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by fencepost 3mo ago
I'm not digging into the report, but as a general problem particularly in some niche fields I worry about the "Melancholy Elephants" problem as written about by Spider Robinson back in the 80s. He was talking more about copyr
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by fencepost 4mo ago
I assume that this is basically just not worth pursuing for small-scale orders (e.g. $15ish for Ciglue), but for larger ones what are the reasonable approaches for scenarios that don't involve stolen card fraud? Notably disputing a cre
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by fencepost 5mo ago
Can someone who's looked at the security of these systems give a bit more context on that? The thing that's always concerned me with them is questions of "what level of access is required to the system(s) actually hosting my
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by fencepost 5mo ago
These days Google fails at even the much simpler "Don't be fscking creepy ." That plus aggressive avoidance of anything resembling customer service and what sounds like an internal environment that may be moving towards cage
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by fencepost 5mo ago
Doesn't China have that whole "social capital" thing where defaulting on debts and other bad behavior can have real long-term consequences? Or does that not apply if you're defaulting on debts to non-Chinese?
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by fencepost 7mo ago
Google made it very clear years ago that they shouldn't be trusted with anything irreplaceable/that would cause major problems if you lost access. Once it became clear that they'd shifted from "crappy customer service&q
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by fencepost 7mo ago
Sounds like when I was asked to give minimum hardware requirements for something doing backend processing (receive text submitted as print jobs, massage, send to printers). The requirements as they went out were much higher than they need
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by fencepost 8mo ago
Worth noting that http.dog includes 218 This is Fine, which is an Apache-specific response code. It does not, however, use a cartoon dog in a room on fire.
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by fencepost 8mo ago
Huh, my initial expectation was wrong! I figured (even until close to the end of the article) that the problem was a dramatic increase in the amount of wi-fi or other 2.4GHz traffic in the area leading to interference, some of which was blo
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by fencepost 8mo ago
I have three different generations of email addresses associated with United Airlines that all receive spam. Never any disclosed breaches AFAIK, but clearly email addresses got out at several points. At some point I stopped bothering to che
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by fencepost 8mo ago
So I guess I should watch out for scams being sent to "soundcloud@" on a personal domain. Oh no, how will I distinguish them from my legitimate banking email???
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by fencepost 8mo ago
I think the Go stores mostly bit the dust after that reveal, but they were also mostly small convenience store operations. I actually saw one at the airport recently, that's a situation where I can see it making sense as an option. The
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by fencepost 8mo ago
The Fresh store near me that I stop in at seems to double as a warehouse for some of those delivery orders, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of them just stop having customer access and shift to entirely staffed pick-and-pack for del
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by fencepost 8mo ago
The Fresh stores are kind of a weird shopping experience with a mix of normal, overpriced and bizarrely cheap at different times. I've gotten into the habit of stopping in to wander the aisles and check prices because of it (e.g. I sto
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by fencepost 8mo ago
I'm just wondering if they'll end up revising the blurb about her on their website to include the words "craven pandering."
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by fencepost 8mo ago
There's certainly no reason for Canada to consider significant EV imports from the US - I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla was tainted based on Musk's association with Trump and there aren't really other major US EV produc
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by fencepost 8mo ago
Not really, once you have any materials issues with the vertical portion ironed out you just need a fine but rigid shaft within the body of the 'key' to bring it all the way out to where you have plenty of space to work. You'
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by fencepost 8mo ago
I feel like developing something that could actually pick locks including detecting binding pins, etc. is in the category of "not actually that hard if you devote the resources to it." On the mechanical side there would certainly
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by fencepost 9mo ago
I'm a bit surprised to not see mention in comments of "social vs sociable." There's often something nice about being around people that you're interacting with only minimally (sociable) vs being around people you&#x
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by fencepost 9mo ago
If this is something you want to do you might consider a bike. A 6 mile round trip on for for coffee seems a bit much, but 3 miles each way on a bike shouldn't be bad unless you're in a city (in which case there should be things c
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by fencepost 9mo ago
Doing a quick bit of searching based on the 4680 makes me think that there has been or will be a change from NMC811 to LFP chemistry in the 4680, including one article talking about changing to US and European-based in-house manufacturing a
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by fencepost 9mo ago
In some cities with HOV lanes on expressways having an EV (with plates) lets you use those lanes with only one person in the car. How important that is to any given buyer obviously depends on where and when they're driving.
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by fencepost 9mo ago
Amazon no longer having a record of it is absurd given the volume of data they store about all transactions. For a phone in particular I'd be demanding serial number/IMEI information for the police report and ensuring that the sto
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by fencepost 9mo ago
The future of data sharing with the US may be on shaky ground given the current US administration and its actions.
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by fencepost 9mo ago
A lot of that is because those devices have far more than they actually need because the processors/packages are so cheap. Particularly if it's a relatively low volume item it's probably cheaper to just use a slightly overpow
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by fencepost 9mo ago
Are you able to track balance checks made against card numbers not yet activated? That seems like it'd be a dead giveaway for physically tampered cards and if you could prevent activation of those it'd at least make tampered cards
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by fencepost 9mo ago
The solution should be obvious to everyone: Just go back to 2008 and start running a large Apple developer conference in your country. If you do that, it should only take a week or two to get your problem resolved. I'd say also that yo
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by fencepost 9mo ago
Slightly off-topic, thanks for the reminder that I wanted to try Skyrim someday, seems like a good time to get prepped for it.
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by fencepost 9mo ago
Depending on how much independence the inspectors have they could probably turn a heck of a profit per inspector (thus being able to argue their continued existence to the legislature). Could an inspector manage two per day? If you figure t
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by fencepost 9mo ago
I believe Michigan has laws on the books that should be the model for this (the "Scanner law") - if you're overcharged at the register and the sale is completed, you have 30 days to get the price corrected plus ten times th

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