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421.
by wiml 4y ago
Some of the random-commercial-thing-from-China home security cams have open-source replacement firmwares.
422.
by wiml 4y ago
It does seem like you could do that with a bimetallic coil and a little blob of mercury in a tube, like thermostats have done since the 1950s
423.
by wiml 4y ago
If it's explicitly spelled out, then it's just an invalid contract. You can't contract for something that's illegal and thereby make it legal.
424.
by wiml 4y ago
How is that different from "doxing" people by simply ... googling them?
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by wiml 4y ago
What stops a server with a good memory from looking at your card as they put it in their terminal and remembering it for the 30 seconds it takes to walk away and note it down? They already reliably remember fairly complicated table orders w
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by wiml 4y ago
I stopped getting canker sores some years ago after changing toothpastes. Having read of SLS, I assumed that was the culprit — but no, I read the ingredients and my new "good" toothpaste also has SLS. So whatever the change was,
427.
by wiml 4y ago
Doesn't it essentially just re-absorb the same co2 it emitted when it was made?
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by wiml 4y ago
A) Many large ships run with electric motors and diesel generators anyway, so it would be unsurprising if this ship did the same. B) I'm sure they can carry fairly large swanky launches / tenders / whatever C) This is interes
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by wiml 4y ago
It's fairly straightforward to add a PPA containing a normally-packaged Firefox. But it's always a bad sign when you start having to fight against the distro maintainer's choices.
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by wiml 4y ago
I don't know about Java or Go, but any time I've looked at a C compiler's output it's emitted pretty good assembly for "if (a>b) return 1; else if (a<b) return -1; else return 0;" kinds of input when opti
431.
by wiml 4y ago
This is a mildly interesting post only because of how it comes up to, but avoids ever talking about, the central flaw in the system it describes — they're conflating several things without ever really acknowledging that they're di
432.
by wiml 4y ago
There's an eslint rule forbidding for loops too.
433.
by wiml 4y ago
The links to the presentation PDFs at www.redballoonsecurity.com/presentation/ all 404 for me.
434.
by wiml 4y ago
Yes indeed! I've seen a couple hacks along these lines. Bunnie has blogged about it: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
435.
by wiml 4y ago
Made me think of this (also NSFW, mild though): https://www.oglaf.com/chauncey/
436.
by wiml 4y ago
It makes the preceding * less "greedy". I don't think it has any effect on the set of strings matched by this regexp, though, which is a simple string suffix check.
437.
by wiml 4y ago
Usually if it's called an "atom bomb" or "A-bomb" it's pure fission, and a nuclear bomb, thermonuclear bomb, or hydrogen bomb is fission-fusion-fission. A fission bomb compresses the hydrogen to cause it to fus
438.
by wiml 4y ago
They were more compact than alternatives at the time, and had lower ESR. This made them especially desirable for supply decoupling in digital logic, whose random fast edges means a lot of broadband noise to shunt — you can't just desig
439.
by wiml 4y ago
I have a dim memory that missile tracking systems pay close attention to how fast an object decelerates when it hits atmosphere, as part of distinguishing real warheads from decoys. Maybe you can use that data to estimate how fast a rock is
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by wiml 4y ago
Considering what "the west" did to itself in past centuries (and still does) I think China is just participating in a preëxisting tradition of self harm.
441.
by wiml 4y ago
Won't the impact simply be via ASIC miners instead?
442.
by wiml 4y ago
That's a fair amount of effort, expense (printing), and labor (assembly) just to try to sell a book that you've already determined isn't selling very well!
443.
by wiml 4y ago
I think the usual place MACHO theories struggle to match observation is lensing events. If there were enough dark stars / planets / whatever out there to be the missing mass, we'd see characteristic blips in the light curves
444.
by wiml 4y ago
The latter, presumably. An unimplanted egg isn't usually considered a pregnancy except by religious extremists.
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by wiml 4y ago
I think they're just hedging for the fact that there could theoretically be multiple local maxima, but in practice the current-voltage curves of PV panels are boringly well-behaved and so there's just one maximum. (In electronics
446.
by wiml 4y ago
I'm always confused that anybody doesn't have secondary servers, for anything larger than a one-off vanity site. If your DNS needs are simple, then running a secondary is extremely easy. The hardest part is that you'll prob
447.
by wiml 4y ago
There are! I've used the fomu and the tinyfpga, both with the open source stack. (In the past I've tried running the commercial products under WINE, like most people did at the time, and it worked but was definitely terrible.)
448.
by wiml 4y ago
How good do they have to be? Even ELIZA apparently has (minor) demonstrable therapeutic value. https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/the-original-eliza
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by wiml 4y ago
I'm curious what your use of PrtSc is that is that important to you. I don't think I've pressed that key since the 1990s. Am I missing out?
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by wiml 4y ago
I picked up exactly that at a maker-faire type event a few years back. Might have been this product [1] or something similar. [1] https://www.lillepunkin.com/2016/12/2016-hot-holiday-gift-guide-day-13.html

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