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by frederikvs 10y ago
Sad to read this. And actually also a bit surprised, considering that 2 weeks ago he posted an article that mentioned "This is a short book more than an article. I'll continue to revise it over time, according to your comments.&qu
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by frederikvs 10y ago
Doesn't seem like there's any big announcement. A bit disappointing really. Audio quality was also fairly poor.
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by frederikvs 10y ago
Could use a comparison to e.g. a yubikey [0]. At this price, I can afford to just order one and see what happens, but still it would be nice to know what features I'm sacrificing for the cheaper price. [0] https://www.yubico
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by frederikvs 10y ago
I always thought that "doesn't ship to Belgium" was about some sort of export restrictions or extra costs or whatever. Turns out it's just the default setting. Next time I see this, I'm mailing the seller. Thanks fo
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by frederikvs 10y ago
Is there anywhere we can read (about) this response?
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by frederikvs 10y ago
You could do this, but you may not be able to charge as fast. By default, USB only supplies 100mA. If you want to go above that, it needs to be negotiated over the data pins I think.
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by frederikvs 10y ago
You need to read the mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Part of the story is about "metanationals", multinationals that become so rich and powerful they can basically buy a country.
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by frederikvs 10y ago
reading the phrase "Why settle for less?" made me laugh :-)
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by frederikvs 10y ago
I can see the fossilization, but I don't see what's so typical Unix of that phenomenon. Windows still includes cmd.exe with all its broken, retarded features, while it has powershell, which is supposedly (no experience myself) a l
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by frederikvs 10y ago
There's a link there to a his Shanghai Time nixie clock [1],"a two-tube nixie clock". I wonder how you read a two-tube nixie clock. From the pictures it looks like it just displays the minutes, but that wouldn't be enoug
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by frederikvs 10y ago
I'm glad to see they came to the sensible conclusion : "Multiplexing on top of TCP in overall fails to deliver the advantages it is assumed to provide."
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EU Files Additional Formal Charges Against Google(wsj.com)
2 points by frederikvs 10y ago|1 comments
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by frederikvs 10y ago
> I'm not too worried about backdoors in microcontrollers, they're too small to hide much. Have you read the article "A2: Analog Malicious Hardware" [1]? You really don't need much space to insert a backdoor in s
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by frederikvs 10y ago
Thanks for the cybrary link, I didn't know about it, and it seems very interesting. The specific course you linked to is one of the "advanced" courses however, so if that course assumes knowledge you don't have, maybe yo
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by frederikvs 10y ago
> I do find it rather unlikely that Soviet armed forces [...] would even let people enter the area "What, that pass, in februari? Not like anybody will be stupid enough to be hiking there." or "No, if we tell people not
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by frederikvs 10y ago
Even if it didn't cost a dime, some drug companies might not be interested in longer expiration dates. If the expiration date is passed, and you throw it out, you'll have to buy a new supply. More profit! It's a perverse effe
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by frederikvs 10y ago
Except that we could a) store the alcohol that's produced, or b) find a way to convert the alcohol or biomass into something else (e.g. plastics).
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by frederikvs 10y ago
The first commit seems to be from april, so it can't have been on github for much more than a month or so. Before it was under perforce, apparently.
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Basics and Tutorials on Scopes(youtube.com)
1 points by frederikvs 10y ago|0 comments
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by frederikvs 10y ago
c.) lie and cheat their way around the standards
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by frederikvs 11y ago
Het Laatste Nieuws is not Belgium's most reliable newspaper, and so far I haven't heard any more reputable source confirming this...