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by wiml 5y ago
I think K9 was kind of in maintenance mode until recently. It's been nice to see more updates though.
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by wiml 5y ago
Well, they're junior devs. You're supposed to help them get past that stage, not just throw away all your tools.
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by wiml 5y ago
It very much is a basic technique you learn in analog circuit design (or at least it was 30 years ago when I was in school). Similarly, there are circuits (like that current mirror) which rely on the nonlinear behaviors of diodes or transi
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by wiml 5y ago
I noticed that too, and I can't really tell if they literally mean exoteric or are misusing it when they mean esoteric.
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by wiml 5y ago
Temperature is more about the kinetic (and other) energy of the particles than the velocity — you can keep adding energy indefinitely, or at least until you hit some kind of planck-scale weirdness point, even though the velocity is only asy
456.
by wiml 5y ago
There are a surprising number of internet-drafts that died before reaching RFC status but nevertheless were implemented, even became widely implemented standards. The sftp protocol ("filexfer" over ssh) is one example. Does anyone
457.
by wiml 5y ago
It seems kind of optimistic or naïve to call this late-stage capitalism. It can get a lot worse if you really unfetter the capitalist machinery.
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by wiml 5y ago
They did have exactly that feature for a while, unless I'm dreaming. But they got rid of it.
459.
by wiml 5y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
460.
by wiml 5y ago
Probably part of the joke, a reference to Andy Tanenbaum.
461.
by wiml 5y ago
Our last data protection officer spontaneously combusted...
462.
by wiml 5y ago
Well, the database was lying to Perl, perhaps. But I'm not sure the author's diagnosis is correct. The mangled text has only one "?", Which means that whatever software did the mangling knew that two-byte sequence repr
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by wiml 5y ago
A hundred years ago it was mildly derogatory, but I don't think I've met someone who was offended by "dude" unless it was affront at the extreme informality of the word. (Maybe that's too fine of a distinction to ma
464.
by wiml 5y ago
Which is exactly what I want, most of the time — I want to write a check, but without the hassle of paper, or the recipient having to explicitly deposit it.
465.
by wiml 5y ago
I think it's "diversion" in the (unusual) sense of "an enjoyable activity", and "field" in the sense of "an open outdoor area with grass or crops". Which is a kid of ... poetic? ... definition of
466.
by wiml 5y ago
For more monowheels, check out Douglas Self's Museum of Transport page (a wonderful old-days-of-the-internet style collection of obscure info). Here's the section on monowheels: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM&
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by wiml 5y ago
Low tech approach: I wonder if you could put a flashing LED in the camera's view, and sync that with the strain gauge data logging, kind of like an old fashioned move clapper board?
468.
by wiml 5y ago
Mostly right, yes: You can mark the field containing the constraint as "critical" or "non critical", which indicates to the end software what it should do if it doesn't understand this constraint. Apple software doe
469.
by wiml 5y ago
For what it's worth, I've also used an app called Lingvist, which tends to tell you the grammar rules more directly. You might like its approach a little better. (But also, you might consider getting an old-fashioned grammar book,
470.
by wiml 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're quoting from, but ... that's more than a year from now.
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by wiml 5y ago
No NFC, alas.
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by wiml 5y ago
The short answer is: because client software doesn't implement that. The longer answer is: the certificate system absolutely does support issuing sub-CAs with "name constraints", which would let LE issue you, instead of a wil
473.
by wiml 5y ago
Yup, named after English physicist John H. Poynting (1852-1914).
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by wiml 5y ago
When I was getting into the hobby I reflowed a number of boards by balancing them on a piece of tin flashing, holding it over a candle or alcohol burner, and trying to seat-of-my-pants my way through the temperature profiles from the back o
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by wiml 5y ago
No matter how we do it, we end up violating causality. Even if we can only create micron-sized warp drives, there are still some huge implications. We could probably build a machine that executes nondeterministic algorithms, for example —
476.
by wiml 5y ago
Alcubierre was the first person to connect this idea to a spacetime metric which obeys the equations of general relativity, with actual math.
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by wiml 5y ago
This always makes me think I should go back and reread Brin's _The Transparent Society_ and see how it's held up to time. It seems pretty prescient from what I can remember.
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by wiml 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that Safari (and probably most browsers) on MacOS renders JPEGs via CoreImage, and I have seen hints that CoreImage has various GPU-accelerated pathways, though I don't know whether those include DCT or JFIF on the
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by wiml 5y ago
It sounds like this system still needs a conventional communication channel between the receiver and a set of reference stations, right? So it'd be of limited use on a submerged submarine (though you could reconstruct your path post-fa
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by wiml 5y ago
It seems like a straightforward generalization from "for free" (which itself might be a generalization from "for ten dollars"?). Does "for free" also sound wrong to you? If not, can you put your finger on what

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