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by dsr_ 1y ago
Not really; I have pretty much the "standard" keyboard for each of a bunch of systems. The most interesting thing about them is the range of variability in quality. Some of that is survivorship bias, but I think it's remarkab
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by dsr_ 1y ago
"Universal keyboard compatibility" -- bah! I have working keyboards in my possession that this thing cannot connect to. - No ADB port for a Mac keyboard - No Sun Type 5 Mini-DIN - No PS/2 port - No PC keyboard port - No Newto
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Is the combination proof against pre-unlock attacks with Cellebrite? (I would like the answer to be yes, and I would like the answer to be yes for many more phones and OS combos. I don't think it is.)
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Turns out that most people enjoy the process of creating art themselves, with any tools that are available. It's a nearly universal method of human expression. This is completely orthogonal to whether anyone else likes that art or find
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Dreamwidth pretty aggressively blocks attacking IPs, and has a long cooldown period. It's completely excusable considering that they have been the target of a lot of bandwidth attacks... and that they don't owe you anything.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
End that sentence with a period after debt and I'll agree entirely. America has a possibly fatal case of capitalism.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Yes. A liberal education is supposed to prepare you to be able to learn anything else you need for the rest of your life; to do so, it must expose you to strange and odd things which are nevertheless considered valuable. If you just wanted
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by dsr_ 1y ago
A USB CD reader costs $20-30 and will probably also read and write DVDs. Software using libparanoia and lame or ffmpeg is free. The very first time you use it, you might spend 30 minutes figuring things out. It generally takes 3-8 minutes t
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Wheels continue to support a load without power. Wheels are vastly superior to hover technologies in the crucial areas of steering and controlled braking. (For uncontrolled braking, you just cut the power to your hover fans and lift the ski
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by dsr_ 1y ago
I would guess that you started to be aware of politics about 10 years ago. You're off by at least 30 years or so... For example, the removal of Jerry Pournelle's free account at MIT because he kept mentioning ARPANET in his column
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by dsr_ 1y ago
To draw a possibly inapt analogy: it was clear at a certain point that CVS, the king of versioning systems, was going to be replaced. It also seemed clear that any successful contender would seamlessly import from CVS, but not necessarily f
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Unfortunately, this leads to the conclusion that we have an ethical imperative not to grant humans rights but to engineer the suffering out of them; to remove issues of coercion by making them agreeable; to measure potential and require its
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It's not quite "we only have hammers". It's very much "everyone is now using rubber-handled sledgehammers, so we had better mention that we could use rubber-handled sledgehammers, too!"
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It all depends on where you apply the taxes. If you tax inputs but not outputs, then a 100% tax rate increases the cost of goods and services but does not necessarily kill the business. If you tax income, then a 100% tax rate kills all inco
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by dsr_ 1y ago
IF they are a manager, then they are managing people. Are you paying appropriate salaries and benefits to your AI agents? Does HR have them in the system? ...no, not a manager. Aircraft are also more productive and capable than people in sp
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Surprisingly, at no point does the author write: "This is clearly fraudulent as it does not and cannot work, so I reported it to Apple/Google."
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by dsr_ 1y ago
The negative thing being described was the inability of 95% of the engineers to use the 20% time which was being described by the company as a general perk. "The company is deceiving people and should reconsider messaging to reflect re
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It's only a "boo light" if you think that it's a bad thing. Do you think that being reactionary is a bad thing?
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by dsr_ 1y ago
The obvious play is for a staffer to invite Bill Ackman to play golf at a Trump course and explain that a big investment in whatever bribery scheme Trump has going now would make it easier to sell Fannie and Freddie.
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Think DNS vs IP. "Hey, Kentrak! I'm concerned about 2600:1401:d000:38a::1aca." versus "Hey, Kentrak! I'm concerned about the Akamai node that's answering for www.apple.com!" If you are staring at the same
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by dsr_ 1y ago
You have it backwards: I can't remember to care about CVE 2025 31200 vs CVE 2025 32100. People should refer to CoreAudio Corruption Antelope and the infrastructure should allow em to easily search for that and get it unambiguosly linke
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It is unusual to be interviewed by someone more than three levels above the position you are applying for. At a small company, you might well be interviewed by all of your teammates, your prospective manager, the HR person and the owner&#x2
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It's entirely possible that it is imploding. Remember that a large percentage of Ubuntu's output is passing through the volunteer labor of the Debian project. Meanwhile, if there's not much management fiddling with existing
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by dsr_ 1y ago
You know that Ukraine had nuclear weapons, and gave them up for the promise of never being attacked? Would Russia have spent the last 11 years attacking Ukraine if it were still a nuclear power? (Maybe. Dictators are not reknowned for their
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Helicopters all have a big unarmored target on top -- the rotor disk. Get a nice chunk of metal in there and they become falling armed rocks. You can't substantially armor a rotor; they are designed to survive approximately one hit by
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by dsr_ 1y ago
It's the sort of thing that a strong regulator can mandate, but generally doesn't; and the sort of thing that an airline would promote heavily, but not in a way that anyone could rely on: "We donate tickets to Charity X who u
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by dsr_ 1y ago
The book on GE is specifically about how they lied, cheated, and committed fraud -- er, accounting irregularities -- for decades, in order to maintain the illusion of number goes up predictably. In retrospect, it was exactly as unlikely as
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by dsr_ 1y ago
When people decide that the nannycam works, they will rely on it. Then, when it fails, their inaction will kill babies. It is amazing/horrifying to me how many people are intent on reincenting the reasons why we have UL, the FDA, the F
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by dsr_ 1y ago
The ongoing problem with popcon is that it's known not to be accurate, but since it's the data that's available, people make decisions based on it. popcon is least likely to be turned on by: - organizations with any kind of s
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by dsr_ 1y ago
Trusting something you can verify is a solution.

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