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“1/1000 cases from outdoor exposure” became fact from fiction(twitter.com)
2 points by indrora 4y ago|0 comments
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by indrora 4y ago
Better to be over prepared than under prepared. plus, you look official like that.
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by indrora 5y ago
As a fair warning to folks who go reading Xah's work: His style can be somewhat... Esoteric and while not abrasive, controversial in tone on occasion. He can occasionally sound rather creepy, especially in his occasional discussions of
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by indrora 5y ago
If you don't want politics in your tech decisions, I implore you to find a nice commune in the middle of the desert where no language is used and only mute sustenance farming is practiced, no disease is spread, and violence of any kind
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by indrora 5y ago
Yandex has stuff... Everywhere They do payments and payment processing (think paypal and square and more combined) They do cloud services (think a mix of GCP and AWS) for business. They do personal storage (think dropbox/gdrive) and em
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by indrora 5y ago
The Emacs you know today was written by James Gosling (of Java fame), which had its copyright and license headers stripped off and the GPL slapped on it with Stallman's name added. Gosling had quite a bit of help from others, as was th
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by indrora 5y ago
Windows doesn't have fork as you know it. It has a POSIX-ish fork-alike for compliance, but under the hood it's CreateThread[0] with some Magic. in Windows, you create the thread with CreateThread, then are passed back a handle to
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by indrora 5y ago
> why would anyone ever want fork as a primitive Long ago in the far away land of UNIX, fork was a primitive because the primary use of fork was to do more work on the system. You likely were one of thee or four other people, at any give
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by indrora 5y ago
When Windows 10 Mobile was a thing, Microsoft had written a very competent Facebook application to go along with it. The original version was 18MB. The official Facebook-written version was nearly 300MB, with the bonus that it disabled the
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by indrora 5y ago
There's a company, Tidelift, that has been working on solving this issue as well. Their solution is to be a VAR on top of the open source and give updates on new versions, advice on remediation and workarounds for CVEs, and help priori
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by indrora 5y ago
Let me make you old. The following things happened 30 years ago, give or take a few weeks: * H W Bush meets with Yeltsin, Cold War officially declared over. * The EU was officially formed. * Ukraine and four other nations in the Commonwealt
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Wheelchair user designs spikes to deter nonconsentual chair-grabbing(old.reddit.com)
24 points by indrora 5y ago|1 comments
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by indrora 5y ago
My M50x's sit quietly awaiting the short spots where I use them for intense focus work. There's two things I've made wireless on my desk: mouse and headphones. I use trackballs, and the sheer donveni of being able to shift an
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by indrora 5y ago
Inkscape has had the same basic UI for about a decade. I just upgraded this week on my machines to 1.1.2 after using 0.96 for a long while, and I felt at home still. Inkscape's UI hasn't changed much because there's really no
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by indrora 5y ago
Good engineers can come from anywhere, just like bad engineers. Engineers leave a company for three reasons: Lack of career development opportunities -- Not being able to move up or grow in the way you want to. This is a sign of bad managem
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by indrora 5y ago
There's a lot of compounding factors. The fact that there's no (legal) way to get some of those games out of Japan and into the hands of people who want to play them is a good indicator of a lack of wanting to do the work on the s
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by indrora 5y ago
Nope. That hole is, similarly, only for manufacturing positioning. It's also potentially dangerous to attempt to thru-plug lock out a device: An unsuspecting individual could jam it in anyway and suddenly potentially have the other hal
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by indrora 5y ago
Wrong on both accounts. Technology Connections spent a while trying to figure this one out and did a fairly decent video: https://youtu.be/udNXMAflbU8 the tl;dw is "They're for manufacturing purposes" -- Alig
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by indrora 5y ago
Blink, the tag, dates back to the 1994 or so: http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag That's what they're referring to in the page. In 2006, I was reading [HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible]( https:/&#x
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by indrora 5y ago
Something I realized early on when I was implementing the basic parts of mtproto for a project is just how Goddamn Fucking Resilient it is to network issues and the like. Networks which are extremely adversarial, such as walled gardens, see
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by indrora 5y ago
Gosh, and here I feel like an Old for remembering the big list: * http://checkip.dyndns.com/ * http://ip1.dynupdate.no-ip.com/ * https://ipchicken.com/ * https://ifconfig.me or,
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by indrora 5y ago
you're actually looking at the intersection of three problems: * LTE is very noisy (it has echos in its sidebands for up to 100Mhz) * low-frequency LTE is *loud* -- punch through mountains loud. * These altimiters are doing the RF equi
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by indrora 5y ago
I personally use Hugo + GitHub actions to do the build for a major project of mine that benefits from hugo's taxonomy system. I did this after porting my blog over to Hugo as well. I personally have avoided Jekyll for the primary reaso
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by indrora 5y ago
Nintendo is still, at its core, a playing card company. Having family friends as a kid who went to Japan on occasion, I ended up with many Nintendo-made trump card decks that featured, among other things, Mario, Pokemon, and at one point, a
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by indrora 5y ago
This explains the "179 day retention policy" that I've seen at several places.
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by indrora 5y ago
The reason for having SMS-based 2FA as a default is that it's At least something . Adding a U2F token and having SMS as a backup means that you don't have people locked out because their yubikey failed -- which happens. Discord i
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by indrora 5y ago
A phrase I've come to appreciate: > Prescribe not to malice that which may well be a buggy edge case.
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by indrora 5y ago
Snake oil, basically.
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by indrora 5y ago
Have several friends in healthcare. Multiple have relayed similar stories. However, to your question: how many of these people are begging for the vaccine, and how? It's a surprising number. These patients don't understand how vac
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by indrora 5y ago
There's methods to use S3-like platforms without leaking data. Restic does this by packing blocks of data together and encrypting them instead of doing it on a per-file basis. This allows for deduplication at a block level and function

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