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by lorenzhs 9y ago
VLC 3.0 was released last week and has Chromecast support. It's been in the beta channel for a long time, but apparently took a lot of work to get edge cases sorted etc.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The moon’s inclination is 5 degrees to the ecliptic, you’d have to try really hard to find a worse place to put solar panels. Self-sufficiency would require manufacturing complex organical compounds and is total science fiction stuff, and
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Hm, hydrolox could indeed be possible. Didn’t think of that. But you’d still need a very large number of missions to make construction and maintenance of the moon base cheaper than just directly going where you want to go. It’s probably goi
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Not just anyone, the Director General! There was another talk by someone from ESA (I don’t remember his name) on the feasibility of a moon elevator (lunar surface to Lagrange point 1 iirc), which would be possible with current materials i
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Unless you can make propellant on the moon, that’s going to be less economical than going directly. There’s nothing to be gained by going down another (albeit not very deep) gravity well. The base camp analogy doesn’t really apply.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
There’s a good point to be made about manned missions to the moon. There are so many things we don’t know about the moon. See, for example, ESA’s “moon village” plans. The General Director gave a talk at 33c3 that—among other things—makes t
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The page redirects to a non-existent page in some countries, here's an archive link for anyone else who can't access it: http://archive.is/0YuQe
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if there was an encryption mode for Wifi that ensures integrity without requiring authentication? At CCC events, the workaround is to have a WPA2-Enterprise network that accepts every username/password combinat
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I sort of have the reverse problem. I would like to use a websocket to connect to an insecure host on the local network from a secure context. I realise that this is incredibly niche and would probably need independent confirmation throug
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
This whole thread seems very 'No True Scotsman' and a bit snobbish to me. Labelling the entire $140 - $280 wired headphone range as 'decent' but not 'good' for wired headphones is just ridiculous. Even more so
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I don't know why this is so heavily downvoted, it totally lines up with my experience. I got an iPhone 7 when it was released, and I even bought a second audio adapter thinking I'd need it. I've used them maybe 5-10 times in
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Sennheiser has this figured out, too. My PXC 550 stay connected to two devices at the same time. When the currently active one goes quiet, it'll switch to the other source if that's active. Works fine with my UE Boom 2 bluetooth s
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Korolev also spent almost six years in a gulag in the 30s/40s after being denounced in what likely was likely some dude's play to replace him. He had a bitter rivalry and lots of differences in opinion with his engine designer&#x2
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I miss Tomahawk :( It integrated all kinds of music sources in a single, nice player. It's no longer being developed, but you can still see what it was like at https://www.tomahawk-player.org/
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The joke was that the version with the middle finger was the real one, and they faked the "original". This created a lot of confusion :)
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Exactly. The post I replied to said "One wouldn't be transmitting to pulsars and awaiting a response", and I expanded on that. The whole subthread of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288955 doesn't
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
How does that work, accounting-wise? Isn't re-invested capital coming out of profits by definition? Otherwise a company could just "re-invest" all their would-be profit into gold (or some other store of value) and claim to ha
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You mean the one that could be tricked with a simple photo and a pen that you swipe over the eyes to fool the "blink detection"? The one that only worked in good lighting? I tried to use it at the time, it was awful.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Note that there is a limit of 0.3% on the interchange fee in the EU for credit cards, and 0.2% for debit cards: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/...
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Not even GPS transmits to the satellites, it only relies on observations of what the satellites sent. And pulsars are quite a bit further away than tens of light minutes :) Mars is currently 14 light minutes from Earth. PSR J2144-3933 is on
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Why would they prefer a lake to solid ground? If there was a fuel budget for return to launch site, they’d do that before flying it into a lake. Hell, they’d land it on a patch of grass before dumping it in water. There’s nothing to be gain
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
My favourite Emacs goodie to highlight is magit because it really changed the way I use git. All of a sudden, it's incredibly simple to (un-)stage individual hunks, etc. And of course it works over TRAMP, too :) org-mode is a good one,
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I use tramp-mode to connect to remote systems, which provides comfortable editing without requiring anything other than ssh access to the target machine. It’s quite nice.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yup that's .africa for "the African and Pan African communities and users" and the African Union. Technically .eu is for the European Union, not the continent of Europe.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
My sample isn't particularly large, but RHEL and SLES still appear to be the popular choices. CentOS is also sometimes used. Maybe someone else has a better overview?
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
It's not the same company - David Woodhouse works for Amazon. He used to work for Intel but not for a year or so. It's also not the same reason. Linus doesn't like the mitigation in the kernel, disagreeing on how Intel intend
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Any particular reason why you don't use org-mode's latex export (org-latex-export-to-pdf / C-c C-e l p) directly? It will render math nicely, not as embedded images, etc.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
That last one is already happening, and has been for 5-10 years, albeit not dynamically. Reruns of old shows sometimes have the advertisements switched out or even inserted. Here's an article describing this phenomenon in 2011: http:&
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You appear to be confusing Meltdown and Spectre. This is about Spectre Variant 2. You're describing Meltdown. Also, the fault is queued and not discarded. If the branch ends up being taken, you'll get a fault for accessing a for
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I get that it’s fun to go down all the possible ways Intel’s statement could be misinterpreted given how legal and marketing appear to have reduced it to a mostly meaningless pile of words, but the “recommendations” section of the page that

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