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by rjmunro 3y ago
That's pretty much what a WiiMote does, except it's not looking at corners of the screen, it's looking at infra-red lights on the "sensor bar". That's how the lightgunverter linked at the bottom of the article
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Many of my documents are only one page, especially private confidential ones like communications with HR.
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The iPhone 14 and above are not "unmodified". They have new specific hardware on them, otherwise Globalstar would work with the iPhone 13 and all Android phones.
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I can't stand the hard plastic seats of US train services and busses. The UK seats are so much nicer. It's really not disgusting.
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There's a live map of London's Underground system here: https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/ It's not 3d, but it shows similar data.
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If you are worried enough to cover your PC camera all the time, why aren't you worried enough to cover your phone camera all the time anyway? And are you OK to connect your phone to your potentially compromised PC with a USB cable in n
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This is one of the very best websites in the world. Various articles from it have been discussed here on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski
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This is a bit different. It's not a password manager app, it's more a standard for storing passwords encrypted with GPG in ~/.password-store and a reference CLI implementation. Several GUI clients exist to interact with the p
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It doesn't mean a Webcam in the sense of a camera that broadcasts to the internet, it means a USB camera you can plug into your PC (or any other device that supports standard USB cameras (UVC protocol). It will probably even work with
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I found a great working telephone exchange exhibit at the "Internal Fire Museum of Power" https://www.internalfire.com/ . It's mostly a museum of diesel engins, but in a separate building at the back they have
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15 was factorised on a 7 qbit computer by IBM, so yes, they could break RSA if scaled up. I'm not sure about elliptic curve. That was over 20 years ago: https://research.ibm.com/blog/factor-15-shors-algorithm I wo
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What about before the machines are sealed off and air gapped? What stops tampering with the software in advance? As long as something about the configuration lets you know it's a real election, your payload can be triggered.
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I think electronic OCR sorting machines are OK, where you put one pile of paper in and get multiple piles out, e.g. Republican, Democrat, Other / Errors. You can quickly flick through the piles and check they are all the right candidat
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That query works in Wolfram Alpha too: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100+kph+%2F+%28.956s%29...
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Also I never know which button to press. Sometimes the big button is the one to press because UX people say it's the most visible, so that produces the smaller flush. If you want a bigger flush, use the smaller button. Sometimes (more
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These messages are correct. You need 2FA. Passwords alone are not good enough security. It doesn't have to be via your phone if you don't want it to be. You can buy a YubiKey or similar, or use something like https://gi
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It's not a lack of updates that is the problem. It's the fact that the product has security issues that need patching in the first place. If we could fix that we wouldn't need long term support.
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Only if there were no changes to the data.
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Yes, sorry, that's what I meant. Excel doesn't preserve the digits but it should.
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Here in Oxford, UK, both the above are available in the same hospital - we could choose what we wanted. Is that not normal elsewhere?
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Excel makes a total mess of many kinds of imports, assuming they are dates when they are not or assuming US vs UK formats dates etc. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam... Howeve
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The problem with "very much off" for font rendering is that it is relative to what you are used to, not relative to any actual standard font rendering. If you've been using Firefox a while, Chrome will look off. If you'v
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> Concorde somehow escaped cancellation Was that because it was owned by a government treaty with France? Neither country could cancel without the other. The final result was way overbudget and not a market fit, but a bunch of skills and
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I wonder if you can have the same plant act as both a propane producer at times of extra power available on the grid, but also generate electricity when there is a shortage. Then the power density and exotic materials are irrelevant as the
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Would be nice to have a review of your scores at the end - did I do better on location or time?
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In a followup post he explains why actually almost the opposite is true - split your buckets into 2 groups, pick a random A and B from each group and if it's a draw, always load A first. This means buckets in the B group will likely be
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Bangle.js 2 – An Open Source Hackable Smart Watch(banglejs.com)
4 points by rjmunro 3y ago|0 comments
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I disagree. I'd argue that Wikipedia or the Internet Archive are 100% admin, and that's a good thing. I don't want them spending money paying people to write articles or paying people to add stuff to the archive. There are a
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No. It does "good" with about 25% of it's income. A lot of that "good" is stuff that the government or local councils would just fund directly if the Lottery wasn't paying for them. Much better to just give mon
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Linus Tech Tips: What do we do now? [video](youtube.com)
28 points by rjmunro 3y ago|12 comments

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