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by deepspace 3y ago
Yes, this is mostly a solved problem for vehicles. I have a tracker in my car that does not even connect to the electrical system. It is a somewhat bulky brick with a battery that lasts 4–6 months. Smaller units are available, trading of
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by deepspace 3y ago
That was very informative, but I wondered if there is an easy-to-read reference somewhere about WHY git works the way it does? I am old enough to have used SCCS, RCS and CVS extensively. Each had their faults, but Git is the only VCS I hav
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by deepspace 3y ago
> Acorn Archimedes Newb /s I cut my teeth on an Acron Atom in 1982, and upgraded to a BBC Micro (a renamed Acorn Electron) the next year. But, yes, I never would have thought that, 40 years later, most of the CPUs in my house would
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by deepspace 3y ago
That is more plausible. But the embellishment about the phisher knowing the layout of the office etc makes me think it was just straight up an inside job, with the employee willingly handing over the OTP and trying to cover their tracks.
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by deepspace 3y ago
There is also the bit about the phishers deep-faking an employee's voice. Yeah, right. That happened. /sarcasm
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by deepspace 3y ago
That line caught my attention too, and it looked superficially true. I have certainly never purchased a tool based on a phone call from a vendor. However, that only pertains to cold-calling, which is the absolute worst way to sell anythi
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by deepspace 3y ago
I still use the pods in the main dispenser, for convenience, but after watching the TC video, I started dumping a spoonful of loose Oxyclean into the washer before closing the door. That also provides detergent during both cycles, and the
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by deepspace 3y ago
As someone who purchased every edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator from the beginning, I am still salty about Daley bulldozing Meigs field in the middle of the night. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/us&#x
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by deepspace 3y ago
It is such a weird experience to do a Google search on someone else's computer after being used to Kagi. I recently requested a small usability enhancement, and it was implemented within a few weeks. Zero chance of that happening wit
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by deepspace 3y ago
That is what the small city where I live did. As a result, we get gigabit symmetrical service for the equivalent of just over US$20 a month.
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by deepspace 3y ago
The bill passed. Meta has already stopped allowing links to news on Facebook. This is just an announcement of the fee the government will be charging companies like Google and Meta for linking.
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by deepspace 3y ago
No results for Toronto. It was quick to return no results, though. Fast != Good.
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Ask HN: Static Site Generator for Newspaper
2 points by deepspace 3y ago|2 comments
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by deepspace 3y ago
I just bought a 4G 4B for $75 Canadian. More expensive than before the pandemic, but not outrageous. Of course, once you add a case, PSU, cables, etc, you are over $100 again.
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by deepspace 3y ago
I think, to a large extent, they don't attract decent talent. The sites are barely functional from a monetization POV. OF, for example, leaves stacks of money on the table by not having a functioning recommender engine. OF artists ar
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by deepspace 3y ago
What does that even mean?
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by deepspace 3y ago
I used to work in the bulk storage industry and the running joke from 2005 until 2018 when I left was "surely this is the year tape will become obsolete". Cold tier cloud storage absolutely has tape behind it. You can even send t
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by deepspace 3y ago
> I'm squinting at it throughout Same here. I have anecdotally noted that many people, like myself, who were around in the days of actual green screen terminals and later green monochrome monitors are far less likely to prefer dark
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by deepspace 3y ago
> Or, maybe, Munger figured out that what was viewed as obviously correct wasn't actually correct Nah, looking at the floor plans, he was just optimizing for cost at the expense of user experience. To rebut your anecdata with my own
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by deepspace 3y ago
The article calls software from the 90s "old". Nobody used COBOL for mission-critical software at that time. There is embedded software I wrote in the 80s and 90s still running in the field, mostly written in C.
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by deepspace 3y ago
Yes! The first word processor I used was Wordstar (under CP/M). My first programming environment was Borland Turbo Pascal. Later, I used "QEdit", which was configurable to use the wordstar keys. When I finally migrated from
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by deepspace 3y ago
For shock value, the Canadian workplace safety ad featuring the chef comes pretty close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFCekWiUGE
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by deepspace 3y ago
The one with the bridge reminds me of the trestle scene in "Stand by Me".
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by deepspace 3y ago
Yes, I was typing faster than I was thinking. I should have said Resistivity instead of Resistance and ohms.m instead of ohms/m. My point is still valid, though.
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by deepspace 3y ago
Yes, that was my first thought. There are absolutely instruments which can directly measure resistance down to 10E-8 ohms/m or lower, and I would expect any lab doing research into superconductivity to at least have one of those.
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by deepspace 3y ago
When I first saw the quoted resistivity, 0.002 ohms per cm, my thought was "this is not even a conductor, let alone a superconductor". 0.2 Ohms/m is several orders of magnitude less conductive than most metals, and solidly i
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by deepspace 3y ago
Some people, who do not normally pay attention to this kind of issue, are shocked when they learn the extent of the knuckle-draggers' abuse. It is worthwhile noting that in 2023, in the US alone, no less than 566 anti-trans bills have
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by deepspace 3y ago
I was using "download" in a very broad sense. I wanted to view them on my iPad. Is that what you mean by 'access'? In any case, the site is stupidly bad ad describing what exactly you get for your PRO subscription.
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by deepspace 3y ago
Back in the day, I ran my own email server, and dealing with spam was a constant pain in the butt. I wrote a spam filter, based on source addresses, "spammy" keywords and such, but it was about as effective as you would expect.
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by deepspace 3y ago
> Leave decisions like these to the engineers. Maybe for a 1.1x increase in features, but for 1.5x (provided the new features solve actual customer problems), I will choose the genie every time. /PM

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