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by niftich 9y ago
As others are indicating, this is tech exists, and in some places it's widely deployed, where in some others it's nowhere to be found. I've seen them in several US cities and suburbs, in many states, usually along major arter
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This is a cool video, but the paper itself [1] is pretty light. The substance of the paper is basically (from the abstract): "Despite simulation-based evidence of the potential benefits of SIs [Slot-based Intersections], a comprehensi
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Maybe this is an artifact of a generational divide, or with less generalization, a function of familiarity with tooling? For their most basic requirement, a line-per-item format will suffice, and provides superior usability. You can edit it
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The W3C box model became standard and IE was criticized for its quirky noncompliant behavior [1], but then many years later 'box-sizing: border-box' was introduced and widely praised and adopted by frameworks [2][3]; it's fun
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Sure it does. All x86 CPUs boot up in real mode, for example. Bootloaders are written in real mode.
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I don't disagree, but this was a cheap way to reuse existing R&D, like the front airbags specifically mentioned in the article. Every now and then, various concepts come out with a cabin that has two rows of seats facing each other
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ZIP Codes are not geographical entities and don't correspond to geographical extent; rather, they are a hybrid between a discrete number of finite delivery-points and an abstract way of capturing a postal delivery route. They are often
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Blaming this on shipping and billing forms , as the headline and the article text suggests, is missing the forest for the trees. The deeper issue at play is developer and business naïveté; trying to transplant knowledge and assumptions tha
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The name “retpoline” is a portmanteau of “return” and “trampoline.” It is a trampoline construct constructed using return operations which also figuratively ensures that any associated speculative execution will “bounce” endlessly. (If
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One mechanism to recoup a portion of this cost is a state-run licensing fee that's usually worked into the retail price of receivers [1]. A more elaborate evolution of this, to keep up with advancements in technology, is the blank reco
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The draft work which proposes what amounts to an ALPN protocol-name echo as an implicit signal to some heretofore unspecified compliance with ACME workarounds is a mistake. Even the suggestion to "scan alexa's top sites" to s
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The tls-sni challenges rest on the assumption that a hosting provider will somehow ensure that a self-signed cert uploaded by the user contains "truthful" information, even though the second half of the cert is blatantly fake and
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Do these patterns and transitions get more intense with music, like a mid-2000s music visualization, or is that just me?
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Also, for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, weather/emergency radio in the US, run by NOAA, is FM on a different VHF band between 162.4 MHz and 162.55 MHz, which most run-of-the-mill receivers don't tune. To be emerge
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The spectrum is regulated by governments everywhere, so it doesn't have to. Or, if you prefer, "that ship has sailed" a long time ago, so let's look at what it gives us as it exists now. Technologically effortless dissem
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Thanks for the update and good work. Are you able to share and/or clarify whether the TLS-SNI-02 challenge is affected as well, in addition to TLS-SNI-01 which is currently Production on LE?
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For LetsEncrypt, the acme-v01 API is the only production endpoint as of this time [1], which only supports the -01 version of tls-sni. [1] https://letsencrypt.status.io/
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On Windows machines, I usually have IrfanView installed as an image viewer, which can do this batch-rename with a GUI. But I have also used scripts for this in the past.
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No. In fact, the solution detailed in that article accomplishes the exact inverse of one of the letter's demands. While the letter wants third-party content not to be surfaced in a wrapping viewport that downplays the fact that it&#x27
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Announced in January 2017, the Android, iOS, and Web versions of Google Voice have a revamped UI and, apparently, text chat [1]; discussed on HN at [2]. [1] https://blog.google/products/google-voice/ringing-2017-up
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FWIW, what your coworkers are doing is one of the ways that language slowly changes. By them misunderstanding the true meaning of the word and applying it in a slightly different, but distinct sense, the word is undergoing semantic drift [1
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Travel photos in folders like 'YYYY-MM-DD Location', non-travel family photos by people, professionally-significant photos in a different hierarchy, incidental photos -- where the topic isn't common to many other photos -- in
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In aeronautics it means, roughly, 'within acceptable tolerances', or, in other words, 'as expected'. For a good analysis of this sense of the meaning, see this StackExchange answer [1] to this question. [1] https:/
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The post makes the case that they don't want the publisher to know that AMP thinks the user would want to visit, and that's more of a matter of the user's privacy, since that implementation would have the user's user-age
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The meat of the story is: "We embarked on a multi-month long effort, and today we finally feel confident that we found a solution: As recommended by the W3C TAG [1], we intend to implement a new version of AMP Cache serving based on t
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Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16102996
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Magenta [1] was renamed Zircon. The component in question is the kernel for Fuchsia. [1] https://9to5google.com/2017/09/13/google-fuchsia-os-kernel-z...
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The ICANNWiki lists some info about the .google TLD [1]. Notably, you can read a large portion of their application [2]. Details about the 2012 'new gTLD Program' are available [3], as well as a list of brand gTLD applications [4]
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Google Voice was a rebrand of a product acquired in 2009. Google Talk was an XMPP chat service launched in 2005, and integrated into Gmail in 2006. "+Hangouts" was originally a feature inside Google Plus, launched in 2011, just li
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In 2000, the streaming media player market had RealNetworks in first place [1] with 12% market share, Apple with QuickTime in second at 7%, WMP in distant third at 3%. By 2004, QuickTime had over 36% share, WMP in the lead at 38%, RealPlaye

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