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by joshumax 8y ago
I've been following the Stellarium project for upwards of a decade and I'm always pleasantly surprised at how far it's come, even if I still have a few grips about telescope integration (still no built-in ASCOM or INDI interf
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by joshumax 8y ago
Unik is pretty nice, but it's basically a wrapper for other unikernels. I use it for microservice deployments every now and then. It does make packaging Java for OSv a lot simpler, however. For a more language-agnostic unikernel that c
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iOS Kernel Security Using KTRR(siguza.github.io)
2 points by joshumax 8y ago|0 comments
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by joshumax 8y ago
I do this with home-assistant, Phillips hue bulbs, and f.lux. f.lux controls the color temperature of the bulbs while home-assistant controls the brightness and emulates the sunrise at dawn.
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by joshumax 8y ago
I've done a cursory search and all I can find is articles on the dangers of EVMs and EVM manipulation; nothing about engineers testifying that they were forced to make them vulnerable. Perhaps there is information on this but it isn&#x
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by joshumax 8y ago
I actually had SIBO a while back. Several years ago I had a terrible GI doctor who kept saying all my symptoms were in my head. I eventually got to the point where I weighed less than 100lbs and was constantly sick despite being desperate t
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by joshumax 8y ago
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that (although I wish it were). While you could generate a 3D perspective on each 2D "slice" of a 3D viewport, it wouldn't be that much more different than what's going on in her
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by joshumax 8y ago
Gameboys have been used for years in many specialty industrial products due to their inexpensive price point as well as their programmability and peripheral interfaces. One was even found to be used in a medical device [1]. 1: https:/
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by joshumax 8y ago
> The author is lucky brainfuck is so simple It may not be a JIT compiler, but back in 5th grade I vaguely remember writing an extended brainfuck interpreter that fit within the boot sector of my HDD. It pulled some brainfuck code I wrot
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by joshumax 8y ago
In a previous comment on HN[1], I discussed why we use copies of ReactOS on all of our deployed Bitcoin ATMs. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17215812
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by joshumax 8y ago
Funny enough, it was the exact puzzle which I read about on XKCD that allowed me to draw a conclusion for this one so quickly. The trick for these is using shared knowledge and a shared signaling mechanism to deduce overall state at a speci
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by joshumax 8y ago
You might want to check out Niantic's (the same people who made Ingress) app called Field Trip[1]. It seems to fulfill a lot of what you're asking for. 1: https://www.fieldtripper.com/m/index.html
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by joshumax 8y ago
> "Interestingly, this is the same system-on-a-chip used in the 6th generation Amazon Fire HD; maybe Amazon had a few extra laying around?" A little-known fact about the echo smart speakers is that they run a minimally modified
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by joshumax 8y ago
Could you elaborate on that? For instance several right-leaning news sources such as FOX News have been known to misrepresent information, and it seems like journalistic integrity and a lack thereof supersedes any political bias.
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by joshumax 8y ago
If you're a government operation trying to bug an electronic device, chances are you're certainly not going to have your bug revealed by a simple teardown like this. I've heard rumors of certain cases where current fluctuatio
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by joshumax 8y ago
I have had similar responses on occasion when I bring up what happened to me in Jr. High with a sub. Eventually I decided that waiting for stigma and toxic ideologies to disappear from society wasn't the best use of my time. Instead I
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by joshumax 8y ago
Certain ARM-based SoCs used to be able to do this using a feature called Jazelle[1], but it had an array of problems that caused an early obsolescence. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
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by joshumax 8y ago
I've been watching the ecosystem of radare2 GUIs for a while now. I've loved IDA for its long-standing support of numerous architectures, as well as its built-in interpreter for running Python/IDC scripts with ease, however t
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by joshumax 8y ago
The hardware drivers for the coin counting ATM machine were provided as precompiled WinNT/CE drivers by the vendor without sources and using ReactOS was easier than reverse engineering them all.
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by joshumax 8y ago
We use it on a Bitcoin ATM that converts spare pocket change to BTC (think Coinstar) in order to avoid licensing issues with Microsoft and Windows CE.
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by joshumax 8y ago
I had something of a double-take on this part too. A difference in apparent magnitude throughout the year isn't the same as stellar parallax by any means, and is something of a misnomer.
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The Sad State of SMTP Encryption(blog.filippo.io)
3 points by joshumax 8y ago|0 comments
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by joshumax 8y ago
I remember a discussion on the Linux Kernel Mailing list regarding memory corruption on the ia64 architecture[1] because of a strange way GCC handled bit-fields. While oftentimes packed bit-fields are a decent way of representing/seria
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by joshumax 8y ago
IIRC, I think wavenet deals with residual hissing and chirping through a causal dilated convolution layer.
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by joshumax 8y ago
A friend of mine lives in Venezuela at an area that has no major internet infrastructure save a few long-range wireless gateways affixed to some nearby buildings. Unfortunately, the connection is metered and costs a prohibitive amount of mo
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by joshumax 9y ago
I'm working with a team to create a consensus-based distributed alert system for emergencies [1], and as horrible as shootings are (having personally been stuck in the middle of mass panic due to a gun threat I can say it's insane
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by joshumax 9y ago
I don't think that all CS programs require this, but at my University an entry requirement to its CS program was both multi-variable calculus and advanced physics.
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by joshumax 9y ago
Instead of having the party ssh into a VM installed on the user's machine, potentially exposing a high majority of the user's codebase, have you considered spinning up temporary containers on your back-end and having contributors
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by joshumax 9y ago
For a second I just couldn't believe this was real. Stephen Hawking was one of those people that inspired me towards a career in science, as well as a pursuit of discovering what mysteries of the universe I could uncover within my (cos
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by joshumax 9y ago
I'm working on a massive-scale game server deployment engine that utilizes docker for a new startup, and the fact that this is open source is tremendously beneficial to the scalable gameserver community. Currently we're deeply int

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