Wingman4l7

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by Wingman4l7 1mo ago
The current way to make a "finished" clothing product is called "whole garment knitting". Only two companies make machines that can do this; designing the garments is a pain with the current software stack. Most clothi
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by Wingman4l7 2mo ago
Just like eBay, an Amazon listing for a certain price does not mean the item is actually /selling/ for that price -- especially with badly-coded dynamic re-pricing algorithms hooked into listings these days.
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by Wingman4l7 2mo ago
It is indeed trivial to "side-load" ebooks onto an older Kindle; you plug it in via USB and drop the files into, IIRC, the "/documents" directory. Kindle, for many years and I think even now, does not actually suppo
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by Wingman4l7 2mo ago
What about if the harm is solely limited to people outside of China, because the product was export-only?
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by Wingman4l7 3mo ago
On their own "About Us" page: "Chime® is a financial technology company, not a bank." eyeroll These leeches want all the profits of banking and none of the customer service and regulatory obligations. New rule: if we
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by Wingman4l7 4mo ago
Apple? The company that has built its entire brand and product lines around "we know what's best for you and if you don't like the way we've done it, you're wrong"?
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by Wingman4l7 4mo ago
In the US, IIRC they have a trusted person sort the bills by denomination for them -- like a friend or a bank teller -- and then they fold them into different orientations so they know what they've handed to a checkout clerk. No way f
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by Wingman4l7 5mo ago
An opportune time to mention the real-world example of when the authorities really wanted to gain full access to a computer but did not want to resort to legal compulsion or "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" -- they simply waited until
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by Wingman4l7 5mo ago
That's a big assumption that this patent, a technology quite relevant to a massive media company, was filed only for future patent troll purposes. Plenty of seriously-intentioned ideas never materialize for a multitude of reasons. The
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by Wingman4l7 5mo ago
Stupid? Hardly. Sony was granted a patent in 2009 "for an interactive commercial system that allows viewers to skip commercials by yelling the brand name of the advertiser at their television or monitor." : https://www
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by Wingman4l7 6mo ago
There were also some early shoe-based devices I have read about, which used earpieces (difficult to avoid breaking the thin wires necessary to hide them, and prevent damage from sweat). Some of these stories unfortunately weren't docu
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by Wingman4l7 6mo ago
This does appear to break your "streak" of correct answers, though.
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by Wingman4l7 7mo ago
No, because this particular attack is (as far as I know) a new concept, but in general, China being a major state sponsor of all sorts of large cyberattacks is very well-known (in security circles, at least) and has been extensively documen
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by Wingman4l7 7mo ago
Perhaps because foreign governments with a known antagonistic stance would happily sell or hand over your data in order to cause large-scale economic instability via account attacks, political instability via fostering the prosecution of mi
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by Wingman4l7 9mo ago
Yeah, but is it OEM? Even big names like Dell don't support their parts for that long, and you have to resort to getting sketchy third-party parts from China, or rolling the dice on a used OEM part.
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by Wingman4l7 9mo ago
They're really not -- Mac scissor switches are pretty delicate, and it's easy to do damage to the tiny plastic nubs on the keycaps or the switches... and if you damage the metal retaining frame in any way, you're toast (Mac l
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
...through the subscription fee.
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
Not the first time I've seen it organically recommended, and I'm not surprised. A buddy has some of this stuff, he usually ages it for a minimum of a year, ideally 2+, in the fridge. Will sometimes have fantastic crystals, and e
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
Unfortunately, documentation simply isn't sufficient. In addition to parts or components not being manufactured anymore, you also would have the likely bigger issue of clinicians being hesitant or unwilling to work with the hardware,
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
Came here to post this in case it hadn't been. This case is very infamous in the disability & tech academic research community -- kind of their version of the Therac-25 in terms of ethics, damage to people, etc.
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
Next they need to disable the Starlink terminals being used on narco-subs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44477601
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Reverse-engineering the Friend AI pendant(web.archive.org)
2 points by Wingman4l7 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
Zipline's platform 2 is VTOL and is essentially a quad rotor + 1 rear swivel motor, during delivery. A fixed wing won't help you much if you have a failure while hovering. Google's Wing is a very similar design (6 hover mot
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
Drones don't just "fall on people's head[s]". Zipline, the only US-approved BVLOS drone operator I know of besides maybe Google's Wing, had to show the FAA millions of accident-free flight miles they did overseas i
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
It's already happening -- Zipline partnered with Walmart and has been actively performing deliveries in TX and I think a few other places. Google's Wing may also be doing commercial deliveries but I don't know as much about
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
Long overdue. At some point, these scam operations are so large that they have to be operating with tacit approval of their host countries, who have been given no incentive to stop the virtual cold war against the personal finances of fore
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by Wingman4l7 11mo ago
It's the only way this kind of robot will ever be successful. It's a bit like the driverless car approach -- get the hardware out into the real world with minimum viable performance, then desperately snaffle up as much real-world
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by Wingman4l7 1y ago
Reusing parts for them, massive piles of software-bricked e-waste for us.
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by Wingman4l7 1y ago
Keep in mind that this isn't really equivalent, cost-wise, to the crime of taking a car for a joyride -- airplane engines have rigorous maintenance schedules that require expensive overhauls, and aviation gasoline looks to be over doub
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by Wingman4l7 1y ago
You vastly underestimate the number of people who should not pick this option but would (because doing otherwise would be admitting their incompetence / ignorance) -- thus handily continuing the problem.

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