whoisburbansky

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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
It isn’t “unlock a door.” It’s “unlock a door from your phone regardless of where you are as long as you have cell signal and the car has cell signal, it doesn’t have to be in range of the fob.”
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Is it common to use the forward slash as a separator between sq and ft? My physics brain reads that as squares per foot, which doesn't make much sense.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Turns out the city in the state of Georgia is named after this region. I don't know much about the city, except that a handful of friends from my university days are from it, so I was surprised, to say the least, to see this pop up on
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
One would dock to the axis of rotation, I would think, spinning up your spaceship to match station spin?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Why Tor over something like tailscale? Works out of the box, and they take care of all the fancy network traversal for you and you get essentially direct connection level speeds.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
If there is evidence that a vulnerability is actively being used by an adversary, sure, it’s more responsible to disclose sooner, but in general you want to take into account the fact that the vast majority of engineering organizations aren
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
It’s funny you say that; it actually took a couple years before I shook off my “what could the comments possibly have to offer me” pre-conception informed by how bad comment sections everywhere else on the internet are, to finally take a lo
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Then again, if Carmack being interested in something so strongly isn’t social proof enough, maybe you just aren’t very good at being an investor in this particular field.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-... Doesn’t seem like cynicism when that was explicitly the point of recycling marketing.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
It sounded to me like the answer for the author was "because it's fun!" and then turning around and figuring out how to arrange his career in a way that lets him continue learning, which ends up benefitting his career anyways
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Ah, gotcha. I thought I recognized the prefixes from Organic, but I don't think I've seen it used like this here. Neat!
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
What do you mean by the `bis` and `cis` suffixes to your entry labels?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
https://www.nist.gov/publications/quantum-resistant-public-k... AES is still believed to be quantum resistant.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Details of the rotating key used so that persistent tracking based off of the BLE beacon isn’t possible: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
The protocol they use explicitly protects against this attack vector.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Can't really get raises by jumping around if all the best options collude to keep wages own
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Ah, that's really cool. The clarification about it targeting the lowest level really helps explain the motivation, thanks, and all the best!
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Tangent because this the first I’ve heard of Virgil. From the main README, what do you mean when you say you would like programs written in Virgil to be dependency-free?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
In my case, given a fairly weak upper palate, it’s also a case of destroying your mouth with perfect objects.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
I believe the shim is basically set up like a Chromecast receiver, so you can use anything that will cast to it. It should be possible to do that from the browser as well (hit the Cast icon in the upper right and the shim receiver should po
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Tangential note about Plex; if you're like me and are disappointed by the default buffering behavior in Plex basically making it near-impossible to seek between already-buffered positions easily, I've been using https:/&#x2F
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
The promised inch is effectively a mile for anyone born anywhere but “Bangalore” as you say, so why the griping?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Ah, that's good to know. I've been meaning to set up OwnTracks with iOS, so I'll report back with how that goes, see if the accuracy/battery tradeoff is any different from what you're seeing on Android.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
There's https://owntracks.org/ , which has iOS and Android apps and instructions on setting up your own server. If you run NextCloud self-hosted already, there's PhoneTrack ( https://apps.nextcloud.com&#x
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Huh, I was under the impression that the App Store guidelines didn’t let you do that, but maybe that doesn’t apply if you’re Google.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
The plane isn’t perfectly rigid, so it would only be able to impart as much energy to the structure as contained in the part of the plane that gets sheared off while colliding with the containment building.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Which apps do this?
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
It's no different from normal wash detergent, it's just normal dishwasher detergent put into the pre-wash slot of your washer. The video goes into more detail, but it basically ensures that the first rinse cycle that the washer do
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Where is this a quote from? I was curious if exchange rates had changed that much since, e.g. the year 2000, but at 2000 rates, 3000 Rs. is still only about $70, which still seems pretty low for explosive ammo.
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by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Do we have a good sense of how much of that increase in productivity can be sustained in a carbon neutral fashion?

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