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by brians 9y ago
It takes $50 in parts: half for a radio (new Baofeng, used Yaesu or Alinco), $10 for antenna parts for a “tape measure Yagi,” and $5 for a cable. The last $10 can buy some hot coffee for long nights of cold.
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by brians 9y ago
This is a great focusing question. There was a study a Few years about about which cities and suburbs could be built under their current zoning laws. I remember it showing that Somerville—a dense collection of 3-decker houses near Boston—w
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by brians 9y ago
I live in a place like that in Lexington, Mass. I commute by bicycle (or wimp out and drive in bad weather) about 8 miles. Two groceries, the elementary school, three preschools, an amazing cookie shop, three pizza places, and a fantastic
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by brians 9y ago
Rather than? Surely we have lots of direct literature. And, since this is so important, a portfolio addressing the issue in many ways.
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by brians 9y ago
That’s an important lesson to remember: allies here may be quite opposed over there. And, even to a racist New Englander, a Nazi thug is both detectable and disgusting.
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by brians 9y ago
I would look at org-brain: https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain I think this is also what Emacs-Muse is supposed to do, but I have never understood that program.
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by brians 9y ago
Of course you can do it on company time. What other time is there?
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by brians 9y ago
Guaranteeing English more years of life, albeit on death row, while appeals continue.
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by brians 9y ago
Surely if he knows you’re guilty, but they’ll never prove it, the question is more complicated?
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by brians 9y ago
I had a damaged slate roof. Bids to repair it, replacing most of it, were north of $100k. An asphalt roof with 30 year shingles was under $5k. Ten times isn’t enough. I have a slate roof now, and pay a few hundred a year for replacement o
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by brians 9y ago
I’m pretty sure I want a big searchable archive, though. That doesn’t seem compatible with most of these security-oriented message schemes.
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by brians 9y ago
You can’t fork a kernel thread. The hard part, and the value, of such an app would be a userspace fork() to a simulated thread.
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by brians 9y ago
It’s been discussed for years by people who didn’t need to see the exploit to know that it had to be there. Sane people have been avoiding timesharing for critical work on x86 since Core 2. Life-safety work has no business in a public cloud
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by brians 9y ago
IIRC, this fall’s i9 chips and the motherboards supporting them have software-unlockable features. You can literally buy more PCI lanes. Which is another way of saying you had those lanes, and Intel wanted more money before letting you use
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by brians 9y ago
ECC alone is absolutely insufficient. But ECC can be part of a system design that includes active monitoring and response. I’d expect that system design to also include measurement of ECC events under ordinary conditions, regular re-measu
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by brians 9y ago
No, but it’s straightforward engineering to prevent many of these problems. Error-correcting codes have been well understood for most of a century. Yes, it costs in performance and in money. For life-safety applications, it shouldn’t be
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by brians 9y ago
The author shows us how he felt, and tells us “this is what it’s like to like things.” But that doesn’t seem right at all. I like reading books, and I like watching some shows and playing video games. I’m not invested in owning them, or i
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by brians 9y ago
That’s true statically. Keeping that true with changes over time is HARD. For example, it matters that the non random blob never gets to see either the random input or the output.
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by brians 9y ago
You think a length two repeat in the most significant bits will hide from statistical tests? That doesn’t sound plausible to me. Can you show a good RNG for which this mutation passes tests?
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by brians 9y ago
Indeed, it’s not per minute. But measure the injuries from a year of car riding vs a year of rugby, and our collective decision to make autos part of daily life looks more interesting
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by brians 9y ago
Can you expand on what you see as the y-intercept for those cost functions? I think you’re assuming zero for attacker and defender. I can imagine arguments that the defender has a small positive y-intercept, and that makes all the differen
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by brians 9y ago
If that were true, we’d expect the nonunion carriers to do fantastically. But Frank Lorenzo has broken N unions and driven N airlines under. We’d expect the regional carriers, which often pay under $40k to pilots, to do great—but they fai
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by brians 9y ago
We will be happy to accept application for statehood from England. I expect Scotland to rejoin the EU. 󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿?
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by brians 9y ago
Sounds like a helicopter with a light pointed downwards.
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by brians 9y ago
That sounds consistent with something much larger and further away than you thought. Is it possible there was a blimp, further, higher, larger?
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by brians 9y ago
What reduction in bug rate should we expect for each, day, $100M invested?
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by brians 9y ago
This unveiling doesn’t commit to the shape of the product. It doesn’t describe technical details, like the processing power, number or spectrum of cameras, radios, anything. It doesn’t commit to a price range, like “under $1200”. What’s unv
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by brians 9y ago
You sound sure that’s a fixed camera. Is it possible it’s on a turret and tracking a distant target?
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by brians 9y ago
And yet so many RPN people are Lisp programmers the rest of the time. I guess it balances out.
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by brians 9y ago
Two reasons. With an algebraic system, I have to plan ahead and add open parentheses, or reorder, to do what I want. With a stack, I can always push/dup, then roll or pop back. It’s the same reason I like having function calls and a ca

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