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by smiley1437 2y ago
> the equity is locked away on the home until they sell. Some people get reverse mortgages so they can spend some of the equity of the home while they still live in it: https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-ag
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by smiley1437 2y ago
I'd say it was a dick measuring contest against the USSR: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_and_USSR_nuclear_sto...
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by smiley1437 2y ago
Sounds like a great aggregator but the poor site is getting slammed
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by smiley1437 3y ago
In this particular case, it isn't an issue of 'data loss' which could be recovered from good backups. It's a problem of 'data leakage' where the bad guys have a copy of corporate data - supposedly 4TB of person
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Does anyone know if there are Brother printers\MFPs that can scan directly to email? I don't want the scan to go through some local computer software. I have to use HP MFPs because their scan-to-email is actually decent and can do aut
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Tech Crunch
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by smiley1437 3y ago
> Only when I stumbled upon a random Youtube video of someone replacing the batteries in theirs did I get the oomph to pull the thing apart to change the batteries. Same for me and the rice cooker battery, a random video convinced me it
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by smiley1437 3y ago
I screwed up the part number, the correct part number is Keystone 1025, here's the link: https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/keystone-electroni... It had the correct pin locations for my model of r
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Yes, great machines but I shake my fist at whoever decided to solder-in the damn battery I've done two now and replaced them with Keystone1250 battery holders from Digikey, soldered on the reverse side They hold nice big CR2450 cells n
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by smiley1437 3y ago
I suspect that some screws, depending on location in the device, need to be stainless due to moisture exposure Some types of stainless are non-magnetic and thus can't be picked up with a magnetic screwdriver, thus the need to hand-feed
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Any Blackberry that had a trackball\trackpad was great at editing text - because it had the cursor movement and text selection cleanly separated from the touch screen. Too bad that ship has sailed. I still miss my Bold every time I try to
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by smiley1437 3y ago
To me, RT turning to shit is just Goodhart's Law in action - "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" Originally, RT was more or less a 'good faith' measurement of the general sentiment\qua
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by smiley1437 3y ago
One reason I've read is that people (graverobbers?) were superstitious and afraid of statues, and breaking the nose off meant it couldn't 'breathe' and thus had no more life force: https://suzannelovellinc.com
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Is healthcare a Giffen good? Because that would explain a lot about the prices in the US healthcare system edit: look like some people think so: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4103336-healthcare-ultimate... https:&
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by smiley1437 3y ago
I can't ever see the words 'electrolytic capacitor' without getting flashbacks to the capacitor plague in the early 2000s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I still look at any electrolytics
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Good point! The longest-lived artifacts would probably have to be somewhere with much less weather and geological activity than the surface of the earth. Maybe if you put a structure in orbit or perhaps on the moon? Paradoxically, extendi
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by smiley1437 3y ago
The takeaway: "That said, the results indicate that the probability we are alone (<1) in the galaxy is significant, while the maximum number of contemporary civilizations might be as few as a thousand." A thousand civs spread a
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by smiley1437 3y ago
My wife uses google maps in her car and lately the routing is strange - like making 3 right turns when there is a protected advance green for left turns. Apple maps just showed turn left. Sure, I know that sometimes 3 rights is better than
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Sure sounds like it's adding a lot of friction to the purchase phase
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by smiley1437 3y ago
I mean, silicon aside, isn't it all basically CUDA lock-in? CUDA is the defacto parallel computing platform, and exciting tech moves VERY fast with early mover advantage - so no researcher\computer scientist is going to bother learning
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by smiley1437 3y ago
> But I realized when I wanted to buy something I didn't even know what brands were in the space. I this is one of the reasons why Reddit became so popular
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by smiley1437 3y ago
An ipad to be used with an external keyboard is a very suboptimal typing experience - there is usually no strong hinge to hold up the screen at arbitrary angles. In my experience this also means you can't 'pick up' the system
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by smiley1437 3y ago
> I can purchase an iPhone and a developer account and find the same exploits I could if sideloading was enabled. The "obscurity" doesn't exist to begin with. Obscurity DID exist - you said yourself that you have to get a
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by smiley1437 3y ago
> Security by obscurity has been debunked for decades. This is not an acceptable argument for anyone who actually cares about security. Information about nuclear weapons are kept obscure and I'm pretty sure the US government cares a
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Allowing sideloading increases the potential for exploits in IOS to be found, that could then exploit other IOS users. If I had a well designed bank vault I still wouldn't want would-be burglars unrestricted access to probe the lock de
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Is reddit being down causing hackernews to get hammered? It's as slow as the Apple news day
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Not sure if this is what you were curious about, but heat-shock proteins are extensively studied in other organisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_shock_protein
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by smiley1437 3y ago
I remember ago Lars Blackmore of SpaceX released a paper on soft landing Falcon 9, that's the first time I'd encountered convex optimization https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Lossless-Convexificati... It
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by smiley1437 3y ago
I didn't know what WSL was, but now I do, thanks for the tip!
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by smiley1437 3y ago
Are you offloading layers to the RTX2060?

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