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Golden, B.C. woman nearly hit by meteorite(globalnews.ca)
9 points by bitminer 5y ago|0 comments
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Facial Recognition pinpoints [stolen] Gretsch guitar(cbc.ca)
1 points by bitminer 5y ago|0 comments
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by bitminer 5y ago
It is a useful paper, yes. Good examples, good diagnosis of issues in systems theory, good definition of a way forward. However it suffers from (a) weak definitions and (b) implausible or strange descriptions. For (a), what is a "stro
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by bitminer 5y ago
Especially since Netflix has a lot of entertainment featuring black actors, producers etc. from the US. And a lot of Nigerian and South African productions too. You just have to look for it.
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by bitminer 5y ago
Be very aware -- SSD must be plugged in otherwise they may lose data after a few years. The time varies with temperature. Search for SSD data retention for more info. The JEDEC standard is the one to read.
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by bitminer 6y ago
21.7 cents per pixel. Stock photos cost $5 to $100 and come with distribution rights. Somebody paid a lot of money for bragging rights.
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by bitminer 6y ago
Non rapid updates to HN profile, I guess. hncollector@ and the domain is bitminer.ca
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by bitminer 6y ago
I have a demo website that is "4-clicks" to ordering satellite imagery. Include one for the data type, and one for the date. Contact me by email if you would like a demo. (I'm trying to avoid HN overload.)
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by bitminer 6y ago
There is also the CREDO app, check the Google Android app store.
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by bitminer 6y ago
And the New York Times article might be true. I'm sure that Solarwinds uses many more developer tools than what Jetbrains supplies. But only Jetbrains was "founded by Russians" so the NYT leads with that.
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by bitminer 6y ago
Question: did you unmount/mount the source filesystem between tests? When the size of data is less than RAM you are measuring cache speed, not so much disk speed. (And yes I realize that you have SSDs.)
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by bitminer 6y ago
>>[The] defenses include obvious technical components (e.g. backup systems, ‘safety’ features of equipment) and human components (e.g. training, knowledge) but also a variety of organizational, institutional, and regulatory defenses (
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by bitminer 6y ago
There is a lot marketing bullshit in the Capella articles. For example, the Singapore image of buildings and other detections by the SAR is clearly overlaid on an optical image with trees and bushes and respective shadows. Trees and bushes
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by bitminer 6y ago
I remember pestering my father for one back in 1973. He managed to get a demonstrator from the local office of HP, for iirc CAD$695, which was a lot of money in those days. I would push a few number keys and the log button, and, like magi
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UBC students accused of cheating on a math midterm(cbc.ca)
2 points by bitminer 6y ago|0 comments
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by bitminer 6y ago
>Is there a field of study/practice that deals with such changes to large scale system? It does sound like a very useful thing to systematically study, if possible. "Analysis points to ways engineering strategies could be reima
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by bitminer 6y ago
Interesting. I did some (IT) work for a company making photo plotters for the PCB industry. The MDA Fire 9000, later Cymbolic Sciences and other companies. This was about 1985. They had a minicomputer with a hardware rasterizer driving a
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by bitminer 6y ago
Very interesting article, and a good topic. Any idea how big the design team was? I would expect at least two but can imagine up to twenty people. And wonder if the masks were manually prepped.
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by bitminer 6y ago
"Cheap shot". Yes. Also no mitigation suggested other than CSP for which "A lot of CSP policies don't..." Which is a suggestion to use CSP correctly, in a backhanded way. It is a sales pitch plus an info-sec report
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by bitminer 6y ago
They just did. $600M https://www.telesat.com/press/press-releases/telesat-and-the...
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BBC News: Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks
3 points by bitminer 6y ago|0 comments
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by bitminer 6y ago
I disagree. I think the purpose of 5G is to allow carriers (formerly known as The Phone Company) to sell value-added services to other companies large and small. IoT, video-on-demand, Big Data, AI, automation, etc. The bandwidth story is
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by bitminer 6y ago
Don't even fill out a form -- I did that for a friend, decided not to press "click here to purchase". Turns out they had keystroke-logged me as I filled out the form. They got name, address, credit-card #, domain name. I was
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by bitminer 6y ago
s/intelligence/malevolence/ Stupidity is more likely than bad actors. Usually.
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by bitminer 6y ago
NK Jemisin...who? Oh. I really need to get back into reading SF.
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by bitminer 6y ago
Because it took five years for an email from Canadian police to arrive in Australia. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/outrageous-rcmp-can-unlock-bla... A news report from April 2016.
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by bitminer 6y ago
http://routebeer.net/ for Vancouver
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SRG/eROSITA uncovers the most X-ray luminous quasar at z6 with 9 photons(arxiv.org)
2 points by bitminer 6y ago|0 comments
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by bitminer 6y ago
Am I correct in thinking that this is about authority, not (land) title over half of Oklahoma?
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by bitminer 6y ago
This, and the competitive US aircraft of the day, were basically a chair with a jet engine attached. A couple of small wings for lift, and off you go. The courage of an airman climbing into such a machine is remarkable.

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