kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Hackers interrupt Iran president’s TV speech on anniversary of revolution
Do you mean as a sort of sponsored/approved false flag, or just that thoughts of revolution are reaching up into institutions?
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kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: U-Bahn station in Berlin is decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles
Here's a screenshot of the highest reading I saw (11.37) and an english overlay of possible units it can display. It's hard to see the button positions.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: U-Bahn station in Berlin is decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles
> 0.1137 milisievert / hour
I saw 11.37 on the display, wouldn't that be 0.01137 ?
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR
Tends to happen when you call people lazy, etc. They miss your point.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR
I wasn't trying to compare paid/free, just that there's a renewed opening for a beginner friendly pirate platform.
Yes, popcorn time failed, but I was referencing the thing where it had once made inroads with non-technical people in some part because of the ease and not just the "Free" part.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR
Feels like they are referencing something that includes the google-able tagline "lower price than the majority of file hosters while still offering"
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: MythTV 33 Released – open-source all-in-one DVR
Sort of waiting for some new iteration of what "popcorn time" was. With all the fragmentation of content across different providers, and more aggressive actions on account sharing, crossing region restrictions, etc...it feels like average people are now starting to complain a lot.
There is an opening for a very beginner friendly pirate platform to rise again. Not because nobody wants to pay exactly, but because doing it legally is complex now.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (2014)
The article does later get into "changing the shape of the scoop", meaning a more directional antenna. And the designs for directional antennas are generally larger than omnidirectional ones.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
The headline makes it sound broader than it is. Rather than "CA Cities", it's actually "will eliminate the zoning ordinances of the vast majority of cities throughout the Bay Area". Still pretty broad, of course.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Steve Wozniak's Letters
The site is here: https://efforce.io/team
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: 80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea
The chart doesn't seem to account for the profiles that only have a slot on 1 or 2 sides versus all 4. I would guess those are quite a bit stronger. Like this one: https://8020.net/media/catalog/product/cache/9208ae76a38c408...
Edit: Their calculator shows the same exact deflection with the same weight, so maybe not, though that seems odd to me. https://8020.net/deflection-calculator
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)
The really large explosions in size seem to come from internal politics to me. Where leaders of individual internal groups start to have their own goals and agendas separate from the company goals...and start empire building.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: 80/20 Aluminum T-slot Building Systems – Build your Idea
There's a US anti-dumping embargo on extruded aluminum, which seems to keep the price high.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Natural language is the lazy user interface
I agree it's not for everything, but it seems like better NLP/NLG could improve things like Alexa a lot. Alexa is fine for setting timers, turning off lights, etc. But currently when I ask it anything that Google Search or ChatGPT handles well, Alexa falls down and tells me the wrong info.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Interact with the terminal in plain English using GPT-3
I suppose you would have to know to run "list all files that..." prior to "delete all files that...".
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: $90k to $900k: Pay transparency laws usher in baffling pay ranges
You're right, though the article is talking about pay transparency laws in several different US states, so perhaps some have this loophole and others don't.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: 1Kb Webspace
There's srcset, and things like generating content with JS, inline css base64 images (background: url(data:...), and lots of other loopholes. The author is going to re-live a lockdown path many others have gone through ;)
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Google is screwed, even if it wins its antitrust case
> But Alphabet will probably be fine. YouTube and Android are still...
If you look at a revenue breakdown[1] and then also figure in that search has much higher margins than the other areas, it's pretty skewed to search dollars. They've improved it some, but there's a long way to go.
[1] https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/how-does-google-make-money
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: 1Kb Webspace
> Many many folders consisting of only a "hi" or similar make me doubt if too many on HN don't know what is meant by "code". ;)
I suspect it's just people experimenting with how it works, what it allows or doesn't, and so on. I wouldn't focus much on the cruft.
kris_wayton | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Doc Converter – Convert PDF docs to Word documents on your computer
I believe they are asking if, after extracting all the pieces (it's shipped as a self-extracting archive), does it do the things it needs to do to comply with GPL/AGPL? Like supplying the source code, or how to get the source code.
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