brianmwaters_hn

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by brianmwaters_hn 10y ago
The problem-solving aspect of climbing (esp. bouldering) is definitely one of the best parts. Very easy to get sucked "into it" once you get started.
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by brianmwaters_hn 10y ago
Totally anecdotal here, but I would not hesitate to wager that many climbers' grip strengths lie way outside the normal range. The sport has a higher grip exercise-to-cardiovascular exercise ratio (however you might measure that) than
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More Details Are Needed About the Burlington Electric Hack(brianmwaters.net)
1 points by brianmwaters_hn 10y ago|0 comments
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by brianmwaters_hn 10y ago
"Zero-day protection" is marketing-speak for what security engineers call "exploit mitigations." Of course they don't prevent exploits; they mitigate them. Pretty typical that the marketing term is an exaggeration o
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
Nick, (this is a reply to your post at the same nesting depth, as we're at the max here) We're pretty much on the same page on this whole thread, but consider the idea that perhaps the fact that it took so many years and thousands
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
So he's a "crotchety old guy" with an analogy relevant to just "one failed subject." You have absolutely no respect for your elders, do you? Also, the second sentence of your second paragraph makes no sense to me.
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
Hm, I agree that there's a lot scattered out there, but I hope that there's some room for exploration (and maybe specialization) somewhere in the noise. I actually have an interesting perspective on this, being completely self-tau
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
Totally agree with everything you're saying, but I would point out the the article is not about addressing a lay audience, it's about addressing network engineers who are supposedly lacking some historical/technical knowled
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
This is an attitude I see more and more of today, and I think it's unfortunate. The slides in question aren't "a pile of acronym data;" they're made of lingo that would be recognizable to anyone who works in the fie
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
For UT, the surface needs to be directly contacted with an instrument; but that's not all. First, insulation must be cut off and disposed of (properly). It's usually tin flashing covering some kind of insulating material. If the i
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
That is so cool. We're used to thinking of programming as a sort-of abstract job that is that takes a long time to do and gets deployed to everyone. It's really cool to hear about a programmer being able to make an on-the-spot ope
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
Okay, I used to actually do inspections on oil refineries and wind turbines using rope access techniques, so I think this is a good one for me to chime in on. In rope access, we like to pride ourselves on being the technology that can get t
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
It's called an "autoblock" by climbers today in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoblock
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
Yes. Among them, Vim, Bash, and OpenBSD, the latter of which supposedly has a very good reputation on security.
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
For the record, GNU's Not Unix.
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by brianmwaters_hn 11y ago
I think this is kind of antithetical to the Unix philosophy. If you add special exceptions for things like "rm -rf /" then you start to wonder, why not add exceptions for other dangerous things, like "find / -delete
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
Except by default, bash from the Ports tree gets but into /usr/local/bin/bash. An easy fix for users, but a better hashbang would be #!/usr/bin/env bash
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
Well, yeah, you can just pony up the cash and take the class. Your experience would be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUDob3m6rds - it's really technical, and really challenging. If you have the c
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
Watch out! That technique is really sketchy, and won't work if the rope goes over an edge (like the edge of the building). You also have the problem of a falling metal object that can smash windows, your head, or itself.
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
That, or rappelled on one strand and used a classic pull-through anchor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSGUPd6RKAM
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
There are a lot of companies that claim to do industrial rope access outside the scope of the certification programs, but be skeptical of them at first. (That doesn't include companies in other rope disciplines that are different from
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
Shameless plug for Randy Rackliff's packs out of North Conway, NH (the company is called Cold Cold World: http://www.coldcoldworldpacks.com/ ). They are hand-built, to custom order, in New Hampshire, weigh less than nam
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
I just got done with a three year "mini career" in industrial rope access, where I got to work on-rope on wind turbine blades, in oil refineries, on the sides of high-rise buildings, and even one job up in the rafters above a prof
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
Also, this article goes over "parallel construction" quite a lot. Although we've heard about it a lot in the past year, this leak shows how and what kind of data NSA is sharing with DEA, FBI, etc. It's even more importan
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
In Burlington (the smallest biggest city in any state), our local elections are between Democrats and Progressives. Republicans don't even make the ballot.
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
I can't believe noone has mentioned NRO and NGA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligen... Relatively less i
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SecureDrop(ssl.washingtonpost.com)
316 points by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago|95 comments
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
I think they're speaking more about the much less exciting form of network everyday network monitoring that goes on inside the enterprise - troubleshooting, performance tuning, etc. But you've got an interesting, if not a bit cyni
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
Well, it does say that a fog machine is used, so it looks like there aren't "real" clouds; at least not in the sense that they're overwhelmingly water vapor. Still cool though.
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by brianmwaters_hn 12y ago
This is a huge problem that's akin to "replacing HTML/JS." It's a non backward-compatible change that make the plugin nearly 100% useless for current PGP users. Obviously folks can generate new EC keys, but they wil

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