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by wolrah 4y ago
> I'm sure Starlink will be better in some way, but it's almost double... The most important difference is that Viasat uses a couple of GEO satellites where Starlink uses a massive swarm of LEO satellites. Viasat's satelli
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by wolrah 4y ago
No, unfortunately to use it with a PC you need to have their app installed on the PC as well and be signed in on both.
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by wolrah 4y ago
> This needs a custom build of MAME to play? My immediate thought as well, especially without any indication of source for either GPL compliance or just to know what they changed.
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by wolrah 4y ago
Which is a problem easily solved with a cheap USB ethernet dongle, and again while the general mainstream computing audience may or may not have those I think it's reasonable to assume that the average person who has chosen to install
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by wolrah 4y ago
> And yes, a lot of the time when people are setting up a router they have the router at hand. While I have no doubt that this is true for home-grade firewall/NAT/wifi combo boxes in general, with very few exceptions OpenWRT is
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by wolrah 4y ago
> This is probably not at all intuitive to the regular Windows user, my parents would never understand the implications of this The trick here is how do we solve this other than further user education? When the user profile folder is un
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by wolrah 4y ago
This assumes the bad actor only put one thing there. If they put multiple things there they don't know what was detected unless told.
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by wolrah 4y ago
I think the biggest boost to Chrome's initial success was the fact that it's capable of installing entirely within the user profile, so unless a corporate IT department has gone out of their way to lock a system down an unprivileg
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I guarantee I can find a cheaper device that does not need to use apples network and is as easy to use; it's even more perfect for stalking because there's no information on the owner and no risk that the tag notifies the per
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by wolrah 4y ago
100% agreed. When it comes to any kind of incrementing counter, IMO the limit should always be multiple orders of magnitude greater than the expected lifespan of the system. Taking OP at face value, these devices' counter has a zero p
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by wolrah 4y ago
A truck engine is a great comparison point, because you can look at modern trucks for a perfect example of this. A Ford F-250 through F-450 pickup truck with the 6.7L "Power Stroke" diesel is rated for 475 HP and 1050 lb-ft of tor
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I can only dream of a day when dedicated video cards become just as redundant. They have been for years as long as you don't need high end 3D or compute capabilities. Intel's iGPUs are plenty for most normal desktop use case
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by wolrah 4y ago
> But I have no interest in it as a hobby, and the whole topic has a similar vibe as the audiophile community. While the custom keyboard community does tend to get in to pointlessly overcomplicated cables similarly to audiophiles, unlike
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by wolrah 4y ago
> The real winner is their Oryx firmware that makes reprogramming the keys on the board a breeze. It's the best investment I've made in my ergonomic health. As a Moonlander owner who loves it, it's worth pointing out that
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by wolrah 4y ago
> are there any other car manufacturer that provide descent autonomy beyond tesla at the moment ? GM SuperCruise and Ford BlueCruise are generally regarded to be better at actually driving than Tesla's cameras-only approach. They a
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by wolrah 4y ago
Right, but this subthread is about it being fine for people to prefer the sound of less accurate systems, just not to claim those systems are objectively superior. The poster I'm replying to is then acting like it's some weird aud
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by wolrah 4y ago
You're not wrong in the general "audiophile" world where fools and their money are parted over snake oil magical cables claiming benefits only those with the most golden of ears can enjoy. Where you're getting pushback i
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by wolrah 4y ago
> What, no shock about it having IPv4 support even though that was replaced when you were in 2nd grade :p. IPv4 is still unfortunately relevant to almost every real world network, where address classes have been irrelevant to basically e
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by wolrah 4y ago
> What does this mean? Do users not connect directly to private servers? Does every minecraft client have to authenticate with a central server before joining a private one? Minecraft servers in the default "online mode" authen
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Looks cool, but is this a solution in search of a problem? The problem of maneuvering vehicles in tight spaces and parallel parking with limited room is a real one that anyone can observe by just standing around in places with heavily
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by wolrah 4y ago
> If one car only needs extremely small margins to park, it's possible for conventional cars ahead or behind to lose too much of their normally-expected larger buffer space, and be unable to (easily) leave. Doesn't the same app
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Citation needed. Literally 100% of the JS code i've written over the past 24 years has been 100% free of "ads, trackers, and internal tools that somehow users have to contributor their data to." It's a fair assumpti
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Additionally there's the issue that their operating licenses don't allow inter-satellite communications. This is of course a much easier problem to solve than putting a dynamic mesh network in space.
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by wolrah 4y ago
What I mean by openly demonstrated to work is some sort of public demo that would require use of the inter-satellite links. The linked article just says they've started testing and been able to move data, which means nothing about how
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Using optical rather than RF doesn't really change the game that much. The precision required for aiming is directly related to the wavelength. Iridium NEXT satellites use Ka band with a wavelength around ten millimeters where an
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Interesting. I didn't know that coverage was limited. I assumed satellite == pretty much all of earth. The low orbits that give Starlink its low latency compared to geostationary satellite internet services also mean that each sat
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Suppose a dissident wants to publish information adverse to the government, there's a situation. In what case would a commercial VPN provider, which will have a payment path associated to you, be better than something like Tor for
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Yeah but you’re assuming the programmers who worked on this don’t make dumb mistakes like the rest of us. Yeah but this isn't just a "dumb mistake". It's been widely discussed in the web design world how terrible of
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I'll give you the benefit of assuming ignorance rather than malice Neither ignorance nor malice, just stating the facts. > but the FSD beta is a program that is selective based upon absurdly high driving standards, from which i
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by wolrah 4y ago
You're not a tester at all. You're a user who an irresponsible company has given access to incomplete software intended to control a powerful machine in close proximity to the general public. There are no test protocols. There&#

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