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811.
by oxplot 11y ago
x86 and Unix are insanely complex too and a big part of that complexity has to do with backward compatibility. I've scanned through the specs and I haven't seen any complexity just for the sake of it. Care to point out any specifi
812.
by oxplot 11y ago
I see. My response in that kind of situation would be one of: "sure thing", "don't mention it", "sure", "my pleasure".
813.
by oxplot 11y ago
It indicates distaste of the phrase, in eyes of the author I assume. I personally don't like "no worries" either, mostly because I'm a very literal person and words that unnecessarily imply things bother me (ie someone w
814.
by oxplot 11y ago
I was under the impression that most if not all meters of any kind (electricity, gas, etc.) have GSM modems that not only allow for this kind of signalling but also report their reading to the energy company.
815.
by oxplot 11y ago
From top of my head, I can count 5 things I've purchased only after seeing an ad for it, that have improved my life immensely, solving issues that I'd never thought I had. One example is (be careful, I'm advertising here on s
816.
by oxplot 11y ago
"Okay, I’ll admit it — it’s not exactly the sexiest topic in tech." I actually find USB-C one of the most "sexiest". As the author himself puts it, it's a "Virtualization" of connectivity ports. But I thin
817.
by oxplot 11y ago
My grandma used to use the loop side of a safety pin to clean her ears. I personally use q-tips but I only do the twist thing at the very entrance of the canal. The point is to keep a clean "appearance".
818.
by oxplot 11y ago
I think the main issue is the width of the escalators. Given that strangers don't like to stand next to one another (as per article's claim), two single width escalators would end up working more efficiently than one double width.
819.
by oxplot 11y ago
I forever struggled with my standing posture. I always had to put thought into it. Do I keep my shoulders all the way back? Do I suck in my stomach? How much? And because of all the mental load and muscular effort, I'd get tired very s
820.
by oxplot 11y ago
Not really. A big enough ship combined with a clear day and a set of binoculars works pretty well. As for the big wave, repeat the experiment enough times to filter out the noise.
821.
by oxplot 11y ago
I'm sure a udev rule would be sufficient to whitelist only the trusted hardware. However, nothing can stop a malicious one to spoof serial numbers or other characteristics of a trusted hardware.
822.
by oxplot 11y ago
This example highlights a very useful alternative function of `watch`: to simply run a command on regular intervals without caring about the output.
823.
by oxplot 11y ago
The absurdity of this intrigued me and I dropped by their site. Read a few threads and it seems like they're not fond of satellite photography and rely on their senses almost exclusively. So here's a little question for them: why
824.
by oxplot 11y ago
These seem to be good reasons for the alleged move by Apple. My personal experience has always been horrible with 3.5mm jack especially on the connector side. My Android phone is already huge and it almost sticks out of my pocket. Add the h
825.
by oxplot 11y ago
I presume it'd be a lot harder since the builtin one hooks straight onto the main board. One could perhaps turn the builtin keyboard into a USB one and hooks it up to an unused port.
826.
by oxplot 11y ago
After having a quick look at all the external interfaces of my laptop, the only one that has a predictable latency (that I know of) is the microphone/headphone jack. It should be fairly trivial to convert a serial digital data to an au
827.
by oxplot 11y ago
I'm building a new controller board for Apple Wireless Keyboard (A1314) so that I could have complete control on what each button does and add new functionality (e.g. switch b/w devices quickly, fast blutooth connect/reconnec
828.
by oxplot 11y ago
I find it interesting that Wikipedia classifies [1] pedophilia as a "psychiatric disorder". Would this make homosexuality or other sexual orientations a disorder? Otherwise, what's the difference? [1]: https://en.w
829.
by oxplot 11y ago
Given that email clients are fairly mature and advanced already (especially Gmail's), it seemed logical to go the unix way and use it as the UI to stream of feeds sent as email. I wrote a bit of python [1] and stuck on it a free opensh
830.
by oxplot 11y ago
And how do you prove that you did after the red light camera catches you?
831.
by oxplot 11y ago
Given the position/speed data that Google collects through Google play services (which assists then with determining traffic conditions for instance), I think Google could do much better at controlling the traffic lights (or at least p
832.
by oxplot 11y ago
Hmm, here in Australia, I can't recall a single time this has happened. I've actually tested how well the software for these lights work, for myself at night time when there's no traffic. Usually the lights on the main roads
833.
by oxplot 11y ago
How about Camlistore by Brad Fitzpatrick [1]: "Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweet
834.
by oxplot 11y ago
Isn't block level duplication/checksumming like RAID supposed to solve this hardware unreliability? I understand that by default RAID is not used on end user desktops.
835.
by oxplot 11y ago
As boring as it may sound, I didn't do anything special, just the run of the mill practices: lowering brightness, running `powertop` and setting all tunables to "Good". At idle, this gives me ~3 Watts usage. With the 46 Wh ba
836.
by oxplot 11y ago
For me, Arch won on every machine, desktop, laptop and RPi and I think it mostly had to do with how Arch stays the closest to unix philosophy. I used Fedora for a few years and before that Ubuntu and I think I only ever rolled my own packag
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$2 Hack Adds Wifi to Raspberry Pi Zero(hackaday.io)
3 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
838.
by oxplot 11y ago
I've seen this happen once or twice before. I think HN should have some simple algo to detect these and adjust weighting accordingly.
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Protecting hundreds of millions more mobile users(googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
1 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
840.
by oxplot 11y ago
"could not be expressed" is not a derivative of "to be". "be" there allows using "express" without needing the subject (e.g. "I can express my feeling" -> "My feeling can be expresse

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