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Fusible traces aren’t uncommon - but they would effectively destroy the device if current limits are exceeded, and they certainly would be if the power supply is non-isolated, so i…

It was originally a switching/signalling waypoint, and later started seasonal passenger service for skiiers in 1932, before later switching to year-round service. Apparently it use…

In this case, the problem was the seed was low entropy, so if you generated a bunch of random numbers with a single initialization of the RNG seed you would get unique values. It's…

This is called disgorgement and is indeed frequently used for certain types of crimes (particularly financial crimes).

There’s also upcoming changes to paper bills too, vending machine operators might be waiting to do both at the same time.

WinRAR supports explicitly selecting the character set to use to decompress a .zip file - super helpful when opening Japanese ZIP files.

Unfortunately that means it's not possible to deploy this without violating the AGPL...

Link appears to be broken.

The issuing bank for loans isn't necessarily where the company keeps the majority of their assets.

Any kind of turn costs lift, and that’s not what you want to spend when you’re trying not to hit something on the ground. As such turns are generally not performed below a certain …

Feels like a thermistor would be a good safety device to add to those connectors…

The good news is that the new boosters do in practice seem to be effective at boosting omicron protection, overcoming this theorized original antigenic sin: https://yourlocalepidem…

You sure you’re posting from the right account? You’ve been using this one for at least 9 months (as far as I bothered going back)

They mentioned a feature where your location could be sent via satellite in "find my" even in a non-emergency.

Replace, or simply augment with enough additional satellites to provide adequate bandwidth over the oceanic areas.

Japan has a good solution for this - most of the larger train stations (and many of the medium-sized ones as well) have "coin lockers" (which, despite the name, these days often ta…

TASBot was only controlling controller 1 for a short time, but it remained connected to controllers 2-4 for the entire run, giving it time to download additional content as the sho…

Do you want to elaborate on which specific changes listed in the article are, in your opinion, beneficial to institutional investors at the expense of retail investors, and how?

The state _could_ attempt to negotiate with bondholders to repurchase the bonds - probably at a significant premium, however. Of course, if one of the bondholders refuses to sell, …

Much harder for a large company than a small one, actually. The coordination overhead to get a bunch of disparate teams in a large company to rearchitect the fundamental structure …

If you are sending a message to a person in another country, you are consenting to that communication traveling to the location of that person. See article 6: 1. Processing shall b…

> The reality is you don't really have to transfer anything out of EU in order to keep your service running. Practically speaking, running FB in a way that doesn't transfer anythin…

They decided to rebrand as Meta, abandoning their strong oculus brand identity.

The federal government is what makes USD legal tender, and this clause does not restrict the federal government. Standing would presumably be with the party which refused bitcoin p…

Fidelity also has a fully-paid securities lending offering, and I believe Ally Invest does as well. It's not just IBKR.