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by gvb 8y ago
At a previous job, I had this problem as well. A few filter providers block extremely aggressively and are totally unresponsive to requests. I ended up "routing around" their brokenness by using an email delivery service (search f
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by gvb 8y ago
Non-paywalled copy: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/two-sisters-bought...
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(2016) - note the first line: This article was originally published by ProPublica on October 21st, 2016.
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This isn't about a wall or illegal immigration. This is about politics and both sides using a government shutdown as a way of swinging popular opinion in order to gain an edge for 2020 elections. Historically, government shutdowns have
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T-Mobile is making it harder for scam callers to get ahold of you(androidcentral.com)
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What happens on iPhones doesn't stay there, contrary to Apple's 'clever' CES ad(businessinsider.com)
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The way I read it, the difference between the $150 ("4 hour") battery and the $100 ("8 hour") battery is that the 8 hour battery will be 2x in size. This would be the same KW (~volts x amps) available but 2x the hours at
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Intel Working on Open-Sourcing the FSP(phoronix.com)
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The self-driving vans use radar, lidar and cameras to navigate, so they capture footage of all interactions that usually is clear enough to identify people and read license plates. Oops! They also have GPS, so they have a timestamped loca
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by gvb 8y ago
Your Tesla doesn't always warn of impending collisions: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/06/07/tesla-m... https://electrek.co/2016/11/29/tesla-
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by gvb 8y ago
Good question. The Model 3 battery[1] weighs 478 kg so 9x = ~4,300kg. 11 people on board is another 1,000kg (not including the golf clubs). MTOW[2] is 6,350kg so the airframe needs to weigh in at ~1,000kg. I'm sure they can make a batt
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Repurpose an "easy button" to play custom sounds (I programmed snippets from the Simpsons). When I went on vacation, I substituted my hacked one for the normal one in the developer's area. https://github.com/g
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Unlink with reference counting, not overwrite. This allows the program to "delete" itself but the file remains as an unnamed file on the drive until the last program that references it exits. If the file name was the last hard li
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Spawn Virtual Browsers Effortlessly with Firefox Containers(spin.atomicobject.com)
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Related: "Ten things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition" (2015) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/11315994/Ten-things-n... 1. You're going to have to eat a lot of raw butter.
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Tackling the more obvious, glaring wide-open 'in our faces but we ignore anyhow' forms of corruption (OP) is not "so don't do anything."
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"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine [random code fragments], will the right [code] come out?" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Passages_from_...
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Oculus co-founder: “Free is still not cheap enough” for current VR tech(arstechnica.com)
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In the YouTube video at 43 to 44 seconds you can see the "left" booster pivots into the tank rather than away from the tank like the other two boosters in the frame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=44&a
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Watch Soyuz Rocket Go Out of Control During Failed Launch(sputniknews.com)
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I browse with JavaScript disabled (NoScript) with a few sites that I care about whitelisted. Most web sites work fine although their layout is sometimes not what the web designer intended. Some sites don't work at all... for those site
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Russian official says Soyuz rocket failure caused by an errant sensor(arstechnica.com)
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Spawn Virtual Browsers Effortlessly with Firefox Containers(spin.atomicobject.com)
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Spawn Virtual Browsers Effortlessly with Firefox Containers(spin.atomicobject.com)
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Native English speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
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For the counter argument, see "Unikernels are unfit for production" January 22, 2016 - by Bryan Cantrill https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-product...
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by gvb 8y ago
OTOH, Joe Fitzpatrick, one of the few named sources, is very very doubtful of the veracity of the story. Blog interview with Joe Fitzpatrick: https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/ https://appleinsider.com/ar
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by gvb 8y ago
Have you implemented DKIM/SPF/DMARC? If you have not, that is a first step. Are you sending from a "consumer" network IP block (cable modem or DSL)? If so, that's going to be big points off (probably not since you a
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Housing is a investment vehicle in China. From what I've read, a lot of housing is actually empty and is held strictly as an investment. That implies it is a speculation driven bubble that is going to pop when everything else goes upsi
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The "chip that reconfigured the hardware" is already built in; it's the BMC. All the Chinese government has to do is go to the factory and tell them "flash the BMC firmware with this image" where the image is subver

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