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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Not if you stay within 400 feet AGL of the mountain terrain. You can be over 400 feet MSL (mean-sea-level) but still be within 400 feet above-ground-level from where the drone's sitting in the sky.
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Anyone else find it odd how OpenAI is grooming these groups? Seems a bit sick and perverse coming from Mr. SA.
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
I feel like it would have been more fun to build your own line simulator with a 9 volt battery and some old phone line and just skip the dialtone altogether for a little magic... the $120 black-box telco simulator takes a lot of the fun out
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
I feel like people can fly under the radar on individual small scale use in-house, but the second you're trying to run a full scale public facing service with hundreds of thousands of messages originating off one SIM card you'll g
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
I can feel the 10DLC violations in the US already running through my blood. You will be eviscerated by the carriers for doing this for anything longer than a single day. I hope your disaster recovery (or 'didn't realize') str
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Memories now of what we were given at the hospital long ago: our obstetrics ward was using Philips OBTraceVue software. The original FDA-approved system required Philips to package the OS and hardware all together, so we were given a bunch
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Just like this, a Starlink gimbal being tested for future third party laser comms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpFfC9WY0qs
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655299 This comment makes it feel a lot safer, when you think about it. "Web browsers are historically known for crashing, but that's partly because they have to handle every
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
I thought we gave up on AGI and turned into making sex chatbots and simulated porn instead. Wasn't that what Sam was pushing for all along when he went all in on Sora and the erotic modes?
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
The sad part though: What even has Honda done with their humanoid robotics research? I remember being starry-eyed, excited as a kid to see ASIMO and all the amazing things it was doing. Past a couple hardware revisions they basically just
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Sad there's no rabbit hole for the Chevron group (not related to the oil folks). They took over SKIL from Bosch in the late 2010s and they also produce power tools for Kobalt at Lowes, plus the Flex and EGO brands. https://g
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Ah, yeah, I remember those. That miiiiight work for my use case... --- (I remember. The poop.)
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Essential Air Service travelers aren't seeing any major pain either traveling outbound. Fortunately (though kind of sadly) the TSA folks only work a couple hours a day at the checkpoint for the single flight in and out so most of the
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Similarly: Is there a USB-C power delivery adapter to force directionality? I needed to siphon off power from small batteries into a larger pack (that could supply more power out than the small packs) in a power outage. I absolutely could n
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Even better, wait until people discover 7zip's 'parser mode' on Windows (especially). Right click a file -> 7zip -> Open archive -> #:e mode. Really fun way to quickly carve out files and snoop around. I use it like
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Is this the "electronic ink pricetags bad" thing that the UFCW keeps peddling because "it takes clerk work away"? I still don't understand how they think we're going to change UPC pricing live per-person in the
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Sometimes you also find hidden things lurking accidentally left behind in IPAs and APKs that are nice and juicy and realize they've been shipped on Google Play/App Store for years. I've found everything from entire copies of
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Hypervisor.framework on the Mac, personally.
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
(dupe) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510800
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Here's the OEM: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Wholesale-Portable-St... Buttons, controls, and overall design (basically) match. Aliexpress/Alibaba's visual search is a funny way to discover and
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
If you'd like the cursed location for a vehicle computer, have the Smart fortwo's SAM. It's the fuse box! It's also notorious for having awful solder connections and failing outright. https://evilution.co.uk&#
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
I'm amused reading the terms and requirements the author mentions in the bug bounty program for researchers gaining root access (under 'Vehicle Targets') - https://bugcrowd.com/engagements/tesla "To
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Hey now, there’s a few axis girlbosses out there! Don’t forget Sana’s skin in the game.
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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features(arstechnica.com)
20 points by kotaKat 7mo ago|5 comments
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
They just hiked VBucks prices too... conveniently after they "won" their settlement with Google that includes a full on anti-disparagement clause against Google but fully allows them to keep on attacking Apple as much as they wish
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
you may be in a restricted environment with no boot option selections, like on some VPS and dedi server providers. i've seen similar techniques used to shove windows on "linux" VPS/dedis boxes by booting into rescue mode
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FCC Adds Routers Produced in Foreign Countries to Covered List(fcc.gov)
22 points by kotaKat 7mo ago|1 comments
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
Related - Monro Muffler Brake apparently switched to an offshore call center model to handle scheduling every single auto shop location. I hear nothing but complaints from both fellow customers as well as the shop managers themselves about
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
At some point I need to ask Corporate IT for my justification logs for every elevation request. I'm certainly sure I've submitted at least a couple hundred "because I said so"s and at least three Bee Movie scripts.
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by kotaKat 7mo ago
The 'bloop' is a beep for the other person being dumped onto the call. Typically in a call center/contact center system like this, the agent's headset is always live. When the 'bloop' comes in, it's an

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