prutschman

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by prutschman 4y ago
A 5 character a-z random string has log2(26^5) =~ 23.5 bits of entropy, way less than 128.
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by prutschman 4y ago
"But that's crazy, Morpheus. Thermodynamics says.." "And where did you learn about physics, Neo?" "..... In the Matrix...."
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by prutschman 4y ago
I get that tastes vary and some people apparently don't mind the hole punch in the display, but I'm curious why you list its presence as a hard requirement. It seems like it would make the display unnecessarily harder to source.
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by prutschman 4y ago
The Eagle one yours is based on says it needs 0.6 mm PCB to work. Is it just close enough not to matter?
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by prutschman 4y ago
Crimping an IDC cable. (It works very poorly for this, and I speak from recent personal experience)
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by prutschman 4y ago
I genuinely hope both of you continue this thread, even as I think it's unlikely that you'll come to common ground. I'm finding it extremely helpful to clarify my thoughts on this type of situation.
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by prutschman 4y ago
Could you expand on the available diagnostic tools a bit?
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by prutschman 5y ago
Could potting prevent this, or can the whiskers "push through" epoxy?
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by prutschman 5y ago
> this is quite frankly very surprising to me. If we let t be time in seconds, and f be frequency in Hz, the sine wave formula is y = sin(2 pi t f). The 2 pi is the periodicity of the sine function. If f is 1, we sweep through 2 pi once
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by prutschman 5y ago
If existence is pointless except for procreation, what is our children's purpose? To have children, in order to have children, in order to have children? This is unbounded teleological recursion, unless you allow for a basis case in wh
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by prutschman 5y ago
I was misremembering the specifics too, it turns out. It was much closer to do_brick(). Ugly.
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by prutschman 5y ago
If I remember correctly, in the FTDI case that was very unlikely to happen. It wasn't a case of `if (looks_fake) do_brick()`. Rather, it accessed registers in a way that they knew their implementation supported but that was buggy in a
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by prutschman 5y ago
I've never intentionally turned on google Photos backup since I use Dropbox instead, but I still notice it turning back on periodically.
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by prutschman 5y ago
> So... what exactly become the merit of taxing land over property? If you tax property, the value of the land is included in that tax. If land--but specifically not improvements to that land--is taxed then there's relatively more i
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by prutschman 5y ago
There's some available literature on the subject of required laser wavelength/energy for an in-flight thermal mosquito kill: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71824-y.pdf For a thermal kill you have
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by prutschman 5y ago
It's not literally false, but I got an inaccurate impression based on the headline. To me it implied a positive discovery of evidence rather than a ruling-out. If they'd said "determined new constraints on a hypothetical 5th
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by prutschman 5y ago
Not a jq expert, but my understanding is: `.[]` takes a list and turns it into a sequence consisting of each element of that list. `| x` applies the filter `x` to that sequence, turning it into a new sequence. The outermost `[ ]` builds a l
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by prutschman 5y ago
If you happen to know: Is it the performing the test itself that's illegal, or is it "merely" that to perform a test for someone you'd have to take possession of the substance, however briefly? (Bad for both harm reducti
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by prutschman 5y ago
The "mole" is the unit, "mol" is the symbol for the unit, like with "kilogram" and "kg".
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by prutschman 5y ago
I think they're referring to the fact that there is one dimensionless base unit already standardized in SI: the mole. There aren't two length units, so there "shouldn't be" two dimensionless ones. (Whether they were
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by prutschman 5y ago
In some browsers you can get around this by selecting the text, keeping the mouse button down, hitting the keyboard shortcut for 'copy', then letting go. The selection will still be emptied, but the text is already in your clipboa
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by prutschman 5y ago
My lay understanding of the current standard of care is very roughly speaking something like: Patient exhibits symptom => perform a not-especially-invasive test Positive test result => invasive test like a biopsy Positive biopsy resul
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by prutschman 5y ago
And yet it's not only men who are admonished by the article. An example of a woman is given, too. That one example is of a woman who isn't monogamous and is "left with nothing". What is it that she has lost?
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by prutschman 5y ago
Who is more free: 1) An average man who is only not a drug addict because he lives in a country where drugs are regulated or shamed in a way to make them hard to obtain. 2) An average man who succumbs to addiction in such a country, and is
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by prutschman 5y ago
Do you have an NVMe M.2 device specifically? The M.2 form factor supports both NVMe and SATA (though any given device or slot might not support one or the other). I've got a workstation that has both SATA 3 and M.2 NVMe SSDs installed.
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by prutschman 5y ago
I suspect a combination of 1) the US military having extensively studied this problem already. 2) that they did it a very long time ago.
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by prutschman 5y ago
If you think "I'd be better off if I pretended to be trans by putting on a dress" is the wrong reading, then, what do you think the correct reading is?
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by prutschman 5y ago
And in the old days you could get your number unlisted if you didn't want it published.
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by prutschman 6y ago
Shockingly, they don't (yet) appear to have added mandatory arbitration or barred class actions in their EULA: https://cricut.com/en_us/legal
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by prutschman 6y ago
Think of an inside-out refrigerator. A fridge moves a certain amount of heat energy from the inside to the outside, but that doesn't come for free. You have to put extra energy into the system to make that happen. The hot side of the f

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