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by wiml 7y ago
Though, this only really makes sense on a nuclear-powered ship. You've got to store your energy somehow , and I'm sure gunpowder is less energy-dense than diesel fuel, but from what I've read one of the big attractions of el
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by wiml 7y ago
This is only really true for books published during a certain interval when high acid (wood pulp) paper was common. Before the late 1800s paper was typically made of other plant fibers ("rag"); by the mid-late 1900s de-acidified w
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by wiml 7y ago
GNU MediaGoblin started as a photo-sharing system (a flickr alternative, I suppose) but has support for 3D models and a plugin system for other file types. It seems like adding support for STL and so on would be within the project's go
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by wiml 7y ago
It's probably just logging AIS data ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_Syste... ). Large ships are required to broadcast (like, on the radio) their position, heading, and so on. Anyone with a
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by wiml 7y ago
They can't be, unless you generate them badly. A diceware passphrase has 6^6 possibilities ≈ 15 bits of entropy per word, so an unremarkable 5-word password has 77 bits of entropy — generally good enough — and if you have a high value
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by wiml 7y ago
Perhaps, but also I don't think it's just coincidence that wheat and similar grains are what made western civilization possible.
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by wiml 7y ago
1700: https://opencurtains.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/false-lights/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_(shipwreck) (Fictional, but widely believed to be true, at least for a time)
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by wiml 7y ago
It isn't exactly truncated SHA-512 — that is, you can't compute a SHA-512/256 hash by computing a SHA-512 hash and then truncating it. Although the algorithm is the same as doing that, the initial state of the hash context is
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by wiml 7y ago
Well, Japan differs from the ex-British Empire areas in many other ways in addition to sleeping habits. Some might appeal to you but some might not. :) I also like a really firm sleeping surface — I don't have any particular health pro
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by wiml 7y ago
I might be misreading your post, but there's nothing stopping you from using a gcc+make+$EDITOR workflow with the Kinetis or MSP430 chips either. I've done both, it's not even painful. (Admittedly I haven't worked with M
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by wiml 7y ago
The AVR instruction set is reasonably nice for hand-coding (and has a more modern feel to it than the 'HC11, which may be relevant if you're using it as a teaching example). I haven't used PICs since the PIC14 days; it was a
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by wiml 8y ago
Sure, both the ClientHello and ServerHello (which are the first two messages during setup) can contain arbitrary extension fields; these are already used for things like SNI, ALPN, "early data" (optimistic 0-RTT data), and so on.
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by wiml 8y ago
I was hoping they'd actually made a bare-metal BEAM implementation like the Lisp and Forth hardware that people have made in the past. This device looks like it's Erlang-on-BEAM-on-RTEMS, which is undoubtedly a more practical and
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by wiml 8y ago
Non-flat spacetime doesn't necessarily conserve energy (Noether's theorem).
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by wiml 8y ago
I always enjoy reading about this kind of thing. I don't know what's the novel aspect of this patent though — the idea of using multiple overlapping projectors so that the display can be farther from the eye and still paint the fu
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by wiml 8y ago
Quite a few people run systems with a Raspberry Pi, a high-quality I2S DAC+amp, and a set of (normal, non-internet-connected, firmware-free) speakers. There's a tiny industry of producing hardware and software for this situation. &quot
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by wiml 8y ago
I don't see why it would be unlikely. The standard identity smartcard (DoD PIV card, openPGP card, etc), like the standard credit/debit card, uses the same physical and electrical interface as a SIM (because a SIM is also a standa
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by wiml 8y ago
Right, some years ago I was involved in deployment of an update mechanism which (like APT) used signed bundles transferred in the clear. (Originally this was for privacy concerns: our users were more concerned about verifying the content of
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by wiml 8y ago
No, that would be "revocation". Expiration is relatively easy to implement because the expiration date is known in advance and so you can simply put the expiration date in the certificate when it is issued. Revocation is relativel
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by wiml 8y ago
Sure. A classic article from 1990: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.35.9... An interesting thing from reading about practical experiments in EM eavesdropping is that it's not just the obviou
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by wiml 8y ago
I wondered the same thing when setting up OCSP stapling. My conclusion was that the largest benefit is to the issuer, because OCSP allows them to use a different private key for initial issuance and for status responses. So the issuing key
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by wiml 8y ago
I think that was a common and pretty simple thing to do back when businesses still had modems and POTS lines — there were several popular FOSS and commercial solutions for setting up your own local fax gateway (print-to-outgoing-fax and inc
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by wiml 8y ago
That's how it works (at least the OneBusAway feed in the Seattle area). They started in the 90s with an RFID transponder on bus stops, read by the bus as it went past; more recently they use things like odometry or GPS to feed informat
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by wiml 8y ago
"Recently" was — conservatively — thirty or forty years ago.
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by wiml 8y ago
As I understand it, the way is: run an IPFS node (perhaps on a cheap VPS); use `ipfs pin ` to force the node to retain the file even if it isn't being requested. Presumably someone could sell "pinning as a service" for fairly
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by wiml 8y ago
SSN isn't supposed to be secret, either. Neither is your mother's maiden name or whatever. But people use them as authenticators anyway.
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by wiml 8y ago
It's also a lot brighter outdoors than it is indoors (we're really good at adapting to different light levels, so it doesn't seem like a large change, but it is). Recently I've read that simply being in a brighter enviro
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by wiml 8y ago
The impedance is ridiculously high; there isn't very much power available at all. Even just to get enough current to sense accurately can be difficult. Some googling suggests that even if you somehow extracted all the current from the
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by wiml 8y ago
The headline was inaccurate (now fixed) — the Mozilla Voice project is about speech recognition aka STT not TTS. It would be kinda interesting to have a TTS system learn from a neighboring STT system so that it gradually adopts your accent,
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by wiml 8y ago
That's what the second pass is for, right, to screen out actually unintelligible or misrecorded entries. The English (in)fluency is more of a feature, though, than a bug. The goal isn't to produce a speech-to-text system that can

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