wilburTheDog

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by wilburTheDog 16d ago
I wonder if a stingray could be used to force a software update in a flock camera. If so maybe it could brick all the flock cameras it can connect to.
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by wilburTheDog 4mo ago
At what point does it become more sensible to black hat these zero days? If the company you are helping out isn't willing to give you more than the finger for your help it seems like you're the fool in that arrangement. Feeling gr
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by wilburTheDog 2y ago
An LLM is a tool. It's your choice how you use it. I think there are at least two ways to use it that are helpful but don't replace your thinking. I sometimes have a problem I don't know how to solve that's too complex t
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by wilburTheDog 2y ago
It stays stationary because you're effectively tightening one bolt and loosening the other. Imagine the point of contact between the bolts is a line drawn on a stationary nut instead. Is that line moving clockwise or counterclockwise
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by wilburTheDog 2y ago
That's not a valid argument, though. Firstly nobody lives forever. Second you don't have to exert all the effort at once, so the totality of effort doesn't matter. At any given time you just have to decide whether to have
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
So what? It's easy to find people who believe nothing is wrong. All they have to do is ignore all the measurements of temperature, sea ice, CO2, methane, species extinction, peak oil, and whatever else contradicts their fondly held w
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
So SBF is a con-man who realized that it's easy to scam the EA community. All you need to do is learn their language and "pledge" to give away a lot of money. Then the donations will start pouring in. I guess it's not
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
I don't see that much of a difference between those two definitions. Cory's explanation was more specific, but it still referred to a service taking steps to be more profitable and in the process making the experience shittier fo
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
Occidental's first DAC facility has a goal of removing 1 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere per year. Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry were 37.12 billion metric tons (GtCO₂) in 2021 So we'd onl
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
A neighbors cat was being harassed by a bird once. It would dive bomb the cat then fly away quickly. It did this multiple times while I watched. The cat got tired of it after a while and stood perfectly still. The bird swooped down towa
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
I am not a lawyer. That said, I'm not sure this counts as news. The Rogers test comes from the 1989 case Rogers vs Grimaldi where a Ginger Rogers sued the defendants for making the flim "Ginger and Fred", saying they used he
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
As of January this year Russia provided about 1/4 of the diesel imports for Europe. That's down from pre-war levels. https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight... "Although still
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
Not smarter. Not even trying to hide it. And Russia is selling oil at a price they set. It's just the EU that's paying more to pretend they aren't doing business with Russia. "India’s diesel exports tripled to ~1,600,
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by wilburTheDog 3y ago
Hadn't heard of "basic TV mode" but it seems to be a feature of any Google TV device made in the last year or two. They say it will disable all smart tv features and leave only the HDMI inputs and antenna input. https:/
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by wilburTheDog 4y ago
I think of clubs and interest groups as a good way to make friends that you can then hang out with.
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by wilburTheDog 4y ago
To be fair, I turn subtitles on for half of the movies I watch and I'm a native English speaker.
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by wilburTheDog 4y ago
It sounds like you're arguing that we can't decide to change what our priorities are as a society because previous generations already made a decision for us. In the US the decision was made around 100 years ago to focus on cars a
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by wilburTheDog 4y ago
Does #5 sound like a tautology to anyone else? "In order to know how to solve problems get more experience solving problems so you know how." or maybe "To know the answers to your questions learn what you need to know to answ
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by wilburTheDog 4y ago
Sri Lanka is an interesting case study. President Rajapaksa suddenly banned using pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. It caused significant reductions in crop yields and ended up costing the country a great deal of money. This article
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by wilburTheDog 4y ago
They've apparently moved to https://curlie.org Their discussion forum is https://www.resource-zone.com/forum/
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by wilburTheDog 4y ago
It may be what's used in dechlorinator products, but vitamin C (ascorbic acid, or Sodium Ascorbate) does a good job of converting chloramines (or just chlorine) to salt, NaCl. I used an ascorbic acid shower filter for years when livin
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
We learned in March of this year that my wife has cancer. Chemo started, there were complications, surgery was performed and the tumor was excised. After the recovery from surgery chemo resumed and as of today there is one round left. Th
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
Actually you can. EVGA has a step-up program that allows you to buy just about any EVGA graphics card, register it, and pick the new better card you want when it's available. I bought a 2070 about a year ago and just got an email tod
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
If the advice is to eat lower on the food chain - more simple whole foods - instead of highly processed foods and sugary snacks, it seems like good advice. At least it has been in everyone I know who does so. On the other hand if it is an i
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
So do you no longer have the same take on it? How would you feel today about an email whitelist with a pay-to-bypass option?
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I've heard good things about the Nvidia Shield. I've even considered getting one to replace my Roku, but they cost so much more than all competitors it gives me pause. They do run Android, though, so that's pretty flexible.
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I'll be honest with you. I haven't totally figured that out yet. Mostly because there is still too much uncertainty to know exactly what is going to change and when. In broad strokes, though, my plan is to arrange my living sit
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
No, the peak is that point of the curve where production begins to decline because it no longer makes sense to continue. I always heard it described in terms of EROI. And EROI is not an economic problem. It's an energy problem. If it t
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
I think those of us who try to anticipate problems and prepare for them are often easily dismissed and or ridiculed. It's true nobody really needed their cold-war bomb shelters, and the TV shows about people doing bug-out drills to the
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by wilburTheDog 5y ago
People have been talking about 'peak oil' for years. It was predicted to peak about 15 years ago, at least in the US, but then the government started throwing money at the fracking industry (which as far as I know has never made

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