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by madars 4y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. It is widely known that Reagan broke PATCO strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr... (Whether or not public sector unions should exist is a different q
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by madars 4y ago
TIL: busybox has ed and vi but not ex. https://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html (so ex might be nice to learn but it might be not available on common systems like OpenWRT)
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by madars 4y ago
NSAIDs can cause stomach bleeding in some. Also, Tylenol and Ibuprofen target different metabolic pathways so you can combine or alternate them and, in some cases, get better pain relief than with opioids which come with different risks, in
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by madars 4y ago
Archive: https://archive.is/tu50K
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Wave of Stealthy China Cyberattacks Hits U.S., Private Networks, Google Says(wsj.com)
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by madars 4y ago
A big one is mobile (and laptop roaming) support. IRC alternative is to either run a bouncer (excludes casual users) or to pay for something like IRCCloud.
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by madars 4y ago
>Discord can be accessed by any client adhering to Discord standards, which are closed and proprietary. It's worse. Official Twitter account: >All 3rd party apps or client modifiers are against our ToS, and the use of them can re
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by madars 4y ago
Puzzle link: https://sumplete.com/
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by madars 4y ago
>Grading is extremely opaque, and seems to be largely based on teacher intuition. Grading in certain subjects is just laughable. Can you objectively evaluate English essays so that 97/100 is "better" than 96/100? Why
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by madars 4y ago
That's true; thanks! It's 3am and time for bed :-)
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by madars 4y ago
I don't think it's _that_ unnatural to just return a reference to a dummy value (i.e. have a member T map<T>::dummy and always return that if the key does not exist). Users writing to it/reading from it are on their own
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by madars 4y ago
Is this a big deal? Say, if character 0 is reserved you can encode everything in base255 and transmit encoded bytes shifted by 1. (Or, for simpler encoding, transfer an appropriately encoded bitmask of which characters are 0, then a copy of
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by madars 4y ago
Or, in other words, FBI now recommends using Android :-) It's baffling how much better uBlock Origin + Firefox experience on Android is compared to any iOS ad blocker I have tried. They kind-of work but let half of the ads through.
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by madars 4y ago
My immediate first read of the title was acoustic side channels a la https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ec04rump/
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by madars 4y ago
Little known fact: your Sci-Hub downloads are not private - https://sci-hub.ru/stats has historic access logs with IP addresses, paper identifiers, and timestamps, and plans to publish more logs in the future.
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by madars 4y ago
djb is also a German citizen https://cr.yp.to/cv/cv-20080915.pdf (Citizenships: USA; Germany; Native language: English. Language courses: French (advanced), German, Danish.)
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by madars 4y ago
Notably, this project combines the best possible video and audio to obtain a single best version of each episode (things combining foreign DVD video and English LaserDisc audio for some). So, as is often the case with piracy, it likely has
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by madars 4y ago
There are splitters that can do 4K 60Hz HDCP 2.2. You had to really search for them because AliExpress used to remove listings that mentioned this feature explicitly. HDFury devices will do HDCP 2.3 -> 1.4 conversion (at which point you
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by madars 4y ago
So https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo... explicitly lists "username@mastodon.social" or "check out my profile on Facebook - facebook.com/username" as examples (!)
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by madars 4y ago
Sure. There are fleets of automated license plate readers, there are patents about tracking serial numbers broadcast by tire pressure sensors, etc. States sell their entire drivers license databases as well https://www.vice.com&#
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by madars 4y ago
The ICAO number in the GP's comment is listed in the FAA registry for the N-number: https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResul... (Mode S Code (Base 16 / Hex): A835AF). Are you saying t
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by madars 4y ago
If I really wanted a physical SIM and imported a European SKU which does have it (only North American variant is eSIM-only), would I expect seamless support in the US? E.g. would AppleCare just work?
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by madars 4y ago
There is a market for KYC'd accounts. Someone operating an AI bot farm posing as Real Humans would just buy these.
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by madars 4y ago
Oh, absolutely! We should always combine (a) and (b) so that factory reset is implemented as wiping of the keyslots.
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by madars 4y ago
It'll be a nice study to cite when trying to convince friends that (a) they must use full disk encryption/have a good backup strategy; (b) it is a good idea to do a factory reset before sending in a device for repair (if applicabl
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by madars 4y ago
Any browser on iPhone is just a skin for Mobile Safari. In particular, you can't install uBlock Origin/similar there. Every time I browse web on an iDevice I feel like I'm losing 20 IQ points.
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by madars 4y ago
Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65760207/united-states-...
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by madars 4y ago
You can use Calibre to convert your ebooks to MOBI/AZW3, which Kindle accepts, and if you put your Kindle in airplane mode (so it stops getting OTA updates) and wait log enough it'll probably get a jailbreak at some point. At whic
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by madars 4y ago
The great thing about text editors, and to a large extent also paper, is that they give you random access - you can easily see the whole document and make edits at arbitrary points. It's incredibly ergonomic (there is a reason why book
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by madars 4y ago
Massively impressive! A very exciting paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12334v4 from the first two authors shows how Starlink can be fused with ordinary GNSS to get extremely impressive +56 dB anti-jam advantage (see Fi

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