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by dwd 5mo ago
Try somewhere like Blue Nile [1]. The price of natural diamonds increases exponential once you go over 1ct and the size becomes rarer. Here's a quick comparison on just size, clarity and the visibility of inclusions. A 1ct very good qu
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by dwd 5mo ago
Nation State actors would have been using fuzzing tools and reverse engineering for years to find useful zero-days. AI models likely don't give them anything new, rather it accelerates their current process a lot. But that's not t
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by dwd 5mo ago
Yes, good spammers make sure their DMARC, DKIM and SPF are correct. Most times I have to deal with issues are companies sending email enquiries from their website to their Office 365 hosted address when the sender is their own email address
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by dwd 5mo ago
You don't see this that often... Server Error We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue. Please try
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by dwd 5mo ago
Or just lend money to both parties to fund their war efforts and pay off war debts afterwards.
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by dwd 5mo ago
Red Dwarf. A little more destructive pushing suns into supernova to write "Coke is Life" across the sky.
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by dwd 5mo ago
At the moment it doesn't seem to be. Within an hour of be advised of, and running the mitigation for DirtyFrag, my upstream provider has blocked all WHM/cPanel/SSH/FTP/SFTP access with a heads-up on: CVE-2026-29201
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by dwd 5mo ago
Back in `84 on a family holiday around Europe my parents purchased what was an ex-PostNL VW Combi converted into a camper. It had done a lot of miles. We drove it right around Europe with only one breakdown in a small town in Germany that f
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by dwd 5mo ago
I'm guessing an AUTOEXEC.BAT file to configure DOS settings for different games.
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by dwd 5mo ago
Oh man... Really enjoyed it, and went back and read "Programming Sucks" which is also full of delightful nuggets like this: "The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers ar
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by dwd 5mo ago
The car company started by a disgruntled Ferrari 250 GT owner.
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by dwd 5mo ago
And kicking the goal in the final match that secured the Premiership. Definitely counts as being a "professional" league.
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by dwd 5mo ago
Simply because flying passengers is a losing business. The ones that make money operate as financial services from selling points to their partners via their frequent flyer programs.
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by dwd 5mo ago
The only successful Player-Coach that comes to mind was Eric Cantona as player-manager of the France national beach soccer team after leaving Manchester United aged 30. He won the 2004 Euro Championship, the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
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by dwd 5mo ago
There's a good reason other countries are not heavily investing in aquaculture. Pollution, pathogens and heavy use of antibiotics and vaccines required to keeping large numbers of fish in confined areas. It's not a solved problem
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by dwd 5mo ago
Haha I would think New Zealand would be in a similar situation to Australia. Australia would be fine - we export 2/3 of our produce so have no problem. This study doesn't seem to account for trade, consumer choice and price differ
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by dwd 5mo ago
Or non-personal. There are non-commercial websites such as Government that put a lot of effort into focussing on the user. Some of the Gov design systems are well worth looking at. https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ htt
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by dwd 5mo ago
Given cPanel's critical vulnerability today (9.8) there is potentially people who would consider an alternative that was secure and works. (and isn't an automatic target simply for being cPanel) On the fee side, a few years back c
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by dwd 5mo ago
Or simulate embodiment. Human learning relies on movement. We learn as we navigate the world and interact with objects as noted by Jeff Hawkins in "A Thousand Brains". It may be an AI will also require this ability, either via sim
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by dwd 5mo ago
It's maybe more along the lines of some of the mindfulness protocols, which are a form of meditation. There's one where you are at rest and slowly shift the focus of your gaze from near to middle distance to far away, and back. It
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by dwd 5mo ago
I may have worked with that one. Did it have a parallel schema that mapped tables and fields with legible/customisable names, so every SQL call had to join the mapping tables to hit the required table and fetch the fields you were afte
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by dwd 6mo ago
This is really cool. Need to go grab my Reference Guide to make more sense of it, as it's been a while.
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by dwd 6mo ago
Can we just call it what it is? Fascism (in the Mussolini model) in everything but name. - Hyper-Nationalism & Rejuvenation - State-Controlled Capitalism (Corporatism) - Authoritarian & Cult of Personality - Militarism & Irreden
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by dwd 6mo ago
It could also be a case that there are malicious actors (human or bots) trolling and seeking to destroy conversations (and HN), rather than stupidity. Someone raised the idea of flagging new accounts. That would make it easier to simply ign
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by dwd 6mo ago
Except we are now in a leadership position on these technologies. We can also ensure it meets our requirements as we did with the Wedgetail. As far as off-the-shelf systems, we do that with the avionics and sensors. Maybe if we had waited w
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by dwd 6mo ago
Did the same for my front garden. Not withstanding a few code violations, it generated some good ideas we were then able to tweak. The main thing was we had no idea of what we wanted to do, but seeing a lot of possibilities overlaid over th
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by dwd 6mo ago
I'm just happy the Australian Government invested in the MQ-28 Ghost Bat program. Unit cost is currently estimated to be USD$8-10m according to Boeing and we get a "loyal wingman" platform to force-multiply our small fleet of
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by dwd 6mo ago
While insider trading is always a possibility, what often happen is trades are made in anticipation of an announcement without knowing what the announcement actually is, and Trump really is fairly predictable. You know hes going to TACO, qu
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by dwd 6mo ago
I just get an SSL warning, that the site's certificate is only valid for *.go-vip.co.
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by dwd 6mo ago
As late as 2010 there were "only" around 1000 satellites in orbit.

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