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by nielsole 8y ago
i recently bought a backup yubikey for this exact reason. I really don't want to go through the pain of having accidentally locked myself out, just because I damaged my keyfob
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by nielsole 8y ago
I was once very positively surprised by booking.com. I perceived them as super scammy because the website is one giant big dark pattern. But when shit hit the fan while in China, they proactively reached out and gave me a 20$ voucher (mind
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by nielsole 8y ago
I heard that recent SSD s don't really rely on trim so it doesn't really matter, does it?
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Revolut push notification: “Help me not get fired”(twitter.com)
1 points by nielsole 8y ago|0 comments
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by nielsole 8y ago
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
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by nielsole 8y ago
There was a good podcast about the founding period on NPRs how i built this. Worth checking out
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by nielsole 8y ago
What else is a constitution?
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by nielsole 8y ago
Mercedes has spent some thought on this. They propose having LEDs in the front of the car that colour where it sees pedestrians, so you know if you've been seen.
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by nielsole 8y ago
For this to work the self driving car needs to be expensive enough for people to care to organize their trips this way. So we will need to pass road tax in cities to account for the externality of congesting the roads. As these cars are dri
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by nielsole 8y ago
I recall from a talk a couple of years back ( so not sure I got it correctly) that after 50-100 years you can basically walk into the fusion reactor without having to worry about radiation.
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by nielsole 8y ago
I use preemptible machines in autodialing and for first time did not have any machines available for multiple hours yesterday. I am wondering whether this falls under the normal preemptible behaviour or this service degradation.
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by nielsole 8y ago
So if you're a natural person working in a store you don't fall under this exception. I thought the GDPR sign at the butcher shop was a joke?
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by nielsole 8y ago
My main message is that racial profiling is unethical whether or not it is effective. Especially in the case I cited, it is obvious that racial profiling works better than random sampling (or based only on other features). People out of an
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by nielsole 8y ago
Racial profiling is being criticized despite being effective. There is an argument to be made that you shouldn't be treated differently based on the color of your skin. In fact it is e.g. in the German constitution. http://m
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by nielsole 8y ago
There is a German proverb about percussive human maintenance, literally translated to: slight hits on the back of the head increase the ability to think.
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by nielsole 8y ago
I don't think they will fix the underlying issue now. I've had the same issue ( literally trying to download chrome) in 2014. Now that they have public pushback they will fix just this ad placement. I wonder what makes them think
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100ms in additional latency costs you 1% revenue?(niels-ole.com)
59 points by nielsole 8y ago|23 comments
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by nielsole 8y ago
There are already robotic arms without cages e.g. https://www.universal-robots.com/products/ur5-robot/ Yes, we currently don't have the technology, but nailing one or two use cases in a couple of years(e.g. b
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by nielsole 8y ago
If a robot were to do the entire household, I think people would be willing to pay north of 2k per year for that. If you spend an hour a day doing laundry, cleaning dishes, emptying the washing machine, that's 365*8.5= 3k I don't
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by nielsole 8y ago
Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site [...] since 2004, when an oil-production platform owned by Taylor Energy sank in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Ivan. Many of the wells have not been capped, and fe
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by nielsole 8y ago
They deactivate accounts after a couple of months without activity but can be easily reactivated (I went through this earlier this year after having been inactive for multiple years)
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by nielsole 8y ago
Their argument is, that requiring an ID has solved most of the fraud problems.
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by nielsole 8y ago
By having the timestamp be signed by a trusted party. Either a single entity or e.g. the blockchain
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by nielsole 8y ago
That is a good story. I guess though they had their "A players hire B players hire C players" in mind.
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by nielsole 8y ago
If you statically host your blog it will not be a problem. One of my blog posts hit ~1000 points on Reddit and 500 on hacker news. This barely moved the needle on CPU and network utilization. I guess even a 5€ droplet will do
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by nielsole 8y ago
If you had never visited the site, how would modern security practices have prevented the attack? HSTS is useless in this case isn't it?
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by nielsole 8y ago
I really look forward when the premise of Theranos becomes technically viable. Cheap continuous medical tests. So much in medical diagnosis is just a very coarse decision tree and it is uneconomical to investigate every sickness. Imagine d
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by nielsole 8y ago
While I agree with your assessment, it reminds me of the "flying horse carriage" view of the future. Wouldn't be surprised, if multiplanetary hosting would change things more generally.
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by nielsole 8y ago
The calendar of Fastmail works. It's not great, but it does the job
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by nielsole 8y ago
https://www.theatlas.com/charts/Skd1s2ig7 Apparently the chart shows only the number of permits handed out, not the number of cars actually admitted. (After you get the permit, you have a period during which you actual

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