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by jarfil 7y ago
Permanent magnets are locked in place. If they're floating freely, the "tiny magnets" just snap together and cancel each other out. That's why heating (increasing particle mobility) a permanent magnet makes it lose its m
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by jarfil 7y ago
It's a magnet membrane surrounding a portion of liquid. On one side your right, this isn't really a "liquid magnet", but on the other, this behaves like a magnet while retaining many of the properties of a liquid.
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by jarfil 7y ago
In some places, homeless and poor people get issued tickets for free rides because of their condition. In others, they put inverted guillotines because it would be unsightly to post armed guards preventing the undesirables from illegally us
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by jarfil 7y ago
At least they tell you what's going on, some other websites will just throw you a "login failed" and that's it.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Moby Inc.'s business should be in services related to Docker. On itself, the docker software is just a helper tool to set up some kernel services, any bunch of shell scripts could do that.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Seems like they're being evaluated on their "items per time" rate, but that time also includes the lunch and bathroom breaks.
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by jarfil 7y ago
They usually have the polarity written down, in a tiny font on a label back down on the charger. That's why I always put labels on barrel connectors, since the manufacturers can't be bothered.
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by jarfil 7y ago
This isn't something new, it's been known for years: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/726-Fa...
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by jarfil 7y ago
My main gripe with MFA, is that once you have 20+ services each one with a different token, it becomes tedious to sift through them to find the right one. I'd much rather have some MFA app capable of detecting where you're logging
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by jarfil 7y ago
It's less about "how do I steal this partícular guy's phone", and more about "how do I use this random stolen phone to access any accounts it was used with".
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by jarfil 7y ago
Isn't that essentially how the "I'm not a bot" captcha works though? And it seems to work pretty well.
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by jarfil 7y ago
You can save the TOTP secret on your own when setting the Authenticator. Usually you have a choice between a QR code and a text, just save the text to your separate "account recovery" database in your password manager, then set th
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by jarfil 7y ago
Nokia dropped the ball on mobile, then Ballmer bought Nokia. Also MS reached into the cloud thanks to Nadella, not tanks to Ballmer.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Facebook gives its users access to a social platform, which is clearly something users like, without asking for any money in return. It isn't like they're forcing people to use it, people are free to decide for themselves unlike s
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by jarfil 7y ago
In life you usually want to be a master of one thing, but have knowledge of many other things to apply that mastery as widely as possible. Learning 10 languages at the 101 level can let you say "Hi, I'm a master of (whatever)&quot
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by jarfil 7y ago
Depending on your area of expertise you may need different languages. Like, Greek if you go into medicine.
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by jarfil 7y ago
With a 500Mbps internet connection and a 10ms ping to the server, the performance is quite usable. There is some lag when updating large bitmap areas, but for anything not graphic intensive, it works just fine.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Truly smart devices would come back online working just like they did before a power outage. They should also augment the traditional setup, not just replace it. Idle power usage can also be hugely reduced, but it takes some planning, both
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by jarfil 7y ago
> every random link I click get added to my URL history is just distraction bait later Why is that? Maybe I use the history in a different way, but I've never encountered that issue.
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by jarfil 7y ago
A surface mounted switch and a tiny hole in the casing would be easy and cheap... but it would ruin waterproofing, which would make the bulb unsuitable for places like a bathroom. That's probably too big of a market to lose just to sim
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by jarfil 7y ago
Heads is a low resolution dimension, so CHS should probably be more like 2.5D. Magnetic orientation is just binary, so not a dimension. The 5D in the article is kind of fishy, but in this case size and orientation are more of a low resolut
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by jarfil 7y ago
Creators of fiat currency call that the "price of money" or "interest rate", which right now is at around 2%, but running "community resources" sounds more like what a government does, with its 30% cut from tax
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by jarfil 7y ago
When corporations control the government, it's just some corporations forcing the hand of some other corporations. In this case, corporations who compete with Huawei forcing the hand of corporations who benefit from doing business with
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by jarfil 7y ago
Alternatively, booting is just an inefficient "resume from disk", using a generic initial state instead of one adapted to the device.
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by jarfil 7y ago
It also takes hours to compile everything from scratch, but we don't see computers taking hours to boot, do we? Most of the process "from initial state" is cached, and there is little reason to not keep the trend. Booting, as
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by jarfil 7y ago
Flying a plane in a straight line is much simpler than driving on a road. There is a reason why most aircraft accidents happen during landing or takeoff, once at cruise altitude there is very little that could suddenly go wrong. That's
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by jarfil 7y ago
You can safely take a nap while flying a plane on autopilot, the device is more than capable of navigating a course with no human supervision for extended periods of time... which is not possible with the same technology on the ground, with
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by jarfil 7y ago
As far as memory addressing goes, 64 bits should be good enough until the exabyte RAM era, and there is no reason to switch the whole arquitecture before that.
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by jarfil 7y ago
If the blockchain is public, the transactions themselves are public, so can't really be sold. The association between user data and transactions, might be valuable though.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Cryptocoins are not about privacy, the ledgers are public so no conflict there.

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