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by korethr 7y ago
> Furthermore, any furniture frequently doubled as people's bed away from home. Sounds to me like the library was failing to enforce some reasonable rules on the purpose of the furniture. I get it, it's easier to catch a quick
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by korethr 7y ago
So, tangental question. I have read about the Earth's magnetic poles moving in the past. I have also read that the poles are likely to move or start moving again sooner rather than later. Would a large geomagnetic storm influence that?
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I kinda like this idea, but I think it only makes sense where the end product sold to the intended consumer is wholly integrated. So, this might make sense for a smartphone. Or perhaps custom systems in Google- or Amazon- scale datacenters,
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That, I don't disagree with at all. There's been more than one time I've clicked on something, and then waited for the computer to do something that lets me know it's received my command and acted on it. It can be damn f
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by korethr 7y ago
By the numbers it sounds like this is built around an assumption of 60fps. The rounding is wrong, but let's roll with it. That's a noticeable change by the next frame, actionable information two frames thereafter, and a full scree
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by korethr 7y ago
I think Logan's Run was intended as a cautionary tale, not a model for how society should be. Edit: Less flippantly, with age comes some benefits. Yeah, while I had a lot of energy in my younger years and could eat whatever I damned we
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Not sure I'm correctly parsing "high percentage guess", but nonetheless, after clicking through that link, I feel like a derp, because I'm pretty sure I'd read it before and should have thought of it, but didn'
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I suspect it's because he works for Stripe now, which handles the electronic transfer of monies. Therefore, Stripe would have to know about Regulation E to be able to operate effectively in that space. It has been my experience that wh
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It seems to me that offense at such questions being asked back is itself an indication of a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word "interview". The "inter-" part of the word denotes mutuality or reciprocity[1], that
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This article seems to only cover the residential distribution system. I say that, because it covers the single phase, center-tapped 240V (120V-Neutral-120) that's conventional in North American residential circuits. However, in commerc
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I applaud Mozilla and Google for this. It does get me wondering however, how viable this would be in other countries. Say, what if the UK or the US were to try to pull something like this. There's not much that Kazakhstan can do agains
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by korethr 7y ago
Indeed, and I suspect that's part of where the mentality comes from. One could argue that said simple hierarchy is appropriate for the threat model in most cases in the real world. Where this falls down, is that if my threat model is d
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by korethr 7y ago
As Schneier says, it's better than the "nerd harder" attitude exhibited previously. However, I take issue with this part: > After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes. Nor are we
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by korethr 7y ago
Supposedly Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." I think that applies here.
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I would argue that that your latter assertion is not the case, at least not here in the US. When I got my first cellphone in the mid-00s, you bought your phone on an installment plan from the carrier as part of the service contract, the p
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by korethr 7y ago
The problem with the "insurance" companies is that they're not really insurance companies anymore. As the current top comment by raintrees points out, our so called "insurance" is acting far less as insurance (cover
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by korethr 7y ago
I would love to eliminate RSA from the environments I am responsible for, and replace it with something using Curve25519. However, one place I see RSA still in use is in TLS certificates. Using Curve25519 in TLSv1.3 is great, but the use of
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Trombe Wall(en.wikipedia.org)
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> * One sits on my electronics workbench and runs OpenOCD and allows BlackMagic Probes to export GDB as a service over the network. That lets me debug from anywhere without burning a USB port or adding additional software. This sounds co
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> Depending on how cooled the engine is, it affects emissions levels. A open thermostat makes a car run richer, generating less horsepower. This is true on gasoline engines, which are homogeneous-charge, air-throttled designs, and target
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> Another dog sense I've wondered about is hearing. What is our music like to them? This is a thing I've wondered about too. Their frequency range is only part of it. There's also the frequency weighted sensitivity; it&#x2
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> There are enough trash ads out there, there's so much malware and malfeasance in the ecosystem, that it's worthwhile for users to at best _ignore_ and at worst (for advertisers) _to block ads totally_. Having spent as much ti
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The video in your second link shows just how hard those grass fires can be to contain. There's what, a half-dozen to dozen riders present? And despite their effort, it continues to spread throughout the video.
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It can be done on concrete. I've split logs for firewood on concrete before. Sometimes the wood is more cooperative than anticipated, and so the the axe goes right on through the log like it's not there, and kisses the concrete. T
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I think the closest we got to the Metaverse so far was Second Life, though it didn't get quite all the way there. I actually played Second Life before reading Snow Crash. So imagine the chills I got when I started to read, and found th
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by korethr 7y ago
My intuition says that your 2nd point is, at least in part, caused or exacerbated by how city zoning has progressed from the postwar period to modern day, with large swaths of residences going over here, all the stores and business over the
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by korethr 7y ago
When I click on the link, I get a 404. That's not the usual response to the hug of death. Anyone have an alternate link?
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My personal experience such questionnaires is that the questions can be vague, redundant, or not even really ask anything at all. But, even when the questions are concise and precise, it's all to easy to "word smith" an answe
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What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?(blog.plover.com)
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I've had conversations with a guy who works at one of the companies that makes high-speed cameras. One of the interesting thing to come out of those conversations is that below a certain threshold of frame duration (which is related to

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