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by scrumper 9y ago
Back in the late '90s when I got my first diesel (a Citroen AX, with what was at the time the smallest production diesel power plant available) you'd have to wait many seconds for the glow plugs to warm the car before trying to st
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by scrumper 9y ago
Porsche has been playing with new ownership models recently, including a sort of membership club where a fixed monthly payment gets you access to any model. So this blockchain-based entitlements thingumy could be seen as an attempt to put i
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by scrumper 9y ago
Not to mention the searing heat of re-entry, which, if you survive it, dunks you in Venus's atmosphere: a scalding hot steam bath of sulphuric acid. If there are any tardigrades in the Tesla they'll probably be fine :)
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by scrumper 9y ago
"Rates vary based on your membership plan and the phase of the moon." It'd be a joke on any other site, but makes sense here! Thanks for sharing this. Their network of scopes is quite impressive.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Thanks, I figured some MITM for the SSL piece but genuinely thought that client side JS hashed the PW. So this was educational and I am uncomfortably naive.
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by scrumper 9y ago
> He asks me to go to Live.com (the Microsoft email site) and enter a random username and password. A few seconds later, the information I just typed appears on his screen. This was interesting - how? Shouldn't only the hash of the
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by scrumper 9y ago
'Private' just means 'limited'. We are still talking about multiple distinct counterparties transacting with each other. Public blockchains replace the need for trust with, essentially, energy usage. That's what get
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by scrumper 9y ago
> Modern settlement and clearing is efficient. It's perhaps the most efficient part of the financial system; it is certainly the easiest to upgrade. This isn't really right. Pre-trade (price discovery and trade matching) are ab
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by scrumper 9y ago
Charmingly put. Your 'lowbrows' read more now though, no? SMS, Tweets, Facebook, memes...
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by scrumper 9y ago
A bug? I'm not sure the analogy holds. Why would the techniques used by the bad guy general not be available to a real adversary? Did he win by finding an exploit in the meta war-game (i.e. a cheat), or did he win fairly, entirely in t
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by scrumper 9y ago
Okay I understand that, makes sense. So this isn't so much about stealth not being worth pursuing as the Zumwalt having served its purpose as a technology demonstrator and experience/requirements gathering exercise, albeit one tha
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by scrumper 9y ago
Seems that in a sense the Zumwalt is the first casualty of China’s new anti-ship ballistic missile system.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Perhaps via FAA which regulates and approves SpaceX activities?
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by scrumper 9y ago
You’d have to pay - a lot - to develop the robot (and control its mission). There was a car already lying around.
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by scrumper 9y ago
My first-gen iPad Pro, the big one from 2015 or '16, is getting really slow, particularly with Safari, and it gets all the updates. Having some trouble understanding what's going on here.
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by scrumper 9y ago
This isn't an argument with your overall point. But your second sentence isn't quite right: "This is not a drill" is part of the alert message itself. If it is a drill, the instruction to issue the alert is prefaced with
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by scrumper 9y ago
I'm interested in engineering for track marshall safety with these cars. Anyone come across any interesting articles? Certainly there were some difficulties with early F1 KERS batteries, must be far more difficult here with the energy
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by scrumper 9y ago
Loved the video. Was actually funny as well as being cool. What's up with the old VHS-style interference? Is it an analog radio link? EDIT: yep it is, I know the answer now I've read the article.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I always thought it was deliberately designed to invoke beetle pincers, or bug jaws.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Oh, sad. I always get very excited about the stuff Chris does, it’s right on the interesting corner of the leading edge. I hope whatever comes next is a combination of his ideas which finds fertile ground.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Why couldn't you just have the color scheme on the web page invert if you click one of the unusual, dangerous live alerts, so you're immediately very clear that you've selected a non-normal action? So: -- Business as usual --
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by scrumper 9y ago
And that's likely one of the only things that could be easily fixed, too. The ordering of those links likely isn't changeable without going into the guts of some upstream monster system (preventing those categorized redesigns that
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by scrumper 9y ago
I was not aware of the ZZT/Unreal connection. ZZT was one of my formative programming experiences, a lovely reminder to see it here!
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by scrumper 9y ago
Why's that? Food, housing, and transport cost different amounts in different locations.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I realize this is off topic. Hope you don’t mind a couple of questions - I’m always interested in companies which choose to invest in custom-built software for seemingly non-core functions. What was the justification for building an interna
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by scrumper 9y ago
Well we're sort of violently agreeing, albeit obliquely. I owe you a response; you got unfairly downvoted for what was obvious sarcasm and I think my initial response cast your comment in a bad light. > "it's not violence
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by scrumper 9y ago
You absolutely can, in a boxing ring for example. It's not unconstrained violence if it takes place within a framework of rules - i.e. it's a sport. NFL tackles being the same thing. A Twitter feed showing _only_ illegal violent N
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by scrumper 9y ago
That sounds like a grounding issue. I’ve had that with various MBPs over the years; bad on some outlets, not on others.
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by scrumper 9y ago
It'd be interesting to see a table of 5 year energy cost from inception of a bar of gold vs. equivalent value of Bitcoin, at various #s of transactions.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I agree it's industry by industry. Your girlfriend's experience is at another end of the scale from mine. Every enterprise software company I've ever worked at, sales has both written and presented proposals. There's ver

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