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by randomstring 2y ago
The obvious next step is to crawl the whole database of vulnerable Kia cars and create a "ride share" app that shows you the nearest Kia and unlocks it for you.
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by randomstring 3y ago
I wonder if you could construct a hash collision for high pagerank sites in the google (or Bing) index. You would need to know what hash algorithm google uses to store URLs. This is assuming that they hash the URLs for their indexing. Which
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by randomstring 4y ago
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. " -spaf And some other famo
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by randomstring 4y ago
But hear me out... What if we could make every car $5-10k more expensive instead? </satire> I once thought that using AI to make all cars self driving might be the key to making pedestrians and cyclists safe. Self driving cars ar
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by randomstring 4y ago
The point is that the vast majority of scrapers do not bother to run javascript.
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by randomstring 4y ago
Search traffic has always been mostly automated spam bots. Even back in the Open Directory Days when we powered part of search.netscape.com I estimated 80+% of all search traffic was automated. At least most of it self-identified with the
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by randomstring 5y ago
Cuil was way ahead of its time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1255122 http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/ Cuil Theory
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by randomstring 5y ago
My thought exactly. Now they just need a project acronym that spells out MOTHRA. MOsquito Tracking and Heat RAy?
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by randomstring 5y ago
I was introduced to this and other calendar quirks by Professor Edward Reingold when taking introduction to CS at UIUC. One of our "machine problems" (AKA programming assignments) was to write a date converter that could convert b
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by randomstring 5y ago
This is very disappointing. I would love to hear from user crhulls https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=crhulls the CEO Life360 (or so claimed, I can't verify). Too bad Hacker News doesn't have a notify on @ menti
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by randomstring 5y ago
I've been using emacs as my primary editor since 1989. It has for that entire time been a PITA to configure. My first customization was to map backspace to ^H and map the insert key to 'nil. I used to dedicate a couple days every
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by randomstring 5y ago
https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/toys-games/six-mill... A quick look on ebay shows they're typically selling for less than $100.
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by randomstring 5y ago
This new version of the Fisher-Price Record Player is heartbreaking. I learned so much from trying to understand how it worked. Concepts like stored energy: experimenting with trying to over-wind, under-wide, a few turns, many turns, slowly
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by randomstring 5y ago
Of course I had to test this by drawing an Interrobang: ‽ It got it right. My first drawing didn't have interrobang at the top of the suggestion list, because I didn't have the top closed. So there is some bias from the font it w
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by randomstring 5y ago
Yes, paraphrasing. I forget the exact details, but the javascript intentionally blocked for 5 seconds before proceeding to do anything useful.
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by randomstring 5y ago
I filed a bug, but I suspect it was about as effective as shouting into a hole in the ground. The bug was still there when I left IBM.
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by randomstring 5y ago
I worked at IBM a few years ago. When I started we were had to use Notes for email, not long after we got migrated to Verse (IBM's webmail system). Verse was better than Notes (damning with faint praise). One day I wondered why Verse t
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by randomstring 5y ago
Why doesn't an Argon ONE M.2 Case not fit your requirements? https://www.argon40.com/argon-one-m-2-case-for-raspberry-pi-... Or is it about having it all pre-built and pre-installed?
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by randomstring 6y ago
This has been on my TODO list for a while. But first I need to set up another Pi to be the PXE server... :)
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by randomstring 6y ago
I just advertise both Pi-Holes via DHCP and when I configure manual DNS settings. The primary DNS gets the vast majority of the DNS traffic, about 150 requests/minute and the secondary gets about 10 requests/minute (mostly from a
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by randomstring 6y ago
To be fair, I have 7 Pis running on my network. Home Assistant, 2x Pi-Holes (for redundancy), 1 magic mirror, my Weasleyclock, 1x w/ a hi-fi berry acting as a Spotify streaming device, and a garage door sensor. So roughly half the pis
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by randomstring 6y ago
"Outside of commercial use, the $100 dollar price tag is a little high for the 'impulse buy then stick it in a drawer' use case most of us using Pis are familiar with." I swear, some day, maybe even soon, I will find a u
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by randomstring 6y ago
I had a friend who implemented what he referred to as Zeno's Progress Bar. After every unit of time passed, the progress bar would progress half the distance to completion. So 0 -> 50% -> 75% -> 87.5% and when the task finishe
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by randomstring 6y ago
Hacker News thread on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22925091
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by randomstring 6y ago
During my tenure at Sun the burrito tool faxed your order to Burrito Real (good, but not the institutions that La Costena and La Bamba were). Maybe this was in the wake of La Costena turning off their fax machine. It was a dark day for Bay
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by randomstring 6y ago
Wait, you're getting referrer strings with DDG in them? How is that private?
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by randomstring 6y ago
Exactly. If you can accurately ignore 50% of the bot traffic you halve your hardware expense. The trick is doing it in such a way that the bots don't notice.
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by randomstring 6y ago
I would estimate that greater than 90% of that traffic is bot traffic. Having run two web search engines in the past: search.netscape.com (pre-google) and blekko.com. Robots accounted for > 80% of traffic at Netscape (around 3M searches&
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by randomstring 6y ago
I've been trying to figure that out myself. Another post here recommended Grandstream products for connecting analog phones to VoIP. Looking at the user guide for the HT802 you can make direct calls between the extensions. http:&#x2
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by randomstring 6y ago
While not on the posted list of favorite 2020 books, these are on mine: Martha Well's Hugo and Nebula award winning Murderbot series. The saga begins as the hero, Murderbot, hacks its own governing software to obtain freedom.

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