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by jalk 5y ago
Tried driving an old double-clutch truck - the clutch pedal was extremely hard with an absurdly long travel length. No power steering either. Very sore left leg and arms after navigating through a small town.
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by jalk 5y ago
This can easily been spun the other way around: There was a firmware upgrade that would save 10% energy / water / time in certain circumstances, but that evil corp hasn't provided us with a way to upgrade, because they want
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by jalk 5y ago
Would be nice if one could add some stego-like features to the inserted signature img so that if lifted it would be detectable in a new pdf. Obviously the savy forger could circumvent it pretty easily but the lazy screenshooting crook would
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by jalk 5y ago
> At a very young age, mortality from vaccine side effects (~200 to ~700 peri/myocarditis per 1M) is greater than mortality from covid itself Do you have a source for that number? All I have seen indicate that the cases are mild to
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by jalk 5y ago
The short description of PCILeech: [1] > PCILeech is capable of inserting a wide range of kernel > implants into the targeted kernels - allowing for easy > access to live ram and the file system via a "mounted > drive&qu
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by jalk 5y ago
I suppose the trade-off is cost vs efficiency - eg. loss in your “chain”
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by jalk 5y ago
What, BO turned my highschool library into their control room - I thought the school had thrown out that brown particle-board-plastic-veneer desk ages ago.
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by jalk 5y ago
It sure is nice that google has tooling for updating code in their monorepo. I just wish that they would remember that those tools do not extend outside of google - Protobuf team I'm looking at you. I have spent countless hours in prot
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by jalk 5y ago
How large is the Oil Fund these days (after Corona spending) 1 trillion USD or something like that - you'll be fine
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by jalk 5y ago
> The image was only updated about three times a minute, but that was fine because the pot filled rather slowly, and it was only greyscale, which was also fine, because so was the coffee.” That made me laugh :-)
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by jalk 5y ago
Curious - what currently unrecognized side-effects are we talking about here?
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by jalk 5y ago
I have asked in several stores (in Denmark) where contactless doesn’t work, but the terminal has the required hardware - The merchant has to pay a fee to enable contactless. My auto mechanic bitched loudly about it, until I told him he wan
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by jalk 5y ago
In Copenhagen, 30-50% of the gas in the consumer network is produced like this.
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by jalk 5y ago
Exactly - it still takes a programming mindset. In my experience watching people using Scratch et. al. When ppl start to acquire that mindset, the guardrails of visual programming turn into hurdles.
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by jalk 5y ago
Charger
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by jalk 5y ago
Many people are tying their shoes with slipped granny knot. There was a ted talk with some geezer teaching people to turn the bows in the opposite direction. But it’s way simpler to learn to twist the laces in the first knot opposite and th
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by jalk 5y ago
Anybody know why a paper like this doesn’t include a date?
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by jalk 5y ago
And then the Synthianians will appear - that’s the ones only eating lab grown food, since plants are living beings as well
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by jalk 5y ago
'+' doesn't play well with URLs
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by jalk 5y ago
The “worry” here is that everything produced will look similar and hence will become boring at some point.
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by jalk 5y ago
Does anybody know if the creator of a "Lego Idea" gets royalties if their kit ends up in stores?
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by jalk 5y ago
The UserAgent header is masked as well: something like Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko Firefox/11.0 (via ggpht.com GoogleImageProxy)
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by jalk 5y ago
I did the same test (although some years ago) and gmail didn't request the images until the email was opened. Caching the images lazily also means that Google can save a ton in network bandwidth / storage for all those emails tha
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by jalk 5y ago
Oh like masers and lasers you mean ;-)
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by jalk 5y ago
Its the Nagios of CI tools ;-)
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by jalk 5y ago
I must admit that I got put off by the lack of abstractions for the common use cases. The resources/input/output model is so primitive that it almost feels like programming a Turing machine. Edit: Took a look again: The situation
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by jalk 5y ago
But neither is faculty, whom they are supposedly monitoring already. - so perhaps this is just a way to to get all of the monitoring removed
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by jalk 5y ago
WAP and WML predates html rendering browser on phones by a number of years. Not even sure WML supports images See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language
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by jalk 5y ago
And AWS lambda cpu performance is proportional to mem setting https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/operating-lambda-perfor...
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by jalk 5y ago
Same here. One could argue that the “arcane” query languages are just stepping stones towards our machines really understanding what we want. But I still cringe when I catch myself writing prose in the google search box “like some noob”

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