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by jffry 6y ago
From the article: "An Epic Games spokesperson told the Triangle Business Journal that the campus would include office buildings and recreational spaces." That sure gives me the impression that they're tearing down the mall s
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by jffry 6y ago
The NASA site contains a lot of info about Ingenuity: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/ , especially this fact sheet (PDF): https://mars.nasa.gov/files/mars2020/MarsHelicopterI
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by jffry 6y ago
The Perseverance rover is using a plutonium-powered radioisotope thermoeletric generator (RTG) this time that I think is rated to provide something like 100 watts for something like 15 years. For the solar panels on the Ingenuity helicopter
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by jffry 6y ago
If you're curious, a press release from yesterday had more details: "This time around, we plan to trying climbing to 16 feet (5 meters) in this flight test. Then, after the helicopter hovers briefly, it will go into a slight tilt
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by jffry 6y ago
Mozilla at least has done plenty of things to reduce the effectiveness and scope of tracking on the web. Just because we can't create an ironclad solution doesn't mean that there isn't real value in reducing the usable surfac
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by jffry 6y ago
Sure, I suppose all that ( waves hand at third-party cookies situation ) is what I meant by the long phase out of them. As far as I can recall those defaults were signaled a fair amount of time in advance. I have sympathy for anybody with
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by jffry 6y ago
Third party cookies, love them or hate them, have been with us for a long time, and simply dropping them would not be viable without the long phase out. And a long phase out is not something around which you can form a singular rallying cr
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by jffry 6y ago
By default in Firefox, indexedDB is disabled in private browsing mode (dom.indexedDB.privateBrowsing.enabled=false in about:flags), so you can detect it with something like var db = indexedDB.open("test"); db.onerror = () =&
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by jffry 6y ago
> I don't know where/when defiance comes into the story I think you misread "deified" (with the extra i, meaning "To worship or revere as a god"). I did too the first time
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by jffry 6y ago
Yeah, it's crazy the extent to which banks have gotten away with shifting the blame onto consumers in the USA for "the bank didn't verify your identity and we got defrauded, and now we will falsely report this debt as yours w
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by jffry 6y ago
I think donw was talking about the much more gray-area part of HIBP: obtaining the lists of leaked passwords, in order to hash each one and store the hashes.
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by jffry 6y ago
From the HN Guidelines, visible at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and linked from the bottom of each page: > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That include
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by jffry 6y ago
For how I use it, it lives inbetween Spotlight and Numbers. Here's examples of the types of things I can recall using Numi for in the recent past: https://i.imgur.com/u4EdGbr.png It's list of features is quite ex
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by jffry 6y ago
Interesting. You could attempt to self-serve with a workaround and share the result, but instead you chose to complain out loud. Anyways here is a mirror if you can't read due to the paywall: https://archive.is/RL4my
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by jffry 6y ago
Firefox's reader mode works great and includes a dark theme. The icon shows up in the right side of the URL bar, but you can always force it by prepending the URL, e.g. about:reader?url=<url>
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by jffry 6y ago
When I query it: dig @8.8.8.8 A dan.bodar.com I sometimes get an A record and sometimes no record. Repeating this query @1.1.1.1 never gives the A record. Anyways here is a mirror / archive link for anybody trying to read the a
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by jffry 6y ago
See also: this thread from 5 hours ago on the broader topic of the Verkada breach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26405056
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by jffry 6y ago
I was also confused by this when looking at your pricing page: https://singlelink.co/pricing/ My thought process: "Oh, they'll show ad-network ads on the free tier, I guess that's OK. How much is the tie
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by jffry 6y ago
They could mine for a mining pool
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by jffry 6y ago
As a fun exercise sometime, spin up any cheap EC2 instance in AWS, set up an HTTP server listening on port 80 and 443, and watch your SSH and HTTP logs. The last time I did this I had random SSH and HTTP requests rolling in within minutes.
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by jffry 6y ago
I don't think we can link specific times in a stream that is still going, so if you go to that link, rewind to T+14:30 shown in the top left corner
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by jffry 6y ago
The toString() method returns a string representing the source code of the function. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by jffry 6y ago
I've run into videos where the option is either to watch a tiny video as-is in the page (too small), or make it full screen (too large), with no in-between option. Twitch clips are an example of this. If I pop the video out via PiP, I
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by jffry 6y ago
You can add disk-level backups to droplets, IIRC it will keep four weekly backups, for +20% price to the droplet
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by jffry 6y ago
> oddly this seems to have gotten worse with M1 chips. If a developer wasn't around or willing to recompile and test their game on x64 to support Catalina (which dropped support for 32-bit apps), then it's not surprising to me
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by jffry 6y ago
I kind of have this already, using the "Sunrise Alarm" feature built into Google's stock Android clock app. 15 minutes before my phone alarm goes off (not configurable sadly), the whole screen comes on a very dim red, and slo
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by jffry 6y ago
I don't know which company makes them, but the machines at my polling site in Washington DC are like this. You fill in your ballot on the machine, which has clear visual feedback as you go along and helps with procedural things like &
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by jffry 6y ago
In the US, I've seen toilets like this with two buttons distinguished with icons. One had a single water droplet, the other had two droplets.
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by jffry 6y ago
See also this post from 19 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24319293
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by jffry 6y ago
From a little link in the right sidebar, it appears this article is part of Nautilus issue #88, titled "Love & Sex": http://nautil.us/issue/88/love--sex

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