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by wiml 6y ago
I don't remember the movie well enough, but it might have been a captive bolt gun (typically used for slaughtering livestock)?
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by wiml 6y ago
I'm curious what would have to happen for you to consider "the year of the linux desktop" to have happened? I'd say it arguably already has happened.
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by wiml 6y ago
You could use something like Fossil[1]. Or you could take regular backups of your project, which you should perhaps be doing anyway. [1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
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by wiml 6y ago
Microwaves aren't actually full Faraday cages (perhaps some are, but not the ones I've seen): the door seal forms a quarter-wave trap, which is a short circuit at the oven's operating frequency, but not at other frequencies.
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by wiml 6y ago
Why do you think Amazon doesn't have a clear legal basis to decide which devices are allowed to connect to their internal network services? Or, for that matter, to decide which devices ca be taken into non-public, secured parts of Amaz
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by wiml 6y ago
What would it mean to "ban" an app? Would they force Apple and Google not to distribute it? Would they set up a national firewall?
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by wiml 6y ago
I usually look up the company's sales number and give them their own number. I have no idea if this has ever inconvenienced anyone but it does give me a moment of petty satisfaction.
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by wiml 6y ago
I've come to the conclusion that, much like how purchasing decisions seem irrational until you realize that different kinds of purchases come out of different budgets, there are different "complexity budgets" or "ongoing
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by wiml 6y ago
This seems like a property of the Intel 8087 math coprocessor and its distant descendants found in x86 chips, not anything to do with gcc?
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by wiml 6y ago
No, I mean the label Antifaschistische Aktion and its abbreviation Antifa literally originated with labor groups opposing the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. I'm not a historian, but understanding is that there isn't real con
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by wiml 6y ago
Antifa originated in 1930s Germany … where, obviously, plenty of people were not against Nazis or fascists. Antifa today is still pretty firmly focused on anti-fascist action.
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by wiml 6y ago
Once you have a basic understanding of SQL, I found it really informative to go closer to the source, e.g. C. J. Date and Hugh Darwen's "A Guide to the SQL Standard", or perhaps other books by them. There's a lot of inco
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by wiml 6y ago
I propose we refer to this as the "no true Stallman" argument.
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by wiml 6y ago
I'm not sure it was ever widely considered taboo. One group's doxing is another group's name-and-shame or whatever.
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by wiml 6y ago
You know, it's been a while since I've seen a captive portal in the wild, aside from airports and municipal wifi. Which pleases me, since, like other users here, I find them fairly annoying.
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by wiml 6y ago
An idea that's been kicking around in my head is a widget with an e-ink display for hackerspaces, cafés, and other multi-user spaces that displays the a password-of-the-day along with a qrcode for easy login. Heck, include an NFC chip
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by wiml 6y ago
There's data like the camera model which can be used for de-anonymization. Though, if de-anonymization is a concern in your threat model, you need to worry about sensor noise providing a unique fingerprint: http://www.ws
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by wiml 6y ago
You might also be interested in the CameraV / InformaCam project: https://guardianproject.github.io/informacam-guide/en/Inform...
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by wiml 6y ago
I would call it "a read cursor (that's updated within the transaction)", but I'm boring.
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by wiml 6y ago
Cubicles were developed in the 1960s as a way to give workers a bit more personal space than an open plan (or bullpen) office. Compared to having your own office, cubicles are crummy. Compared to having no dividers at all, though, cubicles
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by wiml 6y ago
If I had to read a clickbait headline, I think "Antarctic Scientists Charmed By Adorable Moss Balls" would be even more effective at getting me to read the article!
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by wiml 6y ago
Just from my own experience, I wonder if a lot of the benefit of such things is simply from habitually paying attention to your body , whether your lifting technique, or your breathing.
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by wiml 6y ago
My favorite example of this is the famous physicist Gerard 't Hooft. His last name (by which I mean, the way you would refer to him in a formal situation like a citation) is "'t Hooft" — yes, that starts with an apostrop
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by wiml 6y ago
Testing my (several years old) XPS 13, perhaps the back 1/4 is noticeably harder to click than the rest, and the very back 5-7 mm is unclickable. I have to say I've never noticed that before. I always use tap-to-click (whether on
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by wiml 6y ago
Not just exotic aircraft! Celestial navigation was used by all kinds of long range aircraft, military and civilian, until the 1960s or so. Early jetliners (including the first models of the 747, for example) had sextant ports in the top of
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by wiml 6y ago
In my experience, the "blockers" that standups help with are not so clear cut. Of course if I reach a point where I clearly can't proceed without X, I'll email/slack/async-request the person who might be able t
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by wiml 6y ago
Following some links back from that article reaches this: https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/actualites/remise-du-rapport-d... (there is both a French and an English PDF at the bottom). Interestingly to me, one of the ma
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by wiml 6y ago
I've bound my Caps Lock to Compose, it's really quite handy. I wish there were a Unicode lookup utility app that would display a character's compose sequences if any, but none seem to be under development / accepting fea
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by wiml 6y ago
I think you might underestimate how many Linux kernels+userlands show up embedded in non-"computer" devices!
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by wiml 6y ago
A similar idea forms the background to Karl Schroeder's novel _Permanence_.

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