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by wiml 6y ago
My boring AndroidOne phone does. If there's a clear QR code in the field of view of the camera app it'll recognize it.
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by wiml 6y ago
It used to be pretty common for RAM or peripherals to have wait states, or REQ/ACK handshakes, or similar mechanisms that would allow the peripheral to request a variable amount of time to respond. I suspect it's not a more popula
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by wiml 6y ago
Some vaccines in the past have been withdrawn for causing autoimmune disorders, eg arthritis.
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by wiml 6y ago
Some kind of internal state specific to Microsoft's libm? It doesn't look like _fpreset() is present anywhere else. Though in general, IEEE-754 math does have a small amount of global state, for stuff like rounding modes and subno
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by wiml 6y ago
Relatedly, looks like someone is trying once again to resurrect del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/
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by wiml 6y ago
Banks' "Orbitals" are smaller rings, perhaps planet-diameter, orbiting at a distance from their star; "Rings" are Niven- Ringworld -style structures with a star in the middle. Spheres are mentioned here and there, I
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by wiml 6y ago
"ls", not "tail". I think the idea is that "ls" will visually mark files with the execute bit set, which makes them easy to pick out in a directory listing.
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by wiml 6y ago
Even humans with full general intelligence and domain knowledge will fail at profanity detection. I think the problem here is not so much that there are false triggers, but that there is no way to deal with the false triggers — no way to ap
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by wiml 6y ago
Possibly helpful example: the classic net neutrality example, in my mind, is a decade or so ago when Time-Warner Cable (in some markets) was throttling Craigslist to be painfully slow, because Craigslist was eating into the classified-ads b
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by wiml 6y ago
I don't think you're forced to act on anything that it finds; it just points you at things that might be removable cruft.
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by wiml 6y ago
I think that's what the PIO state-machines are for — offloading timing-sensitive I/O logic and waveform generation.
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by wiml 6y ago
If you're "below the noise floor" you may well be under Part 15, which is the "who the hell cares" part of the rules, and you're fine. If your signal is strong enough to interfere with common uses of the band,
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by wiml 6y ago
Welcome to Night Vale is a fiction podcast in the form of a radio show from a remote small town in which all sorts of strange things happen — aliens, vast conspiracies, mad cultists, supernatural beings, etc etc. Straddles the line betwee
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by wiml 6y ago
The government threatened him with 35 years in prison and a lifetime of debt in order to extract a forced confession. That's what a plea deal often amounts to, a confession under duress.
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by wiml 6y ago
Can you link to the specific court cases you're referring to? Docket numbers or whatnot?
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by wiml 6y ago
I linked the law in my other comment — to this non-lawyer's reading, it forbids security cameras that capture audio , but not video-only surveillance cameras.
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by wiml 6y ago
The law appears to be this one[1], which bans secretly recording "wire" communications or "oral" communications, the latter specifically meaning speech. So it sounds like, in addition to secrecy, it's the audio that
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by wiml 6y ago
From this comment, it looks like the search API was disabled in part because its usage has dramatically increased in the last few months: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5216#issuecomment-7446585... and Py
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by wiml 6y ago
The comments in this thread have a few, plus the subject of the thread itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846026
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by wiml 6y ago
Probably not the same Brian Warner, but I admit I've never seen them in the same room at the same time.
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by wiml 6y ago
Magic-wormhole does require a server, although it isn't a very demanding job. Brian Warner runs the default server.
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by wiml 6y ago
Since we're on HN, how about an RTLSDR, a Pi, and op25?
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by wiml 6y ago
My understanding is that normal viral infections cause proteins to be expressed by cells in the same way — in fact, uninfected cells also continually display a "status report" of protein fragments. Your immune system monitors th
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by wiml 6y ago
The manufacturer's site lists the max load as 150% full scale, so there is a little room there. (And exceeding it probably just makes the cell go out of calibration, which might not be a big deal for a dance pad?)
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by wiml 6y ago
What cert are you getting? I (not on Centurylink) see a Let'sEncrypt cert with sha256 BB:37:8D:DE:4E:AB:42:55:30:BE:08:10:A0:11:7A:CD:CB:99:51:91:4B:44:30:3F:E5:F4:76:B0:41:E0:AE:59.
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by wiml 6y ago
This graph often gets mentioned in the context of "always 30 years away": https://imgur.com/3vYLQmm It's not on "schedule" because we aren't putting the resources towards it.
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by wiml 6y ago
"pixelated" has a pre-existing meaning in English (discombobulated, airheaded, tipsy). An English speaker already familiar with the word might choose "pixelized" to avoid the collision.
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by wiml 6y ago
This is nice. How does it compare to something like a polynomial based representation like in [1] (used by the old keyserver gossip network)? I find Bloom filters more intuitive to reason about, but [1] does mention them as prior work and s
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by wiml 6y ago
Not a psych person, but depersonalization can also be a (mostly maladaptive) coping strategy for depression. GP's description sounds like simple depression to me though.
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by wiml 6y ago
This does seem like a situation where a CRL would be a better fit than OCSP. On the other hand, CRLs have been pretty thoroughly deprecated for browser usage, so Apple probably just reached for the first tool that was already available to t

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