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by creeble 2y ago
I agree. For ambient temp, F is twice as accurate in the same number of digits. It also reflects human experience better; 100F is damn hot, and 0F is damn cold. Celsius is for chemists.
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by creeble 2y ago
Ha, coincidentally, I designed and built an 8051-based MIDI switch in the early 90’s. There weren’t that many good tools at the time, and I designed everything from the software and UI to the circuit board and rack-mount case. I even wrote
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by creeble 2y ago
My Grandstream HT500 ATA handles (US/Bell) pulse dialing. I don't think they make it any more, but they can be found on eBay. It was fun when our kids had friends over (before every kid had a cell phone) and they wanted to call ho
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New magnet without rare earth materials(materialsnexus.com)
2 points by creeble 2y ago|0 comments
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by creeble 2y ago
I'm not sure I would have a lot of use for voice-controlled conversational AI, as odd as that may sound. Like most people, I use Alexa for _commands_: home automation, timers, tell me the weather, ask a specific question looking for a
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by creeble 2y ago
Thanks for that! Didn't know there were two kinds of radios. I have one clock that always works perfectly, syncs after DST 100% of the time. Another that always requires manual reset twice a year, defeating it's purpose.
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by creeble 2y ago
I too have been a State Farm customer for over 30 years, and my proof of insurance cards come with perforations. I too would notice and care if they did not. Maybe he’s on paperless?
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by creeble 2y ago
Depends on where you get your numbers: “The density of sodium batteries is still relatively low, between 140 Wh/Kg and 160 Wh/kg, compared to lithium-ion battery’s 180 Wh/Kg–250 Wh/Kg.” https://www.flashbatter
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by creeble 2y ago
I wish all companies did this. Even better, record the experience. It’s astounding how many UI developers never watch a real customer using their product. All UI is compromise, but you see a very different set of possible compromises when y
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by creeble 2y ago
Isn't that a provably pointless exercise though? Security protocols (at least the ones in common use) require certificates or keys that eventually expire, because of the risk of a permanent key being compromised. If they expire, the p
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by creeble 2y ago
You can use plain HTTP for time sync. Almost all HTTP servers respond with a time header.
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by creeble 3y ago
If it is above the S/N ratio, it won’t look like noise. If it is below, it’s hard to make useful.
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by creeble 3y ago
Define ‘trivial’. It is not trivial to set up an HF antenna that can send a signal (halfway) around the world and be used to hear a response, and it is often not repeatable without the right sun / weather conditions. It is the nature o
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by creeble 3y ago
And they’ll all be in VR if it ever gains success too. But maybe there will be a few years of bliss, like the early internet. Or maybe that bliss has already happened.
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by creeble 3y ago
Interesting that they use a wall of pendulums, and even more interesting that it’s in London: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2015/07/29/pendulu... And Https://physicsworld.com&#
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by creeble 3y ago
As happened to Caspian Networks in the current case. There is no resolution to the troll problem if you just keep playing the same game. So I’m not sure why we congratulate companies for “taking down trolls” when their own patent portfolio
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by creeble 3y ago
But that’s generally where the trolls get their patents from - what were once large companies (like, in Cloudflare’s recent case, Caspian Networks). My point (if any) is that while we pat Cloudflare on the back for “taking down a troll”, th
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by creeble 3y ago
So that one can begin to judge how duplicitous their claims in defence of another's 'invalid' patent my be.
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by creeble 3y ago
No mention of Cloudflare’s own large portfolio of software patents. Wonder when they’ll start enforcing their patent on CNAME flattening, for example: https://patents.justia.com/patent/11159479 Edit; clarity
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by creeble 3y ago
Don’t know CrowdSec but have used abuseipdb.com a bit to reduce log noise.
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by creeble 3y ago
If it makes you feel good, do it. It can also cut down on log noise a bit, for when you’re really looking for something. But in general, I’ve given up on caring about the routine “attacks” listed in all the logs. If you have good security,
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by creeble 3y ago
FWIW - I know two people who had their dualit toasters catch fire when the lever got stuck down. Go look for the overheat sensor. Let me know when you find it.
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by creeble 3y ago
I find it far more likely that AI will be used (indeed, is used already) to generate spam, rather than filter it.
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by creeble 3y ago
I tried using SpamAssassin (via Proxmox Mail Gateway, which makes it much easier to set up) to replace a Barracuda email appliance (it was destined to get a *6x* service price increase in 2024!), and after several months of trying to get th
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by creeble 3y ago
Okay, wo, that’s freaky. I’m a pencil fan insofar as when I use one, it’s probably for something semi-important, like a to-do list. Otherwise it goes into my phone, or computer, or cloud. So I like to use really good pencils for such things
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by creeble 3y ago
I think I also saw that only this _first_ auto-payment will work -- after that you have to set it up at Chase if you want to continue auto-payment. One thing I found out about mortgage auto-payments at FRB was that they wouldn't take t
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by creeble 3y ago
Funny comment about First Republic and Chase. I too have/had a mortgage at FR and I now see it in my existing Chase account (maybe the balance is even correct, pretty hard for me to know), but I have no idea whether they are going to s
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Cloudflare issues Nov 4-6(cloudflarestatus.com)
4 points by creeble 3y ago|1 comments
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by creeble 3y ago
Continuing issues from the recent outage; DNS updates are hours behind.
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by creeble 3y ago
I’ve yet to find a Pi-based commercial product that sold more than 10k units, ever. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

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