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Readit NewsThat product is just two cables stuck together. Instead you could just simply run both types of cable to the doorbell, especially since they'll probably go to different places.
I googled a bit and it seems you might be able to run low speed Ethernet over untwisted wires if they are not long.
10BASE-T1{S,L} [0] are "only" 10 Mbps but they also need only a single pair of wires (with the latter working up to 1 km).
They aren't exactly in widespread usage yet, though.
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(ETA: And apparently there are even 100 and 1000 Mbps variants now too [0] -- with lower maximum distances, of course.)
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#S...
jlgaddis commented on New motorcycle lighting design could save lives news.rice.edu/news/2022/n... · Posted by u/ohjeez
However, the law does often distinguish between modulating/pulsating lights and flashing ones. In the US, federal code 49 CFR Part 571.108 S7.9.4.1 explicitly allows modulating headlights on motorcycles[1]. From time to time I do see motorcycles whose headlights pulse. I hate it - it makes them easier to see but harder to gauge distance, and harder to focus on all the other traffic and pedestrians on and around the road.
[1] https://www.gl1800riders.com/attachments/federal-law-motorcy...
As a "normal" driver, the pulsating lights absolutely are annoying... and don't even get me started on those loud ass pipes!
Now, as a motorcyclist who has been hit head-on more than once by drivers who swore "I didn't even see him!" -- with the last crash leaving me with multiple broken bones and an inability to walk for several months -- you better believe I now have both a pulsating headlamp and a nice set of loud ass pipes (they're even called "Street Cannons")! on my bike.
I've also lost a non-zero number of friends due to folks who swore they didn't see them.
It's now been eight years since I've gotten hit... so I really am sorry if my headlight or pipes bother you as I pass by but, well, I have loved ones I'd like to see again so I hope you'll forgive me.
Too little info to provide any real advice besides the obvious (see below). Out of curiosity, though, do you recognize the name of the merchant?
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Anyways, there's a toll-free number on your card. Call it and explain the situation to them. They'll likely re-issue your card and call it a day, unless the specific transactions trigger some sort of "red flag" (although, if that were the case, the fraud department would likely have noticed before you did and already took action).
There are certain types of questions that aren't really appropriate for an "Ask HN". This is one of them.
jlgaddis commented on Tell HN: Gitlab.com doesn't allow issue search without signing in · Posted by u/oefrha
GitHub is only slightly better (in this regard). You can't perform an "advanced search" without logging in.
Still, I'd rather use GitLab ober GitHub.
jlgaddis commented on Microsoft Windows Network File System v4 Remote Code Execution thezdi.com/blog/2022/7/13... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
My thoughts go out to the sys admins patching this on a Friday
If they're just now patching it, I kinda feel like they deserve to spend their weekend patching Windows boxes.
> This bug was patched by Microsoft in June 2022 ...
jlgaddis commented on New Arizona law makes it illegal to film within 8 feet of police axios.com/2022/07/08/ariz... · Posted by u/latchkey
I believe this is most of all about stopping filming by drivers during traffic stops. It is impossible to be 8 feet away while sitting in the driver seat during a traffic stop.
I believe you are mistaken, as HB2319 [0] itself directly states:
> The occupants of a vehicle that is the subject of a police stop may record the encounter if the occupants are not interfering with lawful police actions.
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On a side note, I encourage everyone to carefully read the actual bill.
There's a lot of intelligent people here on HN but it seems that many of those commenting can't quite comprehend plain English (not as well as I would have expected, at least).
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jlgaddis commented on Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage status.hetzner.com/incide... · Posted by u/cain
Can they somehow tell exactly where the cable was cut?
Yes, using an OTDR [0].
These used to be big, expensive, standalone devices (I'd occasionally use one in a previous job). Nowadays, there are portable, handheld units specifically for identifying where a break has occurred and the same, basic functionality is often even built into the gear used at either end of connections (e.g., even the "enterprise" switches -- from Brocade and Cisco -- that I use at home).
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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflectome...
jlgaddis commented on RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects radbasic.dev/... · Posted by u/maxbaines
This brings back fond memories. The wiki page does have a few inaccuracies. Here is a more detailed article from Alan himself:
https://onezero.medium.com/my-one-phrase-resum%C3%A9-98776ef...
(Try an incognito window if Medium blocks you.)
That article has a few inaccuracies too, but as the events were over 30 years ago, this can be forgiven.
Read Alan's article and then come back for this followup.
Alan mentioned the "gizmos". He actually originally called them "waldos", named after these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator
I couldn't make sense of that name, so I suggested "gizmo", which seemed fun and more descriptive. That name stuck - for a while. Microsoft later renamed them to "controls". How boring!
I also developed the "gizmo interface", which Microsoft renamed to VBX. (They were really not into fun names at the time.)
It has sometimes been said that Bill Gates was the one who insisted that VB have an extension interface like this. The truth is more subtle. We had the gizmo interface all along. It was obvious that we would need it for our own gizmos, and that we should allow other developers to build their own gizmos.
Apparently, the Microsoft team that turned Ruby+Basic into VB was going to keep the gizmo interface private and only let Microsoft developers use it, at least at first to save time on the schedule. Bill quite rightly saw the power of exposing the interface to outside developers and decided to make it part of the product - just as we had planned all along.
And I built the "event arrows" that Alan mentioned. He originally called an event a "flimsy" (a British term for "lightweight paper used especially for multiple copies"). I couldn't make sense of that name either, so we kicked it around and settled on "event".
This left a problem of what to name the act of sending an event from one gizmo to another. I was familiar with the term "trigger" from SQL, but that didn't seem quite right, and we were into fun names. But I couldn't think of one!
At the time, when I got frustrated with a coding or naming problem, I had a habit of firing rubber bands at my IBM Monochrome Display to shake up my thinking. (Don't try this with a modern flat panel.)
That didn't give me any ideas.
So I decided to fire up a doobie and see if that would help.
As I flicked my lighter and looked at the fire, it all came together:
Fire a rubber band. Fire up a doobie. Fire an event!
AMA, and I will see if I can remember...
I was just a teenager around this time, in middle school or perhaps high school, and still in the early stages of programming (after moving on from the Commodore 64 and 6502 assembly), but -- even three decades later -- it's nice to finally have an answer to that one particular question that was asked so often and by so many all throughout those years:
> Just WTF were those Microsoft guys smoking when they designed this shit?
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Highly recommend the ICX 6610 in particular. The only other Brocade (Ethernet) switches I've personally managed are the "access layer" FCX switches (in an old position 10+ years ago).