will_hughes

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by will_hughes 9y ago
Unless I'm misreading you, you've just created a more complicated version of things. How do you delete the immutably backed up keys? You've gone from: backup.bak to backup-encrypted.bak and backup-keys.bak
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Only if you're happy waking up to find you're about to plow into another large object at a high rate of speed. The Pilot in Command is expected to sit in their seat and monitor the aircraft, surrounding airspace and the radios, an
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> And it's also called "Autopilot" which sets an extremely different tone and expectation than other driver-assistance/safety technologies. Only to those not familiar with autopilot systems in aircraft. It's like
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Even if you could, you can only go supersonic across oceans.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
It's automated. It doesn't mean continuously operating. I'd recommend listening to this planet money episode[1] where they describe how the ACH came to be. It's called automated, because it's a step up from the orig
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by will_hughes 9y ago
And each time it's been a little closer to the truth. We mechanised the farm removing the need for hundreds/thousands of people to work on farms. Those people went to work in factories and mines. The mines have moved to larger mac
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by will_hughes 9y ago
I still don't see how socialism without a UBI (under whatever guise you give it) works in a world where there's significant fractions of the population that will never have a job.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> I sleep in a tent. I have turned down such offers. If you have children, and you're a single parent (typically a single mother), then that might not be something you can turn down without a significant reason.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
I suspect the testing is only being done on a planeload of people who've just recently sat down. Keep them in their seats for 3 hours, knees jammed into the backs of seats, passengers with laptops and blankets and slippers, some of the
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Pretty sure the comment was about the Atom and Electron editor / framework. https://atom.io/ https://electron.atom.io/
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Water and liquids are permitted through security on domestic flights from domestic airport terminals. No reason to dump your bottle of water. http://travelsecure.infrastructure.gov.au/onboard/liquids-ae...
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Unfortunately the beagles are mostly gone from Hobart airport. There's just the one now, I'm told, and s/he wasn't on duty last I flew down. Family that fly through there regularly all say they havnt seen it on duty muc
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by will_hughes 9y ago
But only for packages which are delivered through AusPost. Which if you buy stuff internationally, it mostly isn't. Also, not in a ton of locations.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> We need to actually write (and purchase) better software. Ransomware is not a software problem, this is a human problem. We keep putting up barriers to make it harder for malicious software, but so long as you put a prompt infront of u
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> Because your last minute business traveler who is paying a big chunk of cash doesn't want standby. So what I'm hearing is that they'd rather be lied to at the airport, than at the time they're buying the ticket. If
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by will_hughes 9y ago
So why not sell standby tickets instead once you reach 'full'?
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> As a consequence, we need to expose critical internal services on the public internet, some of which contain private user data. No, you just need to have a public DNS entry, no need for that service to be reachable from the internet. f
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> I need it so while I travel I don't have to worry about shitty governments tracking what I'm reading or watching. For this reason I used a VPN while travelling overseas. Most places have wifi of varying quality. To my di
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by will_hughes 9y ago
More recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj192PZ_riE
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Is that a reason we shouldn't expect better?
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Take a soda can, glue a lead weight to the bottom. Now scale it up to 15 stories tall. You have roughly the design of the Falcon 9 first stage. As mentioned, it's designed to take stress in one direction, when empty the vast majority o
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by will_hughes 9y ago
The STS was reusable in name only. They discarded the fuel tank, and the SRBs landing in the ocean required a dive team and significant refurbishment before they could be reused. Even the shuttle itself required significant refurbishment b
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Sorry, when I said 'small national telco' I meant a telco for a small nation. If they have no way to recoup the additional cost of all the incoming visitors, then they can't invest in expanding infrastructure. It's proba
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Consider the case of a small national telco that happens to have a large number of incoming tourists. There's an additional burden on their network, and they should be able to recoup some of that cost. But almost every carrier I'v
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Not all credit card companies are so forthcoming with handling chargebacks. Mine, for instance, will let me lodge a dispute - however to do so, they cancel my card and re-issue a new one. This means in the N places where my card is in use,
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by will_hughes 9y ago
No, Tesla and Elon have been very clear that there'll be a single central display only that will also display the speed/directions/etc. Tesla's don't have analogue displays.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
At a guess: Get the biggest box you can, run a ton of things on it (eg containers, or something like that). This is opposed to the 'cloud' thing of get an instance just big enough to run your job, run lots of them if you need to s
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> You bought a Google phone Wileyfox make their own phones and Android rom. It's not really a Google phone (it may have Google Play Services, but that's different). The third party dialler app in this case was not provided by t
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Clients have no way to indicate what CAs they trust, so my infrastructure has to just present a certificate and say "Here I am" So now if Google go ahead and distrust Symantec CAs, I need to duplicate that infrstructure (or at lea
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by will_hughes 9y ago
I find it hard to believe you can't imagine any valid scenario where at least one of those scenarios shouldn't be using pubic CAs. I've got personal experience with the first two (embedded devices and mobile apps) having pinn

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