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by xoa 4y ago
I think the basic problem was in their abuse of the standards process. Having patents on your own inventions for a limited time, for hardware at least [0], has strong arguments. But it doesn't typically exempt one from general antitrus
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by xoa 4y ago
I can't tell if you're trying to be serious or are being sarcastic. Like, Apple started work on the Newton in the late 80s and released the first one in 1993 too. So what? Viable consumer product for these things involved innovati
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by xoa 4y ago
> 64% of US adults wear eyeglasses. ??? I do too. What does this have to do with anything? The lens is irrelevant for something that projects right onto the retina (trivial to correct for). Hell, I'd love it for that reason alone,
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by xoa 4y ago
What? A wearable display with a basic liquid crystal as well to control opacity can trivially do a normal rectangle too, anywhere you want. It's a complete superset of all current displays, that's the most basic use of it. Doing 3
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by xoa 4y ago
I was most surprised to find out that wearable displays haven't been a top front and center strategic priority from day 1, and instead they were thinking about the stupid ass car thing: > Apple CEO Tim Cook has been relatively hands
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by xoa 4y ago
Sometimes significant releases (and I'd call one of OpenBSD's twice yearly ones including full support for a brand new set of silicon reasonable significant) are worth one resurface for those that missed it the first time around w
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by xoa 4y ago
We have the fairly high end DEC3850, and I don't recommend it (or their other stuff). Not because I don't love OPNsense, because I do and I've switched all my firewall/gateway/routing tasks over to it at a range o
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by xoa 4y ago
> Did you notice the "read only sites" part? MITM is hardly relevant for those. I'm sorry but you're not thinking this through very carefully. People still care about authentication of read-only stuff, in the same
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by xoa 4y ago
Anyone interested in FreeBSD and wondering about some of the upcoming stuff getting worked on might also want to keep an eye on the FreeBSD Foundation's updates on active development projects. For Q1 2022: https://freebsdfou
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by xoa 4y ago
> He talks about several generation facilities catching fire and going out of service in recent days, but focuses primarily on the causes of the energy shortage being regulation and bureaucracy taking too long to approve new generation r
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Hackers are actively exploiting BIG-IP vulnerability with a 9.8 severity rating(arstechnica.com)
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by xoa 4y ago
Agreed, that's definitely the big glaring issue to me too. Normally all letters being identical is a good expected thing, but for an aged look it falls flat because aging doesn't uniformly affect every single letter across pages a
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by xoa 4y ago
It's a silly little topic but such relatively low stakes geeky discussion are definitely fun on a quiet HN Sunday (as I work to setup a new NAS unit as it happens), glad you found it interesting and a fun thing to contemplate a bit mys
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by xoa 4y ago
> but a mere 25 years ago, most people had no cell phone, no mobile phone, and never, ever suffered mishap as a result. But that just isn't true. Being able to use a mobile radio to summon emergency services earlier has statistical
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by xoa 4y ago
I don't suppose either of you have considered, you know, bookmarks in your browser ;)? And for tons of services a dashboard wouldn't be my first choice for cataloging/planning anyway, there are other tools for more or less au
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by xoa 4y ago
> A lot of people don't have nice urls for their homelab services, having to memorize IP-numbers and ports is a lot harder. There isn't much excuse for that though. In a homelab setting in particular I think you should just ru
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by xoa 4y ago
Yeah, they're not strict terms. I personally think a significant differentiator though is that "homelab" tends to have a bit more emphasis on, well, the lab part. Ie., there is a certain amount of experimentation going on w
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by xoa 4y ago
Right, a key phrase here is "combined arms": nothing for capturing/holding at all on the modern battlefield combines speed, survivability, scale and effectiveness into a single package. It's all about each piece reinforc
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by xoa 4y ago
I think you make some really strong points here and I completely agree that learning to deal with inevitable failure and working through it matters. I'd offer one small addition though: > XYZ isn't finished yet - no you're
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by xoa 4y ago
Any discussion about this is going to be highly dependent on local conditions. But having said that: my house is in a rural area delightfully flooded with birds, with a variety of bird feeders I put out and insects I try to support, and a
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by xoa 4y ago
One feature a few of us toyed with for years that I'd love to see tried seriously someday (or does it already exist?) would be intelligent tag trees or maps that stuff could be plugged into, ideally that could also be shared and mixed
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by xoa 5y ago
One interesting upcoming latency twist to this will be when the Starlink inter-sat optical links go online for the whole network. Version 0.9 is already used (and required) for polar and new batches are all launching with them, but I don&#x
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by xoa 5y ago
> But it really does sound like you're going to need to roll your own service based on your major complaints. Ideally that'd be more the norm, but unfortunately it's significantly more hassle than would be ideal. Uptime i
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by xoa 5y ago
I don't agree. Yeah there are definitely a multitude of factors at play. But overall electric is definitely more efficient, reliable, and opens up a range of new designs. That's a very important part of the picture in general beca
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by xoa 5y ago
> Really? I haven't noticed much progress over the last 5 to 10 years You don't call doubling to tripling of energy density progress? https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/19/bloombergnef-lithium-io.
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by xoa 5y ago
> Yeah, there have been lots of "breakthrough battery tech" announcements that didn't lead to commercial products Although very important to note in these discussions: a lot of them did . Yes, in mass production as as pa
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by xoa 5y ago
> Surely room temp at atmosphere is the ultimate prize? First, the science and engineering is interesting regardless. Better understanding of superconductivity and how we can achieve it will be helpful in applying it anywhere. Second, w
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by xoa 5y ago
When making a response it helps to actually read the comment and engage in good faith. > One is that you mainly punish honest users who have to install and run this PoW crapware just to make a small but legit edit. I covered this. It&
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by xoa 5y ago
> How does the Wikimedia foundation attempt to handle this? Add a time cost to accounts that is independent from IP or real identity. I gave a suggestion to factoring the product of primes, basically breaking crypto with far fewer bits
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by xoa 5y ago
Stupid and disappointing. Wikipedia and others should move decisively away from using IP addresses as any form of unique ID and address the actual problem in a way that still preserves the option for useful pseudonymity and participation. T

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