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by sennight 5y ago
> reverse-engineered the protocol and open-sourced ... free work oof, I know that feeling - that sadness that comes with the realization that the manufacturer could have saved you so much trouble but chose not to... which you then reward
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by sennight 5y ago
Is it my responsibility to help "content creator" small business growth regardless of how ridiculous their revenue model is? Here is a tip: put some thought into the sustainability of tossing that responsibility over the wall to G
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by sennight 5y ago
https://www.digchip.com/datasheets/parts/datasheet/222/IDT73... https://hackaday.io/project/8121-discrete-yasep/log/28438-wh...
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by sennight 5y ago
huh, it wasn't that long ago that they outlawed the kind of "hacking tools" that would be used to verify the integrity of cipher systems... is that still on the books? My German is rustier than my Fourth, so I'm drawing
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by sennight 5y ago
While I'm not aware of any formal study on the matter, I do remember them going over the subject at length in a forward observer course: the blame for the majority of airstrike blue on blue falling on the grunt calling for fire. It mat
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by sennight 5y ago
> e.g. know if the Israeli pilots thought they were attacking an Egyptian ship or an American one The sailors would know because they have access to the same information that you do, but a greater incentive to actually do the reading. Th
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by sennight 5y ago
That is what the money is for, but I'm sure your coup d'etat would do wonders for the product and not end in a predictable cycle of cannibalization that finally gives way to business failure.
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by sennight 5y ago
Well it certainly forces the issue, because the equation changes from: automation cost < labor cost to automation cost < labor cost + cost of union rep declaring "I'm the captain now"
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by sennight 5y ago
> Unions don't... You then go on to describe how they necessarily assume an adversarial role. Trying to link the fall in union popularity with the class divide is laughable... look to the change in Fed monetary policy and the point
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by sennight 5y ago
Nothing would make me automate faster than being told I had to accommodate employees plotting against my interests or the strategic objectives of the enterprise I built. That is especially true if there was a hint of an outside union franch
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by sennight 5y ago
The US government has long outsourced legally questionable things to "private" companies (corporations are actually a government invention). But in the last year it has gotten extremely bold about it - holding press conferences wh
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by sennight 5y ago
> Easy way to find laptop schematics is by OEM name. In this case, Wistron LOS-1. That is easier... now you just need to magically know the OEM name of the board! > That is unfounded fearmongering. No, it is pretty solidly founded in
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by sennight 5y ago
heh, back in my day that role was filled by IRC over a low bandwidth SIPRNet link - with each room being a different command or area of operation. You can see evidence of this from Manning's tactical data dump.
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by sennight 5y ago
These schematic shops... don't give them money. It would be different if they added any value at all, but I've seen no evidence of that - just a moneygrab. Here is what you do: use a DHT search engine to get the same thing. That i
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by sennight 5y ago
So... and I mean this genuinely: that isn't the point I was addressing, but I suppose if you understood it to be "word salad" then reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. Maybe its time for you to reconsider the wi
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by sennight 5y ago
> GPS is trivial to jam. Not as trivial as jamming detection and countermeasures, so simple that it has found its way into base model commercial components. If you are in the air: use directional antennas - why are you listening to the g
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by sennight 5y ago
A FOIA request turned up the email exchange that motivated the redefinition. Clearly motivated by a desire to control outcome, which is odd - given the constant demand for deference over critical thought: https://www.scribd.com&#
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by sennight 5y ago
> In decades to come we'll wonder and think and study how this all went so horrifically wrong. lol, it might take decades to massage public consciousness for a desired outcome in the state's interest, but it certainly doesn&#x2
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by sennight 5y ago
Advocates for <insert thing you dislike> always seem to gloss over the fact that a lot of that shit is not healthy. I doubt that is a conversation that can really be had online by people who aren't pseudo-anonymous - measuring a
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by sennight 5y ago
ha, and here I'd assumed there was some convoluted vacuum getter / ion pump at the root of it... nope, just didn't wanna screw about with the bond wires. Thanks.
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by sennight 5y ago
Since you offered: what is that trace called that is presumably electrically connected to the ceramic cap solder seal? I've wondered about its function, but have never been able to distill the prior sentence to the necessary power word
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by sennight 5y ago
What are they gonna do in response, bankroll somebody to say they have a tape of Russian hookers peeing on you? The FBI is famously inept at anything beyond questionably legal political games, so much so that the Secret Service was in charg
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by sennight 5y ago
> Its all your fault BS. I didn't ask for the lockers, or even want them - because I knew what would happen. I've never signed up for Prime service for the same reason. Tell me again, how is anything my fault?
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by sennight 5y ago
Like literally, that is the basis for state power - several iterations of "...or else" finally end with "we kill you". Private companies don't enjoy that privilege - because they don't have the power to disting
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by sennight 5y ago
Assuming stupidity is actually the most charitable thing to do for something so objectively ridiculous. The alternative motivation being a calculated, manipulative, attention seeking stunt.
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by sennight 5y ago
I was speaking about the broader electronics market. I don't really view anything post Lenovo sale to be a thinkpad - there is practically zero design continuity. I think the [T|W]520 was the last IBM design, the product of a left seat
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by sennight 5y ago
"There's a sucker born every minute." -- Somebody in the 1800s marketing Ye olde Apple® Pro Stand™. I expect the trend to continue, as individuals find it more and more difficult to keep up with the marketing induced conspicu
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by sennight 5y ago
Back when IBM was making Thinkpads, I called their support number to get the FRU for a HD in a second hand laptop that was well out of warranty. The next day I had a package waiting for me with a new drive and prepaid postage for the return
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by sennight 5y ago
> Percentage wise it was a massive arb, but you couldn't see this in the raw numbers... Counterparty risk, that is where the profit came from. I did the same thing, but went into it knowing what the exposure was and how to mitigate
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by sennight 5y ago
I can certainly empathize with anyone who restricts purchases to "need" instead of the far more common motivation: conspicuous consumption. Personally, I'm more motivated by spite - I hate the idea of rewarding the consume-pr

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