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by mankyd 3y ago
The opposite. It's identity is really an "event" called the ship of Theseus. The effect continues to happen regardless of the specific matter.
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Chamberlain: A Message About Our Decision to Prevent Unauthorized Usage of MyQ(chamberlaingroup.com)
5 points by mankyd 3y ago|1 comments
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by mankyd 3y ago
I know most of this, but this is a nice, down to earth summary and refresher for someone like me who doesn't actually make decisions about encryption in my day to day. I'd be curious how it reads to a layman.
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by mankyd 3y ago
> Where do you get the teeth? > We collect teeth mostly from dentist, dental schools all legally and ethically sourced. Curious. If I was having teeth pulled and later found out my teeth were given to this company without consent, tha
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by mankyd 3y ago
Yes. "Private" in this case means that you can't expect consistent behavior from one system to the next.
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by mankyd 3y ago
Thank you for this comment. I saw the `-00:00` in the RFC 3339 bubble, and was confused as to why it wasn't mutually agreed upon. Your comment makes clear the the `-` has special meaning that I hadn't picked up on.
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Software Crisis (1968)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mankyd 3y ago|0 comments
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by mankyd 3y ago
Pay a company for the services it provides!? Blasphemy.
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by mankyd 3y ago
Thank you. I missed this!
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by mankyd 3y ago
Why does "2 Adults (1 working)" require a lower hourly wage than "1 Adult" when adding children into the mix? Shouldn't having more people in a household be strictly more expensive?
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by mankyd 3y ago
> Not sure if they accounted for delayed surgeries in the study. That's sort of what I am wondering. Perhaps it just delays the inevitable - the patient is gravely ill is is going to die if they don't perform _potentially_ life
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by mankyd 3y ago
In that case, make sure you check out https://esphome.io/guides/getting_started_hassio.html Once setup, you can open any HA on a computer of your choice, plug in an esp* via usb, and flash it from your browser. Once it
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by mankyd 3y ago
The fastest way I've found is https://esphome.io/ . You can literally flash an esp32/esp8266 and have a device up and running in minutes. You of course need some central server to collect and act upon the data. I u
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by mankyd 3y ago
Cost. They system has found an equilibrium: customers are willing to pay ~$X for a scale. For $X you can afford Y accuracy. If you increase the accuracy, great, but now your scale costs more then $x.
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by mankyd 3y ago
The green dot is meant as a privacy indicator - it tells you when something (camera, maybe mic?) is on. It doesn't relate to "remote" activation, and presumably would turn on in all circumstances.
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by mankyd 3y ago
Mines been running about 6 years. At first, it was rough at times. It's been a lot smoother since they released hassos, (and I don't even run it, I just use the containers). I don't think I've had any issue of note in ab
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by mankyd 3y ago
A catalog of various (usually) camera-created visual affects. It gives names to all the weird angles, pans, and tilts that you might see in film. A lot of them are pretty extreme and would overwhelm if over-used, but are eye catching in sho
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by mankyd 4y ago
> [The sword fighting technique's] precepts are based on reason, geometry, and tied to intellectual, philosophical, and moral ideals, incorporating various aspects of a well-rounded Renaissance humanist education, with a special foc
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by mankyd 4y ago
US cellular has been dropped from Fi, except when roaming, supposedly: https://9to5google.com/2023/02/28/google-fi-us-cellular/
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by mankyd 4y ago
That's not at all what this well-researched article finds.
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by mankyd 4y ago
That's basically what the article says: elevator doors (in the US) have a minimum open time, as specified by the ADA, and try to close as soon as this minimum time is reached. The close button can't override the minimum, so genera
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by mankyd 4y ago
Is that true? Most of the internet says they are, and I first learned it from a local guide several years back.
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by mankyd 4y ago
And Palm "Trees".
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by mankyd 4y ago
>> we remove the need for idempotency through deduplication. > If the client generates and assigns a UUID to each message it sends, the receiver can easily check if a specific message was already received before by comparing it aga
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by mankyd 4y ago
I believe the answer is that induction is more efficient at getting heat into your food. With electric, it heats up a coil that heats up your pan (and the air around it) that heats your food. With induction, it skips the coil and simply hea
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by mankyd 4y ago
Gah! Stupid brain autopilot. Thanks. Sadly, it won't let me edit anymore.
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by mankyd 4y ago
I still got that feeling on T2 - for instance the classic seen where the liquid terminator melts through the jail-style bars. Or the seen where it chases them down the highway at full speed. It made the robot feel so inescapable.
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by mankyd 4y ago
They're encrypted/decrypted by the user's password locally in the app or extension.
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by mankyd 4y ago
> None of that is remotely generalizable. What? I apologize, but that is absurd. Entire industries are built around the idea that people of different ages _generally_ have different tastes. Take the "children's" televisio
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by mankyd 4y ago
Both. I don't want to watch children's tv shows. They have never suggested children's shows to me. My children don't want to watch bloody horror movies. They have never suggested bloody horror movies to them. Sometimes I

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