blincoln

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by blincoln 3d ago
The rings remind me of shock diamonds. Is the similar appearance a coincidence, or is it a similar physical process too (but with gravity pulling the column downward instead of a jet engine pushing exhaust outward)?
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by blincoln 3d ago
> Restricting access to certain networks is supposed to be hard in 2026? Part of the power of LLM agents is that they can discover information on the internet as part of responding to a prompt. What kind of Allowlist or realistic denyli
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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet(ras.ac.uk)
133 points by blincoln 4d ago|42 comments
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by blincoln 6d ago
If it makes you feel any better, I've also never had any luck finding hidden rock art, petroglyphs, or similar using multispectal bandpass filters or decorellation stretching. I was super excited about DCS based on some of the recove
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by blincoln 9d ago
I'm not surprised that there's a lot of inertia. VMware Workstation has historically been the most "it just works" option if one needed solid USB passthrough support. I've bought my own license for about 15 years be
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by blincoln 22d ago
> Does the existence of lock picks or bolt cutters render padlocks pointless today A padlock shouldn't be the only component of the bigger physical security picture. A random person carrying/using bolt cutters or trying to pick
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by blincoln 22d ago
Some screens are like that, but it's not an inherent property of all visual displays. For example, you'll see a sort of barber-pole effect when pointing a video camera at a raster-scan digital display whose refresh rate isn't
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by blincoln 1mo ago
I don't know how common it is, but Control (PS4 era) has an extensive cheat system accessible from the options menu, and Saros (PS5 era) has a wide variety of settings to make the game more or less difficult.
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by blincoln 2mo ago
> Those last maybe 6 months and then they start getting dimmer and then all the lights in the circuit get worse at once. Have you checked the wiring? I may be stating the obvious, but in household electrical wiring every fixture or recep
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by blincoln 2mo ago
> Walmart I'm a little surprised to see the company that locked employees into their buildings during night shifts[1] in your "more ethical" list. [1] https://archive.is/Fx9S
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by blincoln 2mo ago
Just to add to the anecdotes: I'm in my late 40s. I grew up on an island in Washington state. Truly commercial-grade fireworks (the kind that professionals would launch for an audience of thousands) were banned by that time, but plenty
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by blincoln 3mo ago
That's surprisingly inexpensive for 256 GiB of VRAM, but how much power would it take to run it? Is it even feasible with residential circuits?
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by blincoln 3mo ago
> When I report serious ones, mostly the devs will respond with something like, yeah, thats how we designed it in a dangerous way, so that the layer above or below can solve the issues, and other footgun stuff. This is one of the reasons
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by blincoln 3mo ago
Is the job submission handled securely? I've seen plenty of systems along the lines of what you're describing where unauthenticated clients can submit jobs. Sometimes the developers even claim that's intentional. Either way,
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by blincoln 3mo ago
> The missing orange-red-purple corner appears small in the diagram in comparison with the missing blue-green corner, but in reality humans perceive much more different colors in the orange/red/purple corner, so the relation be
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by blincoln 3mo ago
AFAIK TIFF supports an arbitrary number of additional channels already.
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by blincoln 3mo ago
If you haven't already, you should do some tests to see if you can see UV-A now. Some replacement lenses are UV-transparent. Dandelions in sunlight are an easy option, at least in my part of the world. If your replacement lens is UV-tr
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by blincoln 3mo ago
> And then people who hate Trump like the media want to make it seem like Trump himself is being duped and is personally directing the investigators. It sure sounds like Trump himself is being duped: "On April 15, a question about
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by blincoln 3mo ago
When I was very young (around 3 or 4) I woke up in the middle of the night and went downstairs to climb into my parents' bed. After some time, I could see a small-scale but very extensive science fiction space base on top of the bed co
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by blincoln 4mo ago
It was an interesting thoery, but IMO his habit of making similar claims every time an interstellar object is discovered cast doubt on that original theory.
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by blincoln 5mo ago
> Also, the "can't radar, plz don't ITAR" is horseshit. My assumption is that they're trying to avoid crossing a legal line, as opposed to being personally invested in the idea of preventing radar use by a determ
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by blincoln 6mo ago
> Where it lost its way however is Microsoft actually cared about Windows I agree with you, but I feel like they've stopped caring about most of their software. Windows is just the most egregious, high-impact example. SharePoint and
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by blincoln 6mo ago
> What nonviolent application are you imagining for a gps-guided rocket that is launched by pulling a gun trigger on a hand held mount? A launcher for a climbing rope or grappling hook. Have you ever tried getting a rope up over a branch
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by blincoln 6mo ago
Seems like the quick fix is to rebrand this from "MANPADS" to "anti-tank", right? Then it would just be a standard destructive device?
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by blincoln 6mo ago
> Soldiers now can even see thermal figures through walls or solid materiales I have a thermal imager. They can't see through walls in the sense you're imagining. If there's an electric heating element inside a wall or a c
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by blincoln 7mo ago
> At least in America, high-tech scans are treated as a cash cow. And cheap & reasonable tests, if done, are merely an afterthought - after the patient has been milked for all the scan-bucks that their insurance will pay out. Maybe i
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by blincoln 7mo ago
If I ever have a house built to my own specs, I want to get the best of both worlds by using drywall, but with most/all of the interior walls being maintenance corridors accessible via concealed doorways. A modern version of the way th
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by blincoln 7mo ago
Looks like it's improved even further - I'm seeing that model listed with 512x384 resolution, and it's $300 on Amazon. Pretty incredible! I felt like I was getting an amazing deal when I paid about $1000 15 years ago for a FL
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GNU InetUtils Security Advisory: remote authentication by-pass in telnetd(openwall.com)
1 points by blincoln 8mo ago|0 comments
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by blincoln 8mo ago
They weren't that high frequency. I could hear computer monitors into my twenties at least. I'd guess somewhere around 20 - 22 kHz. CRTs were largely replaced by LCDs by my late 20s/early 30s, so I don't have a good se

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