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by ebg13 7y ago
Is this functionally different than sending the hash of a block of bytes when sending a block of bytes? > With a serial hash, the recipient would need to download the entire attachment to verify it Rings to me as being trivially untrue
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by ebg13 7y ago
Same. Any font that claims to be for programming but includes ligatures gets a "no thanks" from me accompanied by a bit of sadness because they often mar otherwise nicely designed typefaces.
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by ebg13 7y ago
All of my banks and financial services do.
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by ebg13 7y ago
People always focus on SIM swaps and signal security, but neither of those apply to Google voice numbers. So in the context of Google voice, is there still any reason to not use SMS 2FA?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> MOOS [0] is focussed on autonomous marine vehicles Core MOOS is just an efficient low-overhead IPC middleware, exactly like core ROS but, in my experience, smaller and faster and easier to use. You can use it for literally any commun
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by ebg13 7y ago
I always found Oxford's MOOS to be easier to work with. That plus something like MIT's IvP Helm objective controller will get you an autonomous mobile platform very quickly.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Those are two largely unrelated problems. Reconstructing geometry from multiple views is a separate (very well understood) problem from analysis to understand what the shapes mean.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> continuously move our head around in multiple dimensions. A car can't do this Doesn't isn't can't. There's no reason why car-mounted hardware can't move just as much as eyes do.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Not exactly VR until they add tracking. Otherwise they're just eye screens.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> The price of domains should trend down. not up. Why? The value of a dollar goes down over time, but the value of a domain does not.
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by ebg13 7y ago
Quick question about the "What should I do" section. It says " use instead SHA-256 ". Isn't SHA-512 both better and faster on modern hardware?
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by ebg13 7y ago
None in the US because it won't work here.
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by ebg13 7y ago
It still uses 900/1800MHz, so it won't work in the US.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> ...nokia-130... 2G 900/1800MHz bands and therefore doesn't work in the US. Got a suggestion that actually works here?
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by ebg13 7y ago
> ...Nokia 3310... 2G 900/1800MHz bands and therefore doesn't work in the US. Got a suggestion that actually works here?
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by ebg13 7y ago
The 950mAh battery is extremely small.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> the hard disk drive started emitting a ~10Khz whine This sounds like the head crashed and physically scraped the platter.
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by ebg13 7y ago
There are actually very powerful permanent magnets inside of every spinning hard drive already, so clearly there's more to destroying data than just having a magnet nearby. https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=hard-dr
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by ebg13 7y ago
I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't like it, just don't have a face.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Disk fragmentation has become an even bigger issue since Windows 10 doesn't defragment SSD disks Defrag on SSDs in Windows 10 runs Trim. And it does do that automatically on a schedule if you don't change anything. Actual d
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by ebg13 7y ago
Try scrolling the page in Chrome ( https://i.imgur.com/36CBn5y.png )
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by ebg13 7y ago
Same for me if I don't do anything on the page. But then if I actually scroll the page it gets exuberant. I think it's loading the same assets many times in parallel and possibly repeatedly. Also, "only", lol. Look at th
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by ebg13 7y ago
If one isn't good, surely having many of them will improve the situation.
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by ebg13 7y ago
The total size if you don't do anything on the page is already bad, but it's also different than if you actually try scrolling. Scroll down to the bottom and watch what happens. Also lol at them having the gall to give their deskt
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by ebg13 7y ago
The page looks like https://i.imgur.com/RqWJb7Q.png for more than 20 seconds until it finishes loading and then just keeps on downloading more and more and more data (400MB and counting). Pardon me if I ignore their ideas a
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by ebg13 7y ago
I always feel weird when reading long explanations about why someone chooses a copyleft free software license for nihilistic capitalist reasons (I don't care about the four freedoms, and I want money).
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by ebg13 7y ago
No, it's up to the web developer to choose that. The person using the site doesn't get that choice.
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by ebg13 7y ago
As someone who disables webfont downloading, I hate when fonts are used for icons.
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by ebg13 7y ago
> Somewhat related, the Hacker News bar in its current dark red has a contrast that’s a bit too low for my tastes. Not just your taste. It fails WCAG.
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by ebg13 7y ago
I'm happy watching races, but I'm not going to _do_ it.

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