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by yipbub 6y ago
Taking a picture of a monitor with a will usually result in a Moire pattern[1] since the image sensors is a grid and the display pixels are grid. Just tried this. Orienting your phone at 45 degrees to the monitor can mostly reduce them, bu
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by yipbub 6y ago
Can you explain how that works please?
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by yipbub 6y ago
Not quite arbitrary. He new that he could avoid it by not changing the signature afterwards.
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by yipbub 6y ago
Did bees evolve to find nectar or flowers evolve to attract bees? A lot of both.
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by yipbub 6y ago
What are the threats from not having TLS? There's no information to protect here is there?
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by yipbub 6y ago
AFAIK encryption doesn't hide you if you're broadcasting; you can be found with a directional antenna.
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by yipbub 6y ago
Wow, that's the first result on google. I've been noticing a trend of mental laziness in myself in the past few months. Time to do something about it.
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by yipbub 6y ago
I think they were just artistic flourishes added by the tracker groups, crackers, etc. I think "Tracker" is the name for a service that keeps track of p2p links. Some trackers are/were extremely exclusive and tight-knit with
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by yipbub 7y ago
That does not follow. Court pleadings only imply she recognises the power over the court over her.
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by yipbub 7y ago
Why wouldn't firefox be able to add those preferences by default?
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by yipbub 7y ago
"though residents there can currently only browse 301 websites approved by the government and still cannot use social media" It's also worth noting that this started in August 2019.
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by yipbub 7y ago
In the answer-space -of things you could say or do, there are many right things, many wrong ones too. Only some are true.
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by yipbub 7y ago
I find your position a bit idealistic. Redoing work you just did is tantamount to critisicm. I agree that everyone should welcome constructive criticism, but some tact is necessary in applying it. > I also think that a salaried engineer
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by yipbub 7y ago
He wasn't being literal...
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by yipbub 7y ago
I like this, but wonder if this kind of art is at all accessible to the people who need to hear its message.
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by yipbub 7y ago
What I mean is that it's very hard for any new company to compete. It's also a very bad bet for any VC to back them.
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by yipbub 7y ago
I agree that the attitude you're describing is the bane of India. We hate it too. The police steal from us too. We have strategies to adapt to its presence.
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by yipbub 7y ago
Yes, it's partly cultural. It's also partly the Broken Window Syndrome[0]. People don't yet understand the value of keeping the surroundings clean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
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by yipbub 7y ago
I'll mention that they're all independent projects under rook's umbrella.
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by yipbub 7y ago
It's called the "I never bothered to learn the actual fare from a local friend" tax. I don't agree with it, but it's pretty trivial to get around. It's definitely not exclusive to Indians. “taking advantage of
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by yipbub 7y ago
> After all, every stakeholder in this vertical is an at-will participant, with no compulsion to stay if the economics do not work out That's not true. There are only 2 aggregators to choose from. Staying off one is not a feasible o
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by yipbub 7y ago
I don't agree with how likely this is given the specificity of the bug, but should be super simple to test. Try to reproduce with a different OS/kernel.
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Kerala to provide free high-speed internet connections to the poor(indiatoday.in)
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by yipbub 7y ago
The amount of negativity here is appropriate.
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by yipbub 7y ago
The original point was that people scamming investors get discovered because the investors are invested enough to follow up on their claims. Less so in academia. The immorality of Pay Day is very much known, and it is not relevant because P
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by yipbub 7y ago
Math is built of analogues to preexisting patterns. The symbols may be invented, but the concepts are discovered.
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by yipbub 7y ago
Sure. One helps you know cool stats, and the other helps you not die. Not a fan of apple, but this is some cool tech. Edit: Saw that some garmin's have crash detection too. Neither are "just" toys.
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by yipbub 7y ago
Sounds a little unhealthy for your eyes. Why not just close them?
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by yipbub 7y ago
The day it stops is the day the important 60% + of people walk out. I theorize that IBM taking the same approach that a modern company does with an open source company. They're probably doing community management. There is no profit to
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by yipbub 7y ago
Redhat still operates independently from IBM. Redhat also uses automated license enforcement instead of audits.

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