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by seandougall 7y ago
> I also want a programmable bedroom light that can slowly dim on at morning. FWIW, a lot of cheap CFL bulbs do this on their own. It's one of the reasons I hate CFLs for most uses, but I've come to appreciate that the light in
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by seandougall 7y ago
"Class/type similarity" means that twins are likely to, say, both have whorls on their right index fingers, but doesn't mean they'll have the same pattern of ridges. So for the sake of biometrics, that doesn't
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by seandougall 7y ago
Passcodes are at least easier to rotate than fingerprints. You get 100,000,000 possibilities with 8 digits, compared to 10 possibilities with 10 digits.
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by seandougall 7y ago
Indeed, Apple had already implemented something similar with Target Display Mode on the iMac back in 2009, so it's hardly a stretch to figure they've been planning something like this for essentially as long as iPads have been aro
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by seandougall 7y ago
Mathematically we can be reasonably certain it works, but afaik it’s not formally proven that, say, there isn’t an efficient algorithm for prime factorization. It just seems unlikely that the U.S. government would know of one that nobody el
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by seandougall 7y ago
Ah, yes, the fabled "biological pronoun". Pronouns are not biological constructs. They don't have chromosomes, genitals, or secondary sex characteristics. They are, by definition, tied to gender. How would life work if pronou
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by seandougall 7y ago
Given how hidden opt-out settings tend to be, yes. If the user has to opt in explicitly, it’s much less likely they’ll consent unintentionally.
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by seandougall 7y ago
A bus would likely have to stay in the right lane, which is still pretty torn up by truck traffic in big stretches.
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by seandougall 7y ago
Don't underestimate that hassle when comparing durations. I once dropped my spouse off at OAK, drove down the 5, and picked her up at BUR. She had time to eat dinner at the airport, but otherwise she really didn't get there much b
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by seandougall 7y ago
Flax seed oil polymerizes to a very slick surface, but it’s relatively brittle, and there are reports of it flaking off of cast iron. Really the best thing you can do is get a hundred year old skillet, because they literally don’t make ‘em
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by seandougall 7y ago
Easy solution: just leave it off entirely! https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
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by seandougall 7y ago
Yup. A few years ago I tried to reduce my dependence on the computer by writing more things down by hand, only to discover my left hand had developed a nervous tic that resulted in me attempting to hit command-S on the paper.
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by seandougall 7y ago
But TFA is not using "particles" to mean "molecules". It means "pieces of plastic below 5mm in size". Compared to molecules, these are macro-scale objects, and if you mix 10^24 of them into the oceans, that bec
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by seandougall 7y ago
There are issues of scale that make that a poor analogy. You can't leverage a botnet to automate attempts to pick the locks of every home in the country. Nor can you pick a normal lock from thousands of miles away. Even if you get insi
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by seandougall 7y ago
Yeah, they don't seem to include the cigarette lighters themselves anymore (the plug with the nichrome coil or whatever it is that heats up when pushed in), but the outlets are still there on my most recent car, and every rental car I&
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by seandougall 7y ago
I've only ever seen that spelled as "yak", so it took me a while to make that connection.
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by seandougall 7y ago
> a scammer may need to get certs for a large number of domains. Why? In the m1cros0ft.com example, you just need one domain, and you can send a phishing link out to millions of addresses. > And unfortunately, a whole generation of co
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by seandougall 7y ago
Yeah, but "-37.80467681 144.9659498" has no meaning colloquially to almost anybody, because normal humans don't think in latitude and longitude in the first place. To me, those are just values to copy and paste into a maps ap
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by seandougall 7y ago
That's certainly true in a scientific paper, where the concept of significant digits is relevant and widely recognized. In a "please remove dead animal" web request, the value is only wrong if it points to the wrong location
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by seandougall 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply! Like many here, I've been a critic of Electron, but I think it also does some amazing stuff, and I'm sorry you have to go into PR maintenance mode over such a weaksauce article. I was coming ba
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by seandougall 7y ago
> For macOS for example, all resources (including ASAR files) are signed, and macOS makes it intentionally difficult to install anything that isn't signed. I just tried this with Slack on macOS, and it launched without a single comp
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by seandougall 7y ago
"... but only if you give her sudo access"
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by seandougall 7y ago
On macOS, if my understanding of the current situation is correct, code signing normally covers all binaries in an application bundle, including binaries in all bundled frameworks. What's different about Electron is that it puts applic
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by seandougall 7y ago
Yeah, one could just as easily claim that Joyful Noise ripped that motive off from Red Hot Chili Peppers' Snow (Hey Oh).
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by seandougall 7y ago
Yup, that's because it's about averages. To take a contrived and simplified example, imagine a hypothetical world in which everybody dies on their 90th birthday by default, but a handful of diseases cause 25% of the population to
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by seandougall 7y ago
Even though they don’t charge for the library, they have a lot riding on the perception of the quality of their protocol. If they allow third party implementations and some of them suck, it might tarnish NDI’s image (and indirectly hurt the
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by seandougall 7y ago
That seems to indicate a 16% increase in life expectancy between the last pre-WW2 data point and the most recent data point. That's pretty huge, especially when you consider that those are averages, meaning that the disparity is made u
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by seandougall 7y ago
You can do all that in Metal -- though as GP said, it doesn't matter, because there's fixed latency at the camera input.
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by seandougall 7y ago
This is as much as possible what the Camera cue in QLab[1] does (I'm the lead video developer), and there most definitely is perceived latency. It's better than it used to be, when webcams were DV over Firewire, but it's stil
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by seandougall 7y ago
Same. At least they fixed the issue (years ago, to be fair) where you could log into your Citibank account and tweak the URL to see other customers' data...

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