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by wlonkly 3y ago
People know who Satoshi is or was, in that it's the same Satoshi that invented Bitcoin. (But nobody knows who that is or was "in real life".) But if an agency has access to that wallet, then any transactions would be visible
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by wlonkly 3y ago
This aside in the article caught my eye: > Yahoo! acquired GeoCities in 1999 for $3.57 billion in bubble stock, and at the time (and perhaps still today) had a toxic approach to acquisitions that would effectively ruin the startups they
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I suppose it costs one Casio F91W, but I get what you mean. Good-quality incense burns pretty consistently -- when I sit, I sit the time it takes one stick to burn down. There's even incense-burners that will ring a little bell when th
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Because I think you'd appreciate it, and no pedantry intended: "Line up and wait" is the international terminology, which the US was relatively late to adopt. https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety&#x
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Something like "TCAS for runways" is RIMCAS[1], but it notifies the controller, not the pilots. [1] https://www.indracompany.com/sites/default/files/indra06-nov...
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I learned to fly at St Hubert Airport (CYHU) outside of Montreal, where ATC spoke English to English-speaking pilots and French to French-speaking pilots. I lived in Montreal so I knew enough French to get by, but I could never make out mor
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Yep, it's a line-of-sight transmission, so in a way the aircraft has the advantage of being a really, really tall antenna. The volunteers running the feeds around YYZ are at the airport, IIRC. I'm in Halifax now, and the (single)
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by wlonkly 3y ago
My rule of thumb is "know where the exits are", and "know where the life jackets are" if flying over water. Those are the bits that differ the most plane to plane -- seatbelts are consistent, clear paths during takeoff
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by wlonkly 3y ago
"Line up and wait" unambiguously means to do so on the runway. https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/resources/luaw
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by wlonkly 3y ago
And on relatively ancient analog radio systems, no less.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Enough of a breakthrough to be worthy of a Nobel prize, even: https://medium.com/predict/why-blue-led-earned-nobel-prize-i...
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by wlonkly 3y ago
> the epitome of cool I remember being wowed by the blue power LEDs on VA Linux servers in the early or mid 2000s! Now any stock photo of a server room is covered with blue lights.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Sometimes, the country you are in changes even though you are in the same geographical location. I've had my email address for over a decade longer than the current countries of Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and South Sudan have existed.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
In a thread about email, "postfix" really threw me here! But I realize you don't mean the email server, but I'm not sure what you do mean.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I thought it was clickbait too, until I realized it was Daihatsu, which is all but unknown in the US where CNN is based. But then I realized that "Toyota-owned automaker Daihatsu tampered..." would work and now I think it's c
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by wlonkly 3y ago
This is one of the points made in Patrick Lencioni's "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team", which I've always found a valuable read. A warning, though: it's a "business fable", where he gets his point across b
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Well, it depends on which definition you use. If you consider the circles planets, then it's one revolution by the astronomical definition. If you consider them gears, then it's 4 revolutions by the mechanical definition.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
This extension lets you toggle the global setting, but it also optionally lets you toggle individual GIFs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggleanigif/
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by wlonkly 3y ago
No, GP does mean spinning there. As they walk around the earth, their head points away from the north pole, then away from the equator, then away from the south pole, then away from the equator, then away from the north pole again. It happe
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by wlonkly 3y ago
The rotating point of view was the "aha" for me. It's even clearer to me when you look at the 1:1 ratio with two identical coins, where when the rotating coin is upright at the bottom of the rotation, and the coin is right-si
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by wlonkly 3y ago
The first bunch are "Would you jerks cut it out" and the rest is "How not to be a jerk", both seem pretty important. I don't find it condescending because I think I'm not a jerk but I'm aware that a lot of
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by wlonkly 3y ago
On one hand, when I don't want to use Pinterest, I too curse how it takes over Google Images results. But on the other hand, when I do want to use it, it's a great scrapbook and recommendation tool -- easy to capture images I fi
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I understand the complaint, but I don't think that was a problem back in 2012, the timeframe of the article.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Livejournal?
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Very much so. Balenciaga is in on the joke, so to speak. Their stuff makes fun of the industry they're in while being right in the middle of it. (For example, hit up your favorite search engine for "Balenciaga ikea bag".)
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by wlonkly 3y ago
In the US (where the dealer with the chatbot is), manufacturers sell cars to dealers, and dealers sell cars to customers. (Tesla bypassing this arrangement was a big deal at the time, but I can't remember how that turned out.) So in th
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Sure, but the goal at the end of the day isn't to understand it fully, it's to have something that you can swap out and swap back in the next day.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
The reason people pay Hashicorp for HSM support is so that they can run Vault in a FIPS-certified mode.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
You'd be surprised at how thorough homeowners insurance is. Mine covers accidental damage to electronics (i.e. "dropped my laptop"). It's not worth making a claim because of deductible and rate increases, but it's i
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Ah dangit, I searched for his name. Thanks!

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