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by gvb 6y ago
1) This will turn your phone SIM into a "master password" - equivalent to using the same password for all your accounts. If a "bad guy" steals your SIM (physically or by tricking the phone company into reassigning the SI
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by gvb 6y ago
Or, as Dilbert would say "On the plus side, the pellets are excellent" Ref: https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-01-25
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Component fatigue caused early shutdown of Merlin engine on last SpaceX launch(spaceflightnow.com)
3 points by gvb 6y ago|0 comments
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Google struggles to fix its new Stadia game after shutting down own studios(theverge.com)
50 points by gvb 6y ago|10 comments
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by gvb 6y ago
"Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner, and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through the new
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by gvb 6y ago
It isn't worth the effort. Looking at their machine (CPU) specs, their equipment is pretty old. They likely have been running on autopilot for a few years. Rebuilding their clientele after a unmitigated disaster like this would probabl
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by gvb 6y ago
I run a personal web server from my home. I have found Digital Ocean IP addresses as a frequent source of stupid web server hack attempts (e.g. trying to hack wordpress - I don't run wordpress). I sent complaints to their abuse departm
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by gvb 6y ago
Using the gmail web app, click on the spam email and then click on the vertical elipse ... in the upper right-hand corner of the email. Select "Report spam" to make it and that sender disappear forever. You may have to do this a f
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by gvb 6y ago
It is interesting and informative to compare SN9 to SN8. SN8: https://youtu.be/ap-BkkrRg-o?t=6884 SN9: https://youtu.be/_zZ7fIkpBgs?t=704 With SN8, you can clearly see two engines lighting and burning prope
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NASA knows what caused the early engine shutdown of the SLS moon rocket(space.com)
1 points by gvb 6y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 6y ago
I don't know where your "here" is, but here in the USA, you cannot put diesel in a vehicle's gas tank, but you can put gas in a vehicle's diesel tank. Putting gas in a diesel vehicle is very bad. Reason: The gas noz
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by gvb 6y ago
TFA doesn't say it came due to a search for "strategic alternatives." It says "Dan Loeb's Third Point hedge fund in December urged Intel's board to explore "strategic alternatives." That is typica
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by gvb 6y ago
Browsers already support certificate based authentication equivalent to SSH key based authentication. In practice, it is difficult to prevent (and impossible to detect) an unauthorized user from misusing the authentication either by stealin
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by gvb 6y ago
CentOS and RHEL will only be exactly the same at the moment when RHEL is a point-in-time fork of CentOS. As soon ad RHEL forks from CentOS, CentOS will roll forward and will no longer be exactly the same as RHEL. Previously, CentOS was a
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by gvb 6y ago
Money. RHEL requires expensive licenses. CentOS was RHEL without the RedHat branding and without the expensive licensing. By design, there was a nearly complete overlap between RHEL and CentOS. By "repurposing" CentOS into a &quot
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What’s This Sidewalk Thing? Alexa ‘Splain(eetimes.com)
1 points by gvb 6y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 6y ago
Remove snaps: sudo apt-get remove snapd sudo apt-get remove lxd-agent-loader # 20.04 The key to keeping them uninstalled is to pin the packages so they don't get "upgraded," which results in them being reinstalled.
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by gvb 6y ago
What @colechristensen said. I had a similar experience with a (quite popular but not google) website provider that I had a relationship with and had given them my CC. At some point my account credentials went invalid - I could not do a
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by gvb 6y ago
Actually, creating a hard link "ln" (no -s) would be the best choice. With the hard link, there are two directory entries pointing to the same data on the disk. At that point, removing the original with a "rm" unlinks th
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by gvb 6y ago
including the next sentence "On every step, we saw 20% performance improvements."
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by gvb 6y ago
The M1 has 16GB of DRAM as part of the die. Edit: My bad, it is in the package but not on the die. https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/2020-11-10%2019_08_4...
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SpaceX's Starship SN8 prototype fires engines for 3rd time, encounters problem(space.com)
2 points by gvb 6y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 6y ago
There is nothing inherently special about Taiwan for chip manufacturing. Theoretically, Europe and the US can (and do, to some extent) challenge TSMC and China aspires to do so too. The fundamental problem is that it is extraordinarily expe
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Engine Trouble Delays SpaceX’s Return to the ISS(hackaday.com)
4 points by gvb 6y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 6y ago
The performance of soft cores are significantly lower than hard cores. Xilinx already has a RISC soft core in their MicroBlaze architecture so they don't have a pressing need for a low power, reasonable performance RISC soft core. Ref:
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by gvb 6y ago
Everybody seems to view this as AMD mimicing Intel when it acquired Altera. (That acquisition has not born visible fruit.) My contrarian speculation is that this is a move driven by Xilinx vs. Nvidia given Nvidia’s purchase of Arm and Xilin
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by gvb 6y ago
"Flash enhanced hi-bandwidth site" doesn't work. javascript:void(window.open('flashindex.html', 'Welcome', 'width=800,height=600,left=0,top=0, location=no, menubar=no, status=no, toolbar=no, scrollbar
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by gvb 6y ago
Just noting that it is not a new study - it was discussed previously in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867918
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by gvb 6y ago
(2017)
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Is AV Software Driver Detecting What We Are Seeing?(eetimes.com)
1 points by gvb 6y ago|0 comments

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