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by eichin 3y ago
As described at the time, the contemporary Sinclair Z88 had a separate bit of management logic that kept the Z80 CPU asleep until there was some interaction, in order to get ludicrous runtimes on 4xAA. (I wouldn't be surprised if the
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by eichin 3y ago
Oh, I thought this was riffing on the "shakespeare, in the original klingon" line.
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by eichin 3y ago
Didn't Sun Microsystems outright do that back in the 90s? Straight up declared that their roadmap was to treat Moore's Law as a plan, rather than a prediction?
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by eichin 3y ago
Yeah, it made a lot of mainstream media. (It was also pretty much the only thing on space-youtube and russian-dashcam-youtube for weeks :-) Sort of "The Dark Knight"-esque use of a massive array of distributed cameras as an obs
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by eichin 3y ago
Indeed, this might be good methodology background for the current "crisis in cosmology" where new JWST observations "close the gap" so that it no longer includes some previous upper/lower bounds at all ( https:&#x2
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by eichin 3y ago
In the vein of "any landing you can walk away from", between it (a) successfully deploying the sub-rovers (though maybe that happens slightly before contact?) (b) it communicating enough post-landing telemetry that they can diagno
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by eichin 3y ago
Or go the other direction and use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage (since modern techniques won't use reflections/shape as much as image-recognition, probably?)
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by eichin 3y ago
(hmm, the neonmodem FAQ mentions it has an image rendering feature too, to come full circle)
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by eichin 3y ago
and w3m has w3m-img if you want to get just one step more graphical while still being fundamentally a tui (it does terminal/character cell layout, then uses the WINDOWID to stuff images on the terminal screen. Probably the kind of thi
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by eichin 3y ago
I'm a little surprised that they talk that much about removable media without ever mentioning Git Annex...
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by eichin 3y ago
If you want to use git through a web server, it's one way of doing that. (For example, if you want to use some existing http auth for your users.) You don't particularly need to do that - it's just an option; git over ssh
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by eichin 3y ago
clean water isn't a great conductor - the body is a bag of dirty water...
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by eichin 3y ago
Note that it's not the first time ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Merle_Shoemaker#Death ) and we didn't get agreement then either.
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by eichin 3y ago
Heh, the "drive up to trashbin and call for help" approach looks workable if the bags are big enough. Looking forward to hearing about it again when it doesn't need an iOS device.
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by eichin 3y ago
Yeah, one of these days I expect to set up homeassistant, and even recommend it to others, but I'm happy driving my shelly plugs with bash+curl from a streamdeckui entry for now :-)
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by eichin 3y ago
10 years ago: "Better Place" burned through about $1B trying exactly that. Today: "Nio Power" has gotten a lot further, with more cars and a chain of robo-garages to do the swap in a couple of minutes. (Still a single un
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by eichin 3y ago
As a US resident, it's not like a domestic vendor would be any better - we don't have anything you'd mistake for data protection laws (and security breach notification requirements primarily emphasize equal notification of s
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by eichin 3y ago
Got any actual products to suggest? Requirements are vacuuming+mopping, self-emptying, and enough brains to recharge and continue (which implies some level of internal mapping.) The roborock S7 barely makes that minimum requirement, and I&#
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by eichin 3y ago
It doesn't bother me for drinking, but I've gotten in the habit of keeping an open (loosely covered would probably work too) pitcher of water in the fridge for making coffee, so it sits at least overnight before use, and dissipate
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by eichin 3y ago
Because above a certain feature and price level (self-emptying and persistent mapping, for example) they aren't made without cloud support, by anyone? At least the roborock S7 (a) doesn't require you to actually set up any of the
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by eichin 3y ago
In a thread elsewhere (mastodon, I think?) the idea of using a Copilot-like LLM as an assistant in removing code was suggested as * a way to use an LLM with less discomfort about model provenance (since you wouldn't be using anything
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by eichin 3y ago
How widespread is that really? After the first deployment (where every EV youtuber east of the Mississippi converged on one tesla lot in New York :-) I haven't seen it in tech news since, and looking in the app I see 2 private ("d
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by eichin 3y ago
I was going to be pedantic about this (the laser downlink is from space, from Psyche-probe to Earth) but that got me wondering, how did they get the cat video on board? The article points out that it was loaded onto Psyche before launch.
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by eichin 3y ago
That already has a (brutal) solution now - sslh https://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh/README.html - the current version is more sophisticated, but it was originally just a perl script that would send the connection t
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by eichin 3y ago
There may be an easier way, but another HN thread pointed out that you can use tailscale to make it easier to tcpdump phone apps (because you can send all of the phone traffic through an endpoint you control.) (Presumably raw wireguard is
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by eichin 3y ago
That's certainly the pattern for the attack, but the vulnerability itself is just "We figured out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling#Telephony In-band Signalling was a mistake back in the 70s and
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by eichin 3y ago
Fortunately, the "shareholders" are a couple of the grandchildren of the founder; it is entirely family owned, not publicly traded.
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by eichin 3y ago
Oh, that's a good point, you could even determine that your hypervisor doesn't touch any changed microcode paths, and just pause the VMs, take the update, and unpause. (Still seems... brave, maybe? Or at least involves more infor
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by eichin 3y ago
Reminds me of ... I think it was All Your Bridges Rusting? (Niven) Mostly about teleportation, but it's basically the whole "if you bring a 747 back to 1912, can you do anything at all for the Titanic" thought experiment. (So
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by eichin 3y ago
Alternatively, preserve the mission and build a museum in-place around it :-)

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