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by ajford 10y ago
> "hey, let's shut down the entire country during August" Puerto Rico does this with all schools & daycare. From the middle of July to the middle of August almost everywhere is closed. If you don't have family on
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by ajford 10y ago
Out of curiosity, why is yards a WTF unit? It's within the realm of a meter (~10% smaller), and as far as I've seen, about the distance of a large gait. That's how my father and grandfather taught me how to estimate large dis
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by ajford 10y ago
The problem is that budgets for science are controlled by the relatively uneducated (as is seemingly the case for most legislators), at least when it relates to the fields of science. And they are often easily swayed by unreviewed and unve
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by ajford 10y ago
I agree on the propriety of data for a limited time. I worked in the field of Radio Astronomy, and it was common to have a two year period where the data was private to the Primary Investigator (and co-investigators/consortium). I thin
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by ajford 10y ago
And this is why so many people pirate. I pay for these services, and get no notification. I feel justified as long as it's on one of the services I pay for (Amazon, Netflix, Hulu), since I don't feel like having to remember which
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by ajford 10y ago
Have you considered using Gitlab? I really like GitHub, but can't justify the prices right now (just starting out in my career). But while Gitlab isn't as popular, or maybe quite as polished (though it's getting there fast),
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by ajford 10y ago
I hadn't come across stow before. I might integrate that into my dotfiles. Right now I use a bash script I wrote to deploy my dotfiles into ~/, via symlink, including renaming existing files (after prompting the user). I get what
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by ajford 10y ago
Thanks for that! I've been looking at picking up some old PowerEdge units, and never thought of that!
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by ajford 10y ago
If you are in a decent metro (or near to one) check out Craigslist. I've seen quad-core Xeon boxen (HP Proliant and Dell Poweredge) for <200USD in my area. If I drive about 2 hours away, the prices are about 30% lower and about twic
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by ajford 10y ago
There is a bit of antiquated rules, but yeah most of them have their reasons. The whole point behind it amateur radio is to promote technology and communications, as well as provide an emergency backbone and fallback that the government doe
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by ajford 10y ago
Well, don't forget that the article talks about the Pebble Core, which is the screen-less processing module on the new Pebble Kickstarter. There is no direct manipulation (other than the two buttons on the device) or feedback. It is in
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by ajford 10y ago
Problem is, Craigslist is full of spam/scams. It's hard to filter through, and takes time and effort. Not something I want to do via mobile at $arbitrary_time when I may or may not be in a hurry. And decentralizing eliminates one
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by ajford 11y ago
Any chance you feel up to sharing? I've been wanting to get into Android dev work, but I'm staunchly a CLI guy, and I've had a hard time trying to figure out the IDEs Google keeps pushing out. Not to mention the obscene sizes
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by ajford 11y ago
My 2014 X1 Carbon runs perfectly fine on Debian Wheezy, Jessie, and Testing. Also ran Linux Mint on it (forgot version, circa late 2014). Not a single problem, from touchpad to sleep mode to wifi. Even saw better battery life.
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by ajford 11y ago
I have uBlock Origin, and it was as simple as right-click>Block Element and selecting the suggestion of amazon_echo_animation_ .gif The filter for the curious: ||www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-amazon-echo/amazon_ech
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by ajford 11y ago
Short of large hardcover books, I can't say I've ever read two-handed. Perhaps I have larger than normal hands. but every book I've ever owned (and most books I've checked out from various libraries) I read one handed. I
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by ajford 11y ago
I'd love a 4ish inch ebook reader. My pet peeve with my Kindle is that it's not something I can take with me without carrying my bag. I'd love something I could stick in my back pocket or cargo pocket and read while I'm
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by ajford 11y ago
So I recently encountered this. I used to think I was ok at navigating, but whenever I got into an unfamiliar area, I had a hard time navigating using maps and street signs. But I have lived in Puerto Rico for 2.5 years now. Cell coverage a
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by ajford 11y ago
I think he was alluding to the constitutional right to privacy, which is something we do have. The number of people in the car (i.e. whether another passenger could have been using the phone) shouldn't affect whether you have the right
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by ajford 11y ago
I use Git and a markdown file. I keep a repo on all my systems that track a Gitlab repo (any Git repo would work). This repo contains a primary ToDo file with an overall list. When necessary, I spawn dedicated lists for specific projects or
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by ajford 11y ago
If the NSA had any reason to listen in on your conversations, nothing will stop them. It's just as easy to point a laser microphone at any window in your home, or simply planting a bug in your home.
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by ajford 11y ago
It'll be interesting to see what this becomes. Because most of this is(was?) part of Pocoo.org, which IIRC was Ronacher's site as well. Hope this doesn't mean Ronacher's abandoning these projects, he's been a great
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by ajford 11y ago
Out of curiosity, why weren't they running the metadata drive in a mirroring raid? If you have PB of data, wouldn't it make sense to spend the ~$100 for a second 3TB drive to mirror your metadata? Or was the inode problem not a lo
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by ajford 11y ago
The faculty wasn't very good. Some of them may have been OK at implementing the things they taught, but most of them seemed to follow the "if you can't do, teach" philosophy. Had an argument with one of the faculty membe
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by ajford 11y ago
It really depends on the quality of the CC and it's faculty. I was a Physics major attending a branch university that merged with the local community college. The Phys dept was fantastic, though a single focus. The CS department was a
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by ajford 11y ago
Do you want Skynet? This sounds like the start of Skynet...
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by ajford 11y ago
Part of it comes from the fact that a lot of institutions require continuous publication by their faculty/research staff. If you don't publish because you're focusing on a long term paper, it can look bad on you during annua
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by ajford 11y ago
They resolve this in the show. Carter mentions the rough ride and cold was due to their home-grown dialing program and instabilities in the wormhole. Further tweaks result in the improved travel comfort.
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by ajford 11y ago
I always wondered why he suddenly becomes allergic to citrus. In one of his first appearances on SG1, he invites Carter to the cafeteria, mentioning that they have lemon chicken, with excitement. If I'm not mistaken, it's not unti
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by ajford 11y ago
As a former physicist and LaTeX user, I find it hilarious that you refer to any others as "half-assed markup languages that never quite works as you want". I've found myself spending way too much time recompiling my LaTeX doc

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