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by etskinner 3y ago
Still, the article could say something like "Pornhub removes access to Texans after law requires stricter age verification"
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by etskinner 3y ago
Couldn't authoritarian regimes still block a blacklist of SSL certs, since those are sniffable? Or block the public list of bridge addresses?
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by etskinner 3y ago
That doesn't really follow Occam's Razor. That would require assuming that we're special in being the only planet/solar system/galaxy where life happened, even though the conditions are right in lots of places
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by etskinner 3y ago
The problem is that they could conceivably unlock themselves while sleepwalking too. They'd instead need to consent to being locked up by someone else, which seems like a safety hazard to me (fire starts in my house, do I die chained u
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by etskinner 3y ago
In other words, the headline should say "FCC Rules AI-Generated Voices in Robocalls Illegal"
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by etskinner 3y ago
Carbon negative seems like a misnomer, since all of the carbon that a tree absorbs literally becomes a part of its mass. Since mass is conserved (mass can't come from nowhere, and it can't be destroyed), how is it possible for the
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by etskinner 3y ago
And it makes no sense from a usability/safety perspective. Touchscreens are harder to hit buttons right when you're being jostled about by turbulence. Not to mention how easy it is to hit the wrong button even when there's no
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by etskinner 3y ago
Open source isn't the only way to allow people to self-host. Before SaaS was a thing, nearly everything was a closed-source self-hosted application.
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by etskinner 3y ago
All that grandparent comment is saying is that this specific news story is a nothing burger, not that we should ignore other, bigger issues. In fact, they're saying that mentioning small issues like this is a red herring and a distract
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by etskinner 3y ago
The enterprise environment would run the more secure version of it, and the prosumer people would run the less secure version. Doesn't mean the secure version is any less secure
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by etskinner 3y ago
Opto-isolators don't transmit power per se. Since they use a phototransistor, it's more like they allow power to flow through from one pin to another, not provide a voltage across the pins.
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by etskinner 3y ago
It is technically true that devices with wake words are always listening, but that's not the whole truth. In that idle mode they're only listening for the wake word. Only once you've said the wake word does it start recording
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by etskinner 3y ago
Since they don't define it readily, I looked it up: A loitering munition is somewhere between a missile and a drone. Once it's shot, it stays in the air for a while until it locks onto a target, then shoots toward the target kami
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by etskinner 3y ago
I don't really get the point of this bed, how is it better than sleeping on the ground? The only reasons I can think of are insulation (which just a couple sheets of cardboard would do well, a 50% savings on material), and keeping away
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by etskinner 3y ago
The sibling comment to this one helps clear this up: In short, they're not talking about the entire heat of the inner planet. They're talking about the rate at which heat that is transferred to the surface of the planet, not the t
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by etskinner 3y ago
You need to also consider labor cost of installing that cable and switch. That's usually more than the cost of the materials.
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by etskinner 3y ago
How is it possible to have low enough latency over WiFi to avoid motion sickness?
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by etskinner 3y ago
This seems like a bad choice. The home directory need not be on the boot drive. In fact, a lot of people put it on a separate drive, or at least a separate partition.
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by etskinner 3y ago
The almanac, which is part of every GPS transmission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Almanac?wprov=sfla1
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by etskinner 3y ago
More like billions/trillions
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by etskinner 3y ago
How does this enable vacuum tubes for audio?
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by etskinner 3y ago
Isn't it also something you know? They mention that using passkeys usually requires unlocking a password manager, so presumably they're encrypted at rest
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by etskinner 3y ago
Before everyone gets too excited: This will probably only apply to simple tax situations: If you have more than these, you might not be able use it: #Income reporting W-2 wage income Social Security and railroad retirement income Unemployme
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by etskinner 3y ago
https://archive.ph/DtPgI
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by etskinner 3y ago
https://archive.ph/UGkcO
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by etskinner 3y ago
Even Go has randomness, no? After all, you need to decide who goes first, usually at random
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by etskinner 3y ago
There are plenty of companies who have tried it, and succeeded
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by etskinner 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2XMPk
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by etskinner 3y ago
Read the article; The last couple paragraphs talk about how they tried that and it didn't live up to their standards
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by etskinner 3y ago
How exactly do you 'wire up' E. coli bacteria? Is the idea here that we could somehow string a bunch of them together into a tiny battery? Or is it more like using them as the electrolyte in a battery?

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