bloopletech

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by bloopletech 10y ago
The news is also 4 months old. Original press release (unfortunately sans 'Bermuda Triangle scary secrets discovered? what do we know?'): https://news.uci.edu/research/all-powered-up/ . The sheer laziness
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by bloopletech 10y ago
I have just read through the mailing list thread referenced in the article, and with the important caveat that I am not an expert in this space, it seems that WoSign has failed to comply with the basic requirements a CA has to meet to be t
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by bloopletech 10y ago
I understand your general frustration, but to respond to your specific point here, AR does actually support executing generic parameterized SQL statements: Model.find_by_sql(query, binds=[]) http://devdocs.io/rails~4.2/
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by bloopletech 12y ago
I just tried this. Card: NAB Visa (payWave). Handset: Nexus 5. Merchant: 7-11. The app read the card correctly and gave the card number and expiry. When I tried to use it in store the eftpos terminal returned roughly: Err 226 contactless ca
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by bloopletech 13y ago
You may be interested in http://www.intidyn.com/Newsroom/article-0009.html - the probable cause of fibro has been identified - which will be a huge boon to the sufferers - including my girlfriend.
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by bloopletech 13y ago
How do you resolve the cognitive dissonance between the content on the RapGenius site and the words by the RG founders? Is the content on the site itself just as offensive? If so, how do you feel about the MCs and the large numbers of album
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Back of the envelope calculation: (1920 * 1080 * 3 * 60) / 1024.0 / 1024.0 => 355.96 MB/s 300mbps wireless n: 300 / 8.0 => 37.5 MB/s Given that the whole point of HDMI is image quality, how are they going to s
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by bloopletech 13y ago
I sympathise, but isn't that really the point: if you can't re-stream it how you want, is the existing streaming service really easy to use?
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Indeed. Here's the full list of P&G brands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Procter_&_Gamble_brands
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by bloopletech 13y ago
As a non-US non-sports fan, can someone explain the context for this? I have no real clue what this fight is about. As far as I can tell, this fight seems to be between two ways to watch a sports game: 1. on over-the-air broadcast, which is
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by bloopletech 13y ago
In Australia, we've even moved beyond EMV; the majority of merchants now accept Visa PayWave and MasterCard PayPass for tap-and-go. [edit: Oh, and all my debit/credit cards are now paywave/paypass enabled, and they are all fr
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Obligatory: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Whats the liability difference between the systems at work and the systems for the general public? Strong crypto is, and should be, available to everyone.
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Nvidia, AMD, or Intel? Proprietary or open source drivers? I often have problems during upgrades using the proprietary drivers. The solution is usually: 1. Uninstall proprietary drivers. 2. Reboot, make sure the fallback mesa/vesa work
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Sure; I could have been clearer here. Specifically, you can do an EFT transfer from a bank account to any other bank account in Australia via online banking, and it's free (at least in all the times I've used it). In the case of E
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Just a note, for most countries, the best non-cash way to send money is an international wire transfer (sometimes called a telegraphic transfer). This is _not_ western union. which is ludicrously expensive, it's done bank to bank.
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Credit card transactions do sometimes have fees attached; specifically I was referring to EFT, which for person-to-person has no fees at all, and doesn't attract fees to the payer at the POS (whereas credit cards can). Yeah, the real q
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by bloopletech 13y ago
I will only point out that you're paying for this kind of convenience in getting your money back - and the cheap flights - somewhere.
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Are you serious? Why would _anyone_ design a system like this? In Australia, the equivalent is EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer). You can deposit money to anyone's account by telling the bank their BSB (Bank/State/Branch number
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Well that's nice; I'm glad to see that our common interests as HN users extends only to the US border. Widespread unchecked surveillance is evil in and of itself, it doesn't matter _who_ is doing the surveilling. Following yo
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by bloopletech 13y ago
These look nice, but what makes them any better than a Raspberry PI? I'm probably missing something, but it looks like it has the same inputs/outputs as a PI, but with only 720p output (as opposed to the 1920x1080 of a PI). The fo
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by bloopletech 13y ago
As someone who currently uses a different player (mplayer2) which shares an upstream (ffmpeg) with VLC, how much of the codec/format improvements are due to/push to the upstream projects? I really hope all these great improvements
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by bloopletech 13y ago
I use linode as well and, given that I follow the industry at least as much as the average HN user, I'm very surprised I haven't heard of these 'disgraceful' practices. Could you please elaborate?
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Bluray support was problematic in the past, but in 2013, on Ubuntu: 1. Install http://www.makemkv.com/ . 2. Insert Blu-Ray disc. 3. Click copy. Now it's ripped, you can play it through any decent media player - mplayer2
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by bloopletech 13y ago
> Soylent has not reached this level of evaluation. Do you actually know that? Presumably if there is US regulation/law around selling and marketing food products, then Soylent will have to be compliant just like everything else? Th
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by bloopletech 13y ago
One of the most surprising things about the commentary on Soylent, is the level of vitriol and anger that they are pushing out a meal replacement product without an exceptionally high level of testing and scientific design; and that the ent
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by bloopletech 13y ago
You gave the reason yourself: The existing market is segmented, and none of those markets shouts 'average HN user'. Compare the marketing/segmentation of the existing products: Senior citizens: For old people / a worse r
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by bloopletech 13y ago
I'm confused by your last line. Here in Australia, both the major pizza chains (Dominos and Pizza Hut) have full online ordering. Personally, I always use them when ordering pizza. Is this a US cultural assumption? Or is there somethin
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Does VLC 1.1.5 support HI10P (10-bit H.264 video)? That would be one reason to upgrade, as many anime releases now use HI10P ( http://wiki.bakabt.me/index.php/Hi10P ).
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by bloopletech 13y ago
Looking through the changes that mpv introduces, it looks like they've brought back encoding. The primary motivation for yet-another-mplayer-fork, is that they are explicitly removing complex, obsolete code in an effort to encourage fr

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