pifm_guy

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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Virtualbox is nearly unusable for windows 9x nowadays. The system boots kinda sometimes, but applications or windows explorer usually crash with some memory protection or illegal instruction fault within a minute or so. This has been th
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> oversampling, but oversampling of what exactly? If you have 3 million pixels of sky, and 3 variables to find, then you have oversampled by 1 million times. In the ideal noise-free world with no other unknowns, any 3 of those pixels wou
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Worth noting that in many programming competitions online, a large chunk of competitors either don't submit anything, or only submit a little example.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
'highest paid employee' usually means 'has arranged ones personal financial affairs badly'. In the UK, being a salaried employee means you pay a rather high rate of tax, compared to other schemes used by rich people - li
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
In my case, I had nighttime images from the same camera, so all the calibration was already done... I was just looking for a rotated version of the nighttime image in the daytime image. But even in the general case, smallish image patches
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Nope - years ago I accidentally discovered this while trying to align star images for stacking. Some of my images were taken in daylight, and I was surprised to find my rudimentary image aligner still worked just fine. Never wrote it up
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
It's worth noting that stars can be seen even in daylight with the right software. That's because, while no individual star is visible, the exact angles between all stars is fixed, so you can do a brute force search of all possibl
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> Ones I've used, as long as you've configured a way to resolve the user, it pops right up in the service side of the chat system. Be scared of those. They typically use client side JavaScript to read a cookie to know which us
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
North Korea would like a word.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I want to live in a place where overthrowing the government isn't illegal. Sometimes governments go wrong, and when that happens I want the citizens to be able to get rid of them and start afresh. And with modern governments having acc
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
This same 'fraud' exists in lots of social situations where someone offers to 'pay the remainder of a bill' or 'I'll top up your sponsorship to $1000'. Classic restaurant example:. "I saw that table g
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I believe the scheme worked like this (numbers are examples): * Driver's get $1 per delivery, plus tips. * Drivers get a guaranteed weekly take-home of $300, provided they work 30 hours. * Consumers are allowed to give tips to the driv
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Said routers could be redesigned... And besides, there is no need to keep the whole routing table in RAM. Instead all that's necessary is a single integer per route representing which port packets to each route needs to be sent down.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Don't optical links to space suffer terribly from atmospheric distortion? Imagine looking at a shell on the bottom of a swimming pool while there are ripples in the water.... Usually the shell is a bit distorted. But at some points in
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
WhatsApp recently added e2e backups (as an option) too. I always thought the reason they didn't encrypt backups was as a way to remove pressure from security services to weaken the encryption. Better to let the security services go a
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
It is an option.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I've got a feeling that even if there was a central portal, most people wouldn't want to pay. Most people don't like news. They read it because they have nothing else to do.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I would guess that those 'flakes' in the paint make factory retouching far harder. Is it possible that the lack of flake is a cost-cutting measure (by reducing the scrappage rate) rather than a style choice?
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
This is the real new feature. App developers don't want to go choose a competitive price in every one of 174 locales. But they also don't want to be pricing too high or low for what the local population can afford/is willing
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Note that if you don't trust the CA, you shouldn't trust the issue date either. A dishonest CA would backdate any certificates signed. So having an arbitrary cutoff date in software seems unnecessary. If you still trust the CA
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
More than half the failures I have seen are 'electronics/firmware' problems. Ie. It is not caused by degradation of the flash memory, but instead caused by the controller going bad, refusing to initialize, having a bad inte
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Yeah - if I were signing a contract for these semis, I would want the '1 million miles' warranty to mean 'if the truck stops working and can't be repaired by Tesla within a week, then Tesla will buy back the truck for th
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Anyone else can log a cert too. There was talk of Chromium logging any cert that chains to a public root that they find un-logged.
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
I suspect that the hand tools made in China aren't low quality because China doesn't have the tech to make them better, but instead because making cheap low quality tools is more profitable. In fact, when taking apart China-made,
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
> Everyone agrees that no evidence of mal-issued certificates exists. This is one thing CT logs are useful for. As soon as logging certificates to a public log becomes commonplace, then misissued certificates can't be used in priv
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Typically one can fix that by adjusting the transfer drum voltage, normally found in the service section of the menu. You might also need to adjust the fuser temperature for non-oem toners
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
There isn't yet enough research on health hazards of toner to really give a good answer here... Black toner for example is mostly polyester plastic and carbon dust. Neither of those are particularly toxic, although they are in a mu
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Most are refillable if you follow an unofficial online guide. Beware that toner dust is really nasty stuff and gets everywhere, so however careful you are you'll still have clouds of toner dust escape and stick to every surface of your
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
Developer is, in all modern machines, a roller. It lasts almost forever - far longer than any home user will use their machine at least. When it does run out, I don't think it's due to wear or the metal particles being 'use
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by pifm_guy 4y ago
But if the lowest bidder has some kind of penalty to pay if average queueing time goes over 15 minutes or random members of the public rate the service provided below 3/5 stars, then they'll do a much better job.

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