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by varenc 4y ago
I love that poster! Especially because it’s generated from LaTeX and open source: https://github.com/unihedron/spectrum
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by varenc 4y ago
They go even smaller than 0.1mm. McMaster-Carr sells a 0.051mm drill bit for $25: https://www.mcmaster.com/8904A11/ That's the absolutely small I could find, though I suspect specialty vendors have even smaller on
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by varenc 4y ago
McMaster-Carr sells a 0.051mm drill bit (0.002 inch) for $25: https://www.mcmaster.com/8904A11/ Here's links to other other micro drill bits and micro end mills: - https://www.mcmaster.com/micro%20
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by varenc 4y ago
> What’s even the point of the popup then? If you're in the EU you'll see a "Reject All" option. To confirm this, set a breakpoint in their JS, change your country to an EU one, and the option to "Reject All&quot
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by varenc 4y ago
I suspect if you access the site from an EU IP address you’ll see an option besides “Accept All”. The layout [0] even seems to leave room for where this other button might be. edit: looking at the code I even see references to a “Reject Al
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by varenc 4y ago
It’s supposed to be free for individuals with to 5 machines so it doesn’t seem like the patches will be hard to find.
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by varenc 4y ago
If you like that, check out my favorite Cistercian numeral library: https://github.com/hsablonniere/cistercian-numerals Here's a demo of it in action on the author's blog: https://www.hsablonniere.
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by varenc 4y ago
If buying a home only costs the equivalent of 7 years rent instead 30+ years rent, it seems that would make buying a home more appealing and reduce the market's overall demand for rental housing. And similarly, property owners won&#x27
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by varenc 4y ago
If you’re in California the CCPA should give you this right too.
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by varenc 4y ago
I'm doubtful. It's certainly possible for malware to hijack mouse/keyboard control, with a local privilege escalation exploit, but I'm not sure what the point would be. Escalating to mouse/keyboard control is hard
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by varenc 4y ago
No. They state this quite clearly. > " the provisions will not apply to commercially available mobile phones nor the encrypted messaging apps available on them " They say they're going after bespoke devices whose " us
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by varenc 4y ago
As others have said, Apple devices can now br passkeys, which is just a new term for WebAuthn + FIDO support. The linked article is about logging into your Apple ID, so you of course want another key for logging into that. But for other sit
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by varenc 4y ago
I haven't had to enter my Apple ID password to install an app since I setup my phone. Just Face ID verification. Maybe you have this setting toggled? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204030 Or maybe Apple is just
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by varenc 4y ago
Wow that video was short, informative, and very cool in a retro sort of way. Thanks.
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by varenc 4y ago
Bing provides a tool that allows a webmaster to verify if requests came from Bing. The "Verify Bingbot" tool is linked near the bottom of this article: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-
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by varenc 4y ago
> underclocks from ~4.4GHz to ~1.5-2.5GHz when on battery (seemingly no way to disable this) digression: I believe there's no way to disable that because the laptop's battery is physically incapable of reliably supplying the ne
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by varenc 4y ago
https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchCMR3
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by varenc 4y ago
The article is a bit confusing on that point. From looking at the paper it seems like the 1 volt is relevant not because it's supposed to be implying energy efficiency by itself, but for some other reasons I don't understand. From
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by varenc 4y ago
I remember all of those products seeming really expensive at launch, though I see your point. They've all become a bit cheaper but not significantly. What's also changed is my perception of what a reasonable cost should be. Spendi
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by varenc 4y ago
This is usually how Apple enters/creates a new market. Many other follow the same strategy. They start with a very high end version that highlights their strengths and the product's potential. It will not have mass adoption and it
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by varenc 4y ago
I didn't! The download URLs on that page all seemed to be HTTPS for me, though my browser might be forcing the HTTPS connection or something. Or it's just the macOS versions. I'd 100% believe there's plain HTTP requests
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by varenc 4y ago
I poked around the install page for Citibank's required software and it's pretty fascinating: https://www.citibank.co.kr/CusSecnCnts0100.act?P_name=ASTx Some quick observations: - That page intentionally disables
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by varenc 4y ago
South Park is a very small neighborhood in SF well known as a hub for the tech scene. It’s full of VC offices and startups. The neighborhood’s eponymous small park and central street are all named “South Park”. https://goo.gl&#x2
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by varenc 4y ago
> What's oddly unsaid here is WHY private landowners would care The linked article has a section titled " Landowner Views on Corner-Crossing " that shows the landowner's point of view. To summarize the 2 points: - It
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by varenc 4y ago
This is a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132152 Though neither are great links. Here's probably the best link since it's the actual statement ratified by the faculty: https://facultygovern
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by varenc 4y ago
The report from the MIT faculty working group on freedom of expression, who originally proposed this statement, touches on this topic: " Recommendation 5: The chair of the MIT faculty should explore how to develop a faculty-governed re
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by varenc 4y ago
The original statement was proposed in a September report by the Ad Hoc working group on free expression. The report is much more interesting since goes into quite a bit of detail on MIT's current de facto policies and proposes real st
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by varenc 4y ago
from https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1605701630481125378 > I stopped using Twitter because of a policy I didn't like. The policy was reversed.
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by varenc 4y ago
Does anyone have a link to the actual bill that includes the TikTok reference? I’d love to see the exact phrasing used. Also it’s interesting that they singled out TikTok instead of a more general ban on Chinese or any non-US owned and oper
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by varenc 4y ago
From this doc: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html There’s also this great quote: Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting co

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