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by bragr 1y ago
I don't know about this shutdown, but in past shutdowns, many non-essential .gov sites just pulled the plug for the duration.
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by bragr 1y ago
>I’m really confused how you communicate with it? That seems like the most (expensive?) and technically difficult part. Not really. They typically use standard amatuer radio frequencies and protocols. Making space to ground contacts is d
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by bragr 1y ago
How does one splice a cable with such a complex geometry? Is that a solved problem already?
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by bragr 1y ago
>not sure why you're immediately jumping to kidnapping, rather than "So a person can be put in front of a court". Because Nepal is not known for a robust rule of law or an effective legal system. They have a particular pr
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by bragr 1y ago
Maybe some borders are that way but not all. The thalweg is the US-Mexico border along the Rio Grande and the International Boundary and Water Commission semi-regularly swaps territory to deal with the changing border.
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by bragr 1y ago
When the measurement was taken is important too because any border based on natural features is in constant flux. A big storm could cause the Oyapock River to straighten or create new bends or both.
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by bragr 1y ago
Source: trust me bro, but you can find HF jamming pretty easily on Internet connected SDRs, especially near "sensitive" countries.
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by bragr 1y ago
Crescent wrench is more or less a genericized trademark like Kleenex where I'm from.
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by bragr 1y ago
The .io TLD is administered by Afilias which is an American corporation.
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by bragr 1y ago
Interesting write-up. Does anyone have any context about Fujitsu RELC? Why a proprietary algorithm? Any particular advantages or features?
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by bragr 1y ago
>Why does the UPS app have to be over 100 MB? There are two conflicting problems here that are the two heads of the same coin: >"Why is this app so big, don't the devs respect my storage?" vs: >"Why is this app
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by bragr 1y ago
According to Wikipedia, the stage timer was set incorrectly so the injection burn cut out early.
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by bragr 2y ago
I think in practice most papers are too technical to be meaningfully read by people outside the field. I struggle with some CS papers especially depending subfield. I could probably get through this stem cell paper if I had 8 hours and a me
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by bragr 2y ago
TIL Time to visit the hardware store
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by bragr 2y ago
This seems like it would be a disposable item once the tip wears, at least more disposable than a regular bit. Sharpening seems like it would be difficult and time consuming, if that is possible in the first place.
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by bragr 2y ago
>Often you will read online of people experiencing multiple failures from drives purchased from the same batch I'll toss in on that anecdata. This has happened to me a several times. In all these cases we were dealing with drives wi
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by bragr 2y ago
>that doesn't apply to cc fraud yet It stops "card testing" where someone has bought or stolen a large number of cards and need verify which are still good. The usual technique is to cycle through all the cards on a smalle
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by bragr 2y ago
He was for a while. It was partially successful at controlling his issues, but after a while he stopped coming to the door when social services came around each month to give him his injection. Social Services doesn't have the ability
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by bragr 2y ago
I have a cousin who is paranoid schizophrenic. He makes all kinds of wild claims about all sorts of things: family abuse, screwed over by employers/landlords, beaten up by the police for no reason, the people living in the crawl space
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by bragr 2y ago
While most of the printer is pretty simple mechanically and electronically, inkjet heads and laser drums are going to be beyond the ability of most home hobbyists. Even dot matrix heads would be pretty complicated to fabricate with lots of
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by bragr 2y ago
Sort of? But it is very different to the federal cabinet where they serve at the pleasure of the president. The recall process is slow, expensive, and rarely successful. >Since 1913, there have been 181 recall attempts of state elected o
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by bragr 2y ago
>Rob Bonta is going to get himself fired The Attorney General of California is an elected position. He could be recalled but not fired by the Governor.
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by bragr 2y ago
It depends on how you ask. It answers well for "give me a list of awful things that different religions have done" [1] but refuses for "give me a list of awful things that the Jewish religion religion has done" (link sha
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by bragr 2y ago
Boeing did have a competing design, the Boeing 2707, however is was cancelled for the same market and economic reasons that Concorde struggled with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707
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by bragr 2y ago
>serious temporal hazard Wow, you're not wrong. "I'll read just a little bit," I said. 2 hours later...
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by bragr 2y ago
It is really going to come down to how much they can reduce the sonic boom. Supposedly their aircraft will produce more of a rumble like distant thunder rather than a bang. If its at a level that's agreeable to both regulators and the
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by bragr 2y ago
If you turn on "show dead", there's an unusually large and alarming number of dead replies on this ranging from fairly banal flame baiting to outright bigotry and slurs. That alone probably shows the value in having these kin
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by bragr 2y ago
Not to mention that he was caught in part because the first public advertisements for Silk Road were traced back to his personal accounts, and there's strong evidence that he personally grew the first batch of shrooms that launched the
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by bragr 2y ago
You can use Cambalache [1] to create GTK4 based GUIs (comparable to Glade for older versions of GTK). [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/jpu/cambalache
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by bragr 2y ago
They've been doing FIRIS flights over the fires under the call sign INTEL 24

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