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by kbaker 6y ago
He may want to get in touch with the local news, they love investigating stuff like this.
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by kbaker 6y ago
Actually, I think that only in cases where you showed extreme lack of preparedness will you get a bill. Most SAR organizations really don't want to have someone not call them because of the cost. Or worse, delay calling them and end up
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by kbaker 6y ago
> It's not so much loose ends as loose everything. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24013070
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by kbaker 6y ago
"The customer is always right".
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by kbaker 6y ago
I don't think any re-wording of your statement was intended by breaking up your sentence, it is pretty common to abbreviate when quoting, even mid-sentence. At least I hope it was not intended... I can see that the quoted part makes it
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by kbaker 6y ago
I really hope anyone with a genetics background, or the desire to go really in depth about what makes a virus 'Lab-made', read through the above posted first article. https://medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-co
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by kbaker 6y ago
A bit more information from the NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/world/asia/seoul-mayor-de... > His disappearance came a day after a secretary in the mayor’s office told the p
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by kbaker 6y ago
Just because I needed to look it up: - 1 International Foot = 0.3048 m - 1 US Survey Foot = 1200/3937 m ~= 0.3048006096 m - 1 light-nanosecond ~= 0.2998 m
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by kbaker 6y ago
> Also of note, is Ed25519 does not harden itself with additional "bits" in the normal RSA sense Yes, it does, it is just not Ed25519 anymore, check out Curve448 and EdDSA-Ed448, same Edwards curve construction, more bits, more
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by kbaker 6y ago
Well, $265 (+antenna $60), but I purchased an Emlid Reach M+ [1] for drone RTK experiments, and it has been pretty simple to use... comes with a really nice UI on the device and internal storage in the unit. Also their website has good docu
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by kbaker 6y ago
Well, since DoorDash is listed as the copyright holder on the bottom of www trycaviar com it looks like DoorDash is just bleeding their $400mm series F out under a different name. Maybe have them try the arbitrage themselves per the article
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by kbaker 6y ago
Yeah, L10n actually does stand for localization. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_local... )
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by kbaker 7y ago
You might find this question interesting: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer... > The Falcon 9 has 3 dual core x86 processors running an instance of Linux on each core. The flight soft
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by kbaker 7y ago
No, they are talking about a top cover like in the NIH-approved design: https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013359
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by kbaker 7y ago
It might get 5.4 sometime, but it is probably sticking to the Longterm stable kernel release set like the rest of Debian Buster: https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
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by kbaker 7y ago
True but the patent is in good faith: > We clarify that the patent will remain free to use, because it is in our intention that all hospitals in need could use it if necessary. > We clarify that our initiative is totally non-profit, w
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by kbaker 7y ago
I'll allow it... According to this 2018 article even a lot of "Unlimited" plans are actually around a 20 GB/month cap before they start throttling speeds. [0] - Verizon’s Beyond Unlimited plan is capped at 22GB of high
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by kbaker 7y ago
I think the illegal-per-FAA 'Uber with pilots' part got shut down and now they just link their scheduling system with regular part 135/charter operations.
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by kbaker 7y ago
Reminder... donate to the Internet Archive! https://web.archive.org/web/20190510080449/https://github.co...
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by kbaker 7y ago
Ah OK, that's good, just was reading too much into this section in the README: > BigCache does not handle collisions. When new item is inserted and it's hash collides with previously stored item, new item overwrites previously
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by kbaker 7y ago
So does it just serve completely incorrect data when a request for the 'old' cache key come in? Seems like this would always be undesirable behavior for a cache? It is definitely being advertised as a map-like structure, key goes
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by kbaker 7y ago
In this video from Alaska they land at a roadside gas station and refuel in a fuel emergency. In an in-flight emergency you can deviate from any rule... still poor planning by the pilot. https://youtu.be/oE8edtEa46o?t=251 M
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by kbaker 7y ago
If you can model the domain, then you can achieve very good compression. See this recent timescaledb post (since you mentioned Postgres) which goes over an array of techniques used in column-store databases that general-purpose compressors
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by kbaker 7y ago
Note that this is Gallium Nitride (GaN,) not Gallium Arsenide (GaAs).
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by kbaker 7y ago
This had its own discussion a little while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627274
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by kbaker 7y ago
It's a lot easier to deal with the existence of political speech when the Great Firewall blocks you altogether. Both Reddit and HN are blocked in China.
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by kbaker 7y ago
> not less than 10 years: they should update it to work > get dlink to pay your costs What happens when the company is gone?
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by kbaker 7y ago
How does this prevent a Sybil attack or astroturfing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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by kbaker 7y ago
I was sure most of this existed so I looked it up... Mostly centers around adding row_to_json() to the query. Using the example from the github repo: $ psql -P pager -nqtc "select row_to_json(pg_database) from pg_database where d
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by kbaker 7y ago
There are a bunch of good arguments here: https://www.thirty-thousand.org/

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