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by noonespecial 7y ago
Blizzard was, in fact, consistently following their core principles the entire time. We just got an education on what those principles actually were.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Pollution concerns aside, your valves are timed and the manifold ports are shaped to work with the back pressure provided by a working cat. If you didn't compensate for this during the modification you've likely cut the working li
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by noonespecial 7y ago
You adjust the system, however obfuscated and difficult it seems, so that they work to better themselves instead of for you. Because at the very bottom layer, that's what's happening.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Forget that. I'd pay to see rat drone racing. Especially if it turned out that practiced rats flying local could often beat humans flying remote.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I'm actually quite a bit more worried about some dumbass tossing things off the overpass at my car. Rocks are free.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
“A very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter can carry a one-or two-gram shaped charge,” he says. “You can order them from a drone manufacturer in China. You can program the code... Or you could start a meme about sneaking up on p
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by noonespecial 7y ago
It will then no longer be referred to as a "robot" or "AI", will look nothing at all like how it started (probably just a big box), and people will call it "the dishwasher" as they wonder why AI and Robots are
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by noonespecial 7y ago
When a bad outcome is assured (piracy from their perspective) the only rational course of action is that which will prevent the blame from falling on you: "Yes it was pirated, but we spent maximum cash on the very best DRM... what else
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I'm pretty sure it goes back way farther than that. "$NewThing changes $allthestuff in $notsogood ways, so we should go back to $oldthings from $previousbettertimes." Is a perennial journalism favorite.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Indeed. "Move fast and break things" might not be the best idea in this particular case.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Think of how much more the victims would have if they just put the $1.6M in a mutual fund in 2012.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
All the victims should opt out and class sue the law firm for crummy representation. Surely all my data is worth at least a whole penny!
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I don't suspect that his "dark" feeling came from prescience about the impending dotcom crash. Locking a fledgeling business into a $30M lease should feel dark in any economy.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
All the worst jobs I've ever had shared one common characteristic. Knowing exactly how to fix a problem, having the skills to do so, and being absolutely forbidden from actually doing it. This sounds like one of those "opportuniti
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I once drove my '76 300D for more than a week with no electricity whatsoever. No generator, no battery. Hill started it or borrowed a fresh battery when I needed to start it and let it run until I was done with it. Electricity was stri
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Skimming social feeds is a very different kind of reading than book reading. If you spent all that time sprinting could you could also run 300 miles per week?
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Indeed. I recommend a Butlerian Jihad followed by rigorous reliance on Mentats. It's a joke but sometimes I really do wonder.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
GL.iNet does the same. I use many of their offerings at home and for various projects. https://www.gl-inet.com/
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I've worked in quite a few hospitals. I've got some really, really bad news for you.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
>How pricey are they? Hopefully not very. I used to work at a CD duplication place and we had 100's of them in giant robotic duplicator towers. They were the drive of choice for exactly these sorts of capabilities. When we closed do
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by noonespecial 7y ago
The most immediate value is that once the mango knows it can see the internet, it routes everything behind it over openVPN out through my colo server neatly sidestepping any dns chicanery or malicious mitm attempts and instantly connects al
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Or, you know, ship a lobster in the wrong kind of container. https://www.nacdl.org/Document/OvercriminalizationVictimAbne...
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Exactly. When people sputter breathlessly that basic minimum income is unsustainable because the people who receive it will just sit at home watching TV and taking drugs I just laugh and tell them we already do that. We just call it social
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by noonespecial 7y ago
Normally captive portals are just keyed on MAC and done through DNS redirect. In this case, just using a browser though the Mango in NAT Lan->Wifi works fine. This is nice because your Mango can then share that authenticated connection a
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I think the opposite. Instead of polite consideration for others, we filled the airspace with dictatorial edicts and draconian overreactions. The backlash will be such that any hint of it in the future will be vigorously put down. A shame a
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I carry a GL.iNet GL-MT300N-V2 (Mango) with my own build of openWRT on it. Allows for all sorts of network hackery. Powers right from the usb port on my laptop. I never connect "bare" to a public network without it. I'd give
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by noonespecial 7y ago
My Commodore Amiga used to give it a shot now and again.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I don't even care if they're wrong. It's just good to hear people starting to say hopeful things again.
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by noonespecial 7y ago
I'm always a bit dubious when claims are made that this or that "requires" a certain amount of water to do. What kind of water, and what happens to it afterwards? It doesn't just vanish. Water is just moved from a useful
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by noonespecial 7y ago
In the current political environment, allowing the government (just about any nation's) in via eliminating end-to-end encryption is a reduction to user safety.

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