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by dexen 6y ago
>most people drive roughly 5 miles per hour over the speed limit >speed limit does in fact have a mitigating effect. You got the causality dangerously backwards. That's not how policy works. "The speed limit is commonly
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by dexen 6y ago
>it's simply not possible to avoid re-rendering the entire page without using XHR Wrong on two separate levels. First up, technologies like iframes , frames , and objects/embeds allow that just fine; you can use at least
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by dexen 6y ago
Hot rhetoric aside, this comment is insightful, so I'm vouching it.
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by dexen 6y ago
>we'd be left with basic auth over https Or with session ID in URL. It's a valid mechanism - works reliably, is fast, and doesn't require special support in browsers. Remember the '?PHPSESSID=...' littered all
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by dexen 6y ago
SMBC to the rescue: [1] robots https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-06-05 [2] philosophers https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/p-bot
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by dexen 6y ago
Amusing scenario however don't expect it to be a significant risk - any wireless system would most probably perform negotiations before beaming out any significant amount of power. You want that to avoid damaging sensitive electronics,
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by dexen 6y ago
Aside of the excellent points raised by leetcrew in sibling post, there's also the matter of avoiding spurious EM emissions. Wireless charging sounds like creating a bright, pulsating "soldiers be hiding here" beacon for an
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by dexen 6y ago
>secretly working together in a conspiracy to falsify court records A simple & plausible scenario: a governmental agency requests Facebook conducts a broad surveillance sweep. Facebook resists for obvious reasons, goes to court. So
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by dexen 6y ago
>and [you] didn't see the tiger Of course; a tiger keeps hidden and attacks humans from behind. Jokes aside, your fable is excellent and I hope to use it in the future. Other than that, I have no useful answer beyond re-iterating
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by dexen 6y ago
>I think there was a bit of a difference in quality up until about 15 years ago. Going by those excellent charts[1], there were two distinct "kinks" in intensity of change; around 2000 and around 2015. >the internet The
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by dexen 6y ago
I hear you. One nitpick if you don't mind. >I don't think there are any sources lately that you can trust 100%. That is exactly backwards. The journalism never was truthful; instead it was full of lies by omission, manipulati
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by dexen 6y ago
Underrated comment. Perhaps because it's laying out a mundane case, rather than making bombastic claims...
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by dexen 6y ago
>AI might be useless because it finds loopholes AI might be best put to use for finding loopholes. In formal specifications, in legal documents, in laws... you name it. The required process change is reasonably straightforward; instead
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YouTube Slashes Video Quality to Save Bandwidth(wired.com)
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by dexen 7y ago
This doesn't detect a transposition error, which is somewhat common with humans. That's why in EAN-13 and similar codes, the checksum takes digits with varying weights.
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by dexen 7y ago
>V4 signature and payload signing is pain Don't be overly discouraged :-) I have a reliable (if a bit ugly) implementation in under 3kb of sparse PHP OOP code. Yes it took a few hours to iron out the last kinks, and one extra refa
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by dexen 7y ago
I use, appreciate, and recommend uBO to everybody. Having said that, competition both puts some pressure to improve more, and also explores some alternative, possibly better, avenues. Historical example: Firefox was significantly better tha
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by dexen 7y ago
>>With a bit more advanced setup, you could even completely cut off the adblock process from accessing any files or any other resources related to the browser, further nailing down security. >How would that even work? The adblocki
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by dexen 7y ago
(Hopefully) the OS enforces memory protection between the adblock process and any HTTP client process, thus limiting attacks to only the data that resides in, or flows through, the adblock process. With a bit more advanced setup, you could
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by dexen 7y ago
> Resilience doesn't sell out your privacy with "acceptable ads". Resilience won't be blocked by your web browser's developers. Excellent. I'm glad to see uBlock Origin getting some much needed competition
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by dexen 7y ago
The EAN-13 standard is pretty close to what you need, giving single-digit error detection (tho not correction ), and you can shorten it to the last 5 or 6 digits. As the last digit is the checksum, this gives you 4 or 5 digits of precisi
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by dexen 7y ago
>unmanned tanks The Russian T14 Armata[1] is a strong nod in that direction. The turret is unmanned and fully automatic; the crew of 3 is hosted in a well protected capsule in the front hull. This ensures both low top weight & visi
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by dexen 7y ago
>If your company doesn't own the mainframe The historical mainframes usually were rented from IBM and the likes. Less sunk investment, less reasons to stick with it. >we are arguing about this via web browser Which works eq
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by dexen 7y ago
>Snopes is a good source. They can't tell satire from news. They keep[1] fact-checking[2] satire[3], published a self-congratulatory excuse[4], and occasionally dip their toes in fact-checking memes[5]. Good laugh, not much trust
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by dexen 7y ago
>That ship has sailed. Not in the least. "Cloud" is merely the modern spin on "terminal in the office, mainframe at the HQ". We moved from terminals to local mini/microcomputers back then, and we will move from
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by dexen 7y ago
There are 40mm and 36mm variants; some patterns available in only one of the sizes. Frankly even the 40mm model is optically small thanks to its understated design; it's got two rather unobtrusive complications, and one side button.
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by dexen 7y ago
I'm very happy with a middle way, the 200 EUR Withings Steel HR Sport, considered a "hybrid". Good usability and excellent 20 ... 25 day battery lifetime. Will run even longer if you synchronize it sparingly. It looks like a
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by dexen 7y ago
>how do they decide that the earth spun faster on it's axis rather than the earth taking longer to orbit the sun? It's both effects really. Celestial bodies' orbits do undergo decay and also their rotation undergoes deca
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by dexen 7y ago
>In the Netherlands, seasonal influenza has ~1% mortality rate -- in the U.S. it's more like 0.1%. (I'm not a healthcare professional nor actuarian; the following is freehand speculation) There are two key factors. Firstly, U
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by dexen 7y ago
>The economic cost of the first scenario (numerous deaths in peak period) would likely be the highest with the impact This is self-evident, both due to first-order and second-order effects. How the author manages to stand it on its hea

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