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by mdip 3y ago
I thought I was a veteran of the early internet/Usenet enough to know most of the ins and outs but this DVB-S Usenet is new to me. That sounds like a pretty unique approach to Usenet content delivery. I wonder if anything else/si
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by mdip 3y ago
There's about a thousand other ways to do it, but every time I want to see if a site is accessible to the outside world-at-large, I fire up Tor browser.
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by mdip 3y ago
Oh how I hate HFP. I'm not surprised this catches people off guard. I'm usually among the gadget folks and was intellectually aware of the A2DP/HFP situation, but hadn't put it all together until I tried to use my new h
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by mdip 3y ago
I suspect that the Nomad II would not have done as well as the first Dodge Caravan for the same reason that Minivans don't do well, now. Stigma. It looked too much like a Station Wagon. When I was a kid, the neighbors had a Caprice
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by mdip 3y ago
LOL, though I didn't take a course in BASIC (AP CS was taught in Pascal), I swore up and down as a teenager that Pascal "would win" and put off learning C/C++ as a result. It didn't hurt me much since I started writ
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by mdip 3y ago
> Barely related. Me too, but I had to reply to this one. (/shh .. it's got to be fair game with Pascal posts to talk about its history) > TP was my language for AP computer science in high school and I felt go
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by mdip 3y ago
It's possible the price pop is happening because of people trying to find spare parts. I can't speak to these specific devices because I haven't been doing infrastructure work since before 2015, but I recall the price of cert
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by mdip 3y ago
When I first encountered this phenomenon, it really annoyed me. Now that practically all of my audio connections are digital, it's so common that I don't really notice it. Nice when something that's bothered me bothered so
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by mdip 3y ago
LOL, I did pretty much the same thing, just not for as long. I remember it took about a day after I had it installed that suddenly every house I was looking to buy "had to have @Home service" (there wasn't another provider
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by mdip 3y ago
I couldn't even get 33.6k to work on my wiring. The house wasn't that old but was old enough that the wiring was abysmal. You could easily understand conversations happening on one phone line from the other line. When someone
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by mdip 3y ago
Not fond memories of the early days of the internet (and to a greater extent, BBSes ... YModem-G FTW). When I saw the title, I knew the real title was "Should I replace my 56K WinModem with the 28.8k U.S. Robotics modem that I used p
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by mdip 3y ago
To answer your question, and I'm trying to translate something that happens "automatically" for me, now, but it all hinges on: more throttle makes the bike stand up/go straight in a turn. The first part of the turn invo
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by mdip 3y ago
This excites me but I have a few thoughts about some of the unique constraints that come into play when riding a motorcycle vs driving a car. One big one: transmission. As an American, I'd had the occasion of driving a manual transmis
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by mdip 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, that was a very entertaining read and gave me fond memories of the decade or so I worked in a phone switch. My office was in a space that was shared by a large legacy phone switch, SONET node, and part of our regional da
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by mdip 3y ago
Thanks for this. The first thing I'm reading is some statement about how they don't actually want to locate these things on your property, but nearby, which makes me think (a) either "I wouldn't want this thing on my pro
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by mdip 3y ago
You summed up quite well how these things happen. All of these parts make for an increasingly complex system with a large number of failure points. Our DC was a very living entity -- servers were being changed out/rack configuration al
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by mdip 3y ago
Had something similar happen at a telecom I worked at for years. We had a diesel generator and a couple of (bathroom sized) rooms full of (what looked like) car batteries. My understanding is that the two rooms were for redundancy. The b
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by mdip 3y ago
I find it ... we'll say, weird ... where they've chosen to trial these vehicles already. Is there some reason other than "we were able to get permits there more easily[0]" that I'm missing? I wasn't in Phoenix
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by mdip 3y ago
Something the author alluded to but didn't call out specifically is the "I'm already a customer" problem. I can only really speak to Amazon and Facebook (via the web) because my uBlock configuration nips almost everythin
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by mdip 3y ago
For me it was the mid-90s and my sister the late 80s. She had school cancelled on final exam day due to a bomb threat. The first half of 11th Grade, for me, students were put in "lock down"[0] and then dismissed early due to a b
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by mdip 3y ago
I have no idea how this hack is done/no insider knowledge but reading between the lines, I suspect that they're altering the pump in a manner that sets the cost per gallon to zero or near-zero.
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by mdip 3y ago
Welcome to Southeast Michigan. For whatever reason, everyone within 25 miles of Detroit "lives in Detroit" even though a whole lot of us might visit the city less than once a year. The media will usually say "Metro Detroit&qu
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by mdip 3y ago
I used to know a family who ran a gas station in my city. I was surprised to learn they made almost nothing from the sale of fuel. The actual profit -- to them -- was in the convenience store goods they sold. I'm not sure who eats th
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by mdip 3y ago
You're mostly right. I think several do give a shit about security but they both lack the knowledge of what it takes to reasonably secure something like this and are somewhat powerless/misled into believing they don't need
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by mdip 3y ago
You make several good points here ... if I'm a Coke, a Ford/GM or a candidate for public office, competing for eyeballs with crypto-/weight-loss-/online casino scams is probably not something I want to be associated wi
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by mdip 3y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought "I forgot YouTube has ads!" I have a feeling a lot of Hacker News readership has -- at least -- ad-blocking installed on their computers that hides the problem from them. U
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by mdip 3y ago
I can think of several ways to "take a password encrypted file and split it up in such a way that you can re-assemble it without all of its parts" but being able to do so without a password is where it's piqued my interest. T
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by mdip 3y ago
Good point ... ... I'd imagine there would be similar options with "eighteen-hundred", variants with all numerics, comma separated, without commas, etc.
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by mdip 3y ago
I have to agree with you. While I do enjoy the OSS projects/physics-/math-related topics (and a lot of the Show HN), these are my absolute favorite things to read. Curious if you've found other resources that provide more of
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by mdip 3y ago
It's possible you've had these customized (by a toolbar or direct setting). I'm fairly certain you can change the built-in ones (I have google mapped to "g" like it was (is?) in Opera).

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