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tsomctl··on “Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada
Huh. I was the exact opposite; there was no schedule for my symptoms. Some days I woke up great, and was exhausted by noon, other days I woke up feeling terrible, and had tons of energy in the afternoon.
tsomctl··on Goldman Sachs Created a Font, but You're Forbidden by Its License to Critique GS
> Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension.

This is after disabling all of my extensions, including uBlock Origin.

tsomctl··on Extraordinary ‘megaflash’ lightning strikes cover several hundred kilometres
On a related note, I was in the middle of a major forest fire once. The sound was the most intense thing. Every time a slight breeze started blowing, a deep roar like a freight train filled your chest cavity.
tsomctl··on Teacher Tells Off Neil Armstrong for Faking the Moon Landing
The way I look at it, the Soviet Union would have been closely monitoring the moon landing. If they had a reason to believe that it was faked, they wouldn't have hesitated to say so.
tsomctl··on Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign
I buy a ton of things off eBay. This is seriously making me not want to do business with them again.
tsomctl··on The Early History of F# [pdf]
> While F# allows C#-like OOP, and while this can be an initial stepping stone in the path towards F#, you must go all the way.

I'd be less charitable and say that OOP in F# is a tedious, verbose mess. Functional programming in F# is extremely concise, at the expense of OOP. I wrote a parser/lexer in F#, to be used from C#, and ended up rewriting it in C# instead of dealing with the interop. I'm hoping that some day, C# will eventually have F#'s pattern matching power. They're slowly introducing more and more features to do it, and there's no major technical reason why C# wouldn't be able to.

tsomctl··on NRF52 Firmware Readout and Reverse-Engineering Now Possible
> My low-cost voltage gliching is an homemade HW electronic system, dedicated to perform fault injections in a suitable manner. The total cost of this electronic board is less than 5$, which proves fault injection is a very low cost technique and can be achieved by limited hackers.

Has he released the schematic for this? I'm thinking it's just a small npn pulling the power pin to ground, and controlled by a microcontroller.

Edit: He talks about his glitcher here: https://limitedresults.com/2019/05/pwn-mbedtls-on-esp32-dfa-...

tsomctl··on Show HN: TheKnob – sound volume control knob made of concrete and RGB lights
Not sure what pisses me off more. That, or the music autoplaying.
tsomctl··on Blender 2.83 LTS
Somewhat related, check out Blender DNA. It works similar to Protobuf. I remember reading a pretty good article on it, can't find it now.
tsomctl··on Never-before-seen “black nitrogen” plugs puzzle in periodic table
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. - Rumsfeld
tsomctl··on Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
Will putting it in a Zip and making the user unzip it build reputation with SmartScreen?
tsomctl··on Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive
> I seriously doubt the people who donated to the IA wanted their funds to be used on this.

I'm not annoyed that my donation is being used for this. I trust them to do what they think is best. Although I do have my doubts.

tsomctl··on As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS
Magna Carta? US Declaration of Independence?
tsomctl··on Welcome to C# 9.0
Well, we're getting closer to F#. Still waiting on discriminated unions and expression blocks. (Yes, I know, discriminated unions in F# are just implemented in the class hierarchy. But it's awfully nice syntactic sugar.)

> Point p = new (3, 5);

At first glance, not impressive, since you could just do:

> var p = new Point(3,5);

However, it would clean up code like:

> graphics.DrawRectangle(RedBrush, new(3, 5, 2, 2))

tsomctl··on Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it hasn’t helped much
Right you are. Learn from my mistake. Wear a mask and practice social distancing.
tsomctl··on Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a Covid app, but it hasn’t helped much
I'm on day 11 of this shit. You really do not want this.
tsomctl··on Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf]
What's your opinion of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, in regards to them using facts and logical arguments?
tsomctl··on How to build a darkroom for £100 or less
Seems like panda poly and gorilla tape would work to stop the light. Panda poly is available at your local exotic herb grow shop. Gorilla tape doesn't stick very well at first, but after a week, is impossible to remove without tearing the panda poly.
tsomctl··on Gas selling for under $1 per gallon in 13 US states
If you live in California, don't bother. It's illegal and they won't sell to you if it's going into a vehicle.
tsomctl··on “A Cold War Every Day” inside Apple's internal tools group
Sounds like Intuit.
tsomctl··on Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter
And tig welders that can do AC.
tsomctl··on Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime
No, I'm proud that I haven't rebooted in 72 days. The last clause was me acknowledging that this isn't good computer hygiene.

edit: And I'm trying to help other people. I know how infuriating it is to have your computer restart in the middle of something, and the above fix is pretty straightforward.

tsomctl··on Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime
My laptop with Win10 is at 72 days.

I created a bat file with:

  net stop wuauserv
  sc config wuauserv start= disabled
and then scheduled it to run every 10 minutes. The problem with that is you now have to remember to disable it and check for updates when you have time, which I'm obviously not doing.
tsomctl··on Jon Rubinstein on the development of the iPod [video]
The iTunes store might have been important, but at least to me, the user interface was the amazing part. I remember when I got my first iPod. I already had a shitty mp3 player and a ton of illegally downloaded music, so I didn't need to use the iTunes store. I remember being amazed at how intuitive it was to choose an album to play, or an artist. So easy.
tsomctl··on Ask HN: What is the best Covid-19 dashboard?
Not the best, don't know if it meets all your requirements, but I've been watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...
tsomctl··on Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races
How about streaming some previous races? I could always watch last years German race again.
tsomctl··on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reportedly tests positive for coronavirus
Along with Bolsonaro's press secretary, who also tests positive.
tsomctl··on The Word from Wuhan
In terms of human suffering/death, it's better to spread out the number of sick people over a longer period of time. There's a finite number of hospital beds and doctors, and you'll get better care if there are fewer other people sick at the same time. It's better for the economy, though, if everyone gets sick as soon as possible, so that everyone gets better at the same time and factories can spin back up.
tsomctl··on Travelling with 24” Monitors
The kind of people that are flying around to fix expensive equipment aren't going to tolerate using tools from Harbor Freight. And the people that own expensive equipment where you have to pay someone to fly in to fix it aren't going to want it being touched by Harbor Freight tools.
tsomctl··on One of biggest frauds in U.S. farm history
Except for those with leaky digestive systems, and non-organic produce is a guaranteed way to get a headache.
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