JorgeGT

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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> these certificates are stupidly expensive for what they do Not everywhere, in my country you can get them for free, from institutional CAs included in the EU Trusted Lists that Adobe trusts: https://ec.europa.eu/digital
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
If I remember correctly SubtitleEdit ( https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit ) had such a tool for removing the hearing-impaired bits.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
At least for non-commercial use, Mathematica for the Raspberry Pi is free! https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
I can confirm it works for the Spanish site.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> A domain just for developers > Can I buy a .dev domain even if I'm not a developer? > Yes! From tools to platforms, programming languages to blogs, .dev is a home for all the interesting things that you build.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
This is usually called salami slicing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing See also the boiling frog fable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Pan Am's Clippers were basically modeled after the luxury trains of the era, divided in compartments with seats that could be converted into bunks, and a common dining lounge: https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/defau
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
I interpret that after reaching peak absurdity, the reputation of the whole discipline was tarnished and its practice abandoned, even if (applied reasonably) it was really an useful discipline. I think there are many current examples of thi
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
As a researcher, I've always loved this 1946 one-paragraph short story by Borges about the blind obsession some people develops for models: . . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Makes sense, I've seen mostly only high-voltage maps, not MV. Cool examples [warning, big PDFs!] include: * Continental europe: https://docstore.entsoe.eu/Documents/Publications/maps/2018/... * Spai
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
I find much more crazy that your party allegiance comes out, and that those records can be harvested by apps to harass your friends/family/employees etc.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
The following quote is perhaps telling, in it Azaña, (president of the Republic) tells Negrín (prime minister, overseeing the evacuation due to the civil war) that: > The Prado Museum is more important for Spain than the Monarchy and th
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
I found surprising that shorthand compresses enough of the writing to resist statistical techniques, knowing approximately the corpus of language that the theologian would have used, and the source material he would usually quote from.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
The way the system is implemented in Spain (not all sites use it sadly) is simply like 2FA, when you attempt to make the purchase the bank sends a sms or notification through their app with a code you need to input to confirm the order. Or
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> probably most, do not Indeed, as a rule of thumb ius soli is found mainly in American countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Or do like Philip Roth and have the New Yorker publish your Wikipedia rebuttals: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-t...
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
It was Gamow who included Bethe's the name when sending the manuscript. Alpher, who was his PhD student, was not pleased at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpher%E2%80%93Bethe%E2%80%93G...
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Here's a NASA technical note specifically about Apollo mission radiation, in Table 1 you can find the radiation measured for each mission. Then again, no major solar flares happened during the missions. In table 2, the rules that were
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Not only the quality of the system itself, people forgot the documentation! I still use my father's TEAC AX-55 MkII amplifier: the service manual includes full PCB printouts, block diagrams, schematics, and component list with all the
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
I've had the same experience when my ISP put me behind a CGNAT: the port table got reset every other day, and some other customer could have taken the port you wanted at that point, applications with ports hardcoded over number 2000 di
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Finland is the heir of the Roman Empire though: https://i.imgur.com/eNuUdTd.png
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
This reminds me of Aerial Bold: http://type.aerial-bold.com/tw/
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
"Orange's CGNAT, at least better than our compromised CPE" is certainly catchy PR.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
I specifically requested (and got) to be outside their CG-NAT. It worked horribly (the ports got reset every other day, and some other customer could have taken the port you wanted at that point) and some applications with ports hardcoded o
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Searching for the vulnerability address one can find this from 2012 in fact: https://www.heyrick.co.uk/blog/index.php?diary=20120905&keit...
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20181223120225/https://badpacket... I have one of these routers, excuse me while I panic/check the vulnerability. Edit: Checked. It sure leaks the password in pl
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> then why on earth should I trust any other story from you. Gell-Mann amnesia [1] is rapidly disappearing as people has access to broader information channels. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_eff
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
The inner part of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, said to contain rivers of mercury depicting the rivers of China, etc., is still unopened: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emper...
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> You could get a person to space with a small sounding rocket the size of a telephone pole. This is in fact the goal of Copenhagen Suborbitals: https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/missions/spica/
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Sooo many hours with that orbit simulator in Encarta 96 [1] and here I am now, assistant professor in Aerospace Engineering... ---- [1] https://youtu.be/Hy9R41Rord0?t=60

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