camiller

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   by camiller 10y ago

   Samsung has/had a printer business???
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   by camiller 10y ago

   My tap water (Omaha, NE) is ok for most things including drinking, although in the spring the chlorine content goes way up. For drinking, my wife likes the pur filter in the fridge, but I use a special hot filtration process to improve the
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   by camiller 10y ago

   About 2-2.5 months ago I got tired of Windows 10's shenanigans and went full time Linux (Ubuntu MATE) on my personal laptop. Also installed a new SSD so my boot times are less than 15 seconds from cold to ready desktop including enteri
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   by camiller 10y ago

   Interesting read, although I'm slightly disappointed that there were no giant mutant ants after the "nuclear weapons bunker" tease in the headline.
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   by camiller 10y ago

   Well it is a colony "Down Under"
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   by camiller 10y ago

   rare earth magnets are not banned in the US per se. They are banned from children's toys. But I don't let my kids play with wire brushes either.
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   by camiller 10y ago

   Basically this is different from uber/lyft because it is trying to match you with someone already going to the same area, say on their normal commute. You are not just calling up a driver to get you from place to place. I can't he
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   by camiller 10y ago

   Never been there but as soon as I read the title of the post I knew (and confirmed reading the story): Bugs Bunny: Of course, if you really want to make something good, nothing beats a good old Louisiana Back-bay Bayou Bunny Bordelaise, a l
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   by camiller 10y ago

   Facetime/Facebook video chat/et. al. Granted it has some limitations that would prevent it from, at least initially, being a full competitor. I suspect that over time Google will flesh out it's features with either a web vers
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    by camiller 10y ago

    Well, I heard skype got rid of encryption, while this is encrypted end to end. You don't run this through your google account, only your phone number is needed to sign up. The new video protocol supposedly degrades better if you go som
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    by camiller 10y ago

    The hangouts-on-air live streaming was killed/moved to youtube. You can still do group video calls in hangouts, just not spin out a live stream for non-participant viewers.
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    by camiller 10y ago

    No, it lets the recipient of the call see the caller, so they can choose to answer or not. It does not let the caller see who they are calling before they answer. Also the tape on your laptop won't matter since it is phone only for now
13. 193.▲
    by camiller 10y ago

    My daughter uses facetime every evening talking to one or another of her girlfriends from high school. I think certain demographics will be more inclined to use it than others.
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    by camiller 10y ago

    I have a couple dozen. [username] and google's email service. I'm at work now so I might not get to requests until lunch or after work.
15. 195.▲
    by camiller 10y ago

    Exactly! It would be nice if keybase.io had a simple click this button to publish your public key to common key exchange servers. But it isn't that hard to do it manually.
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    by camiller 10y ago

    Odd, my battery life improved when I switched from Win10 to Ubuntu-MATE. Well, I guess I also replaced the HD with a SSD so that helped. But I have had pretty good battery life with the default install.
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    by camiller 10y ago

    Interesting, the last/only time I had to write code to determine delivery points was very early in my career (IBM mainframe COBOL) when postnet barcodes were a new thing and it was always just the last two digits of the street address.
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    by camiller 10y ago

    Arguably, if it is just for sorting/delivery we could simply use the last two digits of the "length" portion of the address. That would enable any delivery service to sort the mail within the city block and still have a human
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    by camiller 10y ago

    that might be insufficient for densely populated areas, perhaps an additional optional 4 digits?
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    by camiller 10y ago

    To the extent that a single address might be home to more than one person, shouldn't we pre-pend the name of the specified person to the address?
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    by camiller 10y ago

    Before my honeymoon in Barbados I read a travel guide. It was mentioned not to shelter under one during rain. I don't think the ones we saw were bearing fruit at the time. All of them were marked with a dark read stripe painted on them
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    by camiller 10y ago

    I'm not suggesting a cause/effect relationship here, but there is an interesting rough correlation between the map in the article and the red/blue political map... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states
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    by camiller 10y ago

    I posted this as a comment on the article, but I'll share here as well... This is kind of funny, but the methodology is suspect. For example, Lincoln Nebraska is a college dominated city so the result is no surprise, Omaha Nebraska has
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    by camiller 10y ago

    Back in the Apple ][+ days there was a copy protection scheme that depended on the spindle speed/timing of the old Apple ][ disk drive. The original would be recorded slightly off the proper speed, but still readable (unless the timing
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    by camiller 10y ago

    Thanks for posting this. Apparently some time in the last couple months (since the last time I checked) my bank added 2FA. Just went and activated it.
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    by camiller 10y ago

    I don't think that the article was about miscounts, otherwise it would equally be a problem for a 258 axle train that missed 2 axles. Since the article is describing a problem that occurs for multiples of 256 it is almost certainly a c
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    by camiller 10y ago

    yeah, but my point was that a mechanical counter of this nature would overflow counting 0-255 then wrapping around. So it would never get to 257. And the wheels I was referring would be in the counting mechanisim, I didn't say anything
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    by camiller 10y ago

    Why would you jump to the conclusion that this is a software implementation. I believe, based on the comments in the linked article that it is probably a electro-mechanical counter.
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    by camiller 10y ago

    257 would be impossible regardless 1,2,3,...,254,255,0,1,2,3... 1 byte. Although it is mentioned in the comments to the linked article that it is probably an electro-mechanical counter, so I am imagining a four wheel encoder with each wheel
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    by camiller 10y ago

    "...I love to project this at actual size onto my wall ..." you have a 40,000 light year wall in your house?