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by kibibyte 4y ago
GPS is a thing, so I can imagine that a phone would be able to receive satellite signals pretty easily. But for transmission, I can't imagine this working without having your phone put a ton of power into sending a powerful enough sign
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by kibibyte 4y ago
It's bizarre to me that P&G (Oral-B) seemed to have figured this out where Philips couldn't. Granted the batteries still aren't user-replaceable, but their manual at least doesn't tell you that you have to be a &quot
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I don’t know if that’s easily quantifiable, but I had a cryptography professor (fairly well-known nowadays) several years ago tell us that she only trusted 7 people (or some other absurdly low number), one of them being djb, to be able to e
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Something worth adding here for those who want to complicate their lives even more, these equivalences get complicated when you need to compare across different sensor formats (full-frame vs crop vs micro-4/3rds). Something I learned r
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by kibibyte 4y ago
That’s a classic. http://bash.org/?127039 I do occasionally wonder if it would still work, but most business reply mail type spam has been supplanted by email nowadays.
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I left my Aeropress unused in my drawers for years for that reason, until some smart people worked out a technique that turns it into a highly effective immersion brewer. Check this technique out https://coffeeadastra.com/20
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by kibibyte 4y ago
As I mentioned in another comment (and I think others have mentioned this as well), browser PDF viewers implement a subset of PDF features, and notably they won't support things like forms (I think?) or signatures. So I can imagine tha
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by kibibyte 4y ago
I understand what you're getting at now; I had thought you were asking the "more obvious" question. I'm unwilling to claim to be a subject matter expert, but I have some thoughts on this based on intuition as someone who
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by kibibyte 4y ago
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=PDF+documen... PDFs are "harmless" on their own, but they are user-generated documents that conform to a complex specification. Viewing them requires software
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Having seen a similar situation over 5 years ago play out, some of them (including many of their best recruiters) will go elsewhere because they have no work to do. Some others, of course, will become redundant. Although Meta has the advant
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Personally, I think that’s what makes hard mode interesting, that it creates a sort of meta-game for figuring out a reliable way to avoid these pathological cases. It likely does mean you’ll have to sacrifice a lower average guess count in
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by kibibyte 4y ago
For me, it was relatively strict parents sending me to a relatively strict piano teacher who also was a parent, and that combination can be a force multiplier for a bad time. All of them had similar cultural backgrounds as well, being first
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Ooh, this definitely struck a chord in me, as I fall right into that stereotype. I was forced to play piano for 10 years and to do all those recitals and music theory tests. I could never wiggle myself out of it because of all the guilt-tri
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by kibibyte 4y ago
Fundamentally, nothing really. It's all the same: money moves from one person to another—quickly, instantly, and no fees (unless it's a business transaction)—as long as it doesn't leave the network. But therein lies the rub:
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by kibibyte 4y ago
> Being hired in country A, for a company that has presence in both A and B, and then flying and working for a few months in B, could conceivably raise all sorts of flags if noticed. My employer adopted a similar policy (just not as publ
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by kibibyte 5y ago
I wonder if the author remembers App.net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net
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by kibibyte 5y ago
I'm not an expert on this topic, but I'm certain it has to do with space constraints. Supporting more range of color depth means that the raw output of the sensor is necessarily bigger. This means we have some range of tradeoffs t
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by kibibyte 5y ago
Really the primary disadvantage these days is that you won't be able to access that part of your bank balance (often lower than most credit limits) for a bit of time until the bank either issues you a temporary credit or the dispute is
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by kibibyte 5y ago
The US has a few states that allow you to set up a shell company with very pretty much no proof of identity. It’s one way that South Dakota is apparently a big tax haven now. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/03/104
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by kibibyte 5y ago
This is exactly what's happening. Chips in high-demand have gotten very expensive. https://blog.flipperzero.one/manufacturing-and-shipping-upda...
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by kibibyte 5y ago
It really could be a joke, but the power dynamic makes it unacceptable. It's like if your boss jokes about firing you.
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by kibibyte 5y ago
It never occurred to me how much infrastructure there was in a gas station. Talking about the 99% invisible, really.
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by kibibyte 5y ago
Hey this is really awesome. I think I found an edge case though https://river-runner.samlearner.com/?lng=-122.10358604021484... :) > There are no rivers flowing into or out of the lake; the evaporation is compensated for
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by kibibyte 5y ago
California dairy is totally a thing though. We had this TV ad campaign decades ago that always ended with "great milk comes from happy cows; happy cows come from California". Also, Harris Ranch is a pretty decently sized cattle fa
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by kibibyte 6y ago
I'm not sure if revenue taxes are the better idea: they will impact low-margin businesses (e.g. restaurants) hard.
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by kibibyte 6y ago
This is very interesting. Thank you.
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by kibibyte 6y ago
Where can I find a source for this? This is new information to me, and searching "covid ventilator" is just bringing up the same studies about how patients who get ventilated have higher mortality, which isn't saying the same
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by kibibyte 6y ago
The bankers take on the risk of selling the shares. In the traditional IPO process, the company negotiates the share price with institutions (big banks, hedge funds) in advance of the offering date. On the offering date, the company has a g
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by kibibyte 6y ago
I think your indentation needs to be adjusted? Like so: def collatz(n): while n != 1: print(n) if n % 2 == 0: n = n // 2 else: n = n * 3 + 1 print(1) O
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by kibibyte 6y ago
Many third-party mobile email clients I've used in the past never gave you the option of disabling image loading, though some of them finally added the feature after many years (e.g. Outlook).

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