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by bri3d 4y ago
This is about to get much more prevalent and less DJI specific. Right now, AeroScope is pretty much the only widely used tracking product on the market, because it can decode the proprietary identifiers contained in several generations of s
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by bri3d 4y ago
This really feels like a "spirit of the law" vs "letter of the law" situation - requiring that only a licensed surveyor "depict the location of property lines" seems totally reasonable as to prevent the "l
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by bri3d 4y ago
Eh - I suppose with the music analogy it's more like the Pi folks chose to play arenas instead of festivals, and keep putting corporate box seat customers on the guest list ahead of GA attendees. I think there's some blame here, I
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by bri3d 4y ago
The base price of the Pi has remained at $35, they just aren't possible to get. Regardless, the Pi Foundation / Pi Trading Company / whatever weird part of the Pi Empire actually sells them haven't raised the base price
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by bri3d 4y ago
The affidavit indicates that the target selected the cryptocurrency - presumably, he thought he knew what he was doing, but the amounts and times were still cross-correlated after the fact.
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by bri3d 4y ago
Glaciers slide down hill. As they accumulate mass in the accumulation zone, even when it's cold, they are pushed down the hill. So a glacier which is growing in size will still be moving down hill. https://asf.alaska.edu&#x2
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by bri3d 4y ago
There's a much lower standard than "AAA gaming" which still delivers massive value to most users in running a desktop environment. Also, the Apple GPU has evolved from PowerVR roots dating back to the 1990s. It is fairly safe
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by bri3d 4y ago
What you’re describing is the industry fad phrase “zero trust,” where the industry as a whole is shifting towards untrusted endpoints and networks with proper access control on every layer. I think the shift away from trusted networks is lo
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by bri3d 4y ago
This kind of determinism testing is a fairly common approach in games that implement shared-state multiplayer, and I think that's why it was implemented for Factorio as well. Otherwise you get drift between clients that breaks the game
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by bri3d 4y ago
My understanding of Realtime Worlds (hence the name) and All Points Bulletin is that management were far too ambitious. All Points Bulletin, one of the more expensive games made even to date, was actually only a side project - a tailored-do
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by bri3d 4y ago
More or less a security nightmare than a drawer or tray full of physical credit cards behind a busy bar at night, which is the alternative at US bars? I'd argue that time-shifting card data is actually safer, even if it is often agains
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by bri3d 4y ago
When the alternative is “hold onto the card” and you have to track it down or order a new one, sure it’s more convenient for the customer too…
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by bri3d 4y ago
There are a large number of “smart” tab systems in use in US bars where the system retains your magnetic stripe data for the duration of your visit. You pass off your card, it is swiped and immediately returned. If you don’t settle your tab
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by bri3d 4y ago
With existing USB devices you don't usually need to go nearly this low level to reverse engineer them - just enumerating the endpoints and then using Wireshark and USB packet capture is plenty sufficient. Understanding how the USB wire
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by bri3d 4y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-09784-z Many batteries have LiPF6 electrolytes, so HF is the big one when they combust. And of course the most famous and common battery chemistry is still LiCo - so you'
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by bri3d 4y ago
"Database architecture audit for Madoff Industries" is a pretty good conversation starter as a resume item! This is a good point, and something that occurred to me after I posted - there's also a type of scam company where ho
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by bri3d 4y ago
Isn't there a third kind of operation, maybe a Magic Leap-style operation, where employees are earnestly developing against a goal which is fanciful but appealing to VCs? And in that case, what's the difference between that and th
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by bri3d 4y ago
Yes, pitot tubes have been supported for a long time by all of the "mainstream" flight control software (PX4, Ardupilot, iNav although in iNav it doesn't do much besides provide an on screen display readout). Both analog and
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by bri3d 4y ago
"Flite Test" have been designing ridiculously cheap, low-skill DIY flying things for many years now - at the same level of "turning trash to an RC plane." Definitely worth checking out if you're interested in the sp
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by bri3d 4y ago
They're quite cheap and "trivial," honestly - iNav, ArduPilot, and PX4 are all strong in this space, and controllers start in the $50-$60 range (look at Matek hardware). Of course, for some definition of "trivial,"
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by bri3d 4y ago
I don't really see what FrSky did as shady - they introduced a new system with DRM that was not compatible with their old system, which was widely cloned. They did a really poor job at communicating these changes and explaining the imp
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by bri3d 4y ago
Twitter direct messages are famously not end-to-end encrypted (unlike almost every other provider at this point) and are almost certain to be absolutely loaded with juicy political and criminal intrigue. Furthermore, many Twitter accounts a
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by bri3d 4y ago
Some modern vehicles with FlexRay have full-bus encryption, and very modern CAN systems usually use HMAC for security sensitive stuff like immobilizer and key commands. I think ADAS systems will probably use similar in the coming years as v
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by bri3d 4y ago
Transferrable experience in both directions, in and out, is a huge reason. Cynics see this as "resume driven development," but the reality is that offering training and an opportunity to use an industry standard tool isn't a
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by bri3d 4y ago
Yes, I 100% agree with this take. Engineers need to understand how k8s works at least at a surface level to engineer their service topology, and whatever devops/SRE/ops team will support k8s needs to scale up on test workloads and
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by bri3d 4y ago
The surface-level argument is that the instruction set is simpler and more efficient. Certainly the floor for the complexity and size of an ARM processor is lower than for x86 - the ISA is smaller, easier to decode, and suffers from fewer s
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by bri3d 4y ago
> Apple does stuff like this so much and gets so little flak for it. Why should they get flak for having internal APIs? The fact that the internal API is a superset of the external API is smart engineering. Think about it this way: Apple
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by bri3d 4y ago
Encrypting assets on the fly using a per-consumer symmetric key would be prohibitively expensive, so I'm sure the media is stored pre-encrypted using a shared symmetric key. It only really matters that this key is unique per package, n
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by bri3d 4y ago
At what point does it make sense to replace the CPU and OS with custom hardware and software? At this point the CPU is basically doing TCP state maintenance and DMA supervision, but not much else, right? I totally get the cost, convenience,
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by bri3d 4y ago
For something trivial and cross platform: Tcl with Tk or Python with wxpython. Java with Swing does still exist and works too. It's harder (IMO) to "scale" a Tcl/Tk or wxpython project though as there aren't great b

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