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by cr0sh 7y ago
Note that the politicians and the law enforcement people (and the government by extension) will have walls built you can't see thru... ...gee, where do you think all the criminality will be occurring then? In a way, they'd be figu
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by cr0sh 7y ago
But they'll allow a cutout for politicians and law enforcement (aka government) - ergo, such people -must- also be criminals. Heck - we know today, encryption using or not - many within our governments are at best shady, and more than
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by cr0sh 7y ago
No - the really weird part is that you know that both law enforcement and politicians will all get to use unbreakable encryption... ...but somehow, anyone else using such encryption will be deemed a criminal. I say what is actually being at
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Summarising a complex history, the USSR did have folks who argued for a cybernetic approach to production planning, but it was never tried. Not in the USSR - but there was an attempt elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I second Anker. Their stuff is pretty top notch. I tend to buy a lot of Arduino and RasPi stuff (plus all the fiddly bits) off Amazon, so there are a few sellers on there that I trust to get good "maker" electronics. Finally - if
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> but they always send me another one without caring. Had something like that happen to me, and for the product, it was a shock. I had ordered the item, it said it was delivered, but it never made it to me. I contact CS (via chat) and th
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Regarding your video card, there wasn't an option to have it re-packed in an Amazon box? Usually for items that will ship with external facing identifiable product information, they will give you the option (a checkbox) to have it pack
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Many of the examples proposed sound similar to other devices and things used in - for example - flash memory, DRAM, and other similar technologies. Based on what I could see from the patent, it looks like an exploration of using such elemen
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Sounds like an old '79 Ford Bronco I used to own. Or the Jeep TJ I own today... /something fell off? Welp, still moving forward, so we're all good!
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I have an HP Laserjet 6P - I bought it (used) years ago because I rarely print things, and every inkjet I owned would "clog up" and be useless when I needed it. The 6P (as well as its predecessor, the 5) was/is a "busine
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Please see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542453
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Those of us who've been on the net long enough, and have at least dabbled in AI/ML circles, know of him. He claims to have invented a program that is a mind, originally written in Forth, translated by others to many other language
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I personally miss the slide-out keyboard of my old G1 phone (that, and the trackball). While technically still a "thumb keyboard" - which you probably wouldn't like - it was still wide enough to not make my thumbs cramp while
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I've often wondered why it wasn't more common to integrate solar water heating within the solar electric panels. My understanding is that as the cells heat up, they lose efficiency, so keeping them cool is important. So - mount th
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Are you using deodorant, antiperspirant, or antiperspirant-deodorant? They are different. Deodorant is used to "cover up" or present a different odor; it's closer to perfume or cologne, just in a different form. Antiperspiran
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by cr0sh 7y ago
You forgot "he who shall not be named"... /ok, maybe his project falls under "total bullshit"...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
There were a couple of drawbacks from commercial success, at least outside of Japan. There was a bit of marketing of them in US (and presumably Europe too), but they didn't catch on, despite having great specs for the time. The main is
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> You have instant warm water. You should try Arizona in the summer next time you're in the USA - we have instant hot water 24/7 - even our cold water is hot. Yes - I'm serious. In the summertime, our water from the "
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Maybe I misunderstand what you meant - but there were SMT components in 1989; indeed, some of the earliest examples of SMT can be found far earlier (late 1960s for example). The reason it was likely thru-hole construction probably had more
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Something I kick myself every time I think about it was an old desk calculator I was given as "junk" by the owner of the first software development company I worked for. I was 18 years old, and loved to get old electronics to tear
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Something to keep in mind also is that today's F150 is not the same as "yesterday's" F150. Today's F150 is made out of mostly aluminum - not steel. Today's F150 only comes in 4 and 6 cylinder models. 8 cylinder
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> It sucks that as BEVs chase ICEs and become more prevalent that will drop demand of oil and therefore oil will get cheaper. Well - that's kinda good news (if it works that way) for me and my Jeep... I'd love for there to be a
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by cr0sh 7y ago
This is very interesting, but at the same time it seems like something the "free energy" people would have done and found a long time ago? Maybe they did, but were dismissed out of hand due to everything else in their woo-based wo
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> E.g. music. Nobody* likes practicing. They like making music. The really hardcore musicians in my mind are those who take up electric guitar. The practicing can literally destroy your hands and fingers, but the results and output can b
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Ultimately only you can make this decision for yourself; if it were me personally, I wouldn't want to have a job or career (or hobby for that matter) that I hated, no matter how much I liked the output. Which is perhaps why some people
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> While the idea of superimposing HTML input fields over a scanned paper form isn't one I've encountered before or since, that company was turning over $3M per month by the time I joined, so there is clearly mileage in the idea
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by cr0sh 7y ago
One could extend that kind of reasoning to a number of so-called "legal" products and services being sold today. Either directly or indirectly (degrees of separation), many simple acts of commerce fund things most would find abhor
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I don't believe I've ever been in any hardware store that sold hydrofluoric acid in any concentration. Care to expand on what you meant? Now - hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid - both those (and some other relatively nasty chemic
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by cr0sh 7y ago
While this challenge does show off the complexity and beauty of Logo's "turtle graphics", it has often struck me as a tragedy of the language that, for most people who have encountered Logo, they are led to believe that graph
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Part of it might also be a way around age discrimination, as those relatively fresh from school (and thus, younger - and likely will take a lower salary) likely are able to pass them faster than older potential hires.

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