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25,050karma·12,302submissions·September 8, 2017
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SMS are free (they use up left over space in the signalling protocol a phone needs to use to talk to towers/inform the network of where it can be found - a process you're already charged for…
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Firefox windows (in order.. seems like the first one starts the chain): - Error decoding audio: menuMusic - The buffer passed to decodeAudioData contains invalid content which cannot be decoded succe…
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You might enjoy the blog post[0] (150GB of images, tesseract OCR, 2GB of data, Algolia for search). There's a github repo too[1] [0]: https://www.alashiban.com/search-the-deck&#x…
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Other products in this space: OpenDeck (2020-Oct-11, 47 comments, 203pts)[0], PitchDeckHunt (2020-Mar-26, 3 comments, 6pts)[1], BillionDollarPitchDecks (2022-03-23, 17 comments, 80pts)[2] A question o…
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Both the time-step size (recommended 30s, 60s isn't uncommon) and the validity window (+-1 (3 windows), +-2 (5 windows)) are configurable by the implementation. The time-step size can't be …
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TOTP slows down brute-forcing a service through normal access patterns (eg login, password reset). By normal access, I mean as provided by the software/vendor. One would hope said service has ra…
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From 2020, post at the time[0] included 77 comments, 252 pts. That article was also a repeat, the original finding seems to have been in 2007 at https://holleyarchaeology.com/wordpres…
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The vice article[0] seems more substantial than the twittering (although it does reference these tweets it also includes a copy the ransom demand and the lack of reply from riot) [0]: https:/&…
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There's, sadly, no cost savings.. you have to register/pay for each variant (they're not activated by default[2]). But it does stop the case like yours - two domains with different own…
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Seems to skip over that with the Canadian top level domain, only the characters `é, ë, ê, è, â, à, æ, ô, œ, ù, û, ü, ç, î, ï, and ÿ` are allowed[0][1] (not all unicode points/not all valid punyco…
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Granted I don't know what will happen between now and March 1st, but there are some inaccuracies in this article... is this a GPT product? - Encoding Machine Code[0] Not sure what "Go assemb…
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These dupes are getting tedious, largely the same comments as the one 3 days ago (94 comments, 127pts). People agree, other mail hosters say most of their spam comes from gmail and outlook, various f…
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Title: The Ecological Catastrophe You’ve Never Heard Of A tsunami (habour wave[0]) was impossible. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami …
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Mostly due to our liquor laws (depends on province). But you're basically required to supply food if you vend alcohol. Bring your own food is the only way to satisfy this (or selling nuts/…
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Extensive discussion too.. 356 pts, 190 comments
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Posted so many times (9 so far).. the most active was 36pts, 13 comments[0]. Granted the fellow had a file called "OfficeSpace project", but in Office Space they're inspired by Superma…
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Wouldn't https://github.com/websnarf/bstrlib be a better URL?
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The article does, but "the AquaDom was a 25-metre-tall (82 ft) cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium"[0] Turns out that's just poor reporting, they could have been more specific. It was …
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Posted 15 hours[0] ago too. There was a very similar story in the last year, although maybe not for Maryland... the .garden tld makes it impossible to find. (The case for leaving the perfectly manicu…
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Never? Probably depends on where you are in the country, but they're quite bountiful in the west. Even seen kits with their parents.
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AI is not necessary for this, at least not compared to the coarse process of guessing energy exertion/food intake/glycemic index of the food in the near future and dosing yourself accordingl…
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This was discussed 22 days ago(119pts, 48 comments)[0], slightly different content[1] but not by much. It seems a shame this blog post didn't address samueloph's point[2] (lower L and upper…
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This was brought up several times in the D2 thread 9 days ago (626pts, 153 comments)[0], since D2 built this to help showcase their feature set. Lots of the discussion there applies. [0]: https:…
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https://archive.ph/pURO3
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You only just posted this (12 days ago, 75 points, 2 comments[0]), the vercel app seems to look the same, and still references the repo for instructions. This seems way to soon to be making a duplica…
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I think you got your greater than sign the wrong way around? Consider a lot of non-tech people don't constantly upgrade, and still rock 4GB systems, at least an eighth of that resource is a big …
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https://archive.ph/S7D40
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The article source is from a Stanford study, which was posted[0] 3 days ago: "Charging lithium-ion cells at different rates boosts the lifetimes of battery packs for electric vehicles" [1] […
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