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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