jackweirdy

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by jackweirdy 5y ago
The history of this law dates back to 1935, when it was designed to protect post office staff who ran telephone switchboards from being harassed by the public, and it that context, it makes sense. Of course in 21st century the law doesn&#x2
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
I think the earlier comments are referring to CAT 3 auto land systems using technologies like ILS, which are used routinely and are good for 0ft visibility. That is, approach in cloud down to the ground
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
They are either tabloids or broadsheets, the terms coming from the historical size of the physical newspaper. Broadsheets are physically bigger, more text, typically more serious, aiming at a more sophisticated reader Tabloids physically sm
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
It still proves you’re giving the password right this moment, and that it hasn’t been popped from a DB. On the other hand it doesn’t prove that someone has stolen your phone/laptop, defeated all of its own security, and then defeated t
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
Hmm, I don't see it on many of the sites I'm searching. Wikipedia entries I see it, but some legal and news ones I don't. I wonder if it's a new norobots/copyright thing
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Ask HN: Is it no longer possible to search the Google cache for cached pages?
6 points by jackweirdy 5y ago|3 comments
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
For many this is not wishing for cable again, rather going _back_ to pirating, which was itself better than cable. Certainly myriad streaming services are better than cable- but are they better than pirating? Harder to be confident of that
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
Altimeters are only pilot calibrated to ensure planes travelling in various directions can trust their vertical separation is constant even amid rising or dropping temperatures and pressures. In that context an altimeter that calibrates its
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
Bear in mind there are airports in the world at less than 0ft sea level. Very complicated to validate what a valid input actually is
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
Well, the autopilot was disabled, and the flight director (which at a 1 sentence level is a visual indication of what the autopilot would do) was trying to keep the plane level at the configured altitude The flight director did the right th
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Fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by jackweirdy 5y ago|2 comments
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
There is coverage in other national media https://news.sky.com/story/amazon-to-reject-customer-payment... But additionally I use the +servicename trick on Amazon, and the email was delivered to me at jack+amazon@myemai
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
The DNS on my network is my router, but that has 1.1.1.1 as its upstream resolver, and private relay is working for me. I wonder if this is an interaction with the way the cloudflare app sets up 1.1.1.1. - I guess as a VPN? — rather than a
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
Here is medhi sadaghdar (electro boom) putting 11v at 150A through his tongue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDf2nhfxVzg
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
The judgement is here, page 36 onwards lays out all the articles the petitioner claims had contempt of court, and the courts interpretation of whether they did or didn't https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-s
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
The March 25 judgement referred to is here: https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/cos-genera...
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
Oh. I'm not defending labelling the link as fake news. And my post wasn't an argument in favour of this being ok. Just adding an example for the poster and any other readers who haven't seen the "context problem" fi
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
This is the post I was referring to - it was this image (no text) and a link to the above article https://i.imgur.com/8TEAXQW.png I think another commenter's idea is reasonable - people are flagging false claims like t
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
I have seen this sentence of the link: > CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses Used to claim that many positive test
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
Your comment confused me, the article says the kid in the U.K. called the local police department so until I read this I assumed they googled the local number and dialled the police directly internationally, not going through 911. But it so
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
I thought according to the crossover theory the virus was not theorised to have crossed from animal to person in the wet market, but was in humans already at that point and that was just the first “superspreader” site
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by jackweirdy 5y ago
There’s also 2 native apps - if you install from the App Store, you don’t get all the same OTP features as an install from the website download
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by jackweirdy 6y ago
Great without it. The major improvement I noticed with it, is 802.11k & v (faster handoff). Without those, it takes a little longer for the device to switch APs at the borders of their coverage. Mostly imperceptible, but the longer hand
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by jackweirdy 6y ago
Lunar orbit
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by jackweirdy 6y ago
It’s very common for BBC headlines to change 3-5 times after being posted. I don’t know whether they are A-B testing or just twitchy, but it’s annoying for sharing new articles
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by jackweirdy 6y ago
And another point that cements this was the Reddit “china_flu” subreddit’s creation in December 2019, when word was spreading outside China that _something_ was spreading, probably flu, and nobody knew what
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by jackweirdy 6y ago
Wouldn't want anyone tapping them! (maybe I am too cynical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora
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Scientists unlock mysteries of oldest 'computer'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by jackweirdy 6y ago|0 comments
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by jackweirdy 6y ago
In the Oxford trial, participants take weekly PCR swabs ( https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200721-coronavirus-vacc... ) This was posited (but has not been confirmed) as one of the reasons it was posting lower nu
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by jackweirdy 6y ago
If it makes you feel any better, their attempt at redaction was poor and the whole text is present in the bookmarks of the PDF: https://twitter.com/lijukic/status/1355164987212390402

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