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by creeble 5y ago
If anyone is interested in a little script that grabs an image from a webcam pointed at a 7-segment LED display and returns the numbers it finds, let me know. It uses the ironically-named “Let’s Go Digital” training set for the Tesseract OC
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by creeble 5y ago
>The name "Audion" simply popped into my head during a shower Not much of an electronics history buff, I guess. Also the name of (arguably) the most important electronics invention of the first half of the 20th century.
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by creeble 5y ago
Not shockingly, support@spotify.com is rejecting messages: 550 5.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that prevents additional messages from being delivered.
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by creeble 5y ago
+1 on Cloudflare’s API for this. You can generate an API key (per domain only, I think) and it’s a simple curl call from there. And it works on their free account level! Maybe someday they’ll kill that, but they have a history of keeping fe
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by creeble 5y ago
Mine too! Though mine was the other way ‘round: I had a frac T1 line (256kbps iirc) and shared it with two other locations via a central omni antenna. Breezecom radios that I think were frequency-hopping (pre-spread-spectrum).
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by creeble 5y ago
Let me add my favorite, https://hamexam.org
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by creeble 5y ago
> 1.) Wearable VR becomes affordable, unobtrusive, and ubiquitous I would agree, except that I don’t believe something that completely takes over your total range of vision can ever be “unobtrusive”.
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by creeble 5y ago
Yes, I wonder how a systemd-inspired iPod would work. It would surely have multiple webservers, even if it had no network connection.
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by creeble 5y ago
Interesting, can you expand on why Hey 'owned' your email? I guess no access outside their app?
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by creeble 5y ago
I wish you great luck and success. This just seems part of a long cycle to me (of course, the older I get, the more everything seems like a long cycle). Google wasn’t the first search engine, and I expect it won’t be the last. Page Rank red
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by creeble 5y ago
I’ve had good luck running pi’s for years between (power fail) reboots. One thing though - I don’t think any of my pi’s run x windows, I think they’re all console mode. I get the feeling that they do fewer writes in general this way, but I
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by creeble 5y ago
See also (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11641626 Edit: added date
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by creeble 5y ago
The understatement of the universe. Plastic (fiberglass) boats can “last” (continue floating, at least) a very long time. But they can go from well-maintained and usable to immobile and dangerous in months without attention. Source: owner o
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by creeble 5y ago
I'll add kxt.org (kera in Dallas/Ft Worth). They have a kind ofor bizarre format of old pop song, new pop song all day long. Might not be your cup of tea, but they play a lot of new music I would not have heard had it not been joi
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by creeble 5y ago
It’s pretty hard to tell how many “devices” are capable of ipv6 because they typically just ask for ipv4 DHCP addresses and get them from routers. My guess is that it is still a tiny minority of non-computer devices that will use ipv6 on th
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by creeble 5y ago
I think this is the essential fact, thanks for posting. Lots of people complain about the “insecurity” of email, but as long as you want this feature (sending anyone a message knowing nothing more than just their email address), there will
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by creeble 5y ago
This post is missing what is a very common DNS mis-configuration: extra, and/or lame delegations. The root will return the list of authoritative nameservers, but each of those authoritative servers may have a different list - and tha
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by creeble 5y ago
I think what the parent is saying is that the nameserver information coming from the registrar’s Whois may not be accurate in any way compared to what is actually in the DNS. The DNS (and, by extension, the authoritative nameservers for a
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by creeble 5y ago
3rded!
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by creeble 5y ago
How do you get certbot to work? Or do you renew manually or something?
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by creeble 5y ago
>The issuer can show that they created a fixed number of tickets and are not over-selling the event. But there is no way to prove that the issuer is actually the person who "owns" the event. This all goes back to the oracle pr
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by creeble 5y ago
Any idea how the buyer did after that? I'm a big microacquire lurker.
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by creeble 5y ago
Surprised there aren’t more comments here - does everyone agree that this is equivalent (in security terms) to using JWT? I would very like to never use JWTs again.
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by creeble 5y ago
My favorite "internal slogan" of 3M is (or was): Make it by the mile, sell it by the inch.
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by creeble 5y ago
Or even mention the “value” of the many DeFi apps that are available on the ethereum blockchain. What do they do? My real question is: why would an investor want to put money into a company that doesn’t “own” the data from their customers?
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by creeble 5y ago
Additionally, I have seen quite a lot of actual toddler art, and even when that fact is initially hidden, I have yet to be impressed by any of it.
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by creeble 5y ago
>The background of the artist and the piece's history is what gives it value That, and the fact that there is only one, it's not digital, and it can be authenticated (and also the artist is dead, so it is guaranteed there won&#
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by creeble 5y ago
A Sybil attack in this case is just a reveal (once again) of the oracle problem - a blockchain doesn’t provide proof that you are you. Therefore, it cannot provide proof that you cast only one (or no) vote. Verifying your identity is outsid
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by creeble 5y ago
I think ozone is one of those chemicals. Department stores in the 1950's used to pump it in to subtly mask mustiness or "store smell" so that the distinct smells of departments like perfume were more distinct.
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by creeble 5y ago
Can I guess that the green screen is an Amdek? My former employer (1983), we sold hundreds of thousands of those (and the amber version) to Apple II customers (and even Apple themselves). Fun fact: the picture tube in that monitor was made

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