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by maratc 7d ago
Starting price alone doesn't give you the full picture. After five years, Apple Watches are out of support, so even if they work their value goes to $0. The battery is gone by that time, new OSes don't support them, and their only
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by maratc 7d ago
Casio WSB1000 is probably the cheapest with phone pinging ability, but it's about $40.
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by maratc 12d ago
None of that applies to my (non-biometric) passport, and we were talking about banks that don't have the passport-reading equipment to begin with.
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by maratc 12d ago
This move looks like a nothingburger to me but everyone's invited to treat this as a Rorschach test and see whatever they want to see.
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by maratc 13d ago
Already today nobody can open a bank account in my name with just a picture of my passport, as the original would be required. My passport doesn't have any of the "eID/CAs/ZKP/PKI", so the question of "wha
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by maratc 13d ago
Reminds me of If you think cryptography can solve your problem, you don’t understand your problem and you don’t understand cryptography. (Bruce Schneier dug into origins of this here: https://www.schneier.com/blog&#x
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by maratc 13d ago
I've experienced this "solved problem" when visiting Germany during COVID. On every entrance to a mall there was somebody with a scanner device, and they only let you in if the scanner showed a green mark. I've been full
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by maratc 14d ago
You are likely referring to prefabricated rubber speed bumps, outlawed because the material becomes very slippery when wet, endangering motorcycles, scooters, and bicycles. Asphalt and concrete street bumps seem to be legal in 30 km/h
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by maratc 14d ago
I pass three speed bumps on my street every day. I'm driving at low speed, and the bumps are designed so to not create discomfort at these speeds. I don't even brake before them. They only create discomfort to people who drive way
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by maratc 14d ago
Street bumps are much more efficient in lowering speed than either "automated controls" or "manual controls". You (plus neighbours, probably) could petition your council to put one (or several) on your street.
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by maratc 18d ago
Indeed, this route would be about 13,250 km, or about 2,000 km longer than the one TLA suggests. http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=10%B0+24%27+41.4%22+N,+14%B0+31... Or, using nearby airports: https://www.greatcirclem
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by maratc 24d ago
This could be easily solved if the EU sold tiny prepaid certificates-of-compliance that one could affix on the package itself (to show the fees were paid.) Larger weight package would incur higher fees. The post office then could stamp thes
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by maratc 26d ago
My actual argument is that the theory that he's a puppet being pulled is not a serious one. Much like a chocolate for hunger, it's just an intellectually lazy explanation for people who look for intellectually lazy explanations.
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by maratc 26d ago
I'm confused. Is he a Putin's puppet or Netanyahu's? He can't be both: these two don't align.
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by maratc 28d ago
For those out of range of DCF77 and others, there are apps that simulate it on the phone, or this: https://timestation.pages.dev
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by maratc 28d ago
±10 seconds per year would be quite an expensive quartz movement. To be that reliable anywhere it should be thermocompensated, too. This is the range of Grand Seiko 9F, Citizen Chronomaster, or Bulova Precisionist.
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by maratc 29d ago
You might wanna take a look at Casio AE-1500WH.
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by maratc 1mo ago
Yet half of the recommendations here are self-hosted this and self-hosted that.
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by maratc 1mo ago
I feel like something is missing from your list of "classic CI vendors" but can't exactly jput my jfinger on jit.
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by maratc 1mo ago
On screens every US government agency already uses sans-serif, as required by "Americans with Disabilities" act[0]. This is not in any way affected by neither previous change from TNR to Calibri, nor by this change from Calibri ba
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by maratc 1mo ago
https://ec.europa.eu/component-library/eu/guidelines/typogra...
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by maratc 1mo ago
But would associate with "pragmatic" and "efficient"?
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by maratc 1mo ago
The reason almost all books and newspapers use serif typefaces is exactly that: serifs help with readability. It could be argued that serifs help our eye by making each letter more unique, or it can be argued that our eyes have been trained
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by maratc 1mo ago
Not going to argue about personal interpretations, and everyone's entitled to have one — including people who have interpretations that we personally disagree with. Having said that: *stately* adjective a statel
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by maratc 1mo ago
Georgia is nice, but rather recent. Garamond, Baskerville, Bodoni, Caslon, Century are all centuries old. If we're talking about the US State department, it would probably be fitting to look at the fonts that were used for US printin
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by maratc 1mo ago
It's hard to explain, but serif typefaces have centuries of history behind them, with practically all the books (in Europe and America) using some variant of serif since basically the invention of movable type. You can add most of news
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by maratc 1mo ago
In a choice of either Times New Roman or Calibri, I would think that Times fits the US State Dept better. Calibri is a relaxed, modern typeface, while Times is classical and majestic. (The word "stately" also comes to mind.) It wo
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by maratc 1mo ago
You seem to not have any answer to my question.
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by maratc 1mo ago
I don't think it matters whether Chrome can add keys to TPM/Secure Enclave (as the article argues) or if it can only read the keys already in TPM/Secure Enclave (as you argue). In my understanding: both ways the key (eith
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by maratc 1mo ago
From the article: > The new Chrome protection is known as device-bound session credentials (DBSCs). The measure stores a unique encryption key in a silicon-resident fortress that’s built into the device running the browser. On Windows ma

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