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by gorkish 3y ago
I posted a comment here on HN not 60 days ago voicing concerns about Chamberlain MyQ's monetization push and received quite a bit of blowback from others explaining about how I was wrong. HN is quite a fickle place isn't it? Anywa
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My friends and I made levels of our school campus dorms, etc. for both Doom and Quake. This was all prior to Columbine and nobody thought it was strange in the slightest; on the contrary everyone thought it was awesome (faculty included). A
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by gorkish 3y ago
> Is that really a fair comparison, though? The changes seen by smartphones [..] I am pretty sure this is referring to the Mac App Store, and would also apply to Steam for Mac or really trying to run any mac software from more than a cou
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by gorkish 3y ago
While what you say is completely true, unfortunately how I do my own security has very little to do with how my customers do their security. I see ccTLD and gTLD used in spearphishing and domain impersonation attacks on a frequent enough ba
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by gorkish 3y ago
> Nobody is actually doing anything interesting with these. Now wait a second, that's not at all true. In my experience there are armies of people who use them to launch targeted phishing attacks at my business if they buy the godda
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by gorkish 3y ago
Well the idea is that it takes far less gas by mass to inflate a balloon against the vacuum of space and support the weight of the envelope in lunar gravity as it does to inflate a balloon against 1 atmosphere and support the envelope in Ea
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by gorkish 3y ago
GATR works on the ground in atmosphere. Having seen them up close, I don't think there is a lot that translates to an in-space application other than the concept itself. You're talking about a completely separate ground-up enginee
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by gorkish 3y ago
I have spoken with the guy behind cubic/GATR (actually had a conversation with him and Buzz Aldrin at Space Symposium quite some years ago.) It's surely the first thing that came to my mind, and a fairly mature technology at this
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by gorkish 3y ago
I think you are misinterpreting the highway scene, but yeah I have always enjoyed the way that both public and private spaces are portrayed in the film. Other good examples include sam's tiny car (Messerschmitt KR200!) and his tiny off
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by gorkish 3y ago
> "The Matrix", and in the middle of it there is an advertising for Oreos, though you paid for the ad-free experience Interesting that you picked a movie series quite well known for it's product placement marketing-- I&#x2
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by gorkish 3y ago
Youtube's relationship with the music industry has led to this weird situation where they basically cannot separate the licensing concerns, hence the pack-in of the music service. I respect that you want to dig your heels in on some we
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by gorkish 3y ago
> I will never understand how a website/app with such a user-hostile interface can continue to thrive. It's quite simple. You are not the customer; you are the product. The UI/UX for marketers is quite polished. The UI&#x2
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by gorkish 3y ago
I recognize the spirit of your comment; however, "where the money comes from" is of immense importance to a business. When revenue comes from the end users, the business is properly incentivized to serve the users. When the revenu
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by gorkish 3y ago
At the leading edge, the configuration you just described is probably more like $800k
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by gorkish 3y ago
I thought about leaving Japan totally off because they just can't seem to build a decent EV to save themselves; I made a mistake leaving Honda as a Maybe; they kind of threw in the towel today. All the Chinese EV makers are mostly maki
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by gorkish 3y ago
They uncancelled the Bolt and honestly they are bluffing with CarPlay as well; it will be back. They won't be able to sustain the blowback. Their business strategy is braindead and they are going nowhere fast on their lame software: th
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by gorkish 3y ago
Github became popular because it was SourceForge without all the bullshit.
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by gorkish 3y ago
With respect to the way this article presents efficiency, I would actually expect Naruto running to be slightly more energy efficient than regular running -- the further forward that one can lean while running, the more that gravity will co
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by gorkish 3y ago
I tried writing a custom Sereal decoder plugin for this a while ago but the docs were thin and the example plugins were all adding other functionality. It would be nice to have an example for what I would assume would be probably the most c
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by gorkish 3y ago
My current opinion of automakers who are on the right track with their EVs: BMW: No BYD: No Ford: No GM: Yes Honda: Maybe Hyundai: Yes Merc: Maybe Rivian: Maybe Tata: Maybe Toyota: No Tesla: Yes VAG: Yes
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by gorkish 3y ago
When reading this I get echos of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" when the police storm Buttle's apartment, entering through a big hole they cut directly through the ceiling .
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by gorkish 3y ago
These projects are very cool. Just like PCB prototyping and short run manufacturing has advanced massively in the last 10 years, I hope for custom silicon to do the same!
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If they are offering anything above 1gbps they are probably delivering it with a "10G" technology. I have 2gbps service coming in on XGS-PON at home.
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by gorkish 3y ago
Yeah probably because the whole situation is sus as hell. If the moisture ingress is defective manufacturing, Tesla warranty would cover it. If the cause is the external environment then auto insurance should cover it. That's not to sa
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by gorkish 3y ago
If you want to contend that a screen of video and two channels of audio is the endgame, that's fine. But it's not :)
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by gorkish 3y ago
I dislike Comcast in the extreme, but I'll defend their right to give their network as many meaningless G's as they like. I welcome anything that hastens the demise of this idiotic marketing trend.
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by gorkish 3y ago
My current setup is a pi 4 with a big usb ssd plugged into a usb power bank which is itselfpowered from 12v. Only thing “integrated” is I run marcone/teslausb. The power draw is inconsequential compared to powering the mcu & sentry
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by gorkish 3y ago
I find it interesting you would reach for that term to make this argument.
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Love and remember this project -- as someone who has also been jamming customized PC computers into cars since the mid 90's, I really believe that there is still a lot of unrecognized potential in having the ability to carry your own p
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by gorkish 3y ago
Cursed acronym. Damnit; I don't want to have to keep up with the difference between LoRa and LoRA.

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