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by cr0sh 7y ago
There was also weirdness like this: "So, as far as password spray is concerned – your password doesn’t matter – as long as it isn’t in the “most common passwords” top 50 list!" Shouldn't that actually read: "So, as far a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I didn't see anything in there that XKCD-936 wouldn't fix. Combine such a password generation system (note: words MUST be chosen randomly for it to have value), with a password manager, and finally, don't use the most commonl
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The government does a lot of dumb things but I do not think the entire TSA would exist if it was only 5% effective. What if it's 95% effective at providing jobs and funnelling money from the government to private enterprises (who
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Like all things Lisp: no one understands the what, how and especially why of it. I don't know if that's a fair thing to say; there are many lisp programmers out there, writing applications and tools, and they must understand
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I like this idea as the foundation of a Lisp-based shell. I thought that was called emacs...{ducks} /...though seriously...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Part of me thinks this needs to be a plugin or something for VS Code...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Looking at this illustration (something I found via googling "REE motor wheel"): https://imgur.com/8iAOOAG ...which was linked off of: https://newatlas.com/ree-modular-mobility-platform/60486&
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Plus figure-8 "racing", democross, etc. Also - there are companies that let you have control over large equipment (loaders, bulldozers, excavators, etc).
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by cr0sh 7y ago
IIRC, the way they did it was to hook onto the local rail line; probably just long enough to get the train onto the "spur" - then move the tracks back. Doing that just takes a lot of people and labor (you've probably seen old
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I've never seen one, but I wonder if a motorhome/bus derby might be wild...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Based on what I've seen - it's on my list of projects to "try out", but rapidly becoming a more obsolete idea the longer I wait (but then again, I've got an Altair on my todo list, so meh)... Taking a low-cost Mini
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The major problem I think is NAT which is preventing direct hosting of content from home. Solve that and you most probably have solved decentralization. That's mostly solved via dynamic DNS. But there's still a bigger issue:
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Note - I am going to claim ignorance of these things, but I am skeptical about the claim: Was it really LSD? I mean, that's what they believed it was; that's what it was called when sold to them. But was it? There are more than a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I want to use my arc welder in my garage that has only 120v circuits, as opposed to my cluttered shop that has a 240v circuit available. I hear you on this; I'm in the situation where neither my small shop nor my garage has 220-24
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I found this story interesting, but unsurprising knowing the author. I'm amazed he got that thing to work - but if there were anyone who could do it, it's him. Unfortunately, I didn't find an answer to something I suspect, bu
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Not quite as rare, and certainly nothing like this, but several years ago I picked up an Altair from a local electronics junk yard. Crazy thing was, I must have walked by where it was stored hundreds of times over the years since I first st
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Gotta agree with you there - IIRC, he's also working on an Alto, plus a Symbolics LISP machine - and I think, IIRC, he helped to get the IBM 1401 transistor mainframe at the Mountain View Computer History Museum working, too. Just look
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by cr0sh 7y ago
There's the theory of the so-called "bicameral mind": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Yeah, if I was reading that language, I would think it would be more like a "microsite" with a URL of " https://grubhub.com/r/bobspizzaria"; instead it's grubhub buying "bobspizzaria.com&qu
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The way Apple hired Jobs by buying NeXT? Not really a good comparison, since Jobs founded Apple, then left, then went back (can't recall if they begged for him back, or if he just barrelled in).
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by cr0sh 7y ago
One thing I can do, though, with an ICE vehicle (granted - only safely with trucks and similar) is carry a can (or more) of fuel with me, and the extra weight of that fuel is minimal in comparison. Meaning I can travel much further or refil
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by cr0sh 7y ago
That sounded interesting - until I saw in the paper that: 1 litre of LOHC => 2 kWh Cool? Except: 1 litre of Petrol => 9.7 kWh (according to this: https://greennav.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/how-much-energy
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> so you invent something that's the shape of an olive but not. That makes it sound like those olives aren't actual olive fruit, but manufactured in some manner - which isn't true. They are highly processed, and their blac
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Something I'm planning on doing at some point, is to make a frame to attach the back seat of my Jeep on, to turn it into a "couch". It would be great for camping, or in the garage. There was a company that sold a frame for do
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by cr0sh 7y ago
You ever sit in one of those? I was recently chair shopping, and thought the same - tried one of those gaming chairs, and it was terrible. Maybe it was the demo model, I dunno - but I couldn't see sitting in it for hours. An actual rac
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I have my own apartment without mortgage but I am still considering buying some van, parking it in front of my residential building and using it as extremely cheap and easily accessible storage space. If you're going to go that ro
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Imagine something like Porto-Potties? Porto-Office? It wouldn't have to be much larger, though it would probably need some kind of small A/C system, like you'd find on top of an RV. Put a bunch of batteries and/or a smal
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> A miniaturized RV that is basically a stripped-down mobile motel room will also have a decent post-fleet-vehicle secondary market, as people buy them to live in full-time, or use more like a traditional RV, excepting that it can fit in
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Or get a portable unit and vent the exhaust out a window or door (or if nfg, into the attic/plenum space). Portables tend to be more expensive, and you usually have a water tank to dump occasionally (condensate), but they are easier to
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Honestly I don't really have a judgment on someone say, freebasing meth, that's their freedom. If that were all they were doing, and staying inside, that'd be one thing - but it generally ends up going far beyond this, a

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