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by ajford 6y ago
Pasteurization via heating the entire machine to a high temp and holding for some time is likely the simplest you can get. No need for cleaning solutions, flushing, etc. Simply heat the thing up for a few hours. As for duration, that's
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by ajford 6y ago
300MB boot partition for Windows! Oh how far we've come...
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by ajford 6y ago
Ha! I was referring to a self-hosted password manager. I looked at keepass some long time ago (in internet time anyways, likely 4ish years ago), and after starting to get things hooked up and trying to demo it for the spouse, I realized tha
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by ajford 6y ago
Playing devil's advocate here, but the service fee (at least to my mind) is more for the maintenance & upkeep of the infra. I'd gladly move to self-hosting if it was only me. But after a few months, I was able to convince my w
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by ajford 6y ago
Not everyone lives in ideal situations either. Where I grew up, it wasn't unheard of for individuals by themselves or with a stroller to be attacked and mugged or worse. If you were going to go into old down-town to the plaza or walk t
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by ajford 6y ago
Steam isn't a platform, it's an alternate app store. The Platform is PC/Mac/Linux. And they each have their own native app store. PC has the Microsoft Store, Mac has the App Store, and Linux has it's own distro repo
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by ajford 6y ago
So much this! For all my notes, communications, and such I use YYYY-MM-DD. Only when dealing with the public (or non-technical family members) do I use more colloquial date formats, and then whenever possible I use something like Jan 2 2021
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by ajford 6y ago
The second result on Google for "ESP8266" is the Wikipedia page, which clearly elaborates what it is. It's a basic 32bit RISC microcontroller, generally running at 80MHz, with built-in WiFi support. They're often availab
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by ajford 6y ago
But they're the ones that took out local file system storage for your project files. If they didn't push you into using their cloud, they wouldn't have to store our documents. No, that was the gateway into being able to pull
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by ajford 6y ago
The entire disk (all 10s of GBs of it) was cloned and backed up as a disk image, and can be re-imaged whenever necessary. The data is copied off daily via floppy (don't get me started...) and is backed up on local network shares. The s
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by ajford 6y ago
Exactly. I believe someone tried investigating a solution to use a modern system and either perform some kind of pass through to a Win95 VM or some such magic, and it ultimately came down to needing to re-implement either the driver or the
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by ajford 6y ago
When I left? Around 2016. I'm almost certain that '95 machine is still sitting in the Clock Room to this day. Man, I miss Angel, gotta shoot him an email sometime soon. Miss sitting around and chatting about ham radio with him!
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by ajford 6y ago
The ISA board was a custom interface to a number of GPS receivers and some IO chips for time sync calibration and tracking for Pulsar astronomy. And yes, this is the one that recently suffered a cable failure that damaged the reflector.
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by ajford 6y ago
Um.... All electrolytics eventually go bad as the electrolyte solution dries out eventually. Re-capping retro computers and radio gear from the 70s through the 90s is very much a thing. That being said, electrolytics were somewhat less comm
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by ajford 6y ago
Failure seems to be on management for not allowing the people with families to flex their work schedule and work outside of normal hours. Or is this a specific example where the individuals are not able to perform their duties outside a spe
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by ajford 6y ago
Being able to work full time while kids attend school isn't a privilege, it's often a necessity, at least in many parts of the US. Until relatively recently, supporting my family of four required both my partner and I to work full
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by ajford 6y ago
So it might depend on the individual and company in question, but not everyone is "loosing" time parenting, and in many cases the allowance they're seeking is the ability to flex their schedule so they can do something like a
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by ajford 6y ago
If you're really curious, hit my profile and email me. Always happy to chat about AO and the fun stuff there. I was there for about 3 years and left around 2016. It was one of the best and most interesting places I've worked at so
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by ajford 6y ago
IIRC, the machine was on an isolated equipment network with no external access for some time, but the network drivers would often cause some kind of conflict with the ISA interface card (and custom driver) so the network interface was disab
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by ajford 6y ago
It works yes, but they were running out of spare parts when I left. That system's parts were on frequent Ebay searches, as it was becoming quite fragile. I think it was on a 3rd power supply and a second mobo or proc, can't quite
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by ajford 6y ago
That's where you need buy-in from management. One of my past employers had a presentation series like that above, and if you were scheduled next, it _was_ considered work that you were responsible for, and counted towards more or less
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by ajford 6y ago
When I was still working at Arecibo Observatory, there was definitely a couple systems running Win95 that were considered data critical. And they were still running on ~486 hardware IIRC. They hadn't been replaced as they were running
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by ajford 6y ago
Build vs Buy is a very individual decision that should be based on your team and your product. At my last employer, we used a free tier of CI/CD through CircleCI as it was sufficient enough and easy to spin up for testing a couple of s
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by ajford 6y ago
At my current employer, the common pattern is a TLDR of the problem as the initiator, then thread your more elaborate description. Though we also usually have private team channels and separate support channels for a team in our Slack. I.e.
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by ajford 6y ago
This! I struggled with this topic in university. I was studying pulsar astronomy, and there was only one or two common tools used at the lower levels of data processing, and had been the same tools used for a couple of decades. The software
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by ajford 6y ago
The parent comment was talking about educational lectures, like in classroom settings. When I was in college, online ed was just taking off at my campus, and I took one CS class with online lectures. It was quite useful to be able to go bac
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by ajford 6y ago
If they ultimately watch the videos later, what difference does it make whether they watch it live. In my opinion, having a lecture recorded is a wonderful boon, as you can go back and rewatch a section if it wasn't clear the first tim
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by ajford 6y ago
Are you talking about a Pi Zero? That can totally run a desktop environment and browser. Especially something light like XFCE or Enlightenment.
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by ajford 6y ago
This! So many people attribute this "failed attempt" to bad parenting or stunted development and fail to realize it is only the natural progression of development. Children (and adults) learn from their interactions with items, be
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by ajford 6y ago
It sounds pretty cool, but that keyboard layout looks atrocious.

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