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by nier 4y ago
There was a video of someone describing cryptography during a lecture with the example of a secret locked by Alice and sent to Bob. Bob has no way of opening Alice’s lock, so they simply add their lock and send it back to Alice. Then Alice
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by nier 4y ago
In my understanding of history it would be more accurate to write: The Apple II is what sustained Apple post- and pre-Jobs.
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by nier 4y ago
From the article: «Texas gained an astounding 471,000 people last year and Florida gained 417,000, while California lost 114,000. […] Those Census net-domestic-migration numbers show that 343,000 Californians left for other states.» Reasons
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by nier 4y ago
Without a blocker, I see 10 separate ads.
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by nier 4y ago
Your comment made absolutely no sense to me. Checked my ad-blocker. It was off!
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UWP stands for Universal Windows Platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Windows_Platform
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by nier 4y ago
PLB stands for personal locator beacon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_locator_beacon
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by nier 4y ago
They probably needed extra time to take care of the paperwork for the misrouted luggage and have some food. Wasting time wastes time.
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From the linked article: «The line of tape on the floor was added to mark the exact border line after a fire decades ago set off a fight between insurance companies over who had to pay for damages, the tour guide explained.»
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Which dictionary does one need to consult for a positive definition of headcrab?
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by nier 4y ago
SDR stands for software-defined radio. Goes best with a software-defined antenna. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio
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by nier 4y ago
For the uninitiated as myself, here are excerpts from: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/MoltexFLEX-launc... “According to MoltexFLEX, the cost of electricity generated by the FLEX reactor is comparable to th
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by nier 4y ago
The Mondo 2000 URL currently shows an error page. Here is its archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20221225002720/http://www.mondo2...
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by nier 4y ago
The URL currently shows an error page. Here is its archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20221225002720/http://www.mondo2...
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by nier 4y ago
Now you know how I felt growing up in the 90s. Like… we were supposed to get Halo not you! :)
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by nier 4y ago
Thanks for the support! :)
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Excuse me for shamelessly self-promoting on Christmas Eve but I’ve built just the tool for that! https://adriannier.de/colordoggy
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by nier 4y ago
I gave up as well. Fell on hard times. Needed to take a job. Everything turned out great. My personal solution was to take all the humiliation and frustration, let it ripe and turn it into gratitude. So I’m grateful for not having the respo
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by nier 4y ago
It was surprising to me seeing the news with Ukrainian soldiers using TikTok out in the field.
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macOS 11 was named Big Sur while Catalina was version 10.15. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_operating_system...
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by nier 4y ago
I wonder whether an airbag enveloping the whole car would have been advantageous in the case of Romain Grosjean’s crash in Bahrain in 2020. He might have bounced off the guard rail or be stuck in it just the same with extra material surroun
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by nier 4y ago
Your experience matches mine. Quite frustrating.
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Then there would be at least two people misremembering. He wanted to navigate the tight system of a water filled cave with a submarine and felt insulted that his idea was non-sense. The rescue operation involved divers holding their oxygen
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by nier 4y ago
The still images don’t do that toy enough justice. There’s a review video with Adam Savage, a former designer at Industrial Light & Magic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ytI929g4puE
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by nier 4y ago
«With the examples of surveillance discussed above, we now know why contemporary Germans so highly value privacy and limits on state surveillance. They are reluctant to go back down that road again.» Source: https://www.wondriumd
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by nier 4y ago
The shell command included in the linked tweet is: defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode XcodeCloudUpsellPromptEnabled -bool false
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Disable prompts to sign up for Xcode Cloud(twitter.com)
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Snapshot: https://t.co/i1inlq5r2w Interesting article that describes in numerous examples how strategic bulk purchases of books are used to artificially boost their ranking. Books that both quickly appear on and vanish from
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There’s a difference between simple and simplistic. This 5-year old might be mislead into thinking that there’s no difference between a phone and a social network. A phone call is low-bandwidth and ephemeral. The time it takes to disseminat
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by nier 4y ago
That’s too simplistic in my opinion. Social networks have publishing aspects and Facebook is responsible for what appears and gets amplified on their properties. What happens in real life when a city gets plastered with posters containing c

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