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691.
by riskable 6y ago
As long as they're not inconveniences that make people think, "why would I want to put up with that every day‽"
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by riskable 6y ago
In my head every time I see that acronym I think, "Department of Motor Vehicles" but in this context it means: DC - Maryland - Virginia aka "The greater Washington, DC metro area"
693.
by riskable 6y ago
"Coastal counties" is super misleading. About 82% of the US population lives in coastal states and that figure goes up a little bit every year.
694.
by riskable 6y ago
Hey now... Just because a payment is cashless doesn't mean you can't haggle the price down. I've been in plenty of shops where you bring the item to the counter and the cashier enters the price directly into the register.
695.
by riskable 6y ago
> You can make a lot more and better AAA games if 50% of your time isn’t spent on life chores. That's what the robots are for! And they never complain, never need to sleep, and are always one software upgrade away from amazing new c
696.
by riskable 6y ago
Well if you're just bored and want to see something neat I made a video the other day about how I added an infrared receiver to my 3D printed keyboard (with 3D printed magnetic separation switches and 3D printed stabilizers). I also g
697.
by riskable 6y ago
Perhaps they thought the lack of memory management options in Go is anti-intellectual? I'm not a huge fan of Go (more of a Python/Rust person--to promote my bias) but I can't think of how it would be "anti-intellectual&q
698.
by riskable 6y ago
The post says that risc-v isn't supported by Rust but this is incorrect: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.htm... It's not tier 1 but it is supported. In fact, embedded Rust on r
699.
by riskable 6y ago
Note: I'm a security engineer. Have been doing security work for ~15 years now. Penetration testing is a good way to get real security experience. You'll learn pretty quickly just how vulnerable everything is and how attacker
700.
by riskable 6y ago
I'm keen on the eccentricity inflation idea. We've all become "eccentric" by the standards of old so we're not quite sure what counts anymore. The guy down the street cares for a tree that bears many different type
701.
by riskable 6y ago
Wireless charging is terribly inefficient. Unless your house is powered by your own personal off-grid solar array I really wish people wouldn't use it. It's convenient AF, sure but it's the type of thing that's "me
702.
by riskable 6y ago
>At the end of the day we're building little machines that can execute bits and bytes of software written by people in the same industry, it's all a lot of fun and we mostly make a decent living from it. We're also buildin
703.
by riskable 6y ago
Any particular Chaos Computer Camp presentations you'd say are some of the best?
704.
by riskable 6y ago
I think what the world needs more right now is more foundries and not smaller manufacturing processes. The global chip shortage totally sucks and it's because there's so few players and all the innovation is focused on stuff lik
705.
by riskable 6y ago
> Scholarships are easily obtained with a good ACT or SAT score. For the children of people that read Hacker News, I could see that. For normal American kids? No way. Not even close. The average american kid is not going to be able to
706.
by riskable 6y ago
Electron isn't the answer. It's just a decent (if exceptionally bloated) solution to the problem that Microsoft intentionally created by making it so much of a pain in the ass to make truly cross platform apps. Other, better sol
707.
by riskable 6y ago
Let's have a thought experiment: Tomorrow the government passes a law that outlaws the sale of Windows or any Microsoft alternative OS starting 1 year from now. This law is absolute and cannot be undone before the deadline. What do you
708.
by riskable 6y ago
Patents actually are not supposed to be available for processes! That was something invented by the courts (in 1998: State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group). Congress has passed no legislation regarding process&#x2
709.
by riskable 6y ago
Sorry to disappoint but I think you'll find it's turtles all the way down!
710.
by riskable 6y ago
Don't involve law enforcement unless you absolutely have to. The first thing they'll do is investigate TF out of you and your friends/family and they absolutely cannot be trusted to "do the right thing" or especiall
711.
by riskable 6y ago
Yeah it's just the end of the road, as it were. At the end the keycap, stem, and switch body start to compress so there's some give before the super fun explosion.
712.
by riskable 6y ago
Here's your C++ version: * Whatever it is you need you'll end up re-implementing it yourself anyway unless it's network or encryption related. =D
713.
by riskable 6y ago
Sure, it's a 3D printable key switch design (yes, it's smooth--not scratchy). I've already made one hand-wired prototype and I posted about it on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards
714.
by riskable 6y ago
Yeah, magnetic levitation is the exact opposite of magnetic separation. Magnetic levitation switches are basically just linear switches that get harder to press the farther down they get. Magnetic separation switches are the opposite: The
715.
by riskable 6y ago
This is awesome! I've been developing firmware in Rust for a Hall Effect keyboard (with springless, magnetic separation switches!) I'm developing/inventing (just ordered the first PCBs!). I really wish we had something simi
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by riskable 6y ago
Not just intercept: Using HTTPS prevents messing with the connection in-flight. So an attacker won't be able to inject their own payload into that web page you just requested.
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China's Three Gorges Dam could collapse (flooding 400M)(ntd.com)
20 points by riskable 6y ago|5 comments
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by riskable 6y ago
Oh yes! Please! I have wild fantasies about TikTok being banned like that. "Why was TikTok banned?" "Because the violated the basic capitalistic principal of existing not to make money but to amass a Nazi-like ledger/d
719.
by riskable 6y ago
The problem is that iOS doesn't differentiate between a call that merely checks for the presence of a clipboard entry (e.g. so you can enable "Paste" in a menu/submenu) and actually copying the contents of the clipboar
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by riskable 6y ago
It's responsive layout Hypercard. We've come full circle. Maybe more like Filemaker Pro, circa 1990.

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