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by srmarm 2y ago
It felt like Superhero movies were the Westerns of the last decade. I've not been to the cinema lately, hopefully things have moved on. The creative industries all suffer from this though and as I get older I'm finding I'm bo
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by srmarm 2y ago
Most of the time they do the trick (when rate limited). Even using a birthday will still stop card thieves from emptying your bank account at an ATM. I'd hazard a guess that asking for an 8 digit pin will see lots of people just repeat
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by srmarm 2y ago
And noise
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by srmarm 2y ago
Rumbelows went bankrupt in 1995 apparently. I was a kids and it sticks in my mind as I used to get my mum to take me into the electrical shops after school as a treat and they had a proper fire sale with everything being sold off cheap. I f
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by srmarm 2y ago
This sounds like a really good way of approaching it. From what I understand the argument against is clear but enforcing it in the face of peer pressure a little more complicated! My nephews school allows basic 'dumb' phones but n
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by srmarm 3y ago
Anecdotally, it feels like it goes through phases. IIRC after the wake word (OK Google) triggers the device to start recording the actual command is processed remotely. I suspect that Google Home voice commands are going to be low down the
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by srmarm 3y ago
The thing is the selling point is it ties together loads of different systems and is open source. That is also it's weakness and I'd not want to professionally set up a system and then be at the mercy of third party integrations a
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by srmarm 3y ago
There are still even ways to expose the zigbee stuff, I can turn my zigbee lights on from the other side of the world and even access it via Google Home but it's on my terms and under my control. The actual switch itself is relativ
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by srmarm 3y ago
Good point that it's unlikely to be as simple as a $500m return but regardless of the amounts or structure of IPO my question was more around who are the existing share holders of the commercial company? Is it the foundation or someone
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by srmarm 3y ago
So who gets the $500m or so they're suggesting the IP will raise? Is that going to be injected into the foundation in which case they could do a lot with it (presumably with some guardrails to prevent them clashing with the PLC)
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by srmarm 3y ago
Your battery usage sounds exactly like the kind of behaviour they're trying to encourage but which aren't apparent to most people without an interest in these things so you left with the energy monitor which is really just a nice
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by srmarm 3y ago
For 'dark' storage something in the style of AWS Glacier storage would probably do the trick from an environmental point of view. Drives can be filled and then left unplugged and only spun up when data is requested which apparentl
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by srmarm 3y ago
This is interesting. Putting aside AWS, Amazon has for a long time been a logistics company at it's core - the website is terrible from a customer perspective, pricing isn't great and the seller/supplier experience is certain
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by srmarm 3y ago
In this case it was Fidelity putting their customers money where his mouth was actually.
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by srmarm 3y ago
I've been using SpamAssassin for at least 15 years and it's sadly gotten less useful as the spam arms race has moved on. We regularly see people on here post about deliverability issues with Gmail/Outlook but the truth is tha
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by srmarm 3y ago
I learnt Perl to a fairly basic level but enough to build quite complex CRUD applications and build back end for flash apps. For a while I wrongly took CGI and Perl as pretty interchangable in my mind and in reality my actual usage of CGI p
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by srmarm 3y ago
It'd be cool if they allowed you to redefine the endpoint for the wifi bit of the controller which was the interesting part of the tech IMHO.
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by srmarm 3y ago
I suppose the usual legal argument of no expectation of privacy in a public space applies. However the less formal court of public opinion, social pressure, business policies etc will hopefully make these socially unacceptable in enough pla
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by srmarm 3y ago
Obviously a lot of factors beyond the AI here but this case will certainly make legal departments twitchy.
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Windsor crossbow case: What are the dangers of AI(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by srmarm 3y ago|4 comments
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by srmarm 3y ago
Is one of their top 3 supporters, the Titanium level 'User Manuals' just paying for a good backlink?
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by srmarm 3y ago
Bit of an odd way to put it, like saying there are X amount of HSBC dollars because they offer X different financial products. In this case PayPal's core product seems to be the same as always, they've also added a stablecoin prod
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by srmarm 3y ago
That's shocking and a shame because the platform itself is a good idea and I'd much prefer to order directly from a restaurant than have up to 30% of my order value go to rent seekers like JustEat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats.
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by srmarm 3y ago
They have the low hanging fruit (large apartment blocks) sewen up and are now spreading out. Last week I was excited to see FTTH guys cabling up my suburban street and was told it should go live in a month or so. I went onto their website a
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by srmarm 3y ago
I'm not really sure what the site does, looks like a cleanly designed proxy for youtube? If it's a service that's piggybacking on another site there's a good chance it'll get shut down at some point. I get the feeli
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by srmarm 3y ago
Oh absolutely and probably with a manual backup too.
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by srmarm 3y ago
Hey at least it's not a madcatz controller!
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by srmarm 3y ago
The US Navy uses an Xbox 360 controller in active service [0] Mass market has a lot of R&D to leverage so it makes sense. Nothing to say this is the cause of the fault and probably going to be more reliable than something hand rolled. [
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by srmarm 3y ago
Most reddit posts wouldn't be considered PII and I'm not sure the 'delete' function on a reddit post constitutes a GDPR removal request (it's not clear how this user purged their data). The reddit FAQ around deletin
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by srmarm 3y ago
I think the point was the binaries would be distributed around different mirrors that might not be under the control of the author - so long as you got the key from the author the actual binary (which is a much larger filesize than the key)

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