taylorfinley

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   by taylorfinley 5y ago

   I think .xyz is specifically blacklisted because the domains are often less than $2 to register so they attract a lot of riff-raff source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010105
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   by taylorfinley 5y ago

   All of these are available and inexpensive: [redacted].dev, [redacted].contact, [redacted].fyi, [redacted].id, [redacted].info, [redacted].me, [redacted].name, [redacted].site, [redacted].pro, [redacted].ninja, [redacted].work, [redacted].w
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   by taylorfinley 5y ago

   I'm particularly sensitive to this as a native plant nerd here in Hawaii. Home Depot and Walmart are filled with (beautiful) invasive plants like Medinilla magnifica, Kahili ginger, Lantana, so many others. I've spoken to the mana
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   by taylorfinley 5y ago

   If masking persists and it becomes a long-term norm, communication will evolve around the constraints. I'm reminded of a story of a Somali prisoner who was nearly suicidal in solitary confinement until a prisoner in another cell taught
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   by taylorfinley 5y ago

   You don't think, with all the resources available to them, the intelligence community would spend just about whatever it took to sneak a vulnerability or two into the most-run piece of code on the planet? The core devs don't even
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   by taylorfinley 5y ago

   That's the joke. It's been the 'Year of The Linux Desktop!' at least since my senior year of high school, which was all the way back in 2002.
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   by taylorfinley 5y ago

   Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82220-5 Animation: https://twitter.com/ballenaschile/status/1356703048270249985
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   Blockchains are the new app stores(twitter.com)

   16 points by taylorfinley 5y ago|9 comments
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   by taylorfinley 5y ago

   Clearly I need to break this down in to very simple terms, since people think they understand my post and clearly don't and are labeling me 'bodly moronic' because of their own misunderstanding. One person speculated that a m
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    That's so blatantly obvious I didn't even think to explain that I was attempting to draw a parallel between homo sapiens thinking homo sapiens are the 'civilizing force' and europeans thinking europeans are the 'civ
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    Dupe from 19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27952176
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    I wish I could remember where I heard about it--it may have been gossip back when I worked in a writers room on the Warner Brothers lot more than a decade ago--but when I saw this posted just now I remembered hearing about this section and
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    The controversial section: L — I like it if they already had a relationship at one point. Because then you don't have to build it. G — I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl wh
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    Poly Network (defi platform) hacked, hundreds of millions taken(coindesk.com)

    7 points by taylorfinley 5y ago|0 comments
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    I hope you don't ever run afoul of an internet mob from somewhere like 4chan! They might SWAT you while DDOSing your IP and doxing you then emailing your iphone dozens of photos that collide with CSAM perceptual hashes.
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    There's a tool to obfuscate your printer's unique code, found here: https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    For anyone else who caught on "littoral," it means: "relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake"
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    If you're intrigued by the possibilities they're explored in Harvard professor George M Church's wonderful book Regenesis https://www.harvard.com/book/regenesis_how_synthetic_biology...
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    Actual regulations here: https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/IEEDE2D64EF7B4F168...
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    Viasat is a truly garbage company. When I was a hostage... er, customer... I poked around on my ViaSat router and made some interesting finds. If you're a user, go to your viasat modem IP address and append '/messages' t
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    The one exception to car parts sites being shit is rockauto. Just start typing in the search bar and it figures out what year make model and part you're looking for. Their search experience is light-years ahead of any other auto parts
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    Discover breakthrough in ASIC design strategy. Produce enough mining rigs for the attack but don't bring them online. Buy massive shorts on bitcoin futures. Bring all your rigs online at once, 51% attack, confidence and price plummet,
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    When I saw the red dot on my wife's Lenovo laptop I immediately thought 'that looks like an IR pass filter.' if a company wanted to have a bypassable privacy slider they could have an IR cut filter behind the lens and an IR p
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    I know cnc and farming, and I really don't see this product surviving. I can't find a shovel that lasts more than a few months on my small farm, I don't know how a big 3d printer is going to cut it in anything like real agric
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    That's why you'd plug it with hot glue, it could be easily removed after the resin cures. Better yet use black silicone and make it reusable.
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    This is a heartbreaking interview for anyone who loves Hackaday. That community is amazing and it's obvious Siemens doesn't properly appreciate it. It speaks volumes that they basically ignored every question about Hackaday. If yo
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    I feel like a lot of people posting in this thread would benefit from reading Dang's post [0] from a few days ago about how shallow cryptocurrency discussions tend to be on HN and how we should all aim for a better level of discourse.
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    This is brilliant on two counts: 1. There is a well known adage that goes something like, 'if the service is free, you're the product.' One could easily think the inverse is true ('if you're paying for the product,
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    Hey, thanks for this helpful feedback! I will update my page accordingly. I do talk about one of my bigger projects in the blog link, but I agree it should be highlighted up front.
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    by taylorfinley 5y ago

    I'm a currently-on-unemployment former barista with years of hobby and freelance coding experience, I've spent much of my time on unemployment getting professional certifications and doing some bigger learning projects. I'm i