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by oasisbob 6y ago
I like that. Those four disks cost less than $1 each, and each individual one holds over one million bytes? Amazing. They sound so useful that I bet people built whole collections of them, including devices just for organizing and protectin
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by oasisbob 6y ago
The problem isn't the clients. The HTTP server needs to provide optional support for range requests on that resource. (RFC 7233) Not all do.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
And Java. As I understand it, Go and Java are both trying to avoid FFI and calling out to system libs for name resolution. I tend to always offer a local caching resolver available over a socket.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
> The parent comment received 15 upvotes in a few hours, so I'm guessing most people on here don't know what "CIS" means in this context. People are more likely to have opinions on writing style than imaging chip econ
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by oasisbob 6y ago
I agree, but isn't filing in what you already know a common technique when presenting things for human consumption? I'm thinking scanning microscopy, SEM, STM, etc. The image implies that all the data is from the same instant, whe
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Perhaps to provide a moment of levity before the lawyer makes a rushed and boring trip to Macy's and requests a continuance? An author who sends a lawyer into a courtroom in a bathing suit better have a really good reason.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
So at first glance, this is vaguely like Diceware, you just don't stop "playing"? http://world.std.com/~reinhold/dicewarefaq.html
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by oasisbob 6y ago
I have never purchased any electronics under those terms in the US, certainly not brand new electronics by retail.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
The problem, having worked in banking, is that the core system is separate from the loans system, almost certainly. More complexity. Probably some semi-automated batch handling which is far more brittle and janky than anyone suspects. But r
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Since you used a check, chances are pretty high your could issue a stop-payment order to your bank and the check would be refused. (Assuming you realized in time.) It would be similar if you paid with ACH, IIRC. Participation in the ACH net
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Isn't the whole point of the UCC to remove all sorts of litigious details in contract situations like making payments? eg, If I agree to pay my babysitter $50 and write an American-style check (aka bank draft), me and the babysitter do
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by oasisbob 6y ago
It's not just small pesky shops that screw the consumer. You step out of the EU/NA and consumer protections quickly disappear. Reliance is one of India's largest companies, they have a consumer electronics brand like Best Buy
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who initially read "cable" as more likely to be electrical than structural.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
I would call it wire rope, or a support line. If I worked with it often enough, I'd probably refer to it by size or construction (EHS, 7x7, etc) I'd argue that a Bowden cable (eg a clutch cable) is primarily carrying a signal... r
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Interesting to me that everyone is calling this a "cable". It might be the combination of climbing/sailing/rigging/nerd ... but I'd never call that structural element that broke a cable. The only cables I can t
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by oasisbob 6y ago
That Molex story is great. Can only imagine how much magic is in some of those molds... trying to think through many molex connectors in terms of relief angles, tolerances, and manufacturability boggles the mind.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
> "premature imitation" When I worked at a young startup in Seattle we went through a stretch of hiring ex-Microsoft PMs who were great at solving all sorts of ten-years-old Microsoft-flavored problems. I wish I knew this term
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by oasisbob 6y ago
The difference between censorship and elective filtering involves choice and power.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
> There are only a handful of countries that restrict internet access I agree with the thrust of your general argument, but feel it necessary to point out that the list of countries with substantial and automatic filtering mechanisms is
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Can anyone verify this claim? It sounds too good to be true. According to Wikipedia, FLIT was a product and large consumer-facing brand of Standard Oil, not Shell.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Do AP classes require a strong lab component? My honors chem class was in 10th grade. It barely touched on electronegativity, nor acid/base chemistry in a through way. To expect a student to pull that experience forward two years later
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by oasisbob 6y ago
_The Bell Curve_ is not an academic treatise, and was near-universally derided. If anything, it itself was an anti-orthodox work trying to restore the basis of ethnicity as an explainer for many different phenomenon. Maybe I'm confused
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by oasisbob 6y ago
If the COVID crisis has highlighted anything, it's that science literacy in the US is so bad that nobody really debates issues of science, they grab the label and bludgeon people with it. What I find really distasteful is when people s
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by oasisbob 6y ago
When you visit the article posted, the site manages to insert another item in your browser history, at least on mobile. When I attempted to leave the article with my browser's back button, instead of seeing HN, I saw the "Before y
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by oasisbob 6y ago
"Check our this great content before you leave" ... anyone else sick of websites stuffing an exit interstitial in your browser history, just in case you try and use the back button to leave? Obnoxious for Anandtech to start doing
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by oasisbob 6y ago
In other words, you think someone in China ate a bat and made the world sick?
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Will unitrunker handle multiple simultaneous captures at once? One of the magical things about the SDR approach is being able to synthesize dozens of streams from a single antenna and several SDR devices. The setup I had could capture ~10 s
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by oasisbob 6y ago
Analog repeaters still use trunking protocols. Edit: Whoops, I didn't realize CPD still had so many assigned frequencies in-use with just a code to activate. That could be done with a Baofeng.
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by oasisbob 6y ago
> including using SDRs to vacuum up wide swaths of RF and then store call data Been there, done that. The technique is scary-good, even with cheap hardware. Capture everything, sort by talkgroups, form listen queues ("police",
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by oasisbob 6y ago
You could look for the repeater uplink, maybe. Keep in mind that these public radio systems are often used by firefighters and other agencies. Finding police specifically would probably involve some sort of metadata leak in the radio signal

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