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FCC cracks down on scam auto warranty robocalls(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by lsllc 4y ago|0 comments
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by lsllc 4y ago
The only downside (from the drivers perspective at least) with the newer high-speed tolling is that there are new tolls appearing all up and down the east coast of the US that didn't exist before due to the cost/complexity of buil
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Airbus to Flight-Test CFM Rise Open Rotor(aviationweek.com)
2 points by lsllc 4y ago|0 comments
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by lsllc 4y ago
Wait, back up there: "chip in my hand?"
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Employers who want workers in the office more often may be in for a fight(cnn.com)
1 points by lsllc 4y ago|1 comments
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Colin Furze: Extreme 4D gaming setup(youtube.com)
1 points by lsllc 4y ago|0 comments
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by lsllc 4y ago
Previous discussion from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32063652
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Netflix with Ads Is Coming(cnn.com)
2 points by lsllc 4y ago|0 comments
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by lsllc 4y ago
Gosh this is such a heartbreaking and yet fascinating story. The BBC version is has more detail including some possible immigration jeopardy for Sir Mo due to getting citizenship under an assumed name: https://www.bbc.com/n
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Reducing Covid Risk While Flying – Joey Fox, P. Eng, M.A.Sc (HVAC Engineer)(twitter.com)
2 points by lsllc 4y ago|0 comments
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by lsllc 4y ago
Agreed -- the last couple of times flying home I've found very few, or no Ubers or Lyfts available near the airport (particularly later at night) but plenty of clean, new-ish cabs (mostly hybrid vehicles) waiting with modern payment sy
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by lsllc 4y ago
I just read about a sunspot that recently doubled in size [0] and maybe launched a CME in our direction -- we don't really know due to a power outage at Stanford University that took the SDO offline [1], anyway food for thought, maybe
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by lsllc 4y ago
That was my thought too, from a mechanical design point of view, perhaps some sort of funicular design perhaps where the weight of the passengers going down helps left the other side. But maybe some sort of regenerative braking on the down
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by lsllc 4y ago
TBH, I was astounded at just how much CO2 was being emitted according to TFA. So 5x less is way better -- I know the UK is doing a pretty good job on renewables, esp. wind [0]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment&#x
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by lsllc 4y ago
See "Prolotherapy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolotherapy "The concept of creating irritation or injury to stimulate healing has been recorded as early as Roman times when hot needles were poked in
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by lsllc 4y ago
It's not unprecedented -- during the cold war, the US Air Force spent $279M (~$3B in today's money) on building some of the largest presses in the world specifically to enhance the capabilities around building complex and strong a
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by lsllc 5y ago
Have you seen Iron Sky? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/
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by lsllc 5y ago
Colin was arrested in 2010: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/plumber-arrested-on-fi... (I was going to find a "better" source, but the Mirror's version is a bit more entertaining).
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by lsllc 5y ago
Anyone remember Periscope? It was a DOS debugger with the hardware button attached to the NMI pin on the chip to break in even if interrupts are disabled! It was awesome. Still unequalled if you ask me, although gdb-dashboard comes pretty
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OpenSSL BN_mod_sqrt() exploit published (CVE-2022-0778)(github.com)
1 points by lsllc 5y ago|0 comments
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by lsllc 5y ago
Try GDB Dashboard, it makes gdb much easier to use: https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard There's also Voltron which works with both gdb and lldb (amongst others): https://github.com/snare&#x2
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Covid-19 antibodies found in 15% of Massachusetts deer tested(wgbh.org)
3 points by lsllc 5y ago|0 comments
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by lsllc 5y ago
See last weeks discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660587
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Ancient magnetic fields on the Moon could be protecting precious ice(science.org)
3 points by lsllc 5y ago|0 comments
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by lsllc 5y ago
Yes, this is exactly how you do it, with pattern matching & guards!
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by lsllc 5y ago
The page covers this further down -- you can "bind" and then "use" a size [0]: <<Sz:8,Payload:Sz/binary-unit:8,Rest/binary>> This bit syntax binds `Sz` as an 8-bit length value, `Payload` as
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by lsllc 5y ago
Hard to beat the Erlang "destructuring" bit syntax, for example [0] parsing an IPv4 datagram from `Dgram`: -define(IP_VERSION, 4). -define(IP_MIN_HDR_LEN, 5). DgramSize = byte_size(Dgram), case Dgram of <<?
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by lsllc 5y ago
Well, the extra hour of sunshine might cause the curtains to fade and the cows might not know when to get milked -- at least according to former Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen in 1992: https://www.spectator.com.au/20
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by lsllc 5y ago
More specifically camera glare caused by swamp gas from a weather balloon that was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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by lsllc 5y ago
Dupe, discussed several times in the last 5 days from various sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30674661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668442 https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2

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