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1831.
by sliken 6y ago
Still stupid, shouldn't they ask if I want that functionality? Not like it's going to be hard to brute force a user's PIN. They should explain what the pins is BEFORE they ask. What it looks like is you are going to be lo
1832.
by sliken 6y ago
I've lobbied for signal, and gotten friends and family to join. Most are annoyed by the PINs and some have left. Their handling of PINs seems quite contrary to their goal of pretty good security for the largest possible number of peop
1833.
by sliken 6y ago
Look at the time line for the model 3 factor in China.
1834.
by sliken 6y ago
I'd think that, but I have to say that china model 3 factory went from mud to producing cars amazingly quickly. The ended up being what 9 months ahead of schedule?
1835.
by sliken 6y ago
I support several family/friends that are computer novices. It's super easy. Just install the latest ubuntu LTS, drag off all the icons except for the settings/sound (for earphones+microphone) and the browser icon. Instead
1836.
by sliken 7y ago
Mostly that it WAY more complicated than it needs to be, and it often replaces well written and tested tools with VERY poor implementations. Things like NTP, syslog, DHCPd, cron, iptables, mount, automount, handling /tmp, /dev,
1837.
by sliken 7y ago
Makes me wonder if Signal moved elsewhere to avoid the EARN IT act, could they still publish their app to the Android and IOS stores?
1838.
by sliken 7y ago
With shelter in place orders suddenly doubled the need for TP for homes. Paper mills that target big buyers (who buy by the pallet) use different paper, packaging, and contracts than paper mills that target grocery stores. Sure there'
1839.
by sliken 7y ago
Keep in mind that home kitchens typically don't waste much food. Sure sometimes leftovers get pitched, but generally what you buy is what you eat. Restaurants on the other hand waste an impressive amount of food.
1840.
by sliken 7y ago
Keep in mind that "spring up very quickly" to a geologist is on the order of inches per year. There are several places currently where glaciers have melted and are experience uplifts on the order of inches a year.
1841.
by sliken 7y ago
Well trained tanks are quite familiar with dealing with artillery. They are highly mobile, can cross many kinds of terrain (not just roads), and are well aware of using terrain, random speed, and random directions to avoid artillery fire.
1842.
by sliken 7y ago
Shrug, it's really no big deal. I have a Tesla Model 3 and never visited a website, nor plan to. It's a car, has games, maps, music, nav, etc. Can't think of a reason to visit a website. Sure you dig in and use the screen
1843.
by sliken 7y ago
50% accurate I'd agree is useless. But the parent said 50% false positive, presumably with close to a 0% false negative would be VERY useful and save potentially millions of lives. We need enough tests yesterday or so to avoid a rep
1844.
by sliken 7y ago
Flu's evolve and there's feedback from the behavior of the humans they infect. So if they make you feel like crap you are less likely to spread the infection. So that results in a less aggressive infection out competing a simila
1845.
by sliken 7y ago
The world needs IP rules like the FCC (USA) has for Amateur Radio. The rules are basically if lives are in danger, anything goes.
1846.
by sliken 7y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611910
1847.
by sliken 7y ago
Would taking signal or similar encrypted app and removing the ability to share files and images avoid the issues caused by the Graham-Blumenthal Bill?
1848.
by sliken 7y ago
Medcram (which is the video linked) has had some great coverage of COV19. Numbers, trends, and conclusions all backed by the original published papers. Awesome.
1849.
by sliken 7y ago
No point in testing? How can you make any decisions for public safety without numbers? Numerous options like pushing jobs and schools to go virtual, cancelling sports events, conferences, etc. Even to the point of blocking roads and air
1850.
by sliken 7y ago
My solution for this kind of thing is to support a router that connects to the internet. Then on the internet side run a DHT so all the internet routers/gateways can find each other. Each router would keep track of the devices they
1851.
by sliken 7y ago
Dunno, I think one of the biggest weakness of various ham related technologies (and yes I have my general) is the assumption that everyone is online all the time. Trying to communicate with a few dozen people is very inefficient with amate
1852.
by sliken 7y ago
Why? Even 200 in a small area, say a ski resort, mountain bike race, or similar seems perfectly reasonable. Sure not 200 people typing as fast as they can, but plenty for the normal chatter I hear over sms. Especially if you keep the mes
1853.
by sliken 7y ago
"The total number of people getting sick is not reduced by that." Correct, or at least possibly so. But by flattening the curve you can greatly increase then number of people that survive. Entering respiratory distress because o
1854.
by sliken 7y ago
Well keep in mind for COV19 that your survival rate will be much higher if there's enough beds/people to treat you. Looks like with an overburdened medical system the lethality for those going to the hospital is somewhere under 5
1855.
by sliken 7y ago
A recently saw a paper calling that COVID-19 was easy to detect early in the course with an oral swap. But later in the disease course it was easier to detect with a fecal test. Turns out a lung scan was more accurate than either.
1856.
by sliken 7y ago
A friend tried this in the last week and was frustrated that there seemed to be no way to limit CPU/GPU use to only work relaed to Covid. Is there a way to limit work to Covid?
1857.
by sliken 7y ago
Heh, I'd settle for phones without epoxied in batteries. A good start would be an iron clad right to repair law, making it illegal to include non-user replaceable batteries in any consumer electronics, and requiring anything cloud enab
1858.
by sliken 7y ago
Assuming you are going to buy a server to run gcc compiled code, that seems fair. After all just about every linux distro uses gcc of clang/llvm to compile their binaries. Using Intel's compiler or AOCC to compile binaries for no
1859.
by sliken 7y ago
Corona virus seems plenty happy to infect people in warmer climates.
1860.
by sliken 7y ago
Don't have links, and there is much debate. The tricky part is people die quicker than the recover, so any death and recovery totals measured on the same day are measuring different populations. But as people learn more they are getti

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