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reminds me of the "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" youtube video "Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter"[0] that discusses many of the same ideas! [0] https://www.youtube…

this strongly reminds me of the hn post from five days back in which the main thread talked at some length about a very similar scenario > "He missed a big one: you have no way to …

here also. just going to the hn link produced this https://ibb.co/vZGpDtf

this reminds me of the documentary "the fog of war"[0] in which robert macnamara talks about the conventional type bombing of japan's cities with firebombs before using any atom bo…

yes! veritasium did a pretty fun video on this some time back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2e0rWvjKI

according to this[0], iraq and afghanistan get more aid from the usa than israel does. [0] https://www.concernusa.org/story/foreign-aid-by-country-gett...

the fact that the combined strength of two humans would not be enough to _break_ the manual trim system does not tell us whether that combined strength would be enough to _turn_ th…

and the recent snc-lavalin case in canada[0] [...Quebec Premier François Legault said that SNC-Lavalin was one of ten publicly-traded companies headquartered in Quebec that the pro…

this video[0] from "mentour pilot" on youtube explains the stabilizer system quite well. it seems the trim wheels are connected manually to the trim mechanism in the back, but when…

the difference that i find valuable is that cloop is not a file system, whereas squashfs is. this means that i can use cloop to compress _any_ file system at the block level. very …

the cloop[0] system from knoppix is something i use often to back up arbitrary file systems. debian has the cloop-utils which includes create_compressed_fs, and this is great for m…

what about cinerella? when i researched what video editor to learn next after kdenlive it was cinerella. it seems to work fine, and i am surprised not to see any comments regarding…

this sounds interesting. could you elaborate a bit? it is unclear if you are inverting once, or twice. "if you have a stereo signal, anything not fully-centered will come through b…

this article seems to refute some aspects of xkcd's answer: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/370446/is-randal...

maybe not specifically relevant to your use case, but one excellent open source program for ham radio sdr stuff that i have found is linrad. it's got a bit of a learning curve, and…

louis rossmann[0] responds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K669-vhKshU [0] louis rossmann repair group in nyc is a small business that specializes in repairing apple products

here's an example of the decoding process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkH5yV4__3U

Here's the opinion of an engineer who is also a drone and fixed wing flyer, Bruce Simpson of the x-jet youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcjJFnVzZzY He thinks that l…

> I've read a bunch of negotiation books as well as conversation books. i would like to read some good books on negotiation and conversation. do you have any advice on what the bes…

Also, I maintain a page[0] that lists the top routers with support for openWrt and DD-wrt. http://rooftopbazaar.com/routerfirmware/

Does anyone have any experience with ipop/groupvpn[0]? It seems like an interesting alternative to tinc in that it can do turn/stun using libjingle to bust nat. I'm not clear on ho…

tinc 1.1pre seems pretty good, but I do worry about the legacy fallback for encryption; There doesn't seem to be any way to e.g. --force-experimental to prevent encryption falling …

Have you tried ipop/social-vpn[0]? It uses libjingle (stun, turn, etc) to get through firewalls. I don't know much about it's security though, or if it has been audited. [0] http:/…