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> Somehow I prefer this solution than ubiquitous drones

"When all you have is a hammer..." My only question is where most of that $300 cost is coming from.

> I am absolutely willing to die on this hill. We need a GDPR-sized hammer to fix this.

Any thoughts on a labelling system? Like, "re-flashable open source firmware", "cannot be remotely bricked", "API-spec and code examples included" stuck on the side of the box.

I'm surprised some hardware hacker supply company, like adafruit/sparkfun hasn't gotten on this yet.

> load some bitcoin in and short with 100x leverage

Sounds like a great way to have a crooked exchange make you insolvent very quickly. Be very careful using any kind of leverage.

> He will spend a lot of time either angry at the situation, or spending that time also trying to get a tax break.

It is a good financial decision to spend up to "$1M * <odds of success>" to get that tax break, or another better one. (especially if the ~$500K spent on retainered-lawyers sets you up to pay less due to future tax hikes.) Economics gets weird when any of the numbers get really big, or really small.

I don't like this example though, as it doesn't detail why the tax break was so specific. Did 4/5 of them have no taxable income that year? Do all of these billionaires live in a despotic-shithole where the rule of law doesn't apply equally to everyone? (to be fair, most billionaires do. /s)

"Only two people can launch a nuke, the president, and the engineer who installed the system."

Is there any API you can go through to get the UUID of the current ABI, all the ones seen by the system, or all of the ones for each windows ABI without network access?

Trivially, you grab the UUIDs from a server somewhere. A smarter trick is to get these UUIDs from the system you're running on.

Where is the entropy going?

This still has all eight bytes, from the generated UUID, and looks like it can be converted back into a UUID.

I thought the original setup where the vice president was whoever got the second most votes was going for that.

I wasn't expecting an adblocker installed by default.

Makes sense though, for browsing performance.

I've done that, and gotten banned from a site later for having the company name in my email. (I was unbanned later, after contacting support)

This is insane, I love it.

How long until this is a library on pypi?

As long as this is contained to the metrics-metagame branch of the git repo, I am fine with this.

Get 80k commits in, before lunch.

Food's a fun example, because there's currently too much of it. At least in my part of the world, the price of various foods is moderated by the government buying or selling huge stocks of it.

My bigger concern about that is all of the fossil fuels getting wasted doing the haber-process for food nobody's going to use.

That sounds like a great way to make the most upvoted comment "submitter's favourite baseball player is Jason Heyward".

I've often bought parts from aliexpress because they're available for <$2 with shipping, and can be somewhat vetted easily with an example arduino sketch that comes with the library. (IMO, the goal in designing a board for your problem is getting someone to clone it and sell it for cheaper than you could hope to build it. Ideally, better too)

Sparkfun and adafruit deserve commendation here, as their designs are open enough to even have low effort clones work reasonably well. (I'd buy a legit version if I was doing something professional, but prototyping for the sake of research is a different story)

I'm a special case though, since deliveries from the local AVNET subsidiary to my employer are often comped due to volume/location.

The current version of raspian comes with ublock origin preinstalled in chromium.

Both of these choices surprised me.

Is there a single word for "it's more profitable to do this thing, rather than the other thing, or nothing"? I think that's what this counts as.

I think this is in the same category of decision as retailers selling old stock at a loss, because that's better than not selling it.

A large portion of the modern economy is run by spreadsheets, and crunching the numbers on what the "most-profitable" thing to do often leads to companies doing what seems insane to the average person. P.S.: only the first 2/3rds of that was directed at your comment specifically.

> Why just HK, why not for all former colonies which UK is responsible for

Prior to (and because of) a bunch of HK residents fleeing to the UK when china first started trying to assimilate it, it was much easier to get out of there and into the UK. (anything involving politics in the UK is never a single thing, it's probably about 40 interacting things, spread out over about 800 non-consecutive years.)

HK is really a special case, because it was doing so very well with "european-levels of freedom", and then china strong-armed them into giving it up. (I won't make a moral judgement on that, it's just worth point out how complicated the issue is.)

AFAIK, the ISS needs to be de-orbited over an ocean, burned up, and replaced. (like the plan was from the beginning)

There are a number of scary mould patches up there, and potentially other pathogens, with no real way to properly clean the whole thing.

What's the goal in posting this/having this phrasing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum

Please point to the spot on the EM-specrtum that you're scared of, and tell me what color it is.

This confused the heck out of me when zero-rating was being made out to be the greatest evil, and that the US should be more like the EU.

But, at the same time, half of the mobile phone ads I saw had zero-rating a specific service (facebook, usually) as the main selling point. e.g. "Top-up €20/month, get unlimited facebook access."

Great headline.

Shame there won't be any ads put on that article to pay any of the staff. Another one of the problems that comes from a near-monopoly.

In Australia, the words "mate" and "cunt" have seemingly-opposite meanings, to what an American-English speaker might think.

The website claims this is open sourced, it is not open sourced.

There's no definite license with the code on github.

Great.

Now someone build one that can compile new regexes in fat32.

Or, someone at youtube saw the video and thought it was cool.

Like how this video will always have 301 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI

heat death of the universe.

If humans discover a way to defeat entropy, even at a limited scale, whatever device is created to preserve information into the era of a universe solely made of black holes and hawking radiation will be capable of running doom.

I fully expect the last computer to ever be built by humans to still be able to load original .wads.

raspberrry pi in home-network DMZ, with fail2ban, unattended-upgrades, and a free dynamic DNS service gets you most of this. (plus, you're root, so you can run things more complicated than web-services)

I'm always disappointed when things like this aren't partially or fully open sourced.

Makes me wonder what the profit model is, and when the thing is going to die forever.