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by iSnow 11y ago
While I agree, this is not what OP's comment was about. He makes it sound like Apple is forced to write a decryption tool that exploits existing backdoors into the encrypted content. Highly ironically, the current "Error 53"
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by iSnow 11y ago
I don't understand your comment. The iPhone in question is protected with an unknown passcode. Auto erase is enabled, so brute-forcing the passcode will erase the data. However, a new OS version without auto erase and that accepts pass
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by iSnow 11y ago
That whole newspaper site seems pretty low-brow and clickbaity.
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by iSnow 11y ago
There's indeed a case to back you up: >Air-launched weapons like cruise missiles must endure hours of sub-freezing temperatures at high altitudes while riding their carrier aircraft. Weaponeers successfully subjected the W-80’s comp
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by iSnow 11y ago
Impact energy would rise with the cube of the diameter, I guess. So splitting up one large asteroid into a swarm of smaller ones is desirable. With any luck, some of the debris would even miss. The bigger problem is that that kind of missil
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by iSnow 11y ago
I have to disagree. One of my pet complaints about github is that my mother couldn't download anything useful from there. SF had great downloads of binaries and I feel that's why it is still used by portableapps and others. If you
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by iSnow 11y ago
The sheer volume of money and work and the technical difficulties of putting a 15cm thick sandwich of metal underneath a block make me doubt the veracity of the article. Especially coupled with the factual error "separates into the rar
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by iSnow 11y ago
But what we know of their space program indicates that yes, they were cutting corners and reducing safety margins, they still used unmanned flights with dolls and animal flights. So, they were not willing to just shoot up a couple of guys a
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by iSnow 11y ago
Don't forget the Ruble has crashed lately, this certainly helps.
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by iSnow 11y ago
Why the hell does this not get cleaned up?
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by iSnow 11y ago
No, the ars article talks about this. The orbital inclination of the doomed shuttle was so they could not reach the ISS, and likewise the Russian Soyuz could not launch at a similar inclination. Changing orbits seems to burn obscene amounts
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by iSnow 11y ago
We cannot rule this out, but it seems very unlikely to me. The more I read about it, the less likely it seems. - Laika was launched aboard Sputnik 2 in October 1957 - Gagarin on Vostok 1 in April 1961 Sputnik 2 was much lighter than the Vos
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by iSnow 11y ago
Thanks, I still believe the inclusion of yet another analytics tool is madness, but the point about publishers is new to me.
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by iSnow 11y ago
That seems like the worst of all worlds. Mining on a desktop computer just barely works, but I'll be damned if I want my laptop's fan to spin up all the time just so I can tip some web site. And I absolutely don't want my mob
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by iSnow 11y ago
Could someone enlighten me why a lot of sites don't only pull in google analytics, but also a handful of other analytics sites like scorecaredresearch or chartbeat?
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by iSnow 11y ago
But wouldn't you do A/B tests in a driver lab first before going out into the wild with the fonts?
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by iSnow 11y ago
The metric is bullshit, those business analysts would get punished even if the delay was not their direct fault. If you go crazy with KPI's, people will find ways to avoid getting bit by them. Show me a metric and I'll show you a
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by iSnow 11y ago
Aww, come on. That idea that therapy is not going to help anything and ridiculing the therapist is absolute bog standard behavior of depressed persons - I'd go as far as saying it is part of being depressed.
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by iSnow 11y ago
In principle you are right, but precision is an issue: the train control system needs to know the position in the centimeter range. Counting wheel revolutions is notoriously unprecise because as the wheels wear down, they rotate faster. Pub
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by iSnow 11y ago
Train control is not super complicated, it has been deployed in various forms in Europe for decades. Rail infrastructure providers offer turn-key solutions based on common standards like ETCS. It is expensive due to a lot of hardware that n
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by iSnow 11y ago
Why would the socket require less precision than the ball that goes into that socket?
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by iSnow 11y ago
But the article claims you need "state-of-the-art machinery and cutting-edge computerized measurement equipment with pinpoint precision to produce, not to mention the ability to produce the high-quality steel material of which it is ma
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by iSnow 11y ago
I don't think the reasons are that hard to understand. M&A opportunities outside the core business are especially hard to integrate in the software sector. Google and Apple never got social right - social is a field with such extre
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by iSnow 11y ago
Yes, I never used Q-tips all my life until I had to use earplugs to sleep in a rather noisy environment. Those caused itching and I used Q-tips to scratch the ear canal. Since then, I must confess I am addicted. I tried to wean myself from
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by iSnow 11y ago
Even the envelope and the time to pack the button would completely destroy any profit. Even in China.
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by iSnow 11y ago
You can't be serious. The leaf surface of a lawn is much less than that of a tree. And there is zero sequestration of CO2, because all that cut grass is either burnt or turned into compost the next year. With a tree, there's at le
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by iSnow 11y ago
They had. In the 1990's I worked frequently into the night and owned a CRT with color profiles. After the sun went down, I switched to a more warm profile.
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by iSnow 11y ago
Huh, the rich/poor divide in bitcoinland is way worse than in the real world, so I am not sure which point you are trying to make.
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by iSnow 11y ago
The Canadian Dollar lost about 5% over the last weeks. That's about as much as BTC wins or loses on a single lucky or bad ay.
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by iSnow 11y ago
>The primary targets are the enemy's own nuclear weapons, military assets and infrastructure come second and population centres last of all. Humbug: "“The authors developed a plan for the ‘systematic destruction’ of Soviet bloc

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