westhom

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by westhom 3y ago
You can only get them registered for off-road use. You can also use them on Catalina island. But no way to register them as street legal, legally.
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by westhom 4y ago
Was nostalgic recently for fortune spitting out at the top of my old slackware shell. So I added it to my Ubuntu VPS shell. Let's just say, my sense of humor has changed a lot since I was 16. But 25% of the time I find them amusing.
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by westhom 4y ago
WSJ is reporting the Alaska object was metallic balloon with suspended payload.
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by westhom 4y ago
I have a strong hunch the US had known about them for a long time and maybe decided it’s better to let them hang out so they can be studied and secretly test measures against them, versus reveal response patterns and weapons capabilities. B
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by westhom 4y ago
Right, but what makes it confusing it this is the one they were calling object, so not confirmation of being a balloon or suspending a payload.
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by westhom 4y ago
“ Another official from the Department of Defense told the New York Times that the object broke into pieces when it hit the frozen sea” - Guardian article on the Alaska downing How could a balloon break into pieces? Doesn’t it need to be ma
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by westhom 4y ago
At what altitude does something stop being geographic territory and start being a plane in the atmosphere?
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by westhom 4y ago
Wonder how they picked who the lucky pilot is to get the first F-22 air to air kill. Draw straws?
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by westhom 4y ago
Sunk so many hours into fy_iceworld. I never enjoyed sitting around and waiting for rounds to end on normal maps. Loved the pace of iceworld and awp_map. And using headphones on iceworld gave you wallhack like abilities.
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by westhom 4y ago
Can we start with human babies first?
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by westhom 4y ago
What’s odd about it for me is not the content or wording (seems to point out pretty common issues with intensive breathing), it’s more the fact that it’s not presented to the user during onboarding in a meaningful or noticeable way.
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by westhom 4y ago
I have the same watch, same issue. Just discovered it tonight while trying to enable E2EE. Presumably it’s because the 3 doesn’t receive watchOS updates anymore as a discontinued product, so it can’t participate in the new E2EE “pipeline”
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by westhom 4y ago
Doubt it. The US would very much love it to fly pretty much anywhere outside Switzerland so it can be extradited.
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by westhom 4y ago
Exact same reason I stopped using pi-hole. It bugged out Google shopping and my partner complained. And the whitelisting / access control is annoying UX imo so I went back to normal DNS. Might return to it eventually but not enable it
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by westhom 4y ago
Still in print as far as I know. These days the physical catalog is very difficult to get from McMaster. They probably make them in very low quantities and hand select who gets them, maybe based on lifetime spend / org size, or so I’ve
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by westhom 4y ago
I believe the right click method for opening an unsigned app no longer works as of MacOS Ventura. It appears to work on your own computer but once someone downloads it and tries to run on a new computer, you can’t get around it through regu
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by westhom 4y ago
I like to think of it more like (old) Usenet with pubkeys. It gets more at the distributed database factor.
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by westhom 4y ago
I’ve always been curious to learn more about Matthias’s RIM days. I might have read somewhere he was responsible for low level radio design / engineering, as a very very early employee. Every once in awhile his electronics knowledge ki
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by westhom 4y ago
It makes me wonder how much “infrastructure runway” a company like Twitter has. If every engineer resigns, how long will it take before the infrastructure stops working autonomously… server/DB hard drives fill up or crash, PSUs die, hi
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by westhom 4y ago
I always read statements like “sorry we can’t release this ground breaking technology to the public, you simply can’t handle its power and repercussions” as the AI industry low key flex.
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by westhom 4y ago
That’s an epic reward, even if a large portion goes to legal help. How are there not more whistle blowers in big pharma? Granted, it was 7 years of hard work, but payoff is crazy.
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by westhom 4y ago
Next-next generation undisclosed craft?
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by westhom 4y ago
You were probably drawing onto the bare XY space without creating an art board first.
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by westhom 4y ago
FWIW, I was absolutely captivated for all of Last Dance, and I don't watch basketball. But I do have an affinity for "30 for 30"-style docs on the human interest side of sports.
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by westhom 4y ago
Couple of random ones I highly enjoyed recently: - Feels Good Man -- story of the innocent illustrator behind Pepe the Frog and how the internet ruins nice things - War Room (1993) -- fly-on-the-wall doc of James Carville during the most in
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by westhom 4y ago
Another vote for Icarus, and also a vote for not reading anything about it.
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by westhom 4y ago
Thank you. It’s infuriating to use Twitter as an unauthenticated user these days. If you scroll down far enough you get the uncloseable login gateway pop up, and I can never tell if it’s triggered by reaching the end of a thread, or after X
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by westhom 4y ago
>Transaction reversal is indeed outright harmful to honest vendors, and is only really necessary for the legacy systems because the legacy systems have borderline zero protection against dishonest vendors retaining customers' paymen
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by westhom 4y ago
>The incentive for Apple to do this would be what: do extract a little more revenue from their smallest-volume OS? I think that's only part of the picture. Yes it would boost their services business, but Macbook/iMac users are
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by westhom 4y ago
>Apple straight up does not want people using iPads to do laptop things Disagree. Just look at what they are releasing in iPadOS 16. Apps can now float over each other. Team iOS is coming for Team macOS, they are closing in fast. They ar

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