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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Having two independent writers to a file is generally living dangerously, even without the extra complexity of unpredictable async file syncing.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Mobile Satellite phones are already similar in size to other phones As someone who owns a pretty big smartphone (iPhone 12 Pro Max) and both a current gen Iridium and Inmarsat phone (aka not a handheld two way pager, like the Garmin
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
I use this same route pretty heavily across several cloud backup providers and never had corruption issues, but yes, it’s technically possible corruption could occur.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
For one thing, I said phone as did GP I was replying too. That’s not a phone (aka needing a continuous real time connection), that’s a low bandwidth data transmitter (aka a best effort single transmission that can take multiple minutes to s
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> If you can fit a 4G antenna in a phone you can easily fit one for iridium The frequency isn’t the issue, it’s the distance it needs to transmit. Increased output power/longer distance needs a bigger antenna. Iridium / Starlin
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Both immersat and iridium connect 112 and 911 to their own operator Not unless that’s changed recently. The last time I tried with Iridium (when in an actual emergency) calling 911 wasn’t supported in any capacity. I had to call someon
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Iridium phones aren't that bulky these days I own both an Iridium phone and an Inmarsat phone, both are current gen. If you don’t consider them bulky, then you must be used to using an iPad/tablet as a phone. The antenna alon
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> The issue with the cloud is scale I’d argue the issue with cloud is less about scale, more about how easy it is to get started. My mother could quite easily click through the account creation on a cloud provider and setup something ins
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Somehow a group of people supposedly good at using computers struggle to work out what a button is while the average user seems to have no problems. I guess you’ve never sat in on a usability research study? Average users have way WAY
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Zuckerberg has a well known bias towards Zuckerberg. > Nobody wants to be a pawn in other people's games, least of all Zuckerberg. > It looks like Zuckerberg leans to the right because he is leaning away from certain parts o
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> The same way I'd never want to go on a date to the cinema. While I agree with you on this point, there’s a reason it’s half of the most cliche date night of all time (aka “dinner and a movie”), so readily dismissing that because o
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
? is 0 or 1 instances of the preceding character, so referrrrrrrrrrrrrrer wouldn’t match /referr?er/ , only referer or referrer . Proof: https://regex101.com/r/s56ebD/1
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
I agree that GP’s analogy didn’t fit, but neither does yours to what AWS did before.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
If you have a T-Mobile Magenta plan with unlimited data, you get HBO Max for free btw.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> simply never gave it the wifi password and never connected it to ethernet I worked on the team who built Samsung’s initial smart TV experience back in 2009 and yet I’m the exact same as you with every TV I own. If I could get the same
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> cost more for lower specs That's in part because of economy of scale, but also another major factor IMHO is the subsidizing by other revenue sources (App Store commissions in case of Apple/Google, advertising/essentially
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
The dogs which alert on explosives are not usually in the baggage claim area.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> roman war bird Roman? Did you maybe mean Romulan?
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Images of bonsai trees? Ha! Come to think of it, I think that was one example. The main examples that came to memory (it’s been almost 8 years since I was involved) when discussing this last week were essentially extremely common photo
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Upcoming contenders like Purism [1] and the Pine Phone [2] will start gaining a great deal more traction from this. I’ll bet you $500 to the charity of your choice that this won’t come to be. Set the terms on how you want to measure th
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
I agree. Further, is there any doubt that these “CSAM”² hash databases aren’t already shared between countries? Because if there was doubt, there shouldn’t be, because agencies do share across borders. ² - reason for the scare quotes is bec
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Which is a ridiculous assertion To the person who made the claim, it was the first, because of their limited view of the world. I always take claims of being first with a grain of salt for this reason. That said, I completely agree. I
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> The 15% paycut for moving to Tahoe is most likely cherrypicked as crossing the state border into Nevada, which is in a lower band than California The majority of Tahoe is in California.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Ships cut through the water at like maybe 30 mph in good conditions. Container ships rarely if ever go that fast. Usually it’s in the 15-18 knots range (aka <20mph) from what I’ve seen.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> but when I read "build your own..." I'm thinking the actual hardware, or compatible. I definitely thought the same thing being it was an Adafruit post and disappointed both times to see it was just a basic howto on runni
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Airport dogs (at least in the baggage claim area) are not sniffing for drugs. They alert on food products that aren’t allowed.
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Just a general description. I gave that above in a sibling thread. > I understand it seems like they don't want to give examples, perhaps due to professional or legal reasons, and I can respect that. In my case, it’s been 7 yea
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> Was it an actual image of a person? Were they clothed? Some of the false positives were of people, others weren’t. It’s not that the hashing function itself was problematic, but that the database of hashes had hashes which weren’t of C
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
Yup! Happy to help. To further break it down: sound intensity increase of 10db: 10x increase sound pressure level increase of 10db: ~3.5x increase loudness increase of 10db: ~2x increase It sucks that there’s so many variations that all use
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by jsjohnst 5y ago
> But, if it's in a folder called "Beach Holiday 2019", it's not illegal nor really morally a problem. With all due respect, please please stop making broad blanket statements like this. I'm far from a LEO/l

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