JStanton617

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by JStanton617 6mo ago
At long last we've created Wintermute from William Gibson's classic 1984 novel Don't Create Wintermute
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by JStanton617 2y ago
Definitely justifying this by helping my nephew with his Pinewood Derby car next year
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by JStanton617 3y ago
I don't think that's correct. Their 2022 annual report shows them as profitable. https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-two Maybe took a major downturn in the past year, but I haven't seen any evide
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by JStanton617 3y ago
India (among other countries) have passed so called "hostage-taking laws" that require large social media companies to have in-country employees that can be strong-armed from ways small to large (threats of being convicted of trea
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by JStanton617 3y ago
Payroll is one of the very few (only?) things that "pierces the corporate veil" - that is, the principals / board members are personally liable even in the event of corporate bankruptcy. You could engage a labor lawyer, but i
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by JStanton617 3y ago
The America First Party was most definitely NOT a fictional brand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Party_(1943)
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by JStanton617 3y ago
This exactly. For most small non-profs, basic IT upkeep - i.e. cleaning adware, patching vulns, getting backups set up and tested - is going to be so much useful than occasional airdropped code with no regular/timely maintenance plan
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by JStanton617 4y ago
What an absolute incineration of time, effort and skill
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by JStanton617 4y ago
The loss just on the lasers is 100x (i.e. delivered power is 1% of the input energy). Add in a combined cycle effeciency of only 50%, you're looking at needing a 200x improvement to have commercially relevant "net gain"
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by JStanton617 4y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23527... tl;dr - for the core phone/laptop F.lux use case, no, it isn't substantiated
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by JStanton617 4y ago
You need an MDM to manage it remotely. Something like Jamf Now is $2/device/month. Not sure how much the shipping costs, but might be break-even
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by JStanton617 4y ago
I was taught basically this same method as the "Princess Bride" plan: Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya (who I am) You killed my father (why I'm reaching out) Prepare to die (my ask / expectation)
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by JStanton617 4y ago
This paper references consistently mischaracterizes AWS Lambda as a "Container as a Service" technology, when in fact it is exactly the sort of lightweight VM that they are describing - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs
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by JStanton617 4y ago
For those unfamiliar, the rumor is that Ferrari was somehow detecting the sample rate of the fuel flow sensor (which is a black-box provided by FIA and standard across all the cars), and increasing the flow rate only when the sensor "w
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by JStanton617 5y ago
EFS allows you to connect to the filesystem from multiple web front-end machines. Doing the same with EBS would require you to manage some sort of clustered filesystem, or run a separate storage tier server.
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by JStanton617 5y ago
https://www.avsforum.com/
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by JStanton617 6y ago
OPNSense (the pfSense fork) is using the userland version. pfSense 2.5 is using this kernel code - https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-5-0.ht... "pfSense® Plus software version 21.
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by JStanton617 6y ago
Yes. The code you're running is described as having "random sleeps added to “fix” race conditions, validation functions that just returned true, catastrophic cryptographic vulnerabilities, whole parts of the protocol unimplemented
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by JStanton617 8y ago
Or just some annoyed passengers with a roll of toilet paper? https://imgur.com/gallery/0b4wF3V
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by JStanton617 8y ago
You mean this thing they just introduced yesterday? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-predictive-scaling-for-...
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by JStanton617 8y ago
“There’s a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
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by JStanton617 8y ago
Harder by orders of magnitude: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
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by JStanton617 8y ago
There are other ways, but why are they better? He says it out loud, other people can chime in and improve the idea, the Thai gov't sees it without him having to work his way up through a bureaucracy to find someone who can do something
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by JStanton617 8y ago
So Intel tried to shut *BSD out of the process again (like they did for the original Spectre/Meltdown) so they didn't feel they had to respect any embargo?
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by JStanton617 9y ago
https://twitter.com/en/tos : "You understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis." and "The Twitter Entities make no warranty or representation and discl
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by JStanton617 10y ago
This is exactly what an ad network is
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by JStanton617 10y ago
It does not work OK at all. Try being in any dense area such as an urban apartment building. There are 30 networks I can see on all 11 wifi channels. Its totally unusable.
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by JStanton617 11y ago
React has a non-open license: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS , which basically says that an organization can no longer use React once it sues Facebook for any (unrelated) patent inf
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by JStanton617 11y ago
Try $230
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by JStanton617 12y ago
This is 100% ripped off from http://blog.chartbeat.com/2013/08/12/scroll-behavior-across-...

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