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by flingo 6y ago
> Somehow I prefer this solution than ubiquitous drones "When all you have is a hammer..." My only question is where most of that $300 cost is coming from.
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by flingo 6y ago
> I am absolutely willing to die on this hill. We need a GDPR-sized hammer to fix this. Any thoughts on a labelling system? Like, "re-flashable open source firmware", "cannot be remotely bricked", "API-spec and c
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by flingo 6y ago
> load some bitcoin in and short with 100x leverage Sounds like a great way to have a crooked exchange make you insolvent very quickly. Be very careful using any kind of leverage.
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by flingo 6y ago
> He will spend a lot of time either angry at the situation, or spending that time also trying to get a tax break. It is a good financial decision to spend up to "$1M * <odds of success>" to get that tax break, or another
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by flingo 6y ago
"Only two people can launch a nuke, the president, and the engineer who installed the system."
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by flingo 6y ago
Is there any API you can go through to get the UUID of the current ABI, all the ones seen by the system, or all of the ones for each windows ABI without network access? Trivially, you grab the UUIDs from a server somewhere. A smarter trick
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by flingo 6y ago
Where is the entropy going? This still has all eight bytes, from the generated UUID, and looks like it can be converted back into a UUID.
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by flingo 6y ago
I thought the original setup where the vice president was whoever got the second most votes was going for that.
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by flingo 6y ago
I wasn't expecting an adblocker installed by default. Makes sense though, for browsing performance.
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by flingo 6y ago
I've done that, and gotten banned from a site later for having the company name in my email. (I was unbanned later, after contacting support)
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by flingo 6y ago
This is insane, I love it. How long until this is a library on pypi?
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by flingo 6y ago
As long as this is contained to the metrics-metagame branch of the git repo, I am fine with this. Get 80k commits in, before lunch.
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by flingo 6y ago
Food's a fun example, because there's currently too much of it. At least in my part of the world, the price of various foods is moderated by the government buying or selling huge stocks of it. My bigger concern about that is all o
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by flingo 6y ago
That sounds like a great way to make the most upvoted comment "submitter's favourite baseball player is Jason Heyward".
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by flingo 6y ago
I've often bought parts from aliexpress because they're available for <$2 with shipping, and can be somewhat vetted easily with an example arduino sketch that comes with the library. (IMO, the goal in designing a board for your
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by flingo 6y ago
The current version of raspian comes with ublock origin preinstalled in chromium. Both of these choices surprised me.
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by flingo 6y ago
Is there a single word for "it's more profitable to do this thing, rather than the other thing, or nothing"? I think that's what this counts as. I think this is in the same category of decision as retailers selling old s
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by flingo 6y ago
> Why just HK, why not for all former colonies which UK is responsible for Prior to (and because of) a bunch of HK residents fleeing to the UK when china first started trying to assimilate it, it was much easier to get out of there and i
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by flingo 6y ago
AFAIK, the ISS needs to be de-orbited over an ocean, burned up, and replaced. (like the plan was from the beginning) There are a number of scary mould patches up there, and potentially other pathogens, with no real way to properly clean the
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by flingo 6y ago
What's the goal in posting this/having this phrasing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum Please point to the spot on the E
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by flingo 6y ago
This confused the heck out of me when zero-rating was being made out to be the greatest evil, and that the US should be more like the EU. But, at the same time, half of the mobile phone ads I saw had zero-rating a specific service (facebook
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by flingo 6y ago
Great headline. Shame there won't be any ads put on that article to pay any of the staff. Another one of the problems that comes from a near-monopoly.
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by flingo 6y ago
In Australia, the words "mate" and "cunt" have seemingly-opposite meanings, to what an American-English speaker might think.
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by flingo 6y ago
The website claims this is open sourced, it is not open sourced. There's no definite license with the code on github.
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by flingo 6y ago
Great. Now someone build one that can compile new regexes in fat32.
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by flingo 7y ago
Or, someone at youtube saw the video and thought it was cool. Like how this video will always have 301 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI
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by flingo 7y ago
heat death of the universe.
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by flingo 7y ago
If humans discover a way to defeat entropy, even at a limited scale, whatever device is created to preserve information into the era of a universe solely made of black holes and hawking radiation will be capable of running doom. I fully exp
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by flingo 7y ago
raspberrry pi in home-network DMZ, with fail2ban, unattended-upgrades, and a free dynamic DNS service gets you most of this. (plus, you're root, so you can run things more complicated than web-services)
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by flingo 7y ago
I'm always disappointed when things like this aren't partially or fully open sourced. Makes me wonder what the profit model is, and when the thing is going to die forever.

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