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by octorian 7y ago
Except it seems like you mostly find slow L2 chargers that take 6 hours to do anything meaningful... In places where you are likely to only park for 30 minutes (maybe 2 hours at most). Might help if you have a Leaf with a tiny battery that
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by octorian 7y ago
I built the R-series unit at the Droid Depot last week, actually. Just today I've finally started to poke at the bluetooth/BLE stuff with it. Apparently, once powered up, it broadcasts a repeating advertisement packet of some sort
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by octorian 7y ago
Because the actual data for those images, that is stored on Facebook's media servers, is just a blob of ciphertext. Only the sending and receiving clients actually have the keys, not the servers.
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by octorian 7y ago
And I wonder how long that'll last... I chose Dropbox because of the Linux support, as I actually use all 3 of the major platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux) regularly. If I have to leave Dropbox, I honestly don't know what I
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by octorian 7y ago
For reasons I cannot fathom, it seems like bigger companies are far less likely to justify the resources to build multi-platform native software than smaller ones.
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by octorian 7y ago
Yeah, I've never had a good experience with the Google Drive client. Heck, I remember when the Windows version would suck up all available file handles and basically make the machine unusable. That being said, the whole point of Dropbo
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by octorian 7y ago
Which is kinda the plot of the movie Gattaca, where the main character is stuck in low-paying grunt jobs for this reason until he goes to extreme lengths to fake his DNA to get the job he really wants (and is otherwise completely capable of
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by octorian 7y ago
Using WhatsApp just shares the raw phone number. None of those other details leave your phone. (Of course sharing /w the Facebook app is probably a completely different story.)
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by octorian 7y ago
> people who have their own garage / shed / yard are generally much less in need of a maker space These are the people who also have enough money to actually spend on "doing stuff", but for whom going to a "dedic
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by octorian 7y ago
> I have always been a bit salty of make media’s attempt to own the term “maker” The concept of "people who build stuff as a hobby" is not really new at all. The coining of the term "maker" is, and honestly feels a li
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by octorian 7y ago
> It may be different at the graduate level, where ~25% of enrollment is foreign. Only 25%? If you look at science and engineering graduate programs, its probably closer to 90%. Or its certainly felt like that around every department I&#
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by octorian 7y ago
Because we as developers also desperately want a UNIX-style system, and our lives are so much easier when we can choose one that won't get us laughed out of the room by commercial software vendors.
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by octorian 7y ago
> We want content organized in a logical manner with tags, folders, lists and search that's completely removed from the physical location. The problem is that there's a lot of room for interpretation as to what is the best way
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by octorian 7y ago
Nice in theory, but maybe not as nice in practice. They tell you "do the first 2 years at the CC, then do the last 2 years at the University". What actually seems to happen is: "Spend at least 3 years making your way through
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by octorian 7y ago
I thought normies considered \ to be the "computer slash". (Which basically explains all the verbal misuse)
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by octorian 7y ago
My interest ended when I couldn't afford to build the model rocket kits I wanted to build (I was a kid with a very limited budget). When I got older and had money, the lack of any convenient launch sites probably discouraged me from ge
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by octorian 7y ago
All features that make for a great press release, and lots of media buzz that may tempt people to buy the cars. Fixing bugs and regressions in the existing software? Not so much.
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by octorian 7y ago
The moment Tesla cares more about the software experience of existing owners, than things they can brag about to reporters and observers (who don't actually own/drive their cars everyday), that will hopefully change. When that&#x2
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by octorian 7y ago
> not having to support IE4.x and NN4.x when it hit sufficient market share was really nice. Ahh yes, the era when far too many web developers gleefully gave the finger to anyone not running Windows. I'm so glad those days are over.
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by octorian 8y ago
And typically lower-paid people have higher deductions on their taxes (versus withholdings) and usually get the larger refunds. So much so that they basically depend on it. That's why everyone is in such shock right now. Meanwhile, I&#
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by octorian 8y ago
Its called hired nighttime help. We did that with #2, after the experience of going through hell with #1. (Thankfully, both became quite easy to deal with after a few weeks. But at the beginning, its hard to see past the next 24 hours.)
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by octorian 8y ago
Following a strict list of guidelines that ensure the infant is in the most uncomfortable position imaginable, making absolutely certain that they are physically incapable of falling asleep . ( without first screaming until 4am)
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by octorian 8y ago
Co-sleeping is basically at the very top of the list of things "they" say YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER DO, OR YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PARENT. So I don't think its fair to recommend it as an alternative to pretty much any other sleep cont
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by octorian 8y ago
Now we just need another (completely irrelevant) Elon pot scandal, and I can finally buy some TSLA on the cheap! (Kinda wish I thought to do that last time.)
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by octorian 8y ago
It does often seem that any news report about TSLA "soaring" or "plummeting" turns out to really just be a small'ish osscilation. At this point I tend to take most of these with a grain of salt.
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by octorian 8y ago
The "WhatsApp Business API" client also offers the ability to backup/restore the Signal cryptographic identity, because it would be a bad experience for end-users to see identity change notifications from businesses every tim
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by octorian 8y ago
A big benefit of end-to-end encryption is that it makes it impossible for the service provider to suddenly start doing silent mass surveillance of their userbase. A solution doesn't need to be 100% perfect to achieve this goal. Somehow
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by octorian 8y ago
And Signal does allow you to mark a safety number as "verified", which I think does put up an extra barrier. I don't think the article makes any mention of this.
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by octorian 8y ago
I had a few interesting experiences breadboarding for a project of my own, for a 6502-based project. Most notable were: - Being able to detect noise from the system clock crystal oscillator all cross the breadboard (using my oscilloscope) -
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by octorian 8y ago
I love this service for the parcel data, for pretty much the same reasons as the UPS and FedEx equivalents. It means I actually know what parcels are headed my way, regardless of whether or not someone explicitly gave me a tracking number.

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