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by debatem1 7y ago
I didn't do anything useful before I had to for work, and it took 10x as long as it should have. I'd suggest just taking some known working examples for fm radio, garage door openers, etc and working through them. It'll be pa
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by debatem1 7y ago
I have had access to a limesdr, bladerf, etc. They are finicky. They're great tools, but it took me a long time to go from toy examples to doing useful things with them.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Wouldn't this be "weak encryption is used for offensive purposes as well"?
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by debatem1 7y ago
I don't think this is correct. For years, the #3 search query on Bing in the US was "Google", and globally it used to be a double-digit percentage of all Bing queries. That suggests to me that people with a default Bing searc
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by debatem1 7y ago
Falling from an airplane is basically the same as falling from 1500 feet in terms of velocity. The highest dive ever is approximately 200 feet, and the list of injuries others have taken trying to match that figure is quite impressive. That
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by debatem1 7y ago
Seems pretty narrowly useful, but I'm not sure I've ever been in a situation where this did what I wanted-- usually I would either have wanted things like q-in-q, or I'd want client_id, etc.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Eeesh. I'm honestly worried about the mental health of the author. It could just be hyperbole intended unseriously, but most of the article also tracks as clinical anxiety masquerading as humor.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Hah, tents. Those can be broken or lost, utterly unreliable. Best just cover yourself in leaves when the rains come. Sarcasm, of course. But this manly-man "gotta be self sufficient" thing always strikes me as so peculiarly limite
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by debatem1 7y ago
I think it's interesting how many people worry about factorization. A second preimage attack on SHA2 would be at least as dangerous, and nowhere near as many people know or care about its assumptions.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I often hear that this director or that film was genius/groundbreaking/important and upon watching it fail to understand what I was supposed to be looking for. To those of you who are better versed in this sort of thing than I am,
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by debatem1 7y ago
The reason I asked is because this reads as an indictment of government waste, when actually it was a private company which paid (and presumably selected) transportation vendors. Interestingly, Arizona seems to have recently changed the rul
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by debatem1 7y ago
Why was the government paying a contract between an insurance company and a taxi company?
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by debatem1 7y ago
I love seeing STM32s in these roles. Such fun and versatile parts.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm left unsure what your point is. Saying that you have to look at social mobility as a relative thing is certainly false, because we have an optimal yardstick: perfect fairness. If measured against that goal we don't do very wel
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by debatem1 7y ago
Well, you aren't wrong. But I think there are unicorns that are good investments, particularly cloudflare and juul. There are other unicorns I view as highly speculative but potentially viable. But slack? No way. Not at this valuation.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm sorry, but the belief that you can be happy and poor in America is hippy-dippy nonsense left over from an earlier and more equitable age. Nobody is happy watching their child die of a treatable disease, and no amount of inner peace
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by debatem1 7y ago
There is no way Slack is worth $16 billion dollars. That's over 40x current revenue for a company that lost almost $400,000 a day last year.
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by debatem1 7y ago
That's an incredible story and props to the guy, but let's not tapdance around the fact that this is incredible specifically because social mobility on this scale is extremely rare. It took both exceptional determination and unbel
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by debatem1 7y ago
Is there a link to the source? I can't seem to find it from their website or github.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Isn't Google play music still around? At least, it's on my phone.
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by debatem1 7y ago
It's ideal but we shouldn't worry about being ideal because we weren't in the past, hmm? Well, I reject entirely the thesis that because humans "tend toward" tribalism or selfishness or any other flaw we must abando
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by debatem1 7y ago
Do you think the truly destitute get better treatment at our hands? Do you think those words are inscribed on the base of the statue of liberty as a warning to the wealthy? A "keep out!" sign for the hopeful and striving students
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by debatem1 7y ago
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Making dozens or hundreds of the same object is the point. The example army men from my linked article is a good one-- I could probably make hundreds of them on my creality, but it would take less time and the end product would be smoothe
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by debatem1 7y ago
While I wouldn't recommend a gingery lathe, I don't see any reason to ignore an injection molding machine design that is small, known working, and simple to the point of being obvious. You can certainly build one faster than you c
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by debatem1 7y ago
Sure, for the same reason that I have a vertical mill in my basement. It'll never break even, but it'll always be fun to hold up a part and know that I, and I alone, made it.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Interesting, but it seems quite expensive for the hobby market-- particularly since you also need the tooling to make the molds (or the cash to buy them). If you're like me and that's too rich for your blood, you might look at the
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by debatem1 7y ago
...and, most menacing of all, they may send your email to other people! More seriously, these things all seem like essentially mandatory features for an email provider today. If you don't provide fast search of my inbox you probably
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by debatem1 7y ago
"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call 'promising'." --Cyril Connolly
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by debatem1 7y ago
I like this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.05441

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