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Final Ruling Against Patreon Opens Legal Avenue to Defend Against Deplatforming(reclaimthenet.org)
43 points by kregasaurusrex 6y ago|21 comments
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
I'd recognized him from Battlebots since his robot Deadblow was a finalist from season 1, the final episode[0] starts with a short intro from Grant that shows his fun perspective brought to the table on Mythbusters. The entire Mythbust
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
That's true in an analog design, I recently took apart a generic computer power supply that failed and noticed it used NTC thermistors. In a hobbyist kit I purchased that came with with various cheap sensors, the temperature one has a
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
If this was used in a BMS with a lithium battery, a counterfeit sensor's behavior could result in the total loss of a device. Let's say the device's PCB is designed such that the sensor is connected to a rail that requires pa
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
Trust in hardware supply chains when manufactring a PCB for a product can be quite fragile: when one component operates outside of spec, the entire device could be rendered useless. In the case of the DS18B20, the author states in the &#x27
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
Chips have a higher value on a BOM, and as such have more financial incentives to be reverse-engineered and counterfeited. This is a bit more interesting since it's a sensor that has several operating parameters that "sort-of&quot
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
After the 2008 housing recession, the price of homes in suburban Cleveland dropped to some of the lowest levels in the country. You'd likely pay more for a new car than buying an entire house, after incentives like the first-time homeb
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
A similar experience happened to me while I was in school, and opened a bank account through the university which had a partnership with $BANK since there weren't any nearby ATMs in-network with the credit union from my hometown. Think
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
Been working more on the Advent Of Code (AoC) problems in Python, almost halfway complete. https://adventofcode.com/
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
While this is a small dataset of tested individuals which may be proportionally representative to larger groups, it comes at odds with releasing PII with respect to individual privacy to see potential comorbities (old age, obesity, diabetes
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by kregasaurusrex 6y ago
Oftentimes this is done to circumvent paying patent license fees- for example if a patented component in a BOM would cost 75 cents per unit from the manufacturer, and the in-house team found a way to perform the equivalent function for 15 c
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
From one of the article's citations[0]: “They [Waffle House] have good risk management plans in place and are great examples of how their supply chains get affected in two different ways. On the one hand, your own supply chain is expos
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Eric Schmidt: I Used to Run Google. Silicon Valley Could Lose to China(nytimes.com)
7 points by kregasaurusrex 7y ago|2 comments
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
Since the original HN post[0] is about 2.5 years old now, one would expect there to be more data released by LS regarding job placement/salaries before a potential student would sign a $30,000 ISA. I've been a fan of the idea of u
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
It's great that the representatives from the company sent him the relevant parts of the schematic to help him connect his arm to the interface board. Products aren't often built with accessibility with mind and seeing DIY projects
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
Lidar becomes much less effective within rain/snow conditions, because it causes the infrared time-of-flight sensors to not be able to see past the weather conditions. An example video by Waymo[0] shows a silhouette of oncoming cars, b
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
Previously, AMD shipped out free processors to fix an issue with Ryzen boards having firmware too old to boot the CPU: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/264097-amd-shipping-fr...
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
What I had found showed less reliability over time because economics of scale reduced manufacturing costs and thus price of 3.5" and 5.25" ones, where some said that 8" disks were extremely reliable. My thoughts were that wel
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
The article isn't specific on what the floppy disks have been replaced with other than "a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution". Would this meet milspecs for reliability and redundancy in an event where either t
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
Time to reference my favorite Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future From a logarithmic standpoint, around 1 billion years is when geologically interesting things happen to the earth a
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
As a Franklin county resident, I see multiple groups of volunteers who have a big push around August-October to concentrate efforts around the the Ohio State campus and downtown areas to register voters. This includes groups affiliated with
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
Thanks for sharing. Between your salary, stock options, 8% matching 401k, and being in the Midwest you can probably accomplish FIRE even faster than by age 40.
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
The first one I'd seen was implemented in a Ruby book, and I agree it's a good yet moderately challenging problem to do. Once you're done solving the base case, making improvements like implementing a more efficient backtrack
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
I think nanomachines are still purpose-built for solving small problems, and haven't been particularly useful outside the medical field yet because 'scaling is hard', in this case being enough to have noticeable effects. Seei
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
A lot of people talk about how wide-reaching the technologies spun out from NASA in the Apollo Era were; whereas I see the research that goes into making chips smaller has an equal if not greater reach. Considering how widespread the modern
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
Knowledge that compounds in such a way becomes useful in the long term. The Y and Z mentioned may be tangential in a current situation, yet as a technology stack evolves they can become integral parts to more complete and better fitting sol
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
It's not by accident that Juul adopted similar marketing styles of big tobacco, the marketing and design of the products should speak for themselves [0]. WSJ also made a video exploring this business relationship a couple months back [
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How An Obscure Rubber Company Became a Linchpin of Tech Industry(bloomberg.com)
1 points by kregasaurusrex 7y ago|0 comments
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
I was about to suggest this, because anonymised data is often not-so-anonymous in aggregate. AT&T's recent disclosure of selling this information to bounty hunters[0] shows that sharing across companies isn't always done with
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by kregasaurusrex 7y ago
Sorry I can't seem to find the name, it was a panel at Origins Game Fair about how to be a better Game Master through storytelling.

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