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by sigstoat 8y ago
> NVidia may have focused on the high end too much. seems to me like they're making products available at all sorts of price points. i'm not an mba, but that strikes me as a good idea. not making quite enough mid-level products
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by sigstoat 8y ago
i find it difficult to take "we're worried about state-level actors compromising our hardware, but we're unwilling to use a standard keyboard layout to avoid it" very seriously.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
a new controller is probably worthless to you, even if the old one wasn't storing the data encrypted. you don't have the map between real sectors and locations in flash. your data is probably jumbled up one way or the other, but a
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by sigstoat 8y ago
i've never seen or heard of an automated board rework system. thinking about the steps and things i've had to do to manually rework boards, your machine would need not only be able to apply force to pull parts off of boards withou
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by sigstoat 8y ago
just based on having seen data recovered from other flash devices, and the advertising copy of these devices: hot-air rework to lift all the flash chips off and get them hooked up to something (probably custom) that can read them. if the co
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by sigstoat 8y ago
if you and your employer are concerned about this, why are you mail ordering laptops instead of buying them in cash at the store?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Why is it adversarial? I figure it's about the candidate trying to find a position that is suitable for him or her, and the employer is trying to find the correct person to fulfill a specific role. that's ideal, but in practi
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by sigstoat 8y ago
foundationdb is just a KV store that doesn't even authenticate clients connecting to it. the idea is you put layers in front of it to take nice structured requests (of some sort) and turn them into transactional KV manipulations, while
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by sigstoat 8y ago
is there some website along the lines of "things you learned in <= freshman university science class that has been updated"?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
what process do you use for identifying fake apple chargers non-destructively?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
part of what you're paying for with your drugs is quality control to ensure that you 1) made what you wanted to make 2) didn't contaminate it with something you didn't want.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
i don't know what else mylan makes, or how much is epipens, or whatever, but if we look at their 2017 financials, and removed all R&D, they'd have had a profit of ~1.2B on total revenue of ~11.9B. so they could shave an averag
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> We can do so much better using cryptography and electronics no, we can't > But paper is extremely inefficient? efficiency is less important than correctness.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
i don't see how LotW requires consensus? you could have a bunch of sites which just take these signed logbook records and store them, and make them available for other sites to download. the records verify themselves by virtue of crypt
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Some of these miss the mark, e.g. depending on what you're doing with PII storing hashes or symmetric encryptions would work fine. granted that "depending on what you're doing" is a big caveat, but: i feel like ther
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> we're still asking a question we've had since times immemorial: where to draw the line between protection and privacy? i've got a cookie which says you can't find anyone writing seriously about that question before
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> If you're trying to learn a language, you should learn the way children learn their first language: by speaking. this is a sufficiently awful way to learn a language that kids only do it because they've got to. (see the langu
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by sigstoat 8y ago
it could be even easier than it was. there's no reason someone couldn't make a small bit of desktop software which, fed AWS/Azure/GCP/DO/github pages/etc credentials, set up every aspect of a website, and
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Doesn't matter what you call it, eventually you'll find yourself being left out of some decision making if you're remote. the only companies where everyone is involved in every decision they want to be involved in are &l
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by sigstoat 8y ago
putting it on the intake keeps the motor cleaner (which will help with motor life), you can vacuum the filter without disassembly, and the air flow will tend to help the filter stay on, instead of pushing it away.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
related, i’d like to see some software which could configure aws services to implement zapier like functionality for you. and/or implement/deploy simple personal web services (rss reader, wiki, maybe even webmail?) on top of apigw
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by sigstoat 8y ago
my recollection from cognitive linguistics, years ago, was that the dyslexia rate is affected by the complexity of mapping symbols to sounds. italian speakers had a lower rate than english speakers, for instance. i haven't read this in
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Firstly, there are a number of different chemicals you might test for. Secondly, for chemicals that are dangerous at 1ppb only gas-chemotography / mass-spectrometry can detect that, which would cost upward of $500 per test per che
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> I asked the interviewer at the end about what he liked about working at Google and all he had was that he liked the commuter allowance. Incredible. the interviewer i had couldn't even manage to come up with anything he liked about
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by sigstoat 8y ago
some nice research on computer-assisted colorization from some years back: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/ works on video. don't suppose anyone knows if a photoshop (or gimp) plugin of it was e
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by sigstoat 8y ago
one of the pictures in the article certainly makes it look like the books are willing to lie flat, with just a little effort. (i was expecting this article to be someone reposting an NY Times article from the introduction of mass market pap
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by sigstoat 8y ago
go find some friendly drug chemists with GC/MSes. they can do what you want, cheaper, tomorrow.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
i'm not aware of an actual organized dataset, but you could start hitting up e-hentai.org and with the right searches (look for decensored or english, and then find the matching original japanese versions on there), you could get toget
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> The article states having 20% of home value in liquid cash; my 6 month E fund is about there. it says >=10%. which taken as some absolute rule, is absurd. if you're not moving in the next 10 years, the current value of your hou
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> It is probably at least 100,000. no need to guess. the second quarter results for alphabet inc says 89,058 employees. https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q2_alphabet_earnings_releas...

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