wrkronmiller

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by wrkronmiller 26d ago
They could make this opt-in or opt-out
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by wrkronmiller 2y ago
Even if you could solve aging, you could never solve death. Probability and entropy will catch up with you eventually. I think that most people over a certain age are quite aware of their own mortality, and are looking to bring meaning to t
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by wrkronmiller 3y ago
> Use a search engine that suppresses spammy sites and lets you customise what you want it to surface. Can you give an example of such a search engine? Which one(s) do you use and why?
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by wrkronmiller 5y ago
It depends a lot on the car and the engine. If you want a high-performance engine that meets modern emissions requirements, you're probably going to be looking at EFI and turbochargers. Changing the fuel injection maps on a modern car
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by wrkronmiller 5y ago
That wouldn't test the software, assuming cheating wasn't an issue
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by wrkronmiller 5y ago
Correct, but in this case, it sounds like you didn't need to use the ISP router as your VPN gateway. If I understand the DNS rebinding attack reference correctly, you could be running the VPN software on your desktop/laptop and st
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by wrkronmiller 5y ago
Given HTTP pipelining and fetch() promise semantics, I'm not sure there's a practical benefit to pushing results instead of "blocking" the original request.
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by wrkronmiller 5y ago
Are we about to come full circle to Mt Gox?
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by wrkronmiller 5y ago
What is the advantage of dbus over Unix sockets?
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
or people will just create a shared email account, or set up a forwarding rule for the verification emails... I agree with another commenter. This seems targeted at people who are borrowing someone's account without their knowledge or
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
> On Wednesday Melvin said it had exited its bet against GameStop and repositioned its portfolio. The firm moved to reduce risk in its investments following a turbulent start to January when it lost 30 percent in the first three weeks. M
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
> There are 100 shares. A owns 90 of them, B owns 10. A lends her 90 shares to C, who shorts them all to D. Now A owns 90 shares, B owns 10 and D owns 90—there are 100 shares outstanding, but190 shares show up on ownership lists. (The ac
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
IANAL but I believe that some clever lawyers have used this to the advantage of the victims by essentially creating a DOS attack on the company, flooding it with binding arbitration claims. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
> 207.60.36.176 - 207.60.36.183 Chris Pet Store Peculiar on many levels...
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
Boeing isn’t a remote company, so it’s not a contradiction. If you read into most of the arguments for remote-friendly workplaces, step one is cultural changes.
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
You say that having private keys on servers is bad, and you say that using SSH agent forwarding "is the devil." How, exactly, do you expect people to do things like use git or pivot from Server A to Server B over SSH?
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
That implies you are going to be running prod in the cloud. Unless you're developing against purely synthetic data, the data transfer costs are potentially astronomical.
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
> Argo Tunnel offers an easy way to expose web servers securely to the internet, without opening up firewall ports and configuring ACLs. Argo Tunnel also ensures requests route through Cloudflare before reaching the web server, so you ca
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Argo Tunnel (Cloudflare)(developers.cloudflare.com)
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
Dropbox is in a relatively specific situation wherein their cloud costs would be extremely high (storage, bandwidth) and their in-house technical skills are probably quite good.
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
> It's only through politics that we can make sure that the gains from trade are evenly split. The math of markets doesn't define it. That's clearly not the case since my employer could legally pay me $15/hour for my
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the way to avoid an explosion: "don't pull the control rods all the way out" It would take a very specific kind of war or natural disaster to pull out the control rods from a nucle
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
https://blog.telegeography.com/does-70-of-the-worlds-interne...
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
I don’t disagree with your goal but I think you ought to elaborate on your arguments. The electoral college balances geographic diversity against raw popularity. This is just one of many ways the US government gives outsized power to vocal
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
As opposed to blindly running the precompiled binary you manually downloaded from the site?
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
That doesn't really make sense, since this guy already did an interview for VinWiki, describing the run, how he did it, and showing pictures of the car: https://youtu.be/EvQFDtJUdHw?t=207
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
> That wouldn't stop any traffic collision or ATC function from working but would prevent persistent tracking of for example private jets. I'm not sure how well that would work w/r/t ATC hand-off and their ability to
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
Ah, I see. That makes sense, thanks!
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
I'm not familiar with the existing law covering OBD2/CAN bus, but I'm pretty sure even when the OBD2 port gives you the ability to communicate with all networks (D-CAN, K-CAN, etc...), it's currently up to the community
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by wrkronmiller 6y ago
Reading the text of the proposal, I find it bizarre that the requirement would be for a mobile app versus, say, a serial connection that allows access to the same data that is transmitted OTA. This is better than nothing, but this approach

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