Steltek

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811.
by Steltek 6y ago
Wow, thanks for that video down memory lane. I had a 3660 (friends called it the "communications brick"). There was no wifi and I couldn't afford a data plan but I was able to have the phone dialup via Bluetooth (think &quot
812.
by Steltek 6y ago
Careful, there's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix. Github is changing the default branch name for new repos. New repos tend to have the most fresh eyes and agility. It shouldn't hurt too bad.
813.
by Steltek 6y ago
You may have missed GP's point. Microsoft is casts a very wide net, running on a huge array of hardware and trying to do everything from mobile to console gaming to datacenter servers. The dev experience is equally diverse: you don&
814.
by Steltek 6y ago
It may be banned by UCI for the excessive risk. They like to make a lot of rules, like how high your socks can be pulled up.
815.
by Steltek 6y ago
The short answer is that it's a huge mess and very different everywhere. Any gov layer could be collecting taxes or not. You could have sales tax, or not. You could have property tax, or not. You could have excise tax, or not. You
816.
by Steltek 6y ago
Already done. We're talking about "the next gen" and it's still dodgey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daeB46Z4fjs
817.
by Steltek 6y ago
Motorist fatalities are down. Pedestrian fatalities have doubled since 2010. (I think that year is right...).
818.
by Steltek 6y ago
You're of course correct but I also think you greatly overestimate the number of people willing to even put up with PGP, let alone sign their tweets with it.
819.
by Steltek 7y ago
scp and sftp will multiplex too. Remote tab-completion for file transfers also becomes much more approachable this way. scp remote:~/err[tab] .[enter] Also, bastion connections get multiplexed as well so connecting to multiple differe
820.
by Steltek 7y ago
Coffee rituals are a mixed bag of "truths" and preferences. Here's why I believe AP doesn't need those things and a pour over does: Blooming is mostly to remove gas pockets from the bed of coffee so water can reach all
821.
by Steltek 7y ago
There's no way pour over is less fiddly than an AeroPress. Timing blooms, gooseneck kettle only so you can gently apply water evenly, and having to sit the whole thing on a scale so you can measure how much water you've really ad
822.
by Steltek 7y ago
I'm the only coffee drinker in the house and I love my AeroPress: * It's fast * It's foolproof * It makes good quality coffee * It's camping friendly All of the tedium and unforced errors of pour over coffee disappears:
823.
by Steltek 7y ago
How could it not be cheaper? No molds (or just one bezel mold), far less industrial design, fewer individual wires. Not to mention the QA requirements for testing buttons vs a virtual screen.
824.
by Steltek 7y ago
Except tools may not themselves break but cheap tools can break other things. Cheap wrenches will strip hex bolts on bikes, for instance. Buy Wera hex-plus at a premium but do the job right right.
825.
by Steltek 7y ago
Did Vancouver's experience result in a shift in transportation priorities long term? Or after the Olympics, were people eager to go back to the prior status quo?
826.
by Steltek 7y ago
Sure but an e-bike is allowing one to replace a car, not a bike. In that case, L1500 is a steal.
827.
by Steltek 7y ago
It's amusing to consider the common wisdom that restaurants are a tough, low margin business yet make up so many of the eldest companies. Even if you exceed some threshold to make it to maturity, you'd think the statistics on sur
828.
by Steltek 7y ago
Can this be more simply achieved using the "KexAlgorithms" and "MACs" config settings for /etc/ssh/sshd_config and ~/.ssh/config ?
829.
by Steltek 7y ago
At the same time, a lot of modern security discussion is centered around the user being tricked or guided into making mistakes or that it's hard to differentiate between a user or a malicious program. For example, forcing automatic upd
830.
by Steltek 7y ago
I feel like this is a broadly applicable human phenomenon akin to Isaac Aasimov's "Psychohistory" in the Foundation series. It also feels easy enough to capture that someone's already done the research on it.
831.
by Steltek 7y ago
I think he's barking up the wrong tree. The problem isn't "movie set urbanism", it's just boring, old "too much parking". Too much parking creates sparseness which reduces walkability. But putting parki
832.
by Steltek 7y ago
Palm Pilot debuted in 1996?
833.
by Steltek 7y ago
I like to think of systemd as a family of related projects meant to absorb all the triviality in a Linux system and push it to the mental background. I've long since stopped caring about anacron (and meticulously managed cron job stdo
834.
by Steltek 7y ago
Force page refresh? I've seen some interesting behavior with uMatrix before regarding browser caching.
835.
by Steltek 7y ago
Exactly, before Google, FB, and Apple, there was IBM, HP, and MS. IMO, what's hampering Silicon Valley innovation right now is the outrageous cost of living. It's hard to take a leap when you have a million dollar mortgage. Star
836.
by Steltek 7y ago
Didn't Facebook also want native app access so they could work around OS limits like background processing via shady stuff like leaving the microphone on? I prefer webapps for security reasons because of Facebook's checkered hist
837.
by Steltek 7y ago
I felt this rather acutely at work where I was strongarmed into giving up my Linux desktop for a MacBook. When I ask how a Mac-loving coworker solved a OS problem, I'm met with blank stares as if they've never recognized it as a
838.
by Steltek 7y ago
Wasn't the PS3 refund only like $10-$20? Why even go through that effort for a Chromebook?
839.
by Steltek 7y ago
Right, I've experienced being a passenger in a Tesla. It's impressive but completely unnecessary to go get some groceries. Doing jackrabbit starts and stops on normal roads is going to have an impact to your mileage, just as if i
840.
by Steltek 7y ago
I don't drive an electric car but my first thought was that, wouldn't this extend the battery range as well? The talk about being more powerful than gas is just a clever marketing ploy.

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