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by blantonl 5y ago
Katrina was not a cat 5 when it made landfall
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by blantonl 5y ago
This is a neat concept - especially considering they are autonomous. However, I wonder about these risk scenarios: 1) Weather. Moving at 35 mph it seems that a lot of long term planning is in order for something that could be severely imp
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by blantonl 5y ago
The fact we're talking about it here makes me think it's been communicated just fine.
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by blantonl 5y ago
Problem is you might show up on the radar when you exchange Bitcoin or Fiat for Monero.
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by blantonl 5y ago
Don't forget collections of low and mid-level staffers who really get work done who maintain connections back to the military/political industrial complex who collectively become invaluable to organizations.
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by blantonl 5y ago
Another major set of products facing this same predicament are home security systems with cellular backup modems. Quite a few of them were deployed with 3G modules that will be useless after this year, requiring mass module replacements.
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by blantonl 5y ago
The hair on my neck still stands up when thinking about dealing with Oracle (and Sun) contracting, purchasing, and sales teams in the 90's.
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by blantonl 5y ago
The next interesting step for drug dealers will be last mile of delivery of product to customers. Imagine coupling a Web app with a swarm of drones that can drop product on your back porch in a matter of minutes. You can bet it's comin
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by blantonl 5y ago
The source code is here, so run it yourself. https://github.com/bndw/wifi-card
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by blantonl 5y ago
I'm not saying they owe me anything, they're offering it to me, I'm just taking it. No you are not. If you are deploying proxy containered services on cloud computing hosts orchestrated by yourself to circumvent mechanisms
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by blantonl 5y ago
no business is under any obligation to provide you access to their data and services for you to build a business on top of. If you feel that the owner of data or services maintains an illegal monopoly over that data, work to lobby governmen
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by blantonl 5y ago
Unpopular opinion around here, but scraping Web pages is often unethical, and the scourge of many Web developers and infrastructure managers. For Christ sakes people, develop your own products! If you have to develop and use a cloud based
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by blantonl 5y ago
A power company vehicle drives around the neighborhood, collecting the values, storing them and moves on. Actually, most is collected now via Internet connected reception points typically installed on traffic lights and electrical poles s
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by blantonl 5y ago
Snotel is a 9 khz channel bandwidth, BPSK data at 4000 bits per second
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by blantonl 5y ago
A very active tropo scatter system still in use today is the SNOTEL network, which are snow level and precipitation sensors spread all throughout very remote and mountainous terrain in the Western US and Canada. They operate on 40.67 MHz ar
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by blantonl 5y ago
I would probably venture to say that the 2021 iMac is also an outstanding and very capable developer workstation for 95% of developers out there. Now, I know this will illicit dismayed responses from the other 5% who want 256GB of RAM, or a
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by blantonl 5y ago
The value of cryptocurrencies is currently comprised of just a 3 components: 1) Speculation 2) Electricity 3) Compute There's going to be volatility.
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by blantonl 5y ago
This really brings back memories (no pun intended) of getting a computer shopper and thumbing through the THOUSANDS of computer part vendors in the 80's and 90's and their ads It was a really sublime time to be alive in the PC ind
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by blantonl 5y ago
for nation states and interested parties, these seem like trivial restrictions considering the value of now having a deployed mobile mesh network of 1 billion + devices available for free.
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by blantonl 5y ago
There is no way a 5 year old wrote this poem: The burden of myself Has grown impossible to bear Although rather than slip further Down this mountain of despair I will simply cry for help And hope an angel hears my plea Or I’ll
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by blantonl 5y ago
FYI, if you are like me that has no idea what FLoC is until now, please see: https://github.com/WICG/floc
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by blantonl 5y ago
I see this perspective somewhat in reverse. I watch TV for the content, not how nice the remote is or how solid the box feels when I hook up the HDMI connection. Granted, there are some objective measurements between different devices, suc
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by blantonl 6y ago
Let this be a lesson to developers of MVPs. No matter what, use Unix timestamps for times and then account for time accordingly using libraries that have done this heavy lifting for you. It's easy to just use local timestamps out of th
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by blantonl 6y ago
I think investors over the past year have grown so accustomed to something new and shiny and revolutionary coming every week to get excited about that they've forgotten that making money in markets successfully is about a long term f
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by blantonl 6y ago
I wonder if this incident was the result of the plane being in storage for an extended amount of time and recently returning to service. These Aircraft are designed to be in flight constantly maximizing revenue. With the pandemic groundi
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by blantonl 6y ago
The stock has had a 25% run up to earnings in the past month. It's a classic buy the rumor sell the news. Here's your opportunity to buy the dip.
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by blantonl 6y ago
to catch the ones that were invariably missed due to optical illusions etc.
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by blantonl 6y ago
given the amount of regulatory gates you must pass through to purchase a car (license, registration etc), I doubt that criminals are going to use Bitcoin payments for criminal services to purchase a car. They are far more likely to convert
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by blantonl 6y ago
I think the limitation is based on repeater and laser-pump equipment to repeat the signal along the length of the cable run. I suspect that the repeaters and associated power equipment along the line is pretty big stuff. So the fact that t
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by blantonl 6y ago
Volatility earns hedge funds huge returns. There are a very select few retail investors that really made a lot of money from this hype. There were a TON of professional traders that probably thought this was like shooting fish in a barrel.

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