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velosol
7y ago
Gilman Louie says hi ;) .
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velosol
7y ago
Generally yes. When someone says "I give up this freedom" it's often because they don't use it or it doesn't affect them. The problem is that what they are really saying is "I give up this freedom for myself
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velosol
7y ago
For those wondering the bottom line, it is interesting preliminary research on a small pool and I expect will be quite interesting as it progresses. "The lab has tested their new technology on 1,488 WiFi-video pairs, drawn from a pool
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velosol
7y ago
> "It doesn't leave much to choose from." With Google anyway you're down to 2FA using an authentication app (possibly U2F but I haven't checked on that recently) and backup codes which should also protect you fro
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velosol
7y ago
I would think in addition we'd have to see the ability to book with a specific driver for a future ride for 'lead generation' to hold up.
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velosol
7y ago
A few years ago, that was the thinking when a 'high temperature' (much colder than room temperature) superconducting cable was trialed in Germany [1]. [1]: https://www.tdworld.com/overhead-distribution/ampacit
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velosol
7y ago
Perhaps OP was thinking of the criticisms around Dual-EC-DRBG? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
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velosol
7y ago
The 2A and crypto have been linked for a long time. The original crypto fight in the 90s was over exportable encryption (because it was listed along with munitions and other ITAR-restricted items). One idea I saw floated around the time of
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velosol
7y ago
To whit - Southwest has moved (is moving still?) to Amadeus and there has been a fair amount of reporting on the issues as they happen. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/southwest-airlines/2018/...
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velosol
7y ago
> In a saner world, the 240 MB LS-240 would have been the last floppy. Years ago I longed for an LS-120 but by the time I had the money a CD writer was the better deal. I occasionally look at eBay for LS-120s just for fun but I now have
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velosol
7y ago
If you want to use HASS - there's a couple ways to go about it assuming you have an RPi. Either install Home Assistant and add snips.ai [1] or install snips and add HASS [2]. Looks like the Gateway can also do this [3]. [1]: https:&
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velosol
7y ago
>[...] Apple Maps was also demanding [I cross] a double yellow line where a left turn would've been illegal regardless of construction. Do you perhaps mean a (solid) quad yellow line (aka a painted island)? It's legal to turn
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velosol
7y ago
I think this [1] Wikipedia article better covers the situation with Huhne. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Huhne
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7y ago
> Good example of people being unwilling to consider the facts. Exactly! It's clear that the CIA found the frozen corpse before the expedition and extracted the bacteria to put into the ticks in the first place. [edit]/s[/
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velosol
7y ago
If you purchased a new home that public record of sale tends to be the source of a bunch of spam - often claiming to be important mortgage documents. If you were renting it's possible your landlord or management company provides inform
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velosol
7y ago
Typically Bird hunters [1] will go around with a pickup truck to gather a bunch of scooters to charge them. I've seen one pickup truck that appeared to be company owned rather than a bird hunter, but it seemed to have a decent system
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velosol
7y ago
>By popping one circuit breaker at a time, I realized that these circuits coincided with breakers on the right side of the box. I hope you got this checked out! There could be something wrong with the phase going to those breakers (if y
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7y ago
Code makes the minimum calculation - as to how it originally came about I would guess a mix of empirical (committees working with various sized boxes as they work on NEC revisions) and then math to have a formula/table for the real wor
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velosol
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I was curious what PRNG was being used and it was a bit deep in the post, but it appears to be Philox [1] or ARS5 [2]. [1]: http://michaelbrundage.com/note/2005/01/05/random-number-gen... [2]: https:&#x
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velosol
7y ago
Zika [1], West Nile, Encephalitis, Dengue, Chikungunya have all shown up in at least Texas and Florida in the past few years [2]. While I agree reducing pooled water is the most important vector control action you can take, it seems likely
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They also mentioned decay in the conversion process. I wonder if we have good data on the decay of the thermal-electric converters from missions like Voyager that have traveled through large portions of space or if they're being conse
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velosol
7y ago
Usually breaking changes are highlighted in your update cycle and if something is added or slightly modified you might find a *.conf.rpmnew or similar. rpmconf [1] helps with those sorts of updates. [1]: https://github.com/
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velosol
7y ago
Ah that makes more sense, thanks for helping me to understand the open windows viewpoint. For me electricity is less expensive during the day (solar) and my house is well insulated so it takes fairly little to combat the heat gain during th
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velosol
7y ago
You might like [1] and others in that vein. The passive house movement seems like a big deal in a few parts of the US (e.g. Northeast and some parts of the West coast). AC ends up being an important part of these homes as they're sea
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velosol
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If the weather is such that you need AC or heat, why would you have the windows open? Add humidity to the mix and open windows become even more problematic. An oversized AC is going to run more if you have your windows open when it's
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velosol
7y ago
>Concentrated water molecules visible as myst produced from hot water is steam. Steam/water vapor/humidity is gas phase H2O and is transparent. Water droplets in air is often referred to as 'steam' or 'wet steam
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velosol
7y ago
A couple years ago the other option was to dump the EDID of the connected monitor (while it was on of course) using Nvidia's display software and then set the EDID data using the same software (overriding the EDID which would apparentl
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While unsuccessful, there were weaponized drones used against Maduro (the Venezuelan president) in 2018 [1]. There are other more recent stories from Saudi Arabia [2]. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/
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7y ago
The military has additional codes available to them (P(Y) and M per [1] et seq.). [1]: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1741
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7y ago
Not just land border crossings - there are also CBP-maintained checkpoints [1] within the '100-mile zone'. [1]: https://goo.gl/maps/Nfk1XjUFGsNh5QD29
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