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ahsima1

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    Comment #32202496

    You cannot get picosecond lasers for under $100, not even under $1000. Those devices that you see are dangerous diode lasers that do not work for the advertised application, lie ab…

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    Comment #31141560

    Some funny responses i've got: Portal 3 spoilers: GLaDOS is a character voiced by Ellen McLain that serves as the main antagonist of the Portal franchise. GLaDOS was originally a s…

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    Comment #30064403

    I wonder if it's a part of some sort of cyberattack. Someone knows that deleting a file, containing a "1" or "0" from target's gdrive will break something they want, so they filed …

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    Comment #28488631

    Captchas are there to prevent bots which are making thousands or millions of submissions. With a timer the bot just needs to make all of the captcha requests first and then wait 30…

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    Comment #28427152

    Depends, some do indeed ban all electronic devices, others only ban smartphones and any devices with cameras. Probably after this incicident most of them will move towards the form…

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    Comment #28427018

    Actually, considering the low pay and the rules, prohibiting snartphones at many russian defence companies, cheap dumb phones may be a great target for espionage.

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    Comment #25873234

    They could at least still require a phone number to register, but allow to hide it and set a username for contacting people.

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    Comment #25870756

    Signal forcing you to give your phone number to anyone you want to contact is a much bigger security problem to me, especially when in my country it's both somewhat hard to acquire…

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    Comment #25535320

    Look on the bright side - if you get unsuccesfully poisoned with a secret nerve agent by the state intelligence services, you might have a chance at finding the killers.

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    Comment #24358590

    And through gzip/zstd/etc if you want compression!

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    Comment #23370230

    I would guess none. Maybe some in testing/simulations, but I highly doubt there is any ML doing actual flight control.

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    Comment #23335904

    It can also even be literally radioactive https://youtu.be/mEm9ooXyKss

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    Comment #23293037

    Why not just upgrade the ram? DDR4 is rather cheap these days. Alternatively you can try enabling ZRAM, which can save memory by using compression. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index…

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    Comment #23136993

    There are many more effective chemicals if your goal is just to destroy, chlorine trifluoride for example

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    Comment #23106247

    And increasing supply is a great way to make them bad investment vehicles

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    Comment #22906134

    apt automatically removing dependencies by default is such a trap, I much prefer pacman's behaviour of refusing to remove package that breaks dependecies unless explicitly told to …

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    Comment #22753074

    Or it can work the opposite way and everyone wearing masks will remind people that things aren't normal and they should stay at home.

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    Comment #22739663

    Never had any problems with my 4K screen in Manjaro KDE, and only needed to change Xft.dpi in .Xresources in Manjaro i3

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    Comment #22723700

    Haven't worked with LimeSDR myself, but here's the paper that suggests that it's possible https://upcommons.upc.edu/bitstream/handle/2117/119623/memor...

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    Comment #22723268

    Not really, that's the bandwidth of an average mid-end SDR like LimeSDR(300$) or BladeRF(500$)

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    Comment #22555077

    My amazfit bip lasts for over a month on a single charge