farhaven

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by farhaven 10d ago
> The gap between WW2 rocket development and now is so long that German history with rockets may as well not exist. And yet, all currently existing rocket designs capable of reaching (and staying in) orbit can trace their design back to
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by farhaven 3mo ago
My setup was a Compaq Armada M300 laptop with a keyboard that was missing a few key caps, a battery that was shot to all hell and held only 5 minutes of charge, and a HDD that was completely broken. I used a 128 MB USB stick for settings an
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by farhaven 3mo ago
> doctors/hospital strongly prefer it. Seems to depend a lot on the hospital. We (partner is pregnant with a high risk pregnancy) were at a level 1 prenatal care center in Germany a few weeks ago where they very much insisted that i
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by farhaven 9mo ago
If you're looking for a similar event, you might want to check out GPN - Gulaschprogrammiernacht ( https://gulas.ch ). It skews a bit more German, but it's essentially a smaller "summer congress" that used to h
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by farhaven 9mo ago
> Congress has become a radical leftist politics playground. I don't know which past Chaos Communication Congresses you have attended, but it always was. If that's not for you, then that's too bad. > The one thing you c
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by farhaven 1y ago
OpenBSD is a lot faster in some specialized areas though. Random number generation from `/dev/urandom`, for example. When I was at university (in 2010 or so), it was faster to read `/dev/urandom` on my OpenBSD laptop and
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by farhaven 1y ago
> Two cells was probably selected for one of: Voltage to avoid boost converters, capacity to avoid having to do extensive power optimization to make it run the whole event, balance to make it hang even off your neck. It's likely not
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by farhaven 1y ago
Well they can still be a conductor, even if they're not a resistor. Actually they'd be a pretty good conductor. A super-conductor, if you will.
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by farhaven 2y ago
Others have already told you that talking to a lawyer is still a good idea. If I may offer a personal story that illustrates that that is _really_ a good idea: While I did my Bachelor's in CS, I was employed by a university (not the on
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by farhaven 2y ago
"Alright ma'am, you claim this here device contains encrypted data? If you don't mind, we'll keep you here until you provide us with the password." and meanwhile in an alternate universe "So you say that this d
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by farhaven 2y ago
This is very cool! Can you share the technical background you've used for creating the 3D reconstruction? Like software packages, or algorithms used. Are we looking at the result of packages like OpenSfM here, or COLMAP?
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by farhaven 2y ago
I have a CF-33 that I got used for about 600€ (plus something like 120€ for a replacement battery). I use it as my "outdoor/garden/workshop" laptop that I can display CAD drawings on and stuff like that without worrying
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by farhaven 2y ago
So Microsoft gave the Wine project the software equivalent of a stained mattress?
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by farhaven 2y ago
The British are doing good stuff as well with EMF.
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by farhaven 2y ago
I mean, I'm pretty sure rats also have a theory of mind. My data point is exactly one of the little buggers who used to be my pet. Whenever he was running around my room, he'd peek around to see if I was looking at him before jump
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by farhaven 2y ago
Alternatively, open a brokerage account and go through their process to enable options trading (essentially mostly a short quiz on how options work to make sure you're not an obvious liability). Then either buy put options that are cur
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by farhaven 2y ago
And apparently, sometimes, when you want to return to that walled garden, your keys to the front gate just don't work anymore.
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by farhaven 2y ago
In this case, that won't help, because `.box` is already a TLD and `fritz.box` has been registered by someone. Compare these two, the first is from my laptop connected to a Fritz!Box, the 2nd. one is from a server that's not conne
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by farhaven 2y ago
> Does configuring a custom DNS server (like Cloudflare one) on your local computers solve it? No. If anything, that'd make it worse. The issue reported in TFA is that Fritz!Boxes by default resolve the domain `fritz.box` to themsel
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by farhaven 3y ago
> On an account I pay for? On an account that you pay _Drew_ for. Do you also complain because someone renting you a garage doesn't want you running a strip club out of there?
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by farhaven 3y ago
This rings true. I remember the wooden toy biplane my dad made in his wood shop when I was a kid a lot more fondly than all the other bought plastic toys that came after it.
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by farhaven 3y ago
I use `aqbanking-cli` for grabbing transactions from my banks' FinTS/HBCI API and generate a CSV out of that. That CSV then goes through a bit of Python that splits up the entries into transactions. Those get rendered out as `bean
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by farhaven 3y ago
OCaml can definitely do it (for example, you get a compiler error if you pass the wrong arguments to a `printf` where the format string specifies, say a number, but you pass in a string). Rust can very likely do it by leveraging their `buil
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by farhaven 3y ago
If you use Acme from plan9port, you can use Ctrl/Alt (on PCs) resp. Command/Option (on Macs) to simulate chording. That's what I use when I'm on a laptop without my external mouse anyway. At some point, you get very very
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by farhaven 3y ago
Heh, I built something similar for my partner and myself: https://wine.unobtanium.de/ It's not very sophisticated (as we're not sophisticated wine people), but we've sometimes found ourselves standing in fron
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by farhaven 4y ago
That reminds me of one of my childhood PCs. It was a hand-me-down K6-II with (I think) 233 MHz clock rate. The thing had a tiny fan on top of the cooler that was roughly 4x4cm (if even that). The poor thing generally worked quite nicely, bu
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by farhaven 4y ago
I think that's "feature" as in "property", not "feature" as in "good thing to put in an ad for this". Edit: if it somehow supports passing functions (or function pointers) as parameters, the Y co
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by farhaven 4y ago
Element feels a lot like Slack/Teams/Discord. It has a few distinct features (federation and such), and a few are, as far as I'm aware, missing or "different enough" such as Slack's whole "We'll repla
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by farhaven 4y ago
So essentially they've built an average 10th grade highscool student.
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by farhaven 4y ago
I think Terry would be happy that people want to tinker with what he built even after his death. I mean, he explicitly built it as a sort of throw-back to the early home computer days.

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