benjaminwai

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by benjaminwai 9mo ago
I am surprised they haven't come up with their own Truth font instead. "Everything is written in Truth".
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by benjaminwai 3y ago
Just a note with the Bash encoding method. It should be with the -n option: $ echo -n "abcde" |base64 Otherwise, without the -n, echo injects an extra newline character to the end of the string that would become encoded.
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by benjaminwai 3y ago
There has to be some amount of competency becoming a founder, CEO and a millionaire, with the various ventures he was involved.
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by benjaminwai 3y ago
The French research ship Atalante is almost there: "It carries the Victor 6000 autonomous robot, capable of descending to a depth of 6,000 metres, beyond the 3,800 metres of the wreck's position" https://www.reuter
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by benjaminwai 3y ago
In their EC-Type Examination Certificate it mentioned the harness "in 3 different wire rope lengths: 30m, 50m, 80m".
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by benjaminwai 3y ago
"Others still have reported that the internet outage could be circumvented by connecting through a virtual private network (VPN), giving a hint of where the wider problems lie, and suggesting that Virgin Media’s outage, like that at Fa
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by benjaminwai 4y ago
George Hotz has just been hired to rewrite Twitter search in 12 weeks. No code change is going out the window.
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by benjaminwai 4y ago
Must be, the flock votes with their feet.. umm hooves.
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by benjaminwai 4y ago
In no part of the news article mentioned they were actually admitted into the building. They were just standing around outside in the cold waiting for who knows how long. Nothing happened. This is literally about nothing.
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by benjaminwai 4y ago
I empathize with those remaining with a H1B, they would be worried sick. They would have less choices and would otherwise have less of 60 days to find a new job or to leave the country.
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by benjaminwai 4y ago
I think we are missing some contexts here. I have been trying to find more information about them. From what I found [1] (hopefully accurate) it looks like they are a new team - Beta in August 2021 and just incorporated in this February. Th
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by benjaminwai 4y ago
To put it in context, P&O Ferries has always been UK based and flagged until it's sold to a Dubai owner in 2006 and it's reflagged to Cyprus early 2019. That opened up the opportunity for this to happen. All the routes are con
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by benjaminwai 4y ago
Can the reversers be opened independently on left and right side? From some of the 3D plots on various threads it looks like the plane took a sharp left before diving. Could it be the left reverser malfunctioned or be accidently opened mid
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by benjaminwai 4y ago
It mentioned the lawsuit was filled at the Tverskoi District Court. Is it equivalent to a US district-level court, say, Court for the Southern District of New York?
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
I had a suspicion that the Tennis Australia and Victoria State Government did not want to take on the publicity battle and kicked the ball down to the Federal government. The person issuing the Visa at the Fed level either lapsed in reviewi
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
I kind of sympathize the engineer who had to code this in the first place years ago. I could see it, it was probably a junior person being thrown into it. He would have had to deal with non-standard components, incompatible packages and lim
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
Can language be delinked from culture? Maybe. But can a language survive without a culture to encompass it? If you strip culture from a language, wouldn't the language would become toneless and meaningless? Yes, you can call something
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
I wonder how do they link back to the main network? Would it require a fiber backbone in place as a prerequisite? Or through satellite uplink? i.e., would somewhere really remote, say, the oil rig in the North Sea, be out of luck for such i
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
I think !$ takes the last argument on the previous command in history, not previous one on the same line.. at least in bash. For example, if you do: $ ls / $ ls /tmp/junk; rm !$ It's taking "/" ra
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
To me, space is not static. Black holes, as probably all objects in space, are continuously moving and rotating. I don't think gravity waves are fully understood. I doubt they would be constant for black holes. There would also be cont
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
I am curious as well with the last questions: Encrypted at rest? And can the owners (service maintainers) see the saved data? Scanning through the faqs and privacy pages, the only bit I found relevant is in Privacy Policy section 14 "D
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
> Write a damn desktop app I can run locally, I didn't ask for people from Turkmenistan to be able to login as me, so you could sell me a halfassed web version of something. Authy Desktop?
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by benjaminwai 5y ago
Or keylogger?
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by benjaminwai 6y ago
From AWS's dashboard: "We're continuing to address connectivity issues to impacted instances in a single Availability Zone (euw2-az3) in the EU-WEST-2 Region. Services that use EC2 and EBS including Elastic Load Balancing, EF
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by benjaminwai 6y ago
It may depend on how they define the "quarter". If they take the quarter as the last 91 days and round the number to the closest percent, you might not see it changed unless the outages go more than 91x24x0.5% or 10.92 hours.. It&
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by benjaminwai 6y ago
"Google has been contacted for comment, but one spokesperson said they were unable to access their email."
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by benjaminwai 6y ago
Think it would be using brokering, the instance of Keycloak would be an external identity provider. Each customer would have their own instance of Keycloak that could then be configured to broker their choice of identity provider. I think t
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by benjaminwai 7y ago
Think it's this course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking
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by benjaminwai 7y ago
How about a ctrl-g shortcut to cd and exit to the directory on the file/dir highlighted? EDIT: Found https://dystroy.org/broot/documentation/configuration/ and on macOS the config file is located at ~&#x
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by benjaminwai 7y ago
Came across this from a news article[1]: "Of Atlassian’s nearly 153,000 total customers, greater than 125,000 already have at least one of the company’s cloud products. More than 90% of new Atlassian customers start in the cloud."

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