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Physicists discover special transverse sound wave(phys.org)
5 points by snthd 5y ago|0 comments
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by snthd 5y ago
Nymphcast looks promising. Otherwise for the sync there's stuff built around snapcast. It has the fundamental limitation that it's a dumb pipe. You can control the volume and mute it, but a pause only happens when the snapcast get
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by snthd 5y ago
>management is incentivized to care about things other than shipping/deliverables/this quarter's returns. Could someone elaborate on how that's done?
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by snthd 5y ago
Another reason for the trend (in phones too) is better water resistance.
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by snthd 5y ago
Might be more important for noise cancellation.
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by snthd 5y ago
They're just fans of portal.
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by snthd 5y ago
Allowing sellers to price their items higher on Amazon than elsewhere means it's possible for the seller to offer me a better price, and still make more money (because their costs are lower when Amazon isn't involved). When Amazon
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by snthd 5y ago
>Why would you possibly want a bureaucrat in Washington, or committee of such, overseeing Amazon's pricing decisions? Alternatively "Why would you possibly want your democratic representative in Washington, or committee of such
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by snthd 5y ago
>Allows me to actually work outside!!! This can also be achieved with a transflective panel. Edit: Here's one retrofitted to a thinkpad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuegrU_kIq8
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by snthd 5y ago
>The simplest solution would be to revoke domains with domain parking pages on them. Parked domain pages are less bad than shallow fluff designed to try and improve pagerank. >If the domain contains an offer to sell the domain, you lo
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ICCL Submits EC Oversight Complaint about Ireland's Failure to Uphold GDPR(iccl.ie)
10 points by snthd 5y ago|1 comments
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by snthd 5y ago
To answer my own question, it's because the games are (symmetrical) encrypted. Skimming switchbrew it looks like there is public key crypto as well. https://switchbrew.org/wiki/NRR So this key leak doesn't me
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by snthd 5y ago
Why are there valuable keys on the device? I (wrongly) assumed the device would only contain public keys to verify signed code.
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by snthd 5y ago
To loosely paraphase Feynman - the fact the author can explain it so clearly to those not deep in the field demonstrates a real understanding and depth. (Feynman said something like, if you can't explain it to a layman you don't r
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by snthd 5y ago
>similar things from Asia on YT Got any pointers?
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by snthd 5y ago
>What's the alternative? Use the ISO 7001 symbols. https://iss.isolutions.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:pub:PUB400006:en Personally I think they're ugly. Not always more ugly than a given 'M' though.
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by snthd 5y ago
https://www.cyclinguk.org/press-release/new-report-highlight... Would be nice if people were always actually disqualified at 12 points. >While numbers of exceptional hardship pleas are not recorded separately, offic
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by snthd 5y ago
>How do we even mitigate against these types of supply-chain attacks, aside from disabling run-scripts, using lockfiles and carefully auditing the entire dependency tree on every module update? Don't trust the package distribution s
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by snthd 5y ago
It's not enough (but it's still a good idea). "Slaughterbots" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg ) shows a terror angle for some of what technology can do (drones).
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by snthd 5y ago
Does that mean you can send links to different instances of Firefox under different profiles, or even particular windows (eg sending a link to the same screen/workspace as the programming passing the URL)? Historically I think the last
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by snthd 5y ago
>I don't know if there are any replacements for it. There was DMOZ (which Google has previously used to seed it's crawl) and now there's https://www.curlie.org/
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by snthd 5y ago
Does the inability to jump to a timestamp adversely affect blind users?
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by snthd 5y ago
Listenbrainz[0] looks like an interesting project for building better (or at least more open) recommendation systems[1]. [0] https://listenbrainz.org [1] https://blog.metabrainz.org/2020/12/24/play
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by snthd 5y ago
They're probably trying to offset the guilt they feel from payola[0]. https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-11-02/amplifying-artist-in...
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by snthd 5y ago
Instilling implicit conformance to stereotypes is an affront to curiosity. Curiosity matters.
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by snthd 5y ago
https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert is useful for re-flashing some widely available smartplugs without opening them up. Then you can use MQTT or HTTP. Unfortunately some newer plugs are incompatible with the
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by snthd 5y ago
Facebook doesn't even require you get your login email address 100% right.
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by snthd 5y ago
>40-60V system What makes that voltage a better trade off?
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by snthd 5y ago
People who want to find memes to repost on their social media.
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by snthd 5y ago
Presumably the original amber lights are too small to be legal. Changing the LED colour is the smallest possible localisation. https://www.acarplace.com/2018/01/index/ >Stylists don’t deserve all the blame

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