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by jandrese 2mo ago
There was some replay protection as described in the article, but in the end the system was flawed enough that it didn't matter.
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by jandrese 2mo ago
That ~25% is compounded at every step of the way. 25% of your doctor's office. 25% of the insurance company. Plus don't forget the brokers, which are almost all overhead effectively. 25% of pharmacy. 25% of drug companies. Th
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by jandrese 2mo ago
You don't necessarily need to export power, especially for a small battery like tihs. Charge it up when power is cheap, and then configure it to discharge when power is expensive but only to match your current usage. You will need a
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by jandrese 2mo ago
The thing studies like this never take into account is the degree to which all of these administrative jobs are corporate welfare. The inefficiency means a lot of people get a regular paycheck for work that is ultimately nonproductive. If
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by jandrese 2mo ago
In the US there are certainly cases where the install costs are just too high and the local utility too hostile to solar for the system to make sense.
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by jandrese 2mo ago
One reporter asked him about the rule that says MPs aren't allowed to cover their face while it is in session and he responded with "Oh, so now the rules matter?" The thing that still confuses me about the whole thing is none
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by jandrese 2mo ago
What is even more amazing is how many of Australia's politicians have been in the pocket of coal barons and yet they put up barely any struggle against solar adoption. Compare that to places like California where they've been fig
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by jandrese 2mo ago
This is more about getting at the code that device manufacturers attempt to hide from the end user. Platform keys, secure enclaves, etc...
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Oh yeah. We had one road crossing where they put a knee height sign up warning drivers about the bike crossing directly in the middle of the bike lane . And the sign was facing the drivers so it was even less visible to cyclists. I ended
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by jandrese 2mo ago
It's possible, but not easy. You need to export the internal state of your TLS stack to Wireshark in order for it to decrypt the traffic. This can be done via LD_PRELOAD type shenanigans but it's difficult and fragile. MITM prox
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by jandrese 2mo ago
I would say it was the opposite. The machine was overdesigned and underengineered. Someone needed to stop the guy and tell him that getting 18,000 precision parts working in unison is bad design and he needed several passes of engineering
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by jandrese 2mo ago
I always thought the carrier was named after Enterprise, PA since the US Navy usually names cruisers after medium sized cities and the earlier carriers were converted cruiser hulls.
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by jandrese 2mo ago
The directions tend to be conservative in their assumptions. Like you won't walk/bike through a business parking lot to save 10 minutes of walking around the block.
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Over on Youtube the Usagi Electric channel has several videos about reviving old vacuum tube computers and one of the interesting aspects is that tube failures are much less of an issue than the germanium diodes. The tubes are large and dr
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Is this firm big enough to cause a financial crisis on its own? Has the leverage situation gotten so dire? Is this just postponing the inevitable at this point?
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by jandrese 2mo ago
One has to only look at the actual participants to find ample examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQZWMmINqxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54GrXDjokg https://www.thephilosopher1923.org&
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by jandrese 2mo ago
A good example of the defaults being incredibly important to any application. If your defaults are super slow then most people are going to come away with the impression that your application is slow. FTP is another great example where peo
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Effective Altruism is one of those things that sounds smart on the surface, but in practice is a yellow flag. The fact that he started the club is a red flag. In short, Effective Altruism says you don't engage in charity until you hav
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by jandrese 2mo ago
The fall of the USSR chopped the legs out from under these stories. Nobody is worried about Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan unleashing global thermonuclear war. That scare tactic just doesn't work. Even back in the 60s a lot of that para
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by jandrese 2mo ago
There Will Come the Soft Rains feels like it was written right after a visit to the World's Fair back in the Atomic Era. A critique of the unlimited promises about the future but virtually no thought put towards the possible consequen
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Vernor Vinge has always been uncommonly prophetic, even by Sci Fi author standards.
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by jandrese 2mo ago
This is what I remember. Kermit hated latency, and dial up modems had that in spades. It was much slower than Z-Modem for pushing files around.
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by jandrese 2mo ago
I thought it was a bit of a miss that C didn't use ^ as the pointer sigil. I mean it's literally pointing. I'm guessing some early terminals didn't have that character on the keyboard.
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by jandrese 2mo ago
You're just going to force contributors to use Grok.
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Your example needs to add the part where you put that string into a card field so people can see their work. But your example also includes a period, a colon, square brackets, and a space where someone might expect a comma. It's going
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Happened right after the whole anti-gay marriage movement collapsed in the face of overwhelming public opinion. Transgender rights were determined to be the next best option for a wedge issue. Ultimately the thing that doomed the gay marr
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by jandrese 2mo ago
It's kind of a shame this uses its own, probably more powerful, language instead of HyperTalk. HyperTalk is one of the most accessible languages for beginners I've ever seen. Sure it was primitive and had somewhat weak data organ
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by jandrese 2mo ago
> Apple's inability to properly introduce color as a first-class feature was what effectively killed the product. I think the bigger problem was when Apple stopped shipping the Hypercard development environment and instead shipped o
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Being able to load stack pages in from a remote site would be both amazing and a total security nightmare . Hypercard's security model was NOT suitable for that kinda of activity. Hypercard viruses were already a problem back in the
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by jandrese 2mo ago
Conservatives in the media remain firmly convinced, or at least continually post about, how the left has moved so far away from the center that they never consider the possibility that maybe they have moved away from the center. That meme

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