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by deepspace 8y ago
There is a South African bank (absa.co.za) that not only uses the online keyboard thing, but requires you to type in a randomized subset of your password. For example. if your password is "Password" it would display something lik
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by deepspace 8y ago
I have been saying for a long time that out industry needs an ethical code of conduct. And employees who willingly work for companies acting unethically should be shunned throughout the industry. Imagine a world where people knew that havi
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by deepspace 8y ago
Absolutely. I am old enough to remember working on monochrome monitors with green or yellow text on a black background, and the associated eyestrain was torture for me. It was a glorious day when I installed my first color monitor and was
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by deepspace 8y ago
I could never understand the complaint that Git is "hard to use". Having used a plethora of version control systems over many years, I never found Git to significantly more or less complicated than any other system. Version mana
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by deepspace 8y ago
I stopped reading and mentally discarded the article as trash upon encountering the phrase "diamonds are graphite".
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by deepspace 8y ago
Same here. The most comprehensive write-up I could find was the blog post linked below. It contains a list of references but they all seem to point to irrelevant content, or to shady-looking 'news sources'. http://www.
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by deepspace 8y ago
Voat.co was also already taken.
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by deepspace 8y ago
My favorite one is "umpire". The origin of the word is the Old French nonper which means "not even", referring to an extra person arbitrating a match between two "even" teams. The "per" part of &quot
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by deepspace 8y ago
Thanks! I'm quentinv
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by deepspace 8y ago
Twilio charges a relatively low monthly fee per SIM, starting at $2/mo. See: https://www.twilio.com/wireless/pricing
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by deepspace 8y ago
That may have been true 10 years ago, when Matt and later Jessamyn were the only moderators, but I would argue that the quality of the discourse on the site started a long, slow decline after Josh joined the moderation team, imposing a no-
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by deepspace 8y ago
My solution is to map Ctrl to CapsLock on Windows and Cmd to CapsLock on MacOS. Not perfect by any means but seems to be an ok compromise muscle-memory wise.
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by deepspace 8y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora comes to mind, as it explores similar ideas to the study. The featured generational starship suffers from a deteriorating biome due to inbreeding and loss of nutrients, and the book also explores the effe
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by deepspace 8y ago
More an American thing, I think. Here in Canada (specifically British Columbia), eating or drinking while driving is considered distracted driving, and police will issue a fine of $368 and 6 driver penalty points.
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by deepspace 8y ago
I have been wondering if it would be feasible to create a consortium of ethical technology companies, who would maintain a "blacklist" of corporations who behave unethically. Every member of the consortium would then pledge to nev
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by deepspace 9y ago
| most explicit example of "fake it till you make it" cough Ubeam cough
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by deepspace 9y ago
No. Perry's scam utilizes ultrasound, and it works as well as you would expect if you do the math, i.e. pretty much not at all.
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by deepspace 9y ago
Yes, I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to get my head around how the test setup would translate into a practical application. And that the certification appears to violate the FCC's own 30dBm power limit in the 900MHz ISM band. Very
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by deepspace 9y ago
It looks like the FCC approval pertains to a device delivering ~10W at a distance of 0.5m in the 900MHz band. https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm...
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by deepspace 9y ago
Maybe its just me, but back in the day (early 2000s) we used to have raucous (but still very civil) discussions about controversial topics, with little or no moderator interference. Shortly after cortex joined, submissions and comments whic
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by deepspace 9y ago
Unfortunately you are several years too late. The site and community used to be amazing when Matt and Jessamyn ran the show, but went it started going downhill after Josh Millard took over and is now a shadow of its former self.
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by deepspace 9y ago
An even better solution would be to add a wait list, as mentioned by the OP.
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by deepspace 9y ago
Ah, that explains a lot - I was not aware that HN was editing titles. Will be watching the project with interest.
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by deepspace 9y ago
I was very excited to see this post since I happen to be looking for a scalable high performance MQTT broker. The first thing I noticed when I opened the GitHub page was the lack of documentation. Then I opened the source files. No headers
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by deepspace 10y ago
See also Fontus ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fontus-the-self-filling-w... ) and Egloo ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/egloo-candle-powered-heat... ). Fools and their money indeed...
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by deepspace 10y ago
1. "Christopher Schaberg is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2011) and The End of Airports (2015). His next book, Airportness, will be published by Bloo
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by deepspace 10y ago
No, not an outlier. Metafilter used to be great, but it has definitely deteriorated into a toxic echo chamber. Opinions that do not fit in with the groupthink are not tolerated there.
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by deepspace 10y ago
Not anymore, unfortunately. Metafilter used to be a great community 10-15 years ago, but these days it is a heavily censored echo chamber.
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by deepspace 10y ago
Wow, that is insanely expensive for a 1-800 forward: about 5x more expensive for the same amount of minutes than my usual provider.