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by cronix 5y ago
How about this? > “This bailout is for the honest, hard-working hedge fund people who should be assured of making money,” said Biden today. > “We spent trillions of taxpayer’s money to bail out giant financial institutions who finally
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by cronix 5y ago
> It’s just true that data structures change over time Sure, but it seems only 1 of the OS's takes this long to be fully usable post-update. Why is that? Does Android not ever have to change data structures and if so, why doesn&#x27
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by cronix 5y ago
You can buy Starlink right now if you live in parts of the northern US or parts of Canada. They're expanding constantly. I've have one for a few months now and love it. Interest was so great they asked the FCC to expand licensing
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by cronix 5y ago
> Wow, sounds an awful lot like a typical event loop from a game engine. Or Arduino's loop() method, where all the code just runs in a loop "forever."
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by cronix 5y ago
It's a problem contributing to Bezos' enviousness that the article was talking about. SpaceX gets all of the glory because they are actually doing things, so they are in the news and building brand recognition (for free!!). Hardly
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Chinese scientists discussed weaponising SARS 5 years ago(in.news.yahoo.com)
15 points by cronix 5y ago|5 comments
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by cronix 5y ago
Maybe if Blue Origin actually did something other than try to impede their competition[1], who actually is doing something and actually has products to sell to the public (satellite internet) and private companies (cheaper space launch with
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by cronix 5y ago
There's an interesting story about how the CIA got wind that the Soviet Union was trying to steal the US's space shuttle plans in the late 70's/early 80s. So, they mixed in some fake formulas for the heat shield tiles, a
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by cronix 5y ago
Is "pointing out" data considered downplaying? ~5% of deaths had "covid only" while the remaining 95% had other factors with the average having 4 other factors. From the CDC: > Table 3 shows the types of health condit
820.
by cronix 5y ago
HIV is a lot harder to spread than airborne viruses. But, imagine how much worse it would have been if it was airborne.
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by cronix 5y ago
> Personally this is enough of a feature for me to switch to an iphone as my next phone. You can accomplish even more by not installing their crap apps to begin with, and have always had that choice. You need google to save you from your
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by cronix 5y ago
> The majority of the water is used for agriculture, which supplies the nation and even the world with water-hungry food. It kind of sounds like it has everything to do with people, unless people aren't eating that agriculture or
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by cronix 5y ago
Same here. Compute!'s Gazette. There's an archive if you ever get the hankering for nostalgia lol. https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette I don't know how many times I spent many hours over several
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by cronix 5y ago
> It is trivial to secure windows with plastic foil, glass will literally become bullet proof. Here's some $50k windows that Nordstrom in Seattle was using that used that film. The windows couldn't stand up to Antifa with hamme
825.
by cronix 5y ago
Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH MY
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by cronix 5y ago
NSA has been illegally spying on US citizens for 20+ years, in direct violation of the constitution. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/nsa-spying-expos... President Obama signed off on a drone strik
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by cronix 5y ago
The thing that helped me quit using my phone as much was to quit using apps where there was a web counterpart available. For instance, I deleted the banking app and only visit the website on my home pc (or browser on phone if really in a pi
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by cronix 5y ago
Rick Beato explains a lot of this very well. He's even testified in congress about this subject. Here's a good explanatory video of his on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5lY_DbUsok It's slight
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by cronix 5y ago
> Basically Youtube doing nothing. Actually, they're hurting an independent content creator over something she has every right to do using works in the public domain. Youtube is doing that, not the fraudster making the false claim.
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by cronix 6y ago
It was a lot better when MS still had Windows Media Center (last in Win 8.1). I could actually watch cable tv with a cablecard system through windows. Full DVR, accurate guides, able to use WMC remotes, could watch on any computer attached
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by cronix 6y ago
Specifically, each letter in H-A-L is one less than I-B-M
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by cronix 6y ago
After reading many comments, I wonder why more people aren't looking into Space X's Starlink. Broadband speeds, no wired infrastructure, portable, no caps and $100/mo. It seems to be about $30 more/mo than most here are
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by cronix 6y ago
> Or replace with preprocessor directives that you could setup to random values for production builds to use strings and timestamps that indicate some other entity? They do, except they're not random. Check out the CIA Vault 7 leaks
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by cronix 6y ago
> The question now is can brick and mortar stores comeback? Some never stopped. Powell's (physical) bookstore in Portland is bigger than most city libraries I've been in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powel
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by cronix 6y ago
Rick Beato has some really good videos on drums (and guitars, and ....). Here's a quick 7 min one on bass drums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFjZ1QaKHdk One thing cool about Rick is he has access to a lot of origin
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by cronix 6y ago
If I were to guess, because private companies aren't subject to FOIA requests. It's a little trick the gov't has been doing for some time now to avoid legitimate, legal scrutiny by the public.
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by cronix 6y ago
And then there's also the vibration issue. I don't think most medical devices need to stand up to continuous vibrations like you'd have in an auto engine. If they are not soldered well, eventually things can loosen up and fal
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by cronix 6y ago
Rovers, boats, drones, planes, helicopters, submersibles, all done with Arduinos or similar. It seems it can be done if one really wanted to. When I think about all of the things my drone can do that are seemingly more complex than a non-se
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by cronix 6y ago
There are many cheap HDMI splitters out there (~$20USD) that do not pass on HDCP :) The hardest part is wading through the comments to see if the device will bypass HDCP. This is also a very good way to watch HDCP content on older HDTV&#x27
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by cronix 6y ago
On a PC you can use a Legato capture card and record anything that makes it through the HDMI, DRM free, up to 4k/60 and up to HDR10 and it has a pass-thru so you can watch on a monitor/tv as you record. They're mainly used in

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