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by derekp7 5y ago
I'm using a TOTP authentication, are they taking that away? Because TOTP doesn't require a phone.
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by derekp7 5y ago
You don't need a mobile phone for TOTP -- you can do it from a shell script and openssl. Many security keys support storing TOTP built in, and Google also supports the various security key protocols (FIDO2 I think is the current versi
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by derekp7 5y ago
I would love to know how to reach out to a development community with long-term discussions where I can discuss ideas I'm working on for various open source projects. I feel like I can work on something in a vacuum for months, make a
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by derekp7 5y ago
The biggest issue from what I can see is the lack of time / skill / willingness for most people / families to do their own food preparation from base ingredients. So what you end up with is prepackaged or restaurant-served f
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by derekp7 5y ago
The big thing with power for me is phones and other similar devices. I have one phone that supports a quick charge capability, but I need not only their power brick but also their USB cable (something about a pull up resistor that signals
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by derekp7 5y ago
It would be really nice if that was the case. However when you pick up a USB C cable, you can't tell if it is suitable for a particular purpose because there are so many optional features in the spec. Data transfer speed, PD, Display
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by derekp7 5y ago
On the first day of showing up at a dream job (compared to what I had before, and after terminating my employment with the previous job), you sit for the whole first day going through new hire orientation. Along with a big stack of paperwo
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by derekp7 5y ago
If I'm sitting at my desk I have my phone on the desk instead of in my pocket. It gets annoying have to pick it up to hit the fingerprint reader on the back when I fire up the 2-factor auth app.
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by derekp7 5y ago
The contributor could fully believe that they have the rights to the code, because they wrote it using their own computer resources, on their own time (on vacation, etc). However a number of organizations claim ownership over all IP create
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by derekp7 5y ago
I'm having a difficult time processing that last statement. The fact that the car is moving will cause the stationary object in front to be changing relative to the car. Although I'm sure that statement refers to an object chang
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How does that work out for a single taxi driver and customers calling them directly? They may be on the other side of town and get 5 calls at the same time, leaving most of their customers without service. Or more likely, customers will w
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by derekp7 5y ago
And loss of career momentum.
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The problem I have is if there are multiple projects I can work on, I have a difficult time figuring out which one I'd get the most enjoyment out of working on right now. Part of that is because there are parts of programming or desig
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by derekp7 5y ago
I wish I could work for anyone that I wanted to. The hurdle is acquiring the skills needed for that job, often years before you can get the job (in which case those skill may no longer be relevant). Secondly you need credentials. A prer
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by derekp7 5y ago
A big item is making sure your filesystem partition is aligned properly. For example, by default the first partition begins on sector 63, which causes logical 4K blocks to straddle two different write blocks on the drive (causing both bloc
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Pulse width modulation. Instead of sending less power to lower the brightness, it turns the power on and off rapidly.
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Because sometimes the clever code may be easier to understand by an experienced developer even if it is less accessible to a less experienced developer. Non-coding example: "Two plus Three times Five" is easy to understand, becau
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by derekp7 5y ago
I've been using Linux as my primary desktop since the early 90's. I used to dual boot as needed, then switched to Windows in a VM, but now I will RDP into a Windows server at work if I need to run a business app. But for the mos
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by derekp7 5y ago
> One can't argue with precise calculations. I would have rounded off, however the numbers change quite a bit with small changes (according to the random online bicycle wattage calculator I was using).
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by derekp7 5y ago
Your typical high output pedaling will produce about 100 watts of power, which for your weight will get you about 13 miles per hour. Pedaling hard with a 250 watt motor should get you around 23 mph.
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by derekp7 5y ago
In that Reddit thread (assuming it is the one I'm thinking of) it seems there is also a high likelihood you get sued for giving people money because you didn't give them enough (under the same line of thought that if you regularly
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by derekp7 5y ago
A lot of it depends on the balance of the car too. I used to drive a 92 Cougar that was rear wheel drive, and a number of times I had to help get a front-wheel drive car out of the snow where mine didn't have any issues.
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by derekp7 5y ago
That would be the Motorola Museum at the Galvin Center (which was their employee training facility). Whenever I went there for my 6-sigma or 5-nines training, I'd take a stroll through the museum and thought it was cool, but sad that
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by derekp7 5y ago
So that Harvard facility -- from what I heard (when I worked for Moto) was that it was built for the main purpose to give to one of the Galvin family members to manage. They built it as an engineering and manufacturing center, and was expe
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by derekp7 5y ago
How many hours of driving is the break-even for flying? 7 hours would be cutting it close, considering transportation to/from the airport, security, and waiting for boarding and post arrival. Personally my cutoff is driving long enou
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I still think of a car as an investment, although you don't get your return from selling it. You get it from using it. Compare the depreciation + fuel + insurance with the cost of a monthly train and bus pass and occasional cab/
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by derekp7 5y ago
This is fine if the question relates to something that the candidate is familiar with. But I have personally never set foot in a 747, much less be able to come up with any estimate of the dimensions in order to estimate volume. Then there
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by derekp7 5y ago
I like to draw an analogy to slide rules. A typical slide rule has a precision of about 3 - 4 significant digits (it gets worse at the higher end of the scale, better at the lower end). To get another digit out of it, you need one 10 time
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by derekp7 5y ago
So it was essentially a cross-licensing deal that allowed other automakers to use Tesla charging tech (did this include other Tesla-owned patents?), but the others would effectively have to license their entire patent portfolio to Tesla (ca
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by derekp7 5y ago
If you have solar power, you sometimes generate more electricity than you use. You can sell that power to the local power distributor, or store it in a battery. Both have efficiency loss issues (you may only get wholesale from the power c

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