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by ixfo 1y ago
No - toothpaste is in part an abrasive. If it's wetter, the abrasive is less effective at removing biofilm/plaque, and the chemical components are diluted in situ. Your mouth is plenty wet enough as-is.
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by ixfo 2y ago
My experience is that working in an office is _much_ worse for distraction. Even if you're lucky enough not to be in open plan, the shoulder taps and quick chats easily demolish any chance of focus for me. At home I can knuckle down fo
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by ixfo 2y ago
Environment visibility is easy to get. If you pwn a box which has foo.internal, you can now impersonate foo.internal. If you pwn a box which has *.internal, you can now impersonate super-secret.internal and everything else, and now you&#x27
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by ixfo 3y ago
"You can use adblock" is a pretty chunky benefit over Chrome
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by ixfo 3y ago
Trust. OpenAI's ignored everyone's copyright and legal usage terms for the rest of their training data, what lawyer is going to trust them to follow their contractual terms?
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by ixfo 3y ago
Doing in-database computation can be very advantageous for some applications, and writing those functions in Rust would be fantastic for some uses, not least for the library ecosystem. I did some work on video similarity search with in-DB s
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by ixfo 4y ago
There were some legal challenges likely for the relevant statute, and doing it this way is much more in keeping with Singapore's approach to keeping politics "in politics". It's carefully coordinated and done in a way th
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by ixfo 4y ago
Assa Abloy's eCliq stuff (similar to this) uses asymmetric crypto for some parts and symmetric for short-lived stuff. The lock cylinders in that system are updated with new CRLs when inserting a key which has been updated, and authoris
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by ixfo 4y ago
It's enabled by default, actually, but otherwise about right. https://www.blocked.org.uk/ is a useful resource on this front.
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by ixfo 4y ago
QGIS will, for raster basemaps, fetch the detailed version to get you your high DPI detail but this of course involves stitching together lots of tiles from the basemap's lower zoom levels - which then have small labels. For raster map
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by ixfo 4y ago
We do a huge amount of very complex analysis and entirely run QGIS. Looked at ArcGIS and decided it wasn't anywhere near worth the money, and getting into their ecosystem at all makes it borderline impossible to interop with e.g. QGIS
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by ixfo 4y ago
The internet basically only works because small entities have as much standing and control as large entities. This is also why things like RPKI are required, to prevent small (and large!) actors causing disruption through malicious or accid
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by ixfo 4y ago
UK? Pick any county within an hour or so of London. Oxfordshire and Berkshire is full of systems/tech people.
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by ixfo 5y ago
The company commissioned to build it were FM Conway. That should have been a bright red flag. FM Conway do roadworks. They fix infrastructure, and rebuild streets. They're a civil engineering firm at best, not structural engineers, nor
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by ixfo 5y ago
Because we do take people's licenses away if they repeatedly cause accidents? Treat the Tesla FSD as a human driver and it would've had its license revoked many years ago. It's only through close supervision by humans that ac
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by ixfo 5y ago
So it is huge, but well within historic capabilities - and materials science has come a long way since then. I'm quietly hopeful for this.
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by ixfo 5y ago
Well, no, it's not perfectly possible to recreate a singular human vision system and capture and reproduce imagery to match that. But actually, we have lots of excellent, well-researched and proven standards for accuracy in imaging.
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by ixfo 5y ago
Yes, CCSDS Magenta and Blue reference books mandate AES-256-GCM as a minimum for data encryption and mandate that encryption and authentication should be used, particularly for commands/uplink. Sliding scale of requirements based on ap
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by ixfo 5y ago
Red tape in the medical trials domain is forged from blood. Human experimentation is limited and carefully managed for very good reasons. Killing people to extend other people's lives is not a good tradeoff.
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by ixfo 5y ago
The linked article (and government push to do this) completely ignores the fact that this is done frequently now. It's used to get the last few metres into the home, e.g. from the boundary to the inside of the house. You put a swept te
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by ixfo 5y ago
Not OP but it very much depends on which bit of Azure you're using. Some bits are very polished and work great, some are a dumpster fire.
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by ixfo 5y ago
Behringer's goal has always been to make stuff cheap enough that people can afford. Which is noble, except they do this entirely by ripping off other people's R&D and undercutting lots of people including smaller players. Also
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by ixfo 5y ago
Openreach in the UK are deploying 0% new Huawei for FTTP and have basically stopped using them for FTTC because of the 30% rule. EE still use Huawei for new 5G deployments - but only in the access leg and for no more than 30% of their new b
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by ixfo 5y ago
Just so you know, the original source of the expression would be The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. VOGON GUARD: I’ll mention what you said to my aunt. [Airlock door closes and locks] FORD: Potentially bright lad, I thought. ARTHUR:
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by ixfo 5y ago
Absolutely. I use loads of those features including regexp in nano all the time and it works fantastically well. For me it's the fact that it's small (so available on nearly every platform) and the command interface is so quick .
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by ixfo 5y ago
As I understand it, it was a mailbox installed at Amazon's insistence under very specific conditions. It looked thoroughly dodgy through and through, though of course legally was probably kosher. Amazon aren't dumb, and they have
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by ixfo 5y ago
This is definitely something I'd love to see. We have a lot of data in EPSG:27700 and having to reproject everything to 3857 to display to users is A) wrong and B) seriously messy and intensive for the backend servers, especially with
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by ixfo 5y ago
Collecting passwords and dumping the storage is likely all they did. 3 months is fairly prompt for any kind of "cyber" in the UK to even get a brief look at, due to huge processing backlogs in the overworked departments whose jo
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by ixfo 5y ago
Or police reading a timestamp from a website, not realising it's actually a non-local timestamp so offset by X hours, and then requesting based on the wrong timestamp. Fairly sure that's happened before.
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by ixfo 5y ago
100% this. With NVMe and higher bandwidth NICs, fast and plentiful PCIe lanes are increasingly important and Intel have just been so far behind in this (or gated equivalance at hilarious price differentials from AMD - like having to go to $

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