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Ubiquiti recently added HTTPS REST APIs to their Network and Protect applications. While exploring what was available, I came across a pair of interesting endpoints that promised t…

Camera rigs exist for this exact reason.

There's a 0% chance of a successful colony, by any definition of successful, on Mars in the next century. If we, as a species, cannot avoid destroying the climate that birthed us o…

I was just following orders!

He doesn't make a good point. I'd rather have people of high moral character responsible for enforcing the law.

This speech by Colonel Jessep is meant to be revealing of his true thoughts and character. Jessep rationalizes the evil and immoral acts he commits or orders because he's "protecti…

What is there to stop beyond the horrible energy consumption and scams? Bitcoin doesn't do anything useful at all. It's a net negative for the earth and the public at large.

So... what happens when the person who originally deployed everything eventually leaves or gets hit by a bus? Hey, it's six months later and you need to redeploy everything again. …

Anyone done TOTP port-knocking to open an SSH listen port with just the originator white-listed for a short window?

This seems strange, aren't the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines built using the exact same mRNA sequence?

Even if your bodies are pretty similar, you still don't know if your vitamin D levels will follow the pattern that his did. If you're messing with vitamin D supplements you should …

Saying you missed out on Bitcoin is like saying you missed out on a giant ponzi scheme.

This hasn't even been peer reviewed yet. Don't expect that you , the average HN reader, knows better than reviewers with relevant backgrounds.

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No, because it's absurdly stupid.

This article was on the front page just now: https://louwrentius.com/cryptocurrencies-are-detrimental-to-society.html but got flagged for some unknown reason. I can only guess beca…

Your comment reads like satire. I see no rebuttal of the points made. Maybe a better thesis would be that cryptocurrencies provide a net-negative value to society.

"R0 is not a biological constant for a pathogen as it is also affected by other factors such as environmental conditions and the behaviour of the infected population." [0] If we ho…

Of course you're some newly created sock-puppet account too afraid to post under your real handle. COVID-19 will absolutely cause the death of millions in the US alone if proper st…

Should we prioritize the survival of human beings over corporations?

The problem is PHP calling an ordered map an array. Array in pretty much every other language means a sequence indexed by integers. Ideally the maintainers of PHP would rename it a…

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that experts in `Y` have fine-tuned cortical representations of `domain(Y)`.

Apparently the original experimenters who identified learned helplessness seem to now think they got it backwards: Learned helplessness is actually the default behavior of mammals,…

Personally, I learned most programming topics through individual effort. Pair programming can be great if the participants have a similar skill level while having nonoverlapping ar…

You seem to be exhibiting signs of learned helplessness. You can absolutely learn how to automate something, if you try. If you want normal, boring work to do why are you complaini…