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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Love the idea and execution, don't love the misplaced apo'strophe's.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
That is a really bad idea. That's letting anyone who phones you prove to the bank that they are you. You should only reveal an MFA code to someone that you have called, knowing that it is the right person.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
You're talking about EV certificates. They're dead.[0] I personally would trust something signed by Lets Encrypt more readily than many other certificate providers. They appear to know what they are doing. [0] https://w
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Every weekly newsletter I get at work is sent from an external spam-sender, containing links to an external hosting site that have a unique ID for tracking clicks. Those links are then munged by Outlook which makes them hard to identify. I
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
If the hashing is done on the client and then sent to the server, then the server is effectively just processing as a plaintext password. If an attacker gets hold of the server password database, then they can just connect to the server and
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Because we nicked so many words from so many different other languages, and kept (to some extent) their so many different spellings and pronunciations.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I'd prefer to think about this more along the lines of developing a feature that someone is already providing advertising for.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Prior to buying a used car, I asked ChatGPT which side of the steering wheel the indicator control would be. It was (thankfully) wrong and I didn't have to retrain myself.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
That's the difference between the cabinet office and No 10.
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
In my field, we're always wanting to see what will happen when DNA is changed in a human pancreatic beta cell. We kind of have a protocol for producing things that look like human pancreatic beta cells from human stem cells, but we&#x2
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Yeah, I currently have a VPS with various SSH port forwards allowing me to direct incoming connections of various types to my home computer which is behind NAT. It's evil and horrible and nasty for various reasons, not least of which t
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
They're running trains. Trains use a lot of electricity, and they turn almost all of it into heat. You'd have to have as much chilling capacity as the current electricity demand of the entire tube line, which is quite a lot. Howev
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Me too. I was hoping for an explanation of why the software I have got used to and works very well and isn't broken keeps being removed from Debian in the next version because it is "unmaintained".
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Absolutely. A straw bale hanging from a bridge over a river is an anachronism. It doesn't normally belong there, and it's more likely to be noticed than a literal notice.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Thankfully the title is slightly clickbaity. The research isn't actually being deleted at source - it is just no longer being offered by these libraries.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Although since the GNSS satellites use directional antennae pointing at Earth, this experiment only picked up signals where the satellites are on the other side of Earth and close enough to its edge for some of that directional signal to le
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Pumped hydro is a form of gravity battery. It doesn't have great energy density, but it has fantastic power density and responsiveness. That's where its strength lies. We have also probably already built most of the ones that coul
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Yes. He also happened to be in residence just down the hall from the lecture theatre at the time.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I remember the lecturer commenting on what sort of sick and twisted mind could come up with such a ridiculous convoluted notion when I was taught it at university.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Lucky imaging was always a tool for use on planets and the moon. Anything bright. It's hard to do dim objects because there's less for the software to inspect in each frame to determine the luckiness and distortion, but you can ma
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
The southern hemisphere has more bright interesting stuff (including the centre of the milky way) than the northern hemisphere.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
And you can do tricks such as lucky imaging or active optics (depending on your budget) to further improve the resulting resolution. Lucky imaging is tricky on something as dim as Andromeda, but has been shown to be just about possible.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
It's not so much the altitude that gives you a clear view (although that also helps), but the lack of nearby light pollution and lack of clouds. The European Alps are lit up like a Christmas tree and in most places will not give a spec
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Very nice, but doesn't model pressure.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Air pressure is reported in hectopascals and fuel quantity in kilograms (or tons). It's only in America where this isn't the case. We're still using feet for altitude in most places though (it's mainly Russia that uses m
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I wouldn't ignore the effect that having surgery and then two weeks of a strictly controlled food intake has. That might account for a large proportion of the success rate. I heard about a study that found that the fasting required for
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
> The author admits to not being a C undefined behavior expert At this stage, I would seriously doubt the credentials of anyone who claims to be a C undefined behaviour expert. Saying "I'm not a C UB expert" is just a re
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
I also was raised on using a keyboard to interact with a computer. I agree with a lot of your points - the UI on a mobile phone is not very good at doing text-based stuff, but I think that's OK, because I shouldn't be trying to do
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
Yes, except those numbers will be a lot higher.
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by mnw21cam 2y ago
As a counter-argument, HCI was investigated pretty thoroughly in the 80s and 90s, and operating systems of the time actually had the results of that well implemented in them. I feel that modern OS developers seem determined to throw away al

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