chris_mc

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by chris_mc 8y ago
Scheme was my favorite language in school back in 2006, but the only class I ever used it in was a class where we learned search algorithms and the like (it was either AI or Robotics). I was dismayed to find out there isn't a lot of so
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by chris_mc 8y ago
>if you have a 2nd box online For $1000 I get 2 boxes I can't use for anything else right now (and still not very reliable inside my home), whereas with Fastmail (for example) I can get an email service for 20 years @ $50/yr th
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by chris_mc 8y ago
That's basically uniform function call syntax. D and Nim use it and a few others.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
You know, I figured out what the problem was and it works now. I had setup FF Sync on a PC that didn't have U2F turned on yet.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Maybe I was looking in the wrong place, good to know, thanks.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Google has a new account setting called Advanced Protection. All it accepts is two hardware U2F keys (primary and backup) and your password. It supposedly makes your Google account pretty hardened. The only issue is that you can only use Ch
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Just this weekend, I setup a domain name, setup email, and setup apps and accounts to replace Google with open-source software and servers I control, generally (I use some 3rd party services that I feel I can trust, like Fastmail and Namech
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Part of the reason for the decrease is the increase in renewable energy. The vast majority of renewable energy technologies are or were supported by government subsidies to jump-start the industry. Most of those are tapering over the next d
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Then maybe they shouldn't shoot first and ask questions later.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
No, I shouldn't have to share more information to be treated like a human, the cops should be better trained.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Isn't this massively illegal? You're basically DoSing a network. Possibly theft as well!
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Anything the government uses that needs to be hardware-secure (like Secret or Top Secret network devices) are either manufactured in small batches in a secure location or it's totally airgapped so that any "additions" don&#x2
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Cradlepoint 4G modem/routers (several models) use the last/first 8 MAC address digits as the default password.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Poor truecrypt.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Everyone is talking about needing to control population, but according to current figures, the population will level our around 11b people around 2100. Check out www.gapminder.org for more info, but a lot of what people think about the worl
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by chris_mc 8y ago
The problem is that there's no alternative to "free plus ads or tracking" for most services. If I could pay a reasonable fee for all the content and services I need, I'd do it. I can do it some places, but other things j
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I found it was easy to write Nim coming from Python and doing a few tutorials I found around the web and some programming puzzles. The advanced features like macros, tempates, generics, etc. are harder to learn, but I haven't needed th
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by chris_mc 8y ago
It would change day to day, obviously, and my code wouldn't run sometimes. I guess I really meant I prefer stability in this case over new features.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I've been waiting for this for a while! I never could get `develop` to run.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Hacker News is full of capitalists and libertarians who hate any mention of alternative economic systems.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
>invest your retirement savings We would need to rework the whole system if we threw out the "constant growth" method of running a company. If we take care of the people so they don't have to worry about saving for ret
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Interesting. When I was in the US Naval Academy, I had a Camaroonean roommate that was going to go to the academy, then become an officer of his homeland's military. I wonder if the US military is still training Cameroonian officers to
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by chris_mc 8y ago
You mean if the minority in the heartland continue to exert an oversized influence due to representational bias in Congress? Maybe the heartland should realize that their days of being majority are over, both demographically and by proporti
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by chris_mc 8y ago
>in the 1970's
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by chris_mc 8y ago
It really pisses me off that you are down-voted for this as it's all extremely valid reasoning that makes sense. You get shit on because of who you are at your core every day you walk this Earth, and with this code of conduct they are
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by chris_mc 8y ago
She might be mentally ill and a shitty person... Also, sometimes you can have empathy, but can't personally handle someone. You have to do what's best for yourself, also.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
From 8 to 20 hours watchstanding, you're basically not watchstanding. It went like this: Hour 1: Fine Hour 2: Walk around a bit, then fine Hour 3-5: Jesus, I never should have joined the Navy Hour 6: I want to pull
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Don't think that's true, watchstanding positions are amongst the most mind numbing jobs that actually require your full attention. I stood watch in the Navy as officer of the deck in port, and I can truly say that 6 hour shift was
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by chris_mc 8y ago
If you read the article, they already proved that Facebook was selling illegal housing ads that were biased racially and they proved that a common parole software was also biased racially. I think it stands to reason there are plenty of oth
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by chris_mc 8y ago
They are held as examples at plenty of US military officer training programs, thankfully. I learned about this incident and Hugh Thompson at the USNA, where they drilled into our heads that morals, ethics, and the laws of war are absolute a

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