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by michaelt 1y ago
I don't think this proposal will stop you visiting the management UI for devices like switches and NASes on the local network. You'll be able to visit http://192.168.0.1 and it'll work just fine? This is just abou
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by michaelt 1y ago
Doesn't most software just register a protocol handler with the OS? Then a website can hand the browser a zoommtg:// link, which the browser opens with zoom ? Things like Jupyter Notebooks will presumably be unaffected by
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by michaelt 1y ago
Several makers of high performance internal combustion cars found they get noticeably better reviews and sales when they play amplified engine sounds through the entertainment system. They call it "active sound design" IIRC. I can
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by michaelt 1y ago
> FWIW I tried the first couple of examples in ChatGPT 4o and couldn't replicate this. I can replicate the flag examples from Figure 15 in the paper, if not the Adidas one from Figure 9: https://chatgpt.com/share&#
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by michaelt 1y ago
> 32,000 open positions? Honestly, I very much doubt a company with ~1200 employees has 32,000 open positions. More likely it's HR reposting the same 20 job ads every day to keep them at the top of the linkedin news feed or some n
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Seriously, what student applicant won't clean up their social media profile? That is the goal of the policy. > What threats will actually be caught by this approach? Catching threats is not the goal.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Users visit aggregator sites which don’t host the streams, they just link to them. Then the streams are on sites with names like fins38gy2m.ws a new URL for every game. The hosts of the streams can set up an URL days in advance, and post it
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by michaelt 1y ago
Some cynics think the plastic industry supports sham “recycling” efforts that don’t actually work, in order to alleviate customer guilt and forestall a ban or mandatory reformulation. The bad thing, in this line of thought, is that we’re be
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by michaelt 1y ago
Most definitions of “recycle” are from the recycling of glass, aluminium, paper etc - they involve the material being reused in approximately the same form. Being “burned” is how most English speakers would describe being “recycled into ene
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Cloudflare goes public in frustration, noting that they could just send take down requests for infringing content like every other rights holder in the world, Live sports piracy has the unusual property that you have to be able to
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Any manufacturer will do everything in their power to avoid meeting anything but the barest minimums of standards due to budget concerns Perhaps this is industry dependent? In my country’s automotive industry, quality control standar
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by michaelt 1y ago
The APIs that require signed requests come with ready made libraries for every major programming language, hiding that stuff from the user. And with signed webhook requests, the recipient can simply ignore the signature if they deem the add
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by michaelt 1y ago
Apple had the opportunity to stay on x86, where the 20+ year back catalog of games is. Apple decided the benefits of moving to ARM outweighed the loss of gamers.
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by michaelt 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer) Valve tried “steam machines”, OEM devices intended to provide a console-like experience. It wasn’t a big success (although that might have been a botched impleme
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by michaelt 1y ago
> US manufacturing output is double that of China's on a per-capita basis. If you're going around quoting those figures, you should be aware they're kinda sketchy. Headline manufacturing output figures measure "real
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by michaelt 1y ago
Imagine you ran a spy agency and you were infiltrating signal, Facebook, Google, aws, cloudflare, and so on. Would you have them make a secure back door that could only be intentionally designed, and potentially traced back to you? Or would
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by michaelt 1y ago
If I trained a neural network and it learned that stethoscopes are strongly correlated with IQ, have I learned anything useful?
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by michaelt 1y ago
> If there isn't some form of automatic backup then I guarantee I will not have a sync when I need it the most. As I understand things, passkeys come in a few different varieties. You can buy a yubikey if you want the credential t
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by michaelt 1y ago
Believe it or not, "Yubikey" security keys have about 8 different configurable modes. One of them is "emulate a USB keyboard and enter a static password". So not only could you implement your idea - you could also tell p
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by michaelt 1y ago
Seems to me, we know pretty well what we need to do about climate change. It has already been data scienced many, many times. The problem is we don't want to do it.
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by michaelt 1y ago
In the chart linked by mmcwilliams, an undergraduate degree in engineering would normally be a "Bachelor's Degree" - assuming the certificate awarded at the end says "bachelor of science" or something similar.
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by michaelt 1y ago
But do they pay that to 17 year olds without a college degree?
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by michaelt 1y ago
> But placing limits on private property accumulation is a controversial idea The US wouldn't need a legal limit on wealth to prevent Google from becoming this large. Every major Google product since gmail in ~2004 was acquired. G
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Android? [...] who / how are they going to be funded? Given that Android gets to take a 30% cut of every app sale and in-app purchase, I think they'll survive.
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by michaelt 1y ago
There are websites that provide tracking for a lot of ships. For comparison here's Tilbury, near London in the UK: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?p=GBTIL001 you'll note that big cargo vessels are shown in yellow. A
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by michaelt 1y ago
Content like this has to choose the point they're targeting on a rigorous-education-to-entertaining spectrum. Chess teaching content that's only for people at ~2300 ELO on how to get from there to 2400 ELO? Potential audience of p
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I don’t think they got compensated for it so that is a bit sad. I'm pretty sure the people who posted answers weren't doing it in the expectation of getting paid.
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by michaelt 1y ago
The warehouse automation industry has long had problems with scaling systems up. A system that works well with 15 robots will often fall apart if scaled up to 150 or 1500 robots. Reliability, planning algorithm complexity, radio performance
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by michaelt 1y ago
Honestly it looks like we've got a HNer quoting a journalist quoting a bishop quoting a cardinal. The cardinal who said 'until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope' died in 2015 (i.e. befo
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by michaelt 1y ago
> They flew the entire team to the US, put them up in expensive hotels for a few days and flew them all back. They calculated that the cost of that was three times their annual budget. Are you sure about that? Let's say every empl

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