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by kbaker 7y ago
It requires some additional investment on the user's part. Think of it like opening a secured credit card with cash. Faster and more convenient to use, since you can now use the credit card networks instead of the cash, but requires ty
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by kbaker 7y ago
<spoiler>The Utopia TV series from BBC channel 4.</spoiler> Amazing show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(UK_TV_series)
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by kbaker 8y ago
This may also help explain why neurosurgeons who operate on Alzheimer's patients are more likely to develop Alzheimer's themselves: https://alzgerm.org/news/reports-indicate-brain-surgeons-ris... https:&#x2F
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by kbaker 8y ago
This is happening, but slowly. It is a huge problem to get all carriers / phone operators to get this installed enough to be useful. Research SHAKEN/STIR to see more about it. Here's an example between AT&T and Comcast:
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by kbaker 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk
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by kbaker 8y ago
Actually, it is still true. hexdump has some confusing format options... what you were using was converting it to little-endian first before printing the hex representation, which really messed with gzip. Try this: $ hexdump -e '
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by kbaker 8y ago
I don't think they use the Lab color space, except if you define your own colors to use in the palette, did you see a reference to it? From their encoding spec: > In order to optimize the decoding of JAB Code, the used colors shall
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by kbaker 8y ago
Venture Research Inc. | Software Engineer | Plano, TX (Dallas, TX, DFW) | Onsite Only | http://www.ventureresearch.com Interested in RFID? In improving inventory and replenishment processes in hospitals, labs, and clinics? In au
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by kbaker 8y ago
There's TunSafe, BUT with caveats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515637
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by kbaker 8y ago
Isn't Python's async/await syntax an implementation of green threads? I mean using await is almost exactly the cooperative scheduling idea. The article may use Futures and callbacks but you can just as easily do something lik
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by kbaker 8y ago
Interestingly, that same aircraft you were on 22 years ago is still in service today... That plane probably has had tens of thousands of flights since then without any incidents.
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by kbaker 8y ago
That's such a great talk by Tony Seba. Highly recommended for anyone who hasn't seen it or some of the other ones he's given. I imagine that the traditional car rental companies will be the first to provide services. They alr
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by kbaker 8y ago
My Pebble Time watch (sadly, no longer in business) has a compass app that I've used a couple of times. Maybe a smartwatch or phone could do the trick? https://apps.getpebble.com/en_US/application/540f7cafbc27
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by kbaker 8y ago
Are you sure your router has PCP or NAT-PMP disabled, which _could_ expose ports on your external IPv4 IP without any interaction? Do you expect the average computer user to configure PCP securely on their router? Various NAT traversal opti
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by kbaker 8y ago
Interesting project. With ARIN effectively out of IPv4 space, where do you get IPs from for a new ISP? Does it have to be transferred/purchased from an existing block? I am assuming you are setting up IPv6 as well for your customers, a
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by kbaker 8y ago
Release notes for version 18.05, 2018-04-30 include: > CVE-2018-10115 - Incorrect initialization logic of RAR decoder objects in 7-Zip 18.03 and before can lead to usage of uninitialized memory, allowing remote attackers to cause a denia
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by kbaker 8y ago
IPv6 Unique Local Addressing is made for this scenario, with a low chance of collisions. fd: + 40 random bits, becomes your new /48. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193
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by kbaker 8y ago
Venture Research Inc. | Software Engineer | Plano, TX (Dallas, TX, DFW) | Onsite Only | http://www.ventureresearch.com Interested in RFID? In improving inventory and replenishment processes in hospitals, labs, and clinics? In au
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by kbaker 9y ago
It's because just having a pricing page doesn't give any feedback as to whether the price is correct or not. A salesperson could at least ask 'what is a better price we can shoot for?' or 'what features do you reall
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by kbaker 9y ago
Also, remote LTE towers could provide cellular connectivity anywhere.
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by kbaker 9y ago
The membership revocation is key - the fact that you could lose your professional license for ethics violations is enough to keep everything above board. Also, the NSPE would provide support for an individual engineer in the dissident/
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by kbaker 9y ago
Also https://bitcoin.tax , does everything for you pretty much.
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by kbaker 9y ago
The one time Betteridge's Law fails us. > Chollet bristled at this. “This is the laziest kind of thinking—just because two things share some superficial similarity (they’re large tech [companies]) doesn’t mean they’re equivalent,” h
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by kbaker 9y ago
Yes, I think it's more the "of every single adult in the United States of America" that is the disturbing part.
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by kbaker 9y ago
Did you watch the video? They claimed real results helping Ted Cruz in the primaries with this sort of hyper-targeted advertising. The access they have to online data sources would absolutely be enough to start correlating things to build a
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by kbaker 9y ago
I urge everyone to watch this video from Cambridge Analytica about their techniques with big data and psychographic profiling leading up to the 2016 election. Very dystopian, it almost feels like a seminar with a Bond villain. Quote from th
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by kbaker 9y ago
The 'wall of superpowers' looks much better than last time I looked. Almost all done! https://python3wos.appspot.com/
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by kbaker 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13663193
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by kbaker 9y ago
Anyone know what the downlink bandwidth might be for this system (i.e. not to the user, but to the Internet backbone?) Seems like only a few customers at 1 Gb/s could saturate the network pretty quickly. Especially if the coverage area
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by kbaker 9y ago
Similar to this project: https://hackaday.io/project/4329-wifi-power-mapping Also see this video which goes over the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqqEYz38ens

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