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by cdjk 13y ago
That's what my ISP does. What's worse is that sometimes their dns servers fail intermittently (something to do with fragmented packets and retrying DNS queries in TCP mode). It did take a while to figure out what was causing the
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by cdjk 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the costco benefits are fairly good for hourly warehouse employees. Here's the first reference I found: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/12/08/costco-whol...
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by cdjk 13y ago
I wonder why they're not using a secret sharing algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing It would reduce the complexity of encrypting the data encryption key multiple times with each pair of keys, an
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by cdjk 13y ago
I'm a fan of pfsense: http://pfsense.org/ It might be a little more complicated than a standard consumer-grade router, but it's powerful enough to do almost anything. It's based on FreeBSD and has a reasonab
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by cdjk 13y ago
Here's an article about it if you don't to watch the video: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/syracuse_airp... It sounds like it's an electronic one-way gate to exit the secur
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by cdjk 13y ago
The parallel arrangement takes a little getting used to. I switched to a Kinesis Advantage, which has parallel keys, and it took me about a month to get up to speed with it - and another month to get comfortable on a "normal" key
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by cdjk 13y ago
The entity that leases the car does get the benefit - but then passes it on to the consumer in lower monthly payments.
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by cdjk 13y ago
The situation with electric cars is a little more complicated , as there's a $7500 tax credit for them. If I lease an electric car I can get the full value of that $7500 over the 2 or 3 year lease. If I buy it, that value is spread out
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by cdjk 13y ago
To be more precise, Facebook knows hash(random_salt, facebook_password), and could do a check on the actual facebook_password when a user logs in, but I assume that it's not stored. Everyone knows encrypt(key, adobe_password), since t
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by cdjk 13y ago
How is Facebook getting the plaintext passwords to compare to their hashed user passwords? Since the passwords are 3DES encrypted, only adobe should be able to do that. They could just be using email addresses, but that seems rather blunt.
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by cdjk 13y ago
You should take a look at Plan 9. Everything is a file, and service are implemented as file servers - including the windowing system (rio). Some of the ideas are available in Plan 9 from User Space.
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by cdjk 13y ago
Don't give up on DNSSEC just yet. You can use DLV (DNSSEC Look-aside Validation) if your registrar doesn't support it yet: https://dlv.isc.org/
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by cdjk 13y ago
Mounted police are surprisingly effective. They're highly visible (you noticed them on your way home, for example). They're useful for crowd control, as the officer is above the crowds. And being chased by an officer on horseba
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by cdjk 13y ago
I think I disagree. For energy density, gasoline is hard to beat. And I'm not convinced that catalytic wood stoves are that bad, without doing more research.
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by cdjk 13y ago
We have a fireplace. It's our primary source of heat. It's efficient, however - an EPA approved catalytic model. The smoke from the chimney is very light, and once it's burning dissipates very quickly. Plenty of stoves&#x
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by cdjk 13y ago
That's exciting, and something I might be interested in. My question and concern, however, is that Tahoe-LAFS seems better suited for distributed storage among unreliable nodes. I consider rsync.net to be fairly durable storage, espe
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by cdjk 13y ago
I'm not sure how easy it would be to store git repos on Tahoe-LAFS, but there are two other options - 1) duplicity has native support for Tahoe-LAFS as a backend, or 2) use git-annex with a special remote [1]. [1] http://git
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by cdjk 13y ago
I'm curious about the paper backups - how do they do it, what's their recovery procedure, and have restores been tested?
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by cdjk 13y ago
How did you get to do that? That must have been an amazing experience.
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by cdjk 13y ago
I think there is some value in multiple-rep olympic lifts, but technique still has to be the most important thing. Rippetoe's starting strength program is 3x5 for all the lifts except power cleans, which are 5x3. Going much over a se
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by cdjk 13y ago
I am thankful for crossfit because it introduced me to powerlifting. But I quickly realized I liked the strength portions a lot more than the AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) and other timed workouts. The official line is "you'
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by cdjk 13y ago
I always figured if there was a serious claim to that area that Egypt and Sudan would be pretty quick to work out their differences.
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by cdjk 13y ago
I think the primary advantage is that ZFS collapses all the standard filesystem abstractions. With mdadm or hardware raid you have a raid controller (which could be mdadm), volume manager (i.e. lvm), and filesystem (ext4, xfs, etc). ZFS c
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by cdjk 13y ago
ZFS has the notion of version numbers - for both the zpool and filesystem. The last FOSS releases are zpool 28 and zfs 5. There have been subsequent releases of ZFS by Oracle, but versions 28 and 5 are the latest used by all the open sour
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by cdjk 13y ago
I was thinking about that article too - I've read it a couple times, and it's always interesting. Reading about things like this makes me question whether I should call myself a software engineer or programmer - somehow what I do
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by cdjk 13y ago
Prospective study was probably not the correct term, since that's an epidemiological study. "Placebo controlled study" is probably a better term. And a placebo controlled study is the best evidence for a medical treatment - d
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by cdjk 13y ago
War and Peace, Anna Karenina, any recent book by Neal Stephenson - those are all much more pleasant on a kindle than in paper form.
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by cdjk 13y ago
The hardware upgrade doesn't look that impressive - I'm happy with the current papewhite. The pageflip UI looks like it could be useful, as that's one of the few UI complaints I have with the kindle. Personally I find the Fr
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by cdjk 13y ago
Only one of the circles on the charger matters (I'm at the office now so I can't check it). It's actually really easy to clean that off with your finger, and that's the only thing that matters in terms of holding it on.
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by cdjk 13y ago
Uh, no. Risk aversion is rational. It seems like you're equating rationality with risk neutral preferences, which I, and a lot of other people disagree with. Besides, it's all about risk preference. As long as my preferences ar

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