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by brians 7y ago
You’re restricted to relatively narrow bandwidth, and to no crypto. It’s great for experimenting with the radio tech, but not for designing the next WiFi. (But you can use unlicensed spectrum for that)
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by brians 7y ago
Yeah, and you also run the risk of breaking something important: your neighbor’s circuit breaker, or a nearby hospital pager system, for example. Power tools require care; you could know how to use them without the license, but if you do kn
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by brians 7y ago
By offering laminar rather than turbulent flow. Take a two lane highway where traffic moves at 100 kph. It contracts to one lane at 100kph. Humans will pull up close, stall in one lane, do a flaky and awful zipper merge. Latency will be hig
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by brians 7y ago
What happens from birds, soot, bugs, airplanes, frisbees, and clouds?
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by brians 7y ago
Yeah, but if it boosts your income by $50k, you’ll pay it back in 3. If you’re 37 now, and it’s paid off by 40, you’ll then have 25 or more years of $50k more a year. Let’s say you put that in a mattress, and so have an extra 1.25 million
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by brians 7y ago
They leave the valley, remember it as their time at a startup, and work decades at a non-tech firm.
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by brians 7y ago
I should take another look! I learn more by reading, and the ubiquitous PDF of course notes findable by DDGo is really something. Ubiquitous preprinted are amazing. But YouTube’s videos have helped me fix home appliances, fuse PVC, and pick
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by brians 7y ago
What’s worked in Ed-tech—ever? Bank street writer. It kept nascent computer classes from killing typing and made grading so much easier , saving the writing careers of many with poor handwriting. Logo: tens of millions of people have a lev
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by brians 7y ago
That’s not a strategy. It’s an observation. It’s an important observation! Now what do we do about it? Discounting carbon heavy industries is one move. How much? When will those heavy costs hit? My own preference is to start coffee farmin
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by brians 7y ago
It is difficult to tell decarbonization projects with high long term output from those that merely serve the social and identity preferences of executives
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by brians 7y ago
I’ve helped with that course in the past. It’s awesome. It’s completely unrelated to WAN networking. I found the IETF groups working on these problems more helpful.
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by brians 7y ago
I know about a couple of these. Some use very specific compression based on external knowledge—like that this is all office xml documents, with freedom to study the set of the last year’s documents. Some work by eliciting pessimal behavior
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by brians 7y ago
You don’t. But you don’t with PGP either: bad crypto primitive defaults, no header protection including From or Subject or Reply-to, bad typical UI showing up authenticated text/plain in with authenticated parts. The case where I stil
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by brians 7y ago
It seems like “delegation” is the idea that would most help build on this. I’ve had assessors tell me that I had only a single factor in the cookie on disk after an authentication process that involved TLS client certs and an off-device OTP
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by brians 7y ago
These are great for operators in an ops center or devs at workstations. They’re not enough for managers on email or execs traveling across interesting borders.
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by brians 7y ago
It’s nontrivial in the middle; it’s trivial as the last step because it involves no key material. I’m pretty suspicious of this approach for long messages, where you’ll have ECB-like problems—too many pairs that will survive the transpositi
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by brians 7y ago
Also fission. But there’s no way to get a quote that will go nookular from this.
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by brians 7y ago
Also, if this is coming from DoE data, medical withdrawals are subtracted from both the numerator and denominator—on the idea they would have happened anywhere. It’s definitely not the stress, the climate, or the concrete doing it. IHTFP.
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by brians 7y ago
Four years from date of enrollment, with negligible earnings, counts for a lot.
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by brians 7y ago
That’s over twenty years. So $100B/year. There are 0.3B of us. So that’s $3000 per person per year. That’s about what my employer pays for a BCBS elite HD-HSA PPO for my group of relatively young, affluent, healthy tech workers in Bost
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by brians 7y ago
Pity about the headline. There’s not a word in the text about revenge or about Jobs’ feelings about Sculley at all—though those are well detailed elsewhere. Are there other stories of people who had one fortune and went on to make another?
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by brians 7y ago
> ethical non-monogamy ... > partner upon discovering they are a practicing non-monogamist ... > ethical Nah.
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by brians 7y ago
TeXmacs is, weirdly, completely distinct from Emacs. Both are, er, macro bundles, in the sense that they’re an interpreter with an editor in it. TeXmacs is fine, but one difference is I can imagine laying an etherpad style coordination laye
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by brians 7y ago
Probably. Or AMD pulls another rabbit out and calls it $2500 in mid 2021.
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by brians 7y ago
Importantly, their funding is explicit and safe: VOA
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by brians 7y ago
I wonder what was measuring to that precision with such accuracy! It’s when I think about tolerances on the equipment that’s checking tolerances that I start getting dizzy and retreat to software for a bit.
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by brians 7y ago
It runs fine in ish.app
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by brians 7y ago
This is called “forms”. The people who are failing to do better do care—they just also see the limits of the work.
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by brians 7y ago
Some called it out at the time. Reginald Scot’s “Discoverie of Witchcraft” is quite readable today: skeptical, detailed, charitable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discoverie_of_Witchcraft
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by brians 7y ago
Could be, but there’s a reason to want cachable, proxyable errors here: they’re often very expensive for the origin.

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