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by fbdab103 2y ago
You can always check available ram: https://yourdatafitsinram.net/
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Is it possible to tap fiber-optic cables without the owner getting wise? Even if you could tap modern cables, I assume everything is now encrypted and carries so much bandwidth that it becomes possible to sample the interesting intelligence
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Getting a demand to increase the payment by 40x is shocking no matter how much you make.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Google Slides is Actually Hilarious HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30227588 Article: https://medium.com/@laurajavier/google-slides-is-actually-hi...
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by fbdab103 2y ago
LoRa was already taken.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Sleep has become significantly worse in Windows. Many complaints of how a supposedly sleeping laptop cooked itself to death in a backpack overnight. I also think it would be worth considering changes in underlying hardware. A modern laptop
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Just yesterday, I purchased a game from GOG where the Linux build cannot start, owing to who knows what expected platform profile. Maybe, technically, I could have fixed the problem. The Windows build worked without issue in Wine.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Microsoft's offerings are rarely the best, but they can be sold bundled together, have long support contracts, and a wealth of integrations tying it all together. Teams is not winning due to technical competence. It is Good Enough and
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Plus, if there is wasted space, you can jam an ad in there.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
That is wild. Could not believe how many people were wearing sandals or completely barefoot.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Wait - they are still stuck on the ship after all this time? Is this a company/government rule? Some kind of maritime law? Not like I expect any of them to keep their jobs after this, even if they acted impeccably during the failure.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
What's next? Cannot write a lewd letter to your partner? Too many suggestive emojis? I have to imagine more than one erotic publishing house has content hosted on Google Docs. Random website claims that 39 million printed romance novel
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by fbdab103 2y ago
And this creates a bit of an oddity, because in the Clone Wars, the Republic fleet is essentially built around fast carriers – the Venators – and their fighters, whereas it is the CIS fleet which has specialized gunboats (along with th
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by fbdab103 2y ago
The lead Senators, Maria Cantwell and Ted Cruz, probably didn’t realize what had happened, as they did seek to do something useful for consumers, and the FAA reauthorization bill is sprawling and it’s easy to lose track of the details
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by fbdab103 2y ago
I know it is not technically Python, but seeing `list` used as a parameter made my eye twitch.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
I am not sure what other options are really on the table. I have several grievances with Python, but it has the biggest community. If I want a library for...well anything, there is going to be one written in Python. Stuck on a problem? Ther
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by fbdab103 2y ago
On the gripping hand, traveling with cash should not be a crime. We already surrender so much privacy to the TSA. I would fear that we would be hearing about more "TSA vs $20k in stacks of cash" civil forfeiture cases.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
>...they booked a $5m loss and made a policy to never trade with that particular bank again Maybe I am too cynical, but would many businesses retroactively agree to a deal which would cost them a ton of money? If the Process requires Is
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by fbdab103 2y ago
No mention of Julia's Pluto seems like a real miss. I am Python day-to-day, but the Pluto demos I have seen are very attractive. I think Pluto also lets you reassign a variable.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Is consumer spending on these kinds of services significant? It feels like chasing pennies, but then again, numbers must always go up. I could instead believe it is different enough to make an internal splash and that usability concerns wer
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Probably a lot different when you are working under a bridge with cars whizzing about your head. There is not a lot of margin for error or an abundance of space to leave extra equipment.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Anecdotally, it seems like I see more wild driving when posted speeds are higher. People are more aggressive in higher speed zones, which inevitably leads to more crashes. Severe accidents being one of those things which can dramatically hu
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by fbdab103 2y ago
This is a question I have wondered all the time (predominantly while stuck in traffic). Frequently wondered if, during rush hour, posted speed limits should be dropped by X to actually increased throughput. Having not yet read the paper, I
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by fbdab103 2y ago
I once heard an unsubstantiated claim that federal funding was dependent upon length of the road work. Over-provisioning blocker barrels was a loophole to extend the distance and receive more funding.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
If you are super duper serious about securing yourself, recovery email is non-viable. Every piece of data is a potential vector towards exposure. Which comes directly into the problem of security vs convenience.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
While an IP address is not an identity, it can still zero in on a location. I suspect governments and ISPs all keep historical logs of who was assigned what address.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
I think they should do like Mullvad claims and keep zero logs. You cannot share what you do not have.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
Always worth giving a shoutout to the "Scalability! But at what COST?" paper (pdf https://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets/COST.pdf ) We offer a new metric for big data platforms, COST, or the Configuration th
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by fbdab103 2y ago
The EA account linking is the only thing keeping me from purchasing It Takes Two. Companies are so desperate to track my data they would rather not have my sale.
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by fbdab103 2y ago
If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.

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