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by desdiv 7y ago
1. Faulty lock mechanism due to aging and wear. 2. It's a trap lock and was never designed to be operable in the first place.
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by desdiv 7y ago
When regular users visit youtube.com, they get a page with some videos on it. Regardless of whether they're logged in or not, there are videos there. Banned users visiting youtube.com will just get a text page[0] with zero video conten
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by desdiv 7y ago
>I can't even imagine the overhead of unpacking and then "scanning" each of those letters by hand At this point in the war, all mail (not just those to service members) entering and exiting the United States were opened by
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by desdiv 7y ago
Most of that debt is owned by Americans, who incidentally also own 393.3 million firearms - twice as much as every police force and military in the world combined[0]. I shudder to imagine what 100 million pissed off gun owners would do when
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by desdiv 7y ago
>Usually some kind person posts an Outline link or an Archive link to the full article in the discussions. OP is probably asking because recent changes broke all the common workarounds for some major sites: 1. HN's built-in "we
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by desdiv 7y ago
To clarify further, the exact phrasing used was "roughly 100 partners", as in roughly 100 external legal entities. Each legal entity could have any number of software developers.
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by desdiv 7y ago
Let's say I buy a /24 IP address block and port it to AWS. My friend Bob and I are both on AWS. Would it be possible to share some of my IP addresses with Bob in a secure way? I know that VPC peering[0] is possible across separate
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by desdiv 7y ago
Can you make edits on Wikipedia? I used to be a big contributor there but can no longer easily contribute because they (understandably) blocked all common VPN IP ranges.
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by desdiv 7y ago
I've been using WireGuard for years and it's been great, now I'm looking into some advanced resilient/redundant setups and was wondering whether it's possible or not with WireGuard: 1. I have two unreliable ISP link
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by desdiv 7y ago
The smallest range that providers are willing to deal with are /24 (256 IPv4 addresses), and each IP is around $20, so that's a minimum of $5,000 [0]. But I only need one IP address, and I'm willing to pay $500 for it. Is the
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by desdiv 7y ago
Softbank made the vast majority of its profits off a lucky bet on Alibaba back in 2000 (not unlike Yahoo). So using your analogy, saddad got rich off lotto cards and the son is just copying Dad.
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by desdiv 7y ago
Yes, they have separate Japanese Wikipedia articles: "American Coffee": https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3... Caffè Americano: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%
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by desdiv 7y ago
Interesting side note, Boeing does make private jets - the Boeing Business Jet family[0]. But Boeing executives doesn't fly on these, since they're too large for even CEOs. Boeing executives fly on one of the three Boeing owned Bo
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by desdiv 7y ago
Google says this Scala tuning software page dates from 2001[0]. The page's own copyright date says "2003-2015". Scala the programming language had its first public release on 2004-01-20[1]. [0] http://www.huygens-f
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by desdiv 7y ago
I brought an Apple PowerBook G4 back in 2005, and one of the standard system configs allowed you to calibrate the subpixel rendering parameters of fonts for the built-in display, as well as any external displays. It remembers each external
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by desdiv 7y ago
The China AWS region is operated by a Chinese company, with all servers physically located in China, thus accessible to the Chinese government.[0] The above also applies to Microsoft Azure China[1], and any other major cloud provider with a
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by desdiv 7y ago
This link[0] seems to suggest that filing under a pseudonym is not possible. Full legal name, residence, and citizenship of each inventor must be provided. And there are criminal penalties for knowingly supplying the patent office with fals
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by desdiv 7y ago
There should be more push back against goods made in non-democratic countries like Vietnam, and not just against Made-in-China. My previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S5 and I was surprised to find out that it was made in Korea. Manufacturi
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by desdiv 7y ago
>bring back traditional Chinese characters The Japanese people, through their democratically-elected representatives, chose to simplify many of their Kanji characters[0]. Should Japan also be forced to bring back traditional Japanese Kan
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by desdiv 7y ago
It's been done, but it's expensive. Not many people can drop $30,000 on a drone: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1416171-REG/walkera_q...
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by desdiv 7y ago
One of my favorite piece of WWII trivia is that Albert Einstein actually worked on fixing the Mark 6 exploder of the Mark 14 torpedo. Back then, Einstein was not employed by the military at all; he was an academic at the Institute for Advan
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by desdiv 7y ago
Boeing voluntarily paid compensation to the victims and their communities directly. This is in addition to the travel insurance claims that the victims could file for. [0] https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-07-03-Boeing-Pledg
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by desdiv 7y ago
Whether someone is an employee vs a contractor solely depends on the "economic reality" of their job. Neither the employer nor the employee can choose to have it classified as a contractor relationship if it isn't actually on
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by desdiv 7y ago
>The system requirements are Windows® 10 PC or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS... I must say: I'm liking this new Microsoft. [0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/
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by desdiv 7y ago
Ubuntu is officially supported by Microsoft. >The system requirements are Windows® 10 PC or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS... [0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kinect-dk/
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by desdiv 7y ago
Arguably the Suez Crisis was UK and France invading a sovereign state and trying to setup a new colony in 1956. Had they succeeded, I have no doubt they will attempt to setup new colonies all way into the '60s and '70s.
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by desdiv 7y ago
Yes, that's a hard bug to catch, but if the mantra of "every floating point comparison must use a context-appropriate epsilon" is followed, then it wouldn't have happened in the first place.
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by desdiv 7y ago
AWS averages about one major outage per year[0]. Google's own status page[1] list near 100 incidents in the past 365 days, only one of which ended on HN frontpage. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amaz
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by desdiv 7y ago
I would like to send my friend in India $1 USD. Does Unified Payment Interface make this possible? Traditional wire transfer certainly cannot, since the fees alone are many times larger than $1 USD.
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by desdiv 7y ago
HP is the largest laptop manufacturer in the world by units shipped. https://press.trendforce.com/press/20190509-3240.html

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