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by wiml 6y ago
The cellular network always has to know your approximate location, or else it can't get your data to you. But that doesn't use GPS. Offhand (and I'm very far from an expert) the only situation I can think of that spoofing GPS
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by wiml 6y ago
I've bought a handful of ordinary things (bookshelves, a t-shirt, tire chains, coffee and pastries) with bitcoin, just for the heck of it. These are real-world things I would have spent other kinds of money on if I couldn't pay w
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by wiml 6y ago
The old Starwisp (I think) proposal involved accelerating a lens as well, keeping it positioned between the laser and the payload sail, to refocus the beam. (A 2D diffractive lens, of course, not a giant piece of glass.)
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by wiml 7y ago
Sum types like Option/Maybe (or C's NULL) don't do the same thing as SQL's NULL, though. By all means, if you don't need NULLs, then don't use them — `NOT NULL` should probably have been the default in table st
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by wiml 7y ago
Placental mammals need certain endogenous retroviruses in order to reproduce.
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by wiml 7y ago
One problem with RTGs is you can't throttle them. They're going to produce that amount of power, no more and no less, according to their decay curve, whether you have a use for it or not.
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by wiml 7y ago
Household heat where I live is mostly electric, there's no reason not to do some computation with the energy you're going to be burning anyway. For a little while I had a script set up to control my BOINC client based on the tempe
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by wiml 7y ago
> if you are at the level of doing smd reflow, there are significantly better tools What do you mean by "at the level of doing reflow"? Techniques like this demonstrate that "the level" of doing reflow is much more at
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by wiml 7y ago
No, 0 is ten pulses.
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by wiml 7y ago
For a number of years now — I think I got the idea from a HN comment — I've just been exposing ssh as a Tor hidden service. Really easy to set up, and I can donate a few kbps to the tor network.
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by wiml 7y ago
If you don't already know about it, you'll probably be interested in Mozilla's Common Voice data: https://voice.mozilla.org/en/datasets
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by wiml 7y ago
Hey, if it's good enough for Linux memory management, it's good enough for parking.
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by wiml 7y ago
Fewer than thirty, I think. Which is pretty good for a model that accurately encompasses so many phenomena. Why do you say we don't know much about subatomic physics? In your view, how would things be different if we did know "muc
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by wiml 7y ago
I've been running that system for a few years (with control via MALP or ncmpc mostly). Works pretty well.
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by wiml 7y ago
As far as I know, that's what all the breathable fabrics are. GoreTex ís PTFE (teflon™) with microscopic pores, originally developed for uranium refining; PTFE is soft, so it's usually combined with a nylon shell. Tyvek comes in m
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by wiml 7y ago
That really does seem like the simplest, most boring explanation to me — some kind of camouflage/countermeasures/stealth technology that makes it really hard to recognize something or to get a reliable indication of its bearing or
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by wiml 7y ago
It's not that unambiguous. Compare "You must not do X" and "You need not do X". The sentences have the same form, and they are both common and idiomatic, but in the second sentence, the "not" modifies &q
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by wiml 7y ago
Right. A lot of "modified gravity" theories have been proposed in recent decades, investigated, and compared to observations; with work they can be made to match up. Dark-matter theories on the other hand do a somewhat better jo
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by wiml 7y ago
There's a nice table here: https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/appendi... Quite a lot of common staples (eg: potatoes, greens, vegetables, pulses) have a fair amount of potassium, if you
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by wiml 7y ago
It means that the black hole is close to extremal. This means that the space near them is deformed in even more interesting ways than around a boring old non-spinning spherically-symmetrical hole. I think it's often assumed that most b
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by wiml 7y ago
OSX handles this with a kqueue event that can notify userland when the system moves between various memory pressure states; this is hooked into by libdispatch and other userland libraries which will discard caches and so on. I don't se
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by wiml 7y ago
Dates are the same, though — 01.15.2018 is not a real number, it's a sequence of integers. (And in many places they're not even written in most-to-least or least-to-most significant order! …I guess that makes it a tuple, not a s
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by wiml 7y ago
This wouldn't surprise me at all. My residential internet service has provided IPv6 for years. (I think it's 6rd, but I don't care — the company-provided router does the IPv6 router advertisement thing, and all the devices on
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by wiml 7y ago
Mirage exists and works reasonably well.
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by wiml 7y ago
My understanding is that "WiFi Calling" involves having your phone set up an IPsec tunnel (authenticated by your SIM) with your carrier, and then transferring essentially the same packets over that as would be transferred to the c
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by wiml 7y ago
> most software doesn't support [name constraints] (and silently ignores them rather than correctly failing closed) Could you elaborate on this? Specific examples? CVEs? My experience has been that most software will either honor th
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by wiml 7y ago
The last time I looked into it, a few years ago, everyone except Apple had some basic amount of support. (That is, openssl, firefox, windows, and android — that's all I looked into.) I set up my private CA with name constraints, but I
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by wiml 7y ago
Serverless lambdas, before they were cool!
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by wiml 7y ago
Parts of the accretion disk get hot enough to emit light.
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by wiml 7y ago
> Don’t presume anything but measure. I think that's exactly the wrong takeaway here. Most of these have a well-defined result on a given platform (host + abi). You can measure that result. But it'll be different on a differe

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