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by brk 4y ago
I’ve been using MacOS as my daily desktop for over a decade, switching from Linux. Seeing the busy cursor is so rare I can’t recall the last time. And I have tons of things open all the time.
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Trurl Manipulates URLs(daniel.haxx.se)
5 points by brk 4y ago|0 comments
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by brk 4y ago
Hell, tons of software-driven things don't allow you to downgrade, it's not just phones. And often for good reason, a software upgrade on a modern "thing" often contains firmware or patches for various chipsets in the d
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by brk 4y ago
Based on my experiences with them, no. They seem to essentially be "water" detectors. With human bodies being mostly water, they serve as presence detectors almost as a happy side effect. With some of the cheaper/less tuned s
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by brk 4y ago
It wasn’t just CPUs, at the time it was also common to pay a premium for faster RAM chips. In many cases a chip marked as a 70ns speed could be reconfigured to support 50ns easily by adding or removing a surface mount resister or cutting a
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by brk 4y ago
Anecdata but I’ve jumped in saltwater to get ahold of my stupid dog that fell off our dock with my iPhone 12 in my pocket. I am typing this response on said phone :)
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by brk 4y ago
A sort of low tech precursor to the fax machine.
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by brk 4y ago
Chat GPT 10: Hot bricklayers near you want to meet up now!
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by brk 4y ago
> their intention seems more to sell NFTs than real cars That was exactly my impression. I have to pay $88 to be part of a club, and then pay $2,500 for a manufacturing slot and THEN I can start to configure a build? And it mentions a bi
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by brk 4y ago
How do they survive? Zoom out less than a mile and you can spot nearly a dozen cafe's and coffee shops in the same area.
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by brk 4y ago
100% agree. My main point is that it is a "just because you can doesn't mean you should" sort of scenario. There are situations where it is allowable, and safe, of course, but it would still generally be considered bad prac
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by brk 4y ago
Until you wind up with an AHJ who doesn’t care and requires you to separate the cables.
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by brk 4y ago
On a decent quality cable you are unlikely to run into any scenarios in a typical residential or small business install where noise and interference causes a degradation in throughput. The balanced signalling used in twisted pair communicat
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by brk 4y ago
Not sure if they're still available, but I have a handful of "Badgy's" along the same lines: https://www.tindie.com/products/sqfmi/badgy-iot-badge/
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by brk 4y ago
I wish I had a pic of it, but in a building I once worked in, there was a Ford Model T with a brass plaque mounted in a visible location on the firewall that essentially said if you violate the patents or sell the car in an unauthorized way
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by brk 4y ago
Not quite the same level as this, but I had a coworker a long time ago that used to leave sensitive travel information out in the open frequently. After a few times of changing their rental car reservation from a corporate-compliant small c
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by brk 4y ago
For all practical purposes, it is impossible in the current state of security/surveillance video footage. The example described in the paper in your link is using cameras that are setup to provide very high resolution images of people.
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by brk 4y ago
That is not gait detection, it's basic object detection video analytics.
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by brk 4y ago
No. Gait analysis is not really a commercialized thing.
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by brk 4y ago
But phones and webcams don't really seem to be the target audience for this.
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by brk 4y ago
I work with a company that makes high-power IR illuminators and we just went through certification testing with some units that are roughly 100x the output power of this example and they did not pose an eye hazard. There is a bunch of stuff
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by brk 4y ago
This would not be highly effective with most modern security cameras. First, color low-light video is becoming more common, as image sensor technology has progressed. When a digital/surveillance camera is in color mode, there is an IR
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by brk 4y ago
actually no, the 850nm wavelength of common IR LEDs does not have any adverse affect on your eyes at these power levels.
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by brk 4y ago
I disagree. It bans templating engines and gives some examples of sites but I do not believe those are 100% inclusive examples. Microsoft also has some web template code. Should that disqualify all use of any Microsoft product?
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by brk 4y ago
Even if we assume that Github is a templating engine, you also have to recognize that it is also a content hosting platform. Hosting content on github does not in any way indicate that said content also came from github, or any other templa
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by brk 4y ago
I don't remember game ports on any of the Thinkpads (I worked for IBM at the time and serviced a lot of the very early 700's and 710's). They had parallel ports, DB9 serial, DB15 VGA, and a couple of PCMCIA/PCCARD slots,
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by brk 4y ago
It's a cool project, but it appears that it is more of a Thinkpad 701 keyboard ported to entirely new everything else. Hard to call it a laptop modernization, even though it is a very respectable talent to be able to pull that off.
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by brk 4y ago
This just seems doomed to failure. It’s not fully open. It’s not fully closed. Trying to combine too many things, and the google tie-ins are a turn off for me. Automakers don’t make good software or UIs. But they refuse to yield that to tru
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by brk 4y ago
FWIW the 16oz ‘grande’ is what most people would consider normal. A 12oz drink is usually viewed as small.
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by brk 4y ago
A Venti (large) flavored latte is $6.15 with tax at my local store in Florida (just checked). Prices in NY are usually a bit higher. Wouldn't be surprised to see it for $7+ there. I agree it's probably not most people with $10 co

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