bmir-alum-007

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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Purpose, or keeping busy at a minimum, is a tentpole of avoiding depression... even if it were seemingly "busywork."
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Playdoh-like formable silicone rubber(sugru.com)
1 points by bmir-alum-007 11y ago|0 comments
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Caps blow by thermal runaway when they get too old (far out of spec) or are run out of spec. Was repair attempted it or was it just thrown away? Things can look cooked, but they're often easily repairable. Far too often, most consume
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Pretty silly to take things way too seriously and hate on a decent hypothetical gaming opportunity, don't you think? With perfect security hygiene, more things are attainable. But an even more perfect crime is hedging both sides of an
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata) was recently shown to contain substances as effective as DEET. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierochloe_odorata
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Not news. Snapchat has what's important: Panama canals of recurrent eyeballs. They can roll out freemium, ads and ecosystem platform apps and monetize easily. They'd rather grow a bit before tinkering too much and putting off u
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Seems simpler to just backdoor the linker/library archiver, that way almost all toolchains are backdoored. ;)
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
How many people will now try to file fraudulent tax returns and claim their identity was stolen in the hack?
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Srsly. It's one thing to build a prototype, another to bring costs down to profitability, uniform yield up and processes optimized. WTTW: Such folks are better off calling McKinsey, they will send a 7'5" Brit ex-physicist wh
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Yeah, they're very different properties. Supercapacitors deliver a ton of power but hold a small fraction of the energy of a similar li-po battery.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
This and supercapacitors blur the "lines" of technologies of batteries and capacitors. I hope they can boost the power greater than li-po. Btw: Here's a capacitor lifetime calculator with equations. http://www.i
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
The primary corp site http://www.ball.com is currently down. https://web.archive.org/web/20150721173555/http://www.ball.c...
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Soda cans and satellites(ballaerospace.com)
1 points by bmir-alum-007 11y ago|1 comments
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
They were ahead with App-V (Softricity, streamable apps which work offline in lieu of Citrix virtual desktop or Moka5 VMs), but the landscape on servers and VDI changed.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
It's a good thing CloudVolumes (aka SnapVolumes, basically VM-side volume unioning for VDI and server app containers a-la Softricity) sold to VMware when they did about 2 years ago. The core idea of app executables and libraries as op
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
The natural language processing is awesome. Good work, guys.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
A flyover details dialog via hover icon with a grid of micro thermobars colored accordingly would make sense, sorting would rock. Clicking the icon should pin the same info open into content to allow a quick comparison, but there proly sho
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Really cool. TL;DR: Resflash has some really useful features for real-world embedded use-cases. Having done embedded development (industrial packet radios), having an embedded firmward loader and fail-safe ROM are definitely major pluses fo
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
One of my friends likes node+mongo-based deployd [0] To me, it's just as easy/fast and more powerful to use RoR/Sinatra or Django/Flask from the get-go and for limiting longer-term tech-debt (migrating from one to the ot
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Nice! For larger sites, having a NAS/SAN setup with enough cheapo spinning-rust is a good way to consolidate onsite->offsite backups (using multiple providers). 0. Use backup agents for local boxes to make a compressed, encrypted b
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Sounds like userland is mostly perpetually backward-compatible. If so, that would be awesomesauce.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Having done this a few dozen times: A best practice is to ask the next new person to keep notes of obvious questions/unclear details to put in an internal, secure wiki. The issue, as founders, we often don't think about what is o
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Fault-tolerant backup architectures are cheaper and more reliable than depending on any one service, regardless of due-diligence outcome on them. Any shop of any sensible size/scale would mitigate risks accordingly, or risk losing all
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
What's the point? Tarsnap is modestly cheap and extremely secure, and there other backup services which are equally cheap and almost as secure. Use at least 2x services always, so Tarsnap going down or bust (heaven forbid) isn't
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Just use multiple services for HA, which is a SPOF of selecting any one service regardless, not specific to Tarsnap. Also, check out Tahoe LAFS. Nonproblem strawman solved. :)
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Ah cool. Adoption is like a stochastic transfer function with a dependent variable "modern usability." Speaking of usability, here's a patch to libfetch to ignore crusty ftp server non-RFC spurious responses https:/&#x
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
FreeBSD ip-172-x-x-x 10.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0 r286666: Wed Aug 12 19:31:38 UTC 2015 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Woohoo!
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Ah thanks. It happens this box was updated from 10.1 -p16 to -p17 recently. Generally, on most OSes/apps, smaller upgrade deltas = less breakage. Afterwards, folks may want to rebuild outdated ports to avoid stale shared libs from
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Btw, thanks for FreeBSD compat work for running on AWS/Xen, even if it might've been mostly to host Tarsnap on it. ;) It's possible to run a NetBSD Xen dom0 (host system) on bare metal, under VMware or Xen HVM: it takes a f
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Running this on our AWS sandbox ec2 instance after snapshotting it: freebsd-update fetch install && freebsd-update -r 10.2-RELEASE upgrade EDIT: Updates to 10.1-RELASE-p17 (currently) before upgrading

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