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by midas007 13y ago
It's likely an economy-of-scale: bigger the operation, the better the ROI. Low volume would be expensive.
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by midas007 13y ago
Most color printers print their serial number on every page to assist in identification of forgeries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
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by midas007 13y ago
So I have an OWC 480 GB Pro 6G that, at the time, was $1.5k. It has an interesting intermittent failure mode: If the temperature of the laptop goes below 16 C (60 F), the system won't recognize it. Guess what the problem is? Condens
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by midas007 13y ago
And the dots. Yuck.
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by midas007 13y ago
Define eating healthy. Carrots, lettuce, spinach and water are ridiculously cheap. If it's over-priced, branded, luxury convenience product in tiny quantities, then it's obviously going to cost more. The other cheap way to eat: fr
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Pigz - Parallel gzip(zlib.net)
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by midas007 13y ago
Anyone that calls themselves (hacker|cool|awesome) is just a poser, by definition.
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by midas007 13y ago
LOL. Evernote has always had more rough-edges than Android. So I ditched it after that huge security incident by using cloudHQ to migrate to something else: https://www.cloudhq.net/evernote
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by midas007 13y ago
Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn). And then there are ODMs and OEMs: ODMs provide the designs, OEMs mostly just stuff boards. It's common to find products of different brands that look almost identical, because the chassis are the s
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by midas007 13y ago
s/Most of them/Most of the retail ones/ Not the industrial ones. They're unit tested ad-nauseum, subjected to crush and environmental testing. You can run over the units with fully-loaded haul truck, the cases are cast
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by midas007 13y ago
There is. Mostly 460 and 900 MHz packet modems that only speak UDP. It's for telemetry data and data between trucks. As of 2000, there were working prototypes of both an anti-collision system and fully autonomous driving / grad
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by midas007 13y ago
TLS FTW. (or sometimes TLS MITM FTW.)
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by midas007 13y ago
Brits. There is constant teasing and innuendo, and everything's fair game.
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by midas007 13y ago
It's falls somewhere around psycholinguistics or cognitive sciences if you squint hard enough while looking at it, so then it becomes interesting. Once someone feels they've mastered the hard sciences, the squishy sciences often b
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by midas007 13y ago
The apropos book is Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought. [0] (language <~~> culture) ~~> world-view ~~> intention ~~> behavior ~~> result. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+Stuff+of+Thought
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by midas007 13y ago
Most British corporate shops, and startups also, transplanted to the US would have everyone headed to HR for sexual harassment training and hurt feelings lawsuits.
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by midas007 13y ago
If they had lasers or Fonz jumping over them, that would be impressive.
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by midas007 13y ago
IDA Pro is awesomesauce, Wireshark for binaries. So much better than Turbo Debugger and ICEs in the olden days. Just FYI it's no surprise that the IDA Pro wine torrent for OSX (magnet ...116a37) floating around out there has malware i
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by midas007 13y ago
I only use git: - it has a lot of non-orthogonalities and non-closure operations (ie options on one command are different or not present on other commands) - if the network drops, fetches and pushes have to start from scratch. For fetches,
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by midas007 13y ago
Cambrian explosion followed by consolidation. Git and Mercurial were Linux affiliated. In the end, when apps are similar and don't have fatal flaws, it comes down to a popularity contest.
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by midas007 13y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999094
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by midas007 13y ago
I've always had naked DSL because of not wanting to pay for cable TV or another line. For DSL and similar services, BYOE tends to be hand-off. With cable modems, does/can the provider push firmware?
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by midas007 13y ago
This is not surprising. It's a calculated risk to make a product just good enough. Development resources invested in retail wireless gear is minimal. I've worked on firmware for high-confidence industrial wireless gear used in
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by midas007 13y ago
A Google account can optionally have G+ enabled or disabled. It's not a requirement.
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by midas007 13y ago
https://prism-break.org/en/subcategories/web-social-networks...
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by midas007 13y ago
Erlang's type system with binary data-type is pretty awesome. Example: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/erlang-programming/s39IQlk-d... I wished more programming languages had baked in support for bitfiel
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by midas007 13y ago
Lost a hacker artist friend this last year to cancer. Whatever you want to say to someone, experience or build, get to it right now. And repeat every single day. Also: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_be
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by midas007 13y ago
Olive oil a) has the ability to permanently ruin clothes b) is expensive (don't kid yourself, the very cheap stuff is not all olive oil) c) takes more time to clean up d) has the potential to clog drain pipes e) isn't something
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by midas007 13y ago
Yuck, BTDTBTTS. Satellite latency is eye-stabbing, almost as bad as the utterly worthless Mountain View's Google Wi-Fi. Local internet elsewhere, in random countries, GFL... bring your own or start a service (yeah, a friend made some
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by midas007 13y ago
The issue is never being able to complete the fetch or push because of a spotty network. It goes without saying that source control should not screw up my local or remote copies.

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