5y ago
The NFT itself only enforces any of that on the NFT itself (more or less the sales receipt), not the digital art. What's the incentive to jump through all of the hoops that end up with the artist receiving a percentage of the transacti
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by blincoln 5y ago
Yes to all of your questions. A lot of it can be automated with e.g. a ChipWhisperer.
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by blincoln 5y ago
My recollection is that while some PC sound cards of the era technically supported arbitrary FM and/or wavetable synthesis, it was difficult or impossible to get any custom sounds out of the MIDI side of them. I remember there typicall
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by blincoln 5y ago
At bigger, established corporations, I've seen internal web apps that need external access available set up this way, but when accessed via the public IP, a second auth factor is required. IIRC, MS Exchange's web interface was the
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by blincoln 5y ago
The possibility of losing and having to pay for all of those corporate lawyers in addition to one's own lawyers seems like an even bigger disincentive to me. What am I missing?

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