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by kbaker 3mo ago
We have (had?) some ticks in our backyard and I came across these which I thought was a clever attack angle: tick tubes. Permethrin-soaked cotton balls in a tube, mice find them and build nests out of the freely available cotton, ticks that
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by kbaker 3mo ago
(For the unaware, OP above is the article author.) As a long time user of Bitbake and Yocto, and watcher of Yoe Linux... I kind of have to respectfully disagree with the approach. One look at the Python or Node packaging ecosystem, and you
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by kbaker 3mo ago
Seems like a LOT of AI generation. I wonder where this wiki format would be useful vs asking an AI directly.
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by kbaker 6mo ago
Almost all retail RFID tags are on hanging labels, like with the price, or a sticker on the item. Although I did find one inside a pillow once. A huge number of items at Walmart, Kohls, Target, Academy, Old Navy, and many other stores now (
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by kbaker 7mo ago
Because it's a binary format?
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by kbaker 7mo ago
Maybe this comparison with S2 will explain: https://h3geo.org/docs/comparisons/s2/
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by kbaker 7mo ago
The GSD tool (get-shit-done) automates a very similar process to this, and has been mind-blowing for larger projects and refactors. https://github.com/glittercowboy/get-shit-done You still need to know the hard parts:
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by kbaker 8mo ago
Just tell him that Waymo is now sharing videos of this behavior with auto insurance companies. I don't know if they are or not. But why wouldn't they...
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by kbaker 10mo ago
> The Far Side is the only place in the Earth Moon system where you can hide military hardware and basically disappear. No optical tracking, no radar, no interception. What prevents someone from sending a Lunar-orbiting imaging satellite
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by kbaker 10mo ago
Hi, curious, did you know about OpenRouter before building this? > OpenRouter provides a unified API that gives you access to hundreds of AI models through a single endpoint, while automatically handling fallbacks and selecting the most
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by kbaker 10mo ago
That would be a fun project. Capture some WiFi geolocation data and rebroadcast it later with an ESP32 that switches its BSSID/SSID/frequency/transmit power to match an existing fingerprint. And then see if you can be magical
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by kbaker 10mo ago
I mean, if the scenic route is longer anyways, the revenue potential is there to fund it... just a 'take me the scenic route' checkbox?
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by kbaker 10mo ago
But not every email provider would support this new (from scratch) protocol either? Just don't see the need to reinvent OAuth but with a reduced scope for just email validation. Just add a happy path for this into OAuth itself?
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by kbaker 10mo ago
This section https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol/blob/mai... could easily be done by malicious JS, an ad script, or the website itself, and then as the RP gets the output of 6.4) email and ema
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by kbaker 10mo ago
Why is the solution not OAuth/OIDC? Or maybe creating some sort of reduced OAuth "Anonymous-Site-Verifying-Your-Email-Exists" flow?
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by kbaker 1y ago
Lol. I got perma-banned for violating rules under my alt accounts. But I don't have any alt accounts...??? Appeal process is a joke. I just opted to delete my 12 year old account instead and have stopped going there. Oh well, probably
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by kbaker 1y ago
Yeah, I see the comments down below in pager.c which explain it a bit better. I guess I thought its behavior was more like PERSIST by default. ** journalMode==DELETE ** The journal file is closed and deleted using sqlite3OsD
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by kbaker 1y ago
OK, interesting, I think I see... So you are asking about if SQLite opens and finds a not-committed rollback journal that looks valid, then it rolls it back? I was more curious so I looked at the code here: https://sqlite.org&#x2
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by kbaker 1y ago
> If the directory containing the rollback journal is not fsynced after the journal file is deleted, then the journal file might rematerialize after a power failure, causing sqlite to roll back a committed transaction. And fsyncing the d
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by kbaker 1y ago
~~~~But your VM TPM won't be signed during manufacturing by a trusted root. No attestation.~~~~ OK I take it back, privacy is one of their specified goals: > Note that the certificate chain for the TPM is never sent to the server. T
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by kbaker 1y ago
Seems like this is close to the Uncanny Valley effect. LLM intelligence is in the spot where it is simultaneously genius-level but also just misses the mark a tiny bit, which really sticks out for those who have been around humans their who
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by kbaker 1y ago
Today is definitely sunny and windy. With power prices negative, I guess those big Bitcoin mines out in West TX are quite profitable burning off our excess power...
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by kbaker 1y ago
Try https://aider.chat + OpenRouter.ai, pay-as-you-go, use any model you want, I use Claude Sonnet. It has a very good system prompt so the code is pretty good without a lot of fluff.
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by kbaker 1y ago
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by kbaker 1y ago
I could hope for a future PoE-over-Data Line (PoDL) version using an 18 AWG twisted pair that would work for this, providing something like 48V @ 3 or 4 A, and 10BASE-T1L for data. Hopefully a standard way to do this gains traction. The exi
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by kbaker 2y ago
The Yocto Project (from the embedded space) has reproducibility as one of its goals. Since everything is built from source and from scratch, even the build toolchains, it is not too big of a step. Seems like Yocto would make the base for a
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by kbaker 2y ago
I use Claude through OpenRouter (with Aider), and was pretty amazed to see that it routes the requests during the same session almost round-robin through Amazon Bedrock, sometimes through Google Vertex, sometimes through Anthropic themselve
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by kbaker 2y ago
Another problem is the maximum entry age for the ATC school - if you are over the age of 31 you can't apply.
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by kbaker 2y ago
https://arewertosyet.com/ has a big list. The definition of what is an RTOS and how much is in software vs hardware is a blurry area. https://rtic.rs/2/book/en/#is-rtic-an-rtos
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by kbaker 2y ago
Hopefully the next few years will see Bluetooth Channel Sounding take off more. Promises to give every BLE device a similar (but less accurate than UWB) distance estimation feature. https://www.bluetooth.com/learn-about-blue

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