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811.
by lathiat 7y ago
Sometimes you can access standards from a library. Not sure how common that is for ISO but maybe look it up.
812.
by lathiat 7y ago
Seems like they will need to add aggressive regenerative braking to all of these things not for the power savings but for safety. And somehow integrate a single lever to control both (like many electric cars do)
813.
by lathiat 7y ago
It sounds simple but one of the biggest frustrations is that kids accidentally click the ads which take you out of the app into something else. And constantly get confused. Hence it also requires the apps not to have external links etc.
814.
by lathiat 7y ago
They explicitly mentioned in the keynote that they are closing a couple of loopholes used for tracking including browsing for nearby bluetooth and wifi networks instead of actually requesting your location with the location API. You can now
815.
by lathiat 7y ago
Frankly as a consumer I am happy about this. Even the existing Sign In with Facebook is implemented terribly by many apps, e.g. requiring me to enter my password in app instead of calling out to the Facebook app like maybe 50 of apps suppor
816.
by lathiat 7y ago
Been following these guys for a while. Fascinating product. To me though the most obvious but sadly simple use for this is sensor lights in damn toilets. Sit on the toilet for more than a few minutes in some places and the damn lights go ou
817.
by lathiat 7y ago
I would also expect that if you immediately reported that someone tailgated to security, that it is no longer a fire-able offence.
818.
by lathiat 7y ago
The London Underground definitely does that. Also in part because it reduces the heat output. The underground has been heatsoaking for decades and it’s hitting problematic temperature levels. This article is a great read: https:/&#x2F
819.
by lathiat 7y ago
This is a frustratingly common problem, the answer is crappy advertise javascript. I have reported this problem numerous times to various sites such as anandtech, etc. Most commonly for me it only happens on iPhone and redirects to some kin
820.
by lathiat 7y ago
Someone commented on HN recently about an app that lets you do this.. you install it, remove Safari, and then it get's launched and then launches your browser. Unfortunately I am having trouble finding the name of it now.
821.
by lathiat 7y ago
I can't speak to that with accuracy (other than the fact that information is from 2012) But it doesn't make sense to me it would be probing for known networks in it's disconnected state.
822.
by lathiat 7y ago
Though iOS also randomizes and regularly rotates the MAC address used for WiFi probing and only uses your real MAC once you connect. So in disconnected mode, or, if you've never actually connected to that wifi network, you'd think
823.
by lathiat 7y ago
There's a couple of areas that's not actually true. For example their "insights" package which has rule based detection of problems to fix etc is open source but the actual ruleset is not.
824.
by lathiat 7y ago
My understanding is that part of the reason this is done, is that you can buy the external PSU module pre-certified for whatever country you need to import the product into. If you integrate the power supply into the inside of the product,
825.
by lathiat 7y ago
Seems they were a little ahead of their time. Now no one cares about binaries that ship on multiple distros because that was fixed with containerisation / snappy / flatpak / docker. But now people actually care about arm and
826.
by lathiat 7y ago
With many modern games (even single player ones) requiring online servers (and in particular closed servers that are not released for download) this probably won’t translate well to current times. A couple of very different examples are Sup
827.
by lathiat 7y ago
I love that this exists
828.
by lathiat 7y ago
Chris Hadfield told a good story about "going blind in space" in his TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo62S0ulqhA&t=31s
829.
by lathiat 7y ago
It’s also not really true. At least in many countries bank balances up to some amount (eg $250,000 in Australia) are insured by the federal government. But outside of that many things could cause the bank to lose your money. And there would
830.
by lathiat 8y ago
VPNs for everyone - literally the worst idea of all time
831.
by lathiat 8y ago
They are more like Cloudflare or Akamai
832.
by lathiat 8y ago
One of canonical’s employees was about to do a fairly important presentation (a few years ago) when our google oath went down. Could no longer load the slides from google docs and the had to make up new ones on the spot.
833.
by lathiat 8y ago
You can actually tune some VFS parameters to make it less likely to evict the VFS caches (vfs_cache_pressure), however, it's not well documented which settings work the best other than to set it to '1' for 'mostly don&#x
834.
by lathiat 8y ago
On current Ubuntu releases gdm (login screen) now runs on VT1, which is what you are trying to switch to with Ctrl-Alt-F1. Your current session is likely on VT2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) You could try Ctrl-Alt-F3, F4, etc to get a login terminal.
835.
by lathiat 8y ago
You can basically just install an OS on a USB key (or HDD) these days. Which solves that problem.
836.
by lathiat 8y ago
The page is still up :-) http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
837.
by lathiat 8y ago
I got bitten recently by haproxy using the '!' prefix on .gitignore lines to negate previous lines. This resulted in ag silently not searching any of the code base at all. So if you're implementing .gitignore support, you may
838.
by lathiat 8y ago
The fabulous level of trolling and entertainment he offers on his twitter account however is priceless.
839.
by lathiat 8y ago
This just in: Human scared of change, tells internet about it
840.
by lathiat 8y ago
Emirates ordered 20 confirmed + 16 options only last year: https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/emirates-orders-36-a38... But it seems likely they will be the end of the line.

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