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by pdkl95 6y ago
Electricity and water are fungible (at least in reasonable household or small business quantities). Dependency on these resources doesn't necessarily require other dependencies. Dependency on internet services is transitive . From t
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The non-internet "analog option" must be preserved. I can speak from personal experience that it is becoming more difficult. Unless more people need to actually use the analog option they will be removed in the name of &quot
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> They are slowly but surely converting what could be generalized computing machines to limited Internet gadgets. Aka "The war on general-purpose computing". Far too many people in the tech industry are fighting on the wrong si
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"How a plan becomes policy" https://web.archive.org/web/20160531101830/http://ogun.stanf... In the beginning was the plan. And then came the assumptions. And the assumptions were withou
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"Warning Signs Of Corporate Doom" https://wiki.c2.com/?WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom There are many interesting warning signs on that list. > Toilet paper quality suddenly drops This is not a joke. Most of the ti
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Unfortunately human error can never be completely eliminated. However, I'm not really talking about this type of problem. In my previous [1], the operator understood how the tool worked; they simply made a mistake when typing the comma
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> I run a YouTube channel that is over 10 years old , has over 770,000 subscribers , almost 600 public videos , 120,000,000 views When writing software involved in managing a live, public, massively multi-user system, the traditiona
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> Moving termination to the ... backplane is a solution (e.g. PCI uses it) While PCI does solve the reflection problem in the backplane, the PCI bus is not terminated. When a signal first passes by the receiving device it only sees a wea
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Indeed; of course there are times it might be necessary to work around safety features. The problem happens when they are not labeled properly! When the end of the cable looks like normal with a standard connector, this type of workaround
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Possibly related to the song they release last year, "More Data"[1]? Both songs use the same "Meeeeeee..." sample, and they have complimentary topics. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTWD0j4tec4
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Negativland – Don't Don't Get Freaked Out (Feat. Eliza)(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 6y ago|2 comments
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Markiplier: YouTube Just Gave Me a Strike(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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exurb1a's variation, from his amazing video[1] "We're the Last Humans Left": My name is Homo sapiens, hominid of hominids; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! [1] https://www.youtube.com/wa
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Diary of a Trauma Surgeon: 12 Days of Covid-19's Surge(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 6y ago|1 comments
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Pretending that any resource will always be available is shoddy programming. Check your return values, trap non-fatal exceptions, and always assume remote network resources might not be available. Forget China; there are many reasons an HTT
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https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/18/21295226/facebook-trump... https://www.salon.com/2020/06/19/facebook-pulls-trump-campai...
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The triangle wasn't the only Nazi reference. They ran 88 variations of the ad, and the first sentence had 14 words. Both numbers are well-known references used by neo-Nazis for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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> at no point does it read my data Tracking doesn't require reading any of your data. All that is necessary is to trigger some kind of signal back to Google's servers on whatever user behavior they are interested in tracking. &
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> the library can be inspected Really? Could you publish how you are inspecting an unknown program to determine if it exhibits a specific behavior? There are a lot of computer scientists interested in your solution to the halting proble
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My link did include a date range: &tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F2019 # urldecoded: tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:,cd_max:12/31/2019 While I didn't bother specifying cd_min, many results are within your
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Google returns lots of results from a variety of sources for that quote: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22when+the+looting+starts%2... As expected, most of the results appear to be about the original use of the phrase in
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> used a nazi triangle If anyone doubts that this was an intentional dog whistle to white supremacists: the first sentence of the ad with the nazi triangle had 14 words[1]. His campaign ran 88 [2] on the facebook pages for Trump, Pence,
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> an accurate map of where the users are with respect to where the advertisers are Not just advertisers - accurate location context information can (on it's own or in combination with other data) de-"anonymise" location da
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> That means in dense areas (e.g. apartment buildings), routers will often ... interfering with each other. Obviously the radios wouldn't interfere with each other if we could prevent the radio waves from leaking into other apartmen
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> “As tempting as it is to use the tools available to us to change the outcome, I am confident we must never do that or we will become that which we fear.” > “If we limit what information people have access to and what they can say th
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Diary of a Trauma Surgeon: 10 Weeks of Covid-19(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 6y ago|0 comments
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Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis (2001)(lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
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> The bandwidth of the side channel can be dramatically reduced In the late 90s I read a paper about using page faults to exfiltrate data to a low privilege process on a TCSEC B [1] system. A very low bandwidth, noisy side channel was
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A prerequisite of that type of badge that I really wish existed is a standardized, interoperable protocol for curation . Instead of trying to solve the problem of malicious software with a walled garden app store, anyone should be able to
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The only source I can find for that "explicit claim" seems to be from an emailed statement to (several?) journalists where they state: >> "The information included in this header reflects the variations, or new feature

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