sleepingeights

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1. 31.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   Well, they needed both drones to locate the source of any sounds detected in the water. With only one drone, their tests can determine what sounds were made (and maybe some general vicinity), but not as accurately from where. The Chinese al
2. 32.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   The US has never entered into a conventional war with another power close to their own. It is a 100% uncertainty if the US would win, even with the US' more expensive wartoys that are still unproven. Just a cursory glance at US' m
3. 33.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   It's cheaper for them to buy "startups" while they're smaller and in a fledgling state. Once in a while you hear of the startup founders making off with millions, but that's like a 3% lottery. In reality, doing the
4. 34.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   Rule of Thumb: Don't pass around those kind of projects, planning, ideas, etc on Google+, GMail, Facebook, Bing, hotmail, Yahoo, #Slack etc... unless you intentionally want/expect someone else to run with the idea, because if it i
5. 35.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   "You know what they do with engineers when they turn forty? They take them out and shoot them." - Primer (2004) One of the biggest killers of sedentary professions is heart disease, which is the number one killer in the US. People
6. 36.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   Passive RFID is powered by the incoming radio waves that is 1000x stronger than the signal transmission energy from the RFID tag. There is no statement to the power requirement for passive WIFI from an active WIFI power source. The active W
7. 37.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   A real-time OS/app wouldn't benefit even with a 5 cycle Crit-section. Most, if not all, "true" real-time OSes require "real-time" data coming in from IRQs. Sure, there can be some complex synchronization if an
8. 38.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   Email is becoming obsolete, and today's generations are using messaging apps which also provide PFS (fwd secrecy). PGP et. al. don't provide any of that. Today's messaging services (Signal, Wire, Telegram, etc...) outpace ema
9. 39.▲
   by sleepingeights 10y ago

   With as many SHA1/SHA256 etc ASICs, hopefully they change some of the hashing parameters to make this secure. The downside is the server has to match the hashing iterations. Considering how emails can stay in service storage for decade