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A 5 character a-z random string has log2(26^5) =~ 23.5 bits of entropy, way less than 128.

"But that's crazy, Morpheus. Thermodynamics says.." "And where did you learn about physics, Neo?" "..... In the Matrix...."

I get that tastes vary and some people apparently don't mind the hole punch in the display, but I'm curious why you list its presence as a hard requirement. It seems like it would …

The Eagle one yours is based on says it needs 0.6 mm PCB to work. Is it just close enough not to matter?

Crimping an IDC cable. (It works very poorly for this, and I speak from recent personal experience)

I genuinely hope both of you continue this thread, even as I think it's unlikely that you'll come to common ground. I'm finding it extremely helpful to clarify my thoughts on this …

Could you expand on the available diagnostic tools a bit?

Could potting prevent this, or can the whiskers "push through" epoxy?

> this is quite frankly very surprising to me. If we let t be time in seconds, and f be frequency in Hz, the sine wave formula is y = sin(2 pi t f). The 2 pi is the periodicity of …

If existence is pointless except for procreation, what is our children's purpose? To have children, in order to have children, in order to have children? This is unbounded teleolog…

I was misremembering the specifics too, it turns out. It was much closer to do_brick(). Ugly.

If I remember correctly, in the FTDI case that was very unlikely to happen. It wasn't a case of `if (looks_fake) do_brick()`. Rather, it accessed registers in a way that they knew …

I've never intentionally turned on google Photos backup since I use Dropbox instead, but I still notice it turning back on periodically.

> So... what exactly become the merit of taxing land over property? If you tax property, the value of the land is included in that tax. If land--but specifically not improvements t…

There's some available literature on the subject of required laser wavelength/energy for an in-flight thermal mosquito kill: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71824-y.pdf …

It's not literally false, but I got an inaccurate impression based on the headline. To me it implied a positive discovery of evidence rather than a ruling-out. If they'd said "dete…

Not a jq expert, but my understanding is: `.[]` takes a list and turns it into a sequence consisting of each element of that list. `| x` applies the filter `x` to that sequence, tu…

If you happen to know: Is it the performing the test itself that's illegal, or is it "merely" that to perform a test for someone you'd have to take possession of the substance, how…

The "mole" is the unit, "mol" is the symbol for the unit, like with "kilogram" and "kg".

I think they're referring to the fact that there is one dimensionless base unit already standardized in SI: the mole. There aren't two length units, so there "shouldn't be" two dim…

In some browsers you can get around this by selecting the text, keeping the mouse button down, hitting the keyboard shortcut for 'copy', then letting go. The selection will still b…

My lay understanding of the current standard of care is very roughly speaking something like: Patient exhibits symptom => perform a not-especially-invasive test Positive test resul…

And yet it's not only men who are admonished by the article. An example of a woman is given, too. That one example is of a woman who isn't monogamous and is "left with nothing". Wh…

Who is more free: 1) An average man who is only not a drug addict because he lives in a country where drugs are regulated or shamed in a way to make them hard to obtain. 2) An aver…