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by atrettel 2y ago
The US federal government already have smart cards for IDs for federal employees and contractors [1]. The technology exists. It is just a matter of implementation and political will. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Perhaps the SSN is not the sole authentication mechanism, but it is often the most critical. For example, I have recently have had to call Equifax, and they authenticate you over the phone using your SSN, first number in your address, an
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by atrettel 2y ago
> The breach at National Public Data may not be the worst data breach ever. But it does present yet another opportunity for this country’s leaders to acknowledge that the SSN has completely failed as a measure of authentication or author
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by atrettel 2y ago
If you want to avoid that, there are a few thing that you can try. I have had some success getting around various credit bureaus' "can't confirm your identity" blocks by trying a different web browser, or turning off my
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by atrettel 2y ago
The issues with Matias's build quality are one of the reasons I actually just went and bought a used Apple Standard Keyboard, one of the predecessors for the Extended Keyboard as described in the article. I'm typing on it right n
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by atrettel 2y ago
I have been arguing for a while that we need to implement some sort of public-key cryptography system for identity verification. It's the obvious solution, though admittedly implementing it will take a lot of effort. But it would at
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by atrettel 2y ago
Location: Los Alamos, NM, US Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in person Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (especially SQLite) Rés
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by atrettel 2y ago
I hesitate to recommend getting a PhD as a general recommendation for all researchers, but I will say that I learned so much during my own PhD that I would never have learned otherwise. One problem with self-directed learning is that you t
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by atrettel 2y ago
I've done the same thing for the subject that I did my PhD in, and oh boy is the result weird. It is somewhat right at a high level but most of the low-level details are wrong at worst or confused at best. The explanation is incredib
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by atrettel 2y ago
I agree that it would be difficult to build a turbojet engine completely from scratch --- that is, you build every single component yourself --- but you can take some off-the-shelf components and hack together a working jet engine if you kn
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by atrettel 2y ago
Location: Los Alamos, NM, US Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in person Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (especially SQLite) Rés
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by atrettel 2y ago
Starting with just the motions in Vim is a good start if you want to take the time to learn Vim. It gets you used to modal editing without going too deeply into it. That said, the article focuses too much on the fact that using Vim makes y
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That's a great example of this kind of problem. People are pragmatic and take the jobs that are available, even if that it's not what they originally planned for or what would be more helpful. I've done the same myself a fe
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by atrettel 2y ago
Your post reminded me of some thoughts I've had about a similar topic over the last few years. I'm a scientist, and I've often thought about how the work I and others would do would be different in different funding environme
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by atrettel 2y ago
The document does appear to exist in several libraries according to WorldCat [1], though the list is quite small. This entry explicitly lists the publisher as "International Business Machines Corp., Boca Raton, Fla., 1983", so it
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by atrettel 2y ago
I already largely watch YouTube through RSS feeds to find the videos and yt-dlp to download them locally. Ads injected straight into the stream will be annoying, but still just as easy to skip as the sponsored content sections of videos.
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by atrettel 2y ago
Yes, this is not a new term. It's not hard to find earlier examples of the term "social media slop" to refer to endless posts on social media. A simple Google search for this reveals many examples of this particular term be
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by atrettel 2y ago
I'd rather they admit a mistake and learn a lesson from it even if it isn't a good thing to advertise. That said, I agree that you are identifying a more important issue here but I also think you are being a bit too subtle about
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by atrettel 2y ago
Similarly, vectorizing some code doesn't always speed things up. I'm dealing with this problem at work right now. Sometimes complicated loops are pretty well optimized already! That said, vectorization can often make things eas
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by atrettel 2y ago
Location: Los Alamos, NM, US Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in person (depends on location) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (
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by atrettel 2y ago
What you are talking about is a variation of Schlieren photography [1] or shadowgraph [2]. I'm no expert in these kind of experimental techniques, but you are correct in that they can identify regions of turbulence. A problem is that
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by atrettel 2y ago
This is not nearly as odd as it may seem to some people. Many federal agencies and DOE national laboratories use a similar procedure to this by issuing you separate temporary devices while on international travel. That basically requires
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by atrettel 2y ago
LANL might disagree given that they just unveiled a new supercomputer with NVIDIA chips [1]. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was even at the unveiling. [1] https://ladailypost.com/los-alamos-national-laboratory-unvei...
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by atrettel 2y ago
Location: Los Alamos, NM, US Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in person (depends on location) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (
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by atrettel 3y ago
Location: Los Alamos, NM, US Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in person (depends on location) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (
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by atrettel 3y ago
I've had roughly that same application:interview:offer ratio for the last 5 years. It's made me realize that it's a numbers game too. I've gotten comments from colleagues about how putting out a hundred applications see
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by atrettel 3y ago
Location: Los Alamos, NM, US Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in person (depends on location) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (
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by atrettel 3y ago
In my experience, requesting the reports in the mail is the only guaranteed way that I can get my full credit reports. The website sometimes works, but I often get an error for my Experian report that says that "A condition exists tha
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by atrettel 3y ago
I totally agree that many mathematicians omit steps and make it really hard to follow what they are doing. As with most advanced subjects, what comes off as "obvious" to experts isn't always obvious to others (sometimes call
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by atrettel 3y ago
Well, yes and no. Most of my past employers only allowed VPN access for remote work, so the networks are in fact different. And I have had an employer that actually issued employees "SOHO" routers (routers always logged into the

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