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by blincoln 7y ago
Take a break from K (or any other shorthand language of your choosing) for a year or five, then come back and try to figure out what the code you wrote when you were using it frequently is actually doing. Now do the same with well-written,
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by blincoln 7y ago
>> They insisted I never talk to any LEO > Nothing wrong with this ... Depending on where they're located, failure to report certain types of crime to law enforcement may itself be a crime.
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by blincoln 7y ago
IMO, it's because most manufacturers' main goal with "smart" devices isn't making better products; it's designing products that are less expensive to manufacture, but bring in at least as much revenue. A devi
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by blincoln 7y ago
On most networks, anyone else on the same subnet as your IP can hijack your connection using ARP spoofing and send you whatever they want if you're connecting over Http instead of HTTPS. That's usually a lot easier to pull off tha
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by blincoln 7y ago
That's certainly the ideal approach, but I don't think it's realistic to plan for normal people behaving that way. By the time I realized that Google had given me a route that would not work, breaking out of it cost me 10 min
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by blincoln 7y ago
There are major corporations running key business software which is 30, or even 40 years old. I wouldn't be surprised if some were evening hitting 50+ with old COBOL mainframe applications. This is one of the main reasons that corporat
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by blincoln 7y ago
I agree with you. However, this may be obvious, but some of that could be due to people trying to follow Google Maps, Waze, or other similar navigation system directions where the routes are generated based on what other users have done. I
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by blincoln 7y ago
The magic of DNS tunneling is that it uses the normal methods of resolving names, so internal DNS servers/forwarders become proxy servers for the attacker's connection out to the Internet. The most simple example someone gave me y
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by blincoln 7y ago
The experience of entering the US is pretty embarrassing compared to most modern countries. From what I've seen, it's significantly more ridiculous for non-citizens. In most of Europe, one scans their passport, has their photo tak
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by blincoln 7y ago
I don't know for sure. I'm not a physicist. I would assume it could be the metal in the plane, vortices created by its motion through the air, changes to the Earth's magnetic field caused by the metallic object moving through
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by blincoln 7y ago
I'm disappointed that the authors don't even consider that the observations might be of rare atmospheric phenomena. Some of those (red sprites, etc.) look unreal. What the Navy observed also sounds an awful lot like WWII "foo
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by blincoln 7y ago
It's in the middle of the desert. Looking at it on a map, it's something like 100km from the coast, and ~50km from any major lakes. That means it's even more dependent on bringing in water from elsewhere than LA is. At least
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by blincoln 7y ago
If their families have been there since 1938, as is the case for one of the people mentioned in the article, where would you suggest they are citizens?
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by blincoln 7y ago
The problem with this argument is that most companies will build no parking, because it costs them less. Then the people who buy/rent their houses/apartments park on the street, which puts a burden on the city, and makes things a
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by blincoln 7y ago
The computing stacks for a typical modern corporation are too complex to be able to say with certainty that all the holes are plugged.
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by blincoln 7y ago
It's more or less implemented for medical care in most other first-world countries and it seems to work better than ours* in all of them. I lived in Canada for three years, and growing up in a fairly conservative area in the US, I was
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by blincoln 7y ago
...or at least meet the legal definition of making it oneself? Like the "build your own AR-15" kits where 99% of the work is already done, but for insulin?
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by blincoln 7y ago
How difficult/expensive is it to recycle the material? i.e. if one had some sort of wonder-generator based on it, would it make sense to use a model where once per year, the owner sends the nitinol pieces back to the manufacturer (who
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by blincoln 7y ago
I've watched all of the raw footage and either listened to or watched the testimony. I'm sure the pilots saw something. It's very easy to see awareness and intent where there is none. As I said, it sounds exactly like WWII p
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by blincoln 7y ago
The odds are that if there's intelligent life elsewhere in our galaxy capable of space travel, they've had millions (possibly billions) of years longer than we have to develop their technology.[1] Why would someone with technology
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by blincoln 7y ago
> the object demonstrated awareness of their presence That's certainly one interpretation. > with the object demonstrating awareness of his presence by mirroring his maneuvers. Then he flew aggressively at it, and the object resp
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by blincoln 7y ago
Agreed. It would be neat if it were aliens, but it's probably some sort of uncommon atmospheric/environmental effect[1] that didn't show up on less-advanced radar. I'm no physicist, but I'm thinking something like a
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by blincoln 7y ago
typeformer is referring to Robert Hastings' claim that military personnel witnessed UFOs disabling nuclear weapons, e.g. https://www.livescience.com/10146-ufos-disarm-nuclear-weapon... .
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by blincoln 7y ago
What are you going to do when it becomes easy to record everything without there even being an obvious camera lens? It's possible today, just not with an unmodified consumer phone.
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by blincoln 7y ago
> instead of having jobs they were stealing If opiates were legal, it seems unlikely to me that any significant number of people would need to steal to support their habit. I lived in Canada for a few years, and had a friend up there who
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by blincoln 7y ago
I have limited experience with mainframe emulation, but from what I've seen, trying to do it in a live business environment is challenging at best because all of that old mainframe software was written with a lot of assumptions that do
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by blincoln 8y ago
> These are not close at all. OK, I acknowledge that I was in error here about RGB full-saturation green + blue being equivalent to printer's cyan, and apologize for the error. However, they are still both (in my mind) firmly in the
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by blincoln 8y ago
Let's assume you're correct, and that the more-or-less logarithmic aspect to human vision is inconsequential here, and also that the hump in absorption around 410nm by the red cones is also irrelevant. How would you explain the hu
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by blincoln 8y ago
The mean absorbance for the red cones was higher from about 400nm to about 430nm than it was for the green cones in at least one published paper.[1] For some reason that's not clear to me, the graph below the data table doesn't ex
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by blincoln 8y ago
> Your graph is on a log scale. Have you considered the possibility that human vision might have a more-or-less logarithmic response, and that this is why so many graphs related to it use a log scale?[1][2][3] [1] "Brightness as per

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