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by dano 2y ago
Diversity Equity and Inclusion
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by dano 2y ago
This is a great piece of software that I use under Linux and MacOS
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by dano 2y ago
The San Diego Rowing Club has an Ambient Weather WS-2902 weather station and live camera feed [1] and the details of how we collect, process, and present the data. [2] If one clicks on the static image you'll get a live feed. The stati
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by dano 2y ago
Let us not miss one of my favorite Just So Stories, The Cat That Walked by Himself [1] or as narrated by Sterling Holloway [2] 1. https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/79/just-so-stories/1296/the-cat-t... 2. https
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by dano 2y ago
https://archive.is/DtA6T
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by dano 2y ago
Back in 1999 while at MP3.com it was common for people outside of engineering to complain about speed when they were at home. In the office we had 1G symmetric (that was lot 25 yrs ago!) between the office and primary DC. I tied to explain
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by dano 2y ago
This is a worthwhile read. Grief is really not as cut and dried as it's sometimes made out to be. As Lewis came around to understanding, and perhaps Feynman too, we had something special, something grand, and to remember is comforting.
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by dano 2y ago
This! I was stunned by the quality and availability of good coffee down under. I figured it was a tea culture and wasn't that a mile of the mark.
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by dano 2y ago
The article doesn't state the exact number of tests skipped or falsified, but the headline is misleading. It isn't 787 tests, it is tests on 787 model aircraft.
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by dano 3y ago
It would not be a surprise to see HQ move back to Washington and of the potential replacements, Shanahan started his career at BA as an engineer. [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Shanahan
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by dano 3y ago
MP3.com made mechanical copies without permission. Pretty black & white. Vivendi Universal acquired the company for $372 million in 2002 mostly because they were interested in moving forward with digital distribution. The MP3.com engine
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by dano 3y ago
Position statement on 'Controlled Digital Lending' (CDL) [1] is an interesting read. Within it there is the clause "Because there is no directly analogous case on point, this Statement offers a more detailed explanation of ho
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by dano 3y ago
Hubris in the area of copyright is not new [1] nor novel. It is unfortunate that we (me too) fail to learn from the path trodden by others. There are things about US Copyright law that are quite over the top [2] that should be repealed or f
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by dano 3y ago
I'm on a list or two that are run through https://groups.io/ and it works well. I also run a few private mailing lists on mailman and am loath to ever apply patches to that machine - it is complicated to set up, but wo
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by dano 3y ago
The RadioLab episodes about Zoozve are great fun
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by dano 3y ago
My favorite bit of irony.
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by dano 3y ago
“Tiffany has one thing in stock that you cannot buy of him for as much money as you may offer; he will only give it to you. And that is one of his boxes.” — The New York Evening Sun, 1899 Receiving or buying an Apple product comes in a box
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by dano 3y ago
USB port only? No Ethernet?
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by dano 3y ago
As my long ago roommate from Long Island stated as she opened the pizza box to find ham & pineapple "That's not a pizza! You don't put fruit on a pizza." We're still good friends to this day.
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by dano 3y ago
Yes, I have some Swiss friends who wish I would use Threema, I politely declined and we've agreed to use Signal. After a while it becomes difficult to distinguish the difference between these applications with the noteable exception of
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by dano 3y ago
A primary difference is that cats were introduced into environments as a non-native species and have become the apex predator. This is especially true in New Zealand and Australia. Unlike native carnivorous mammals such as the Tasmanian Dev
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by dano 3y ago
As part of fixing security problems 20+ years ago we put together a migration process that included cracking passwords. First off we created an interface for updating your password and that interface essentially ran through all the tests th
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by dano 3y ago
Posted just a few moments ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38337395
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by dano 3y ago
I visited Cruachan in 2019 by happenstance. It is really cool! I'm going to look for the Star Wars tie in - the architecture certainly does fit the theme. You can watch a Pathe video on Royal Opening of the dam and power station here
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by dano 3y ago
Firefox needs to make Profiles a first class UI function. Yes, I understand that Firefox has containers, but I loath explaining containers to non-technical people. Chrome and Safari Profiles are much easier to use.
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by dano 3y ago
Running your own resolver that points directly to root servers is also an option. https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/ It isn't too complicated to set up and provides faster responses than extern
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by dano 3y ago
This would be useful for Google Workspaces if it respected all of the ACL's across shared google drives. To be able to ask questions about the document repository would be a nice thing to have. Currently Bard isn't supported for W
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by dano 3y ago
Yes. When rented Fri and Sat evenings it's a party house. Rented by the week to families is okay. Source: the house next to me is a short term rental.
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by dano 3y ago
A capacity utilization study of housing in major metropolitan areas with an gap analysis would lead to better planning of new construction.
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by dano 3y ago
Here are some driving factors for this change: - tenants have asked for it because they never seem to have the right amount of change - banks are declining to accept unrolled coins - better accounting between owners and property managers

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