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by jffry 4y ago
That's a little bit of a bummer, but it's still incredible they managed to catch it. Hopefully they'll be able to refine their approach and get a solid catch next time!
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Rocket Lab recovers first stage booster via helicopter catch(twitter.com)
41 points by jffry 4y ago|4 comments
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by jffry 4y ago
AFAICT you can configure TOTP / Security Key based MFA for Twitter and disable text messages, but I don't recall if they force you to give them your phone number first: https://twitter.com/settings/account&#x2
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by jffry 4y ago
I'm guessing these two discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31191700 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31205072
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by jffry 4y ago
> So plastic gives you more bacteria, and plastic shavings. Stick to wood. I think that's a little ambitious of a conclusion given that the study you cited didn't (at least as described in the abstract) involve cleaning. My thi
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by jffry 4y ago
Yes, but the comment I was replying to was discussing scenarios other than the one in the article.
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by jffry 4y ago
In 1984, NASA and the FAA deliberately crashed a remote-piloted Boeing 720 as a test of various safety technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstratio... In 2012, a team of television studios
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by jffry 4y ago
The second video accompanying the actual paper should give a good sense. It's not the fastest but it's still incredible: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28859-8#Sec14
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by jffry 4y ago
There are two videos linked from the "supplementary information" section of the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28859-8#Sec14 In particular, the second video shows sessions where he is spell
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by jffry 4y ago
With Cloudflare's tunnels, there's no longer even a need to allow direct connections from the outside world. In my own testing it wasn't too terrible to setup firewall rules and mutual TLS-based authentication of origin pulls
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by jffry 4y ago
I have seen the screen where Cloudflare cannot contact the origin and it absolutely does not include the IP address or other details about the origin. You might be thinking of the "Ray ID" that Cloudflare displays on that page, wh
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by jffry 4y ago
Authenticated origin pulls are mutually exclusive with their tunnel. If you configure your firewall so that only the cloudflared tunnel process can access your origin server, then you can already be assured the request is coming from Cloudf
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Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself(gizmodo.com)
2 points by jffry 4y ago|0 comments
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by jffry 4y ago
I think this is fulfilling a slightly different niche - further down in the README it talks specifically about opening a separate connection to the host and recording the session for audit purposes. Which offers a little more than a simple
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by jffry 4y ago
If it was then it could be a closer imitation. Let me try: "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting a Backblaze B2 account, and scheduling a cron job to backup to it via RClone. From Wi
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by jffry 5y ago
Docker Desktop is now only free "for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open source projects." per https://www.docker.com
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by jffry 5y ago
Since this article is specifically about Javascript: I think the implementation of async/await in the language is heavily constrained by a desire for backwards compatibility. After all, async/await is ultimately promises all the w
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by jffry 5y ago
> How would you handle two asynchronous saves which can happen in parallel without using a Promise.all? This question doesn't make sense. Async/await is just a nicer syntax for interacting with promises. So my answer to your &q
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by jffry 5y ago
Here you go! Happy to answer any other questions not answered in my other two comments: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31026875 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31026979 Fortunately this was
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by jffry 5y ago
Hue bulbs, the kind that talk to a central bridge over, I believe, ZigBee. The bridge just hooks up over ethernet and provides a locally accessible no-nonsense REST api that is surprisingly well documented (sadly requires logging in with a
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by jffry 5y ago
It's not open source, but the good news is it's relatively simple. My bulbs are Hue bulbs which use their bridge/hub, which just plugs into ethernet and provides a REST API. The basic loop, run once per minute is: - Make one
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by jffry 5y ago
Most of my light bulbs are color-temperature-adjustable. So I wrote a small program which varies the color temperature throughout the day and night. I started by matching it to the solar elevation, but ultimately I like it more just on a fi
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by jffry 5y ago
Even if the decision was merely day-of-week based, that doesn't buy the key characteristic the author values (I assume): the kids will accept the Algorithm's ruling
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by jffry 5y ago
rlwrap [1] may be able to help [1] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
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by jffry 5y ago
Per Wikipedia [1], legal proceedings started in 2018, and the actual court hearing stage happened over the past month. It's not clear how much of that time was waiting for whatever reason, versus ongoing back-and-forth motions and such
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by jffry 5y ago
The homepage and download page haven't been updated, but I can confirm that Disk Inventory X works just fine for me in MacOS Monterey (12.3, Intel machine)
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by jffry 5y ago
> Who says that I can not spread lies about companies? Many countries have laws specifically outlawing this behavior. If you're curious specifically about the intersection of those laws and the rights afforded by the First Amendment
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by jffry 5y ago
> added operational cost of running a self driving car - is it worth it to average consumer? Early high-cost self-driving cars largely won't be owned by individual consumers where the cars spend the majority of their time parked. Th
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by jffry 5y ago
Here is the mirror that got archived by the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20220329014412/https://twitter.c...
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by jffry 5y ago
The US is not homogenous in the technology used to vote - running elections is left to the states, and different states use different polling technologies. The systems we have for voting in Washington DC seem to be a best-of-both-worlds app

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