bradstewart

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by bradstewart 4y ago
Yea this is how I try to think about. I mined a "bunch" back in 2011 or so, lost the hard drive with the keys on it in the years since, didn't really think about backing it up, because of course it's not worth anything
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by bradstewart 4y ago
That's probably at "full load" for your house though, no? If you're looking at an extended outage, you can alter your use patterns. I have a 5kW gasoline generator that most certainly cannot run the whole house, but in e
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Are the Blues much different from the Yellow Tops? I've been running Yellows in my Jeep due to the heavy electrical load from the winch--I've nearly drained the battery a few times having to winch myself out with the motor off--wi
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by bradstewart 4y ago
The crazy thing is Texas is also reasonably likely to have the same problems in the summer. ERCOT (the Texas grid) broke it's all time load record yesterday from the current heat wave. Thankfully it was windy, so everything held up..
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Oh man, I did something similar in class. In 4th grade (+/- a year). whitehouse.com (I don't know what it is now, but it was a porn site) instead of whitehouse.gov.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
> that encrypting an S3 bucket with an AWS-managed key doesn't really prevent anything beyond someone physically stealing a hard drive from the AWS data center It does, though. To get that data, you now need access to the bucket i
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Importing keys into an HSM/key storage device is not an uncommon exercise. If you're asking about the structure of the bits you'd need to move into the device in a verifiable way, there are standard APIs like PKCS #11 for int
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by bradstewart 4y ago
My anecdata seems to confirm this as well. We ordered ~30 Macbook Airs at work over the last 18 months or so (startup, so no actual IT department), and I didn't even know they only supported one monitor until a month ago when a new emp
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by bradstewart 4y ago
This is always a fun question, and a lot of it depends on the material/subject matter, but why not both? For things like math, science, and engineering--where the possible depth of knowledge and understanding far exceeds what could b
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Despite all of the narratives you'd read on HN, I honestly don't think the majority of "regular" people who helped drive the boom needed any story beyond "look how fast it's going up!". Hell, I'm also
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Also network cables. After spending days troubleshooting weird network issues a few too many times, I just toss the entire box of miscellaneous network cables in the attic every year or two. But capacitors are definitely the second most com
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by bradstewart 4y ago
As everyone else has said, build stuff. More specifically, I highly recommend Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial as a starting point. It does a fantastic job of helping you get your hands dirty with everything from the database through the
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by bradstewart 4y ago
I don't think OP is implying all time on the internet is wasted. Or that we are meant to always be productive. Speaking personally, I think all of the time I spent gaming and "hanging out" in specific internet/gaming c
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by bradstewart 4y ago
I generally agree with your don't "add much more on top of JS" sentiment, but I like .vue files. It's "just" HTML, CSS, and JS in one file, which I find convenient for components. But it's optional--you&#x
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by bradstewart 4y ago
They did realize it. The end game was that their suppliers would stop supplying to take more profit for themselves. So they the only thing they could and started producing content.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
It would indeed be nice if you could "cross sign", CA style, a new yubikey with an old one, and that would somehow get passed along to the various services. I have not thought about the various attack vectors that this may or ma
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Huh? Maybe there wasn't a officially-labeled "behavioral interview" on the schedule, but the vast majority of interviews I had with Google in the past included behavioral questions/discussions/etc.
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by bradstewart 4y ago
I do this with HomeAssistant. You can specify conditions before taking action, which can include "is this thing still in the state it was when the last automation ran".
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by bradstewart 4y ago
That is, more or less, the core idea of Red Bull's marketing strategy--one of the most successful marketing strategies ever. Is it so wrong to hype something for the sake of hyping it? I certainly get as much entertainment value out of
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Yea this Insteon debacle is a weird example to use to highlight problems with IoT systems. They've been around way longer than most of the "modern" protocols. It was basically Insteon and Lutron in semi-affordable home lighti
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by bradstewart 4y ago
Insteon devices function perfectly well without the cloud. I have several dozen of their light switches and motion sensors. The quality local communications (wireless that doesn't use 2.4GHz and interfere with WiFi + powerline) was the
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by bradstewart 5y ago
Ngrok has always been fantastic, and I'm excited to try this out! At a previous job, we were using them to provide remote access to embedded linux devices, deployed to flaky internet connections all over the place, and it worked flawle
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by bradstewart 5y ago
It's absolutely wild how loud modern sound systems get, even relatively small ones. I even bring earplugs to weddings at this point because the band is so incredibly loud (out of the amplified speakers).
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by bradstewart 5y ago
I've had a similar feeling about economists and their writings--that there's absolutely no way to glean "truth" or "fact" from them. They always seem to have reasons upon reasons why their predictions didn&#x27
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by bradstewart 5y ago
I don't know how many small companies are using Jamf, but they may lose some of that business. I doubt Apple is going to make Essentials powerful enough for medium-large companies though, so Jamf is likely ok for a while. Anecdotal, bu
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by bradstewart 5y ago
This has not been consistently true for me. Maybe for long-term stays (week+), but certainly not for for a day or two after adding in all of the cleaning fees, etc.
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by bradstewart 5y ago
Can confirm, same issues with SFP+ on my UDM-Pro. The software updates for this thing have been so bad the last year, incredibly buggy, it's infuriating. My current favorite was the update to the AP Pro APs that broke everything if you
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by bradstewart 5y ago
It seems to vary substantially for me. I'll get 2-3 spam calls a day for a week or two on my personal cell number, then nothing for several months, then they'll resume again. One of the most annoying incidents was when I get new
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by bradstewart 5y ago
But then what? Somebody still has to take the risk of actually burgling your house, getting passed the dog, alarm systems, lights, neighbors, etc. And if they're going to do that, it's quite likely easier to pop a window lock than
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by bradstewart 5y ago
Thank you for this. I have not been able to find a usable nozzle for any of my cans--they always break and/or leak everywhere.

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