dmckeon

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by dmckeon 12y ago
It seems like /r/vagabond is getting the "15 minutes of fame" treatment - this was last week's version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9403385 Check back in August or so to see if a moral pani
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by dmckeon 12y ago
I've been using https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere since 2011 (Firefox 3.6 back then) and only rarely see sites that serve a default page or stall with https. That's anecdata, but to get good data one would have
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by dmckeon 12y ago
To avoid the implicits: make --no-builtin-rules --no-builtin-variables at least as of: GNU Make 3.82 I think that at this point, with 37-some years worth of Makefiles on the planet, a competitive replacement for make with a different
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by dmckeon 12y ago
One of the key differences between Oklahoma & California earthquakes is the relative depth of quakes of significant magnitude. Quakes caused by tectonic plate interaction and those possibly caused by fluid injection may not be usefully
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The Two Cultures, 2.0(insidehighered.com)
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Cascading Failures: Earthquake Threats to Transportation and Utilities [SF Area](resilience.abag.ca.gov)
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by dmckeon 12y ago
You may want to re-evaluate - this was widely reported last month: >The State Department is still reportedly trying to block hacker access to its unclassified e-mail system more than three months after the intruders were first detected.
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by dmckeon 12y ago
The writer's belief that all racing is counterclockwise turns out to not be correct for horse racing, some auto racing, and even some long-duration foot racing. http://risaaustralia.blogspot.com/2012/12/why-ra
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by dmckeon 12y ago
For players in the minor leagues, trying to work their way to a spot in the show, the salary numbers are nowhere near as good: http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/players-sue-for-better... While major leaguers’ sala
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Note especially that the proposal is for "non-recreational operations" - FAA tends to make a big differentiation between commercial and private (recreational) activities. I read this proposal as being aimed at movie production, u
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" Hemingway famously said that the best way for a writer to deal with the movie business was to arrange a quick meeting at the California state line: 'You throw them your book, they throw you the money. Then you jump into your c
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by dmckeon 12y ago
So now social media is a platform for the continuation of war by other means?[0] This feels like a slippery slope potentially leading to a morass of misinformation and confusion, not only among the putative enemy but for all readers. [0]
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by dmckeon 12y ago
For most people, trying to find "patient zero" is doomed to be hard and fruitless - like the employees of a medium-sized company trying to figure out who brought a computer virus to work - too many possible vectors and not enough
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by dmckeon 12y ago
http://www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/ >One dose of MMR vaccine is approximately 93% effective at preventing measles; two doses are approximately 97% effective. Vaccination does not confer effective immunity in all th
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Thinking that through, we can expect post-collision inspections (by insurance companies or police) to include a dump of the state of the current code(s) in a vehicle as well as any available data from just before a collision - speed prof
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by dmckeon 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Similar to "Street names don't recur" - A named road will be continuous: a friend lives in a condominium, in one of a group of 8 buildings bounded by 3 fairly normal roads. There are 4 separate driveways between buildings l
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by dmckeon 12y ago
I think that the problem is not that the initiates use jargon, but that the jargon is appropriated and misused in wider contexts, either to over-simplify or to misdirect: > Concepts like “algorithm” have become sloppy shorthands, slang
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The Cathedral of Computation(theatlantic.com)
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by dmckeon 12y ago
In some ways he seems an opposite of Joshua Norton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton - speculator, philosopher, eccentric character.
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Torque sleep sounds like the electric motor equivalent of free-wheeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewheel
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by dmckeon 12y ago
You might want to copy some "dot" files from /etc/skel (or its moral equivalent for a specific OS) into the new $HOME , such as, for /bin/bash: .bash_logout , .bash_profile , .bashrc and/or similar for ot
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Baseball players.
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Now at the Sands Casino: An Iranian Hacker in Every Server(businessweek.com)
3 points by dmckeon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dmckeon 12y ago
No beautiful graphics, but the stacked graphs and draggable index line seem information rich: http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/Sunnyvale.html
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by dmckeon 12y ago
For retail, structuring sales so they do not involve crowds waiting to burst in when the doors open would suffice. The retailer would trade human safety for the shared sense of urgency of the "blitz" style sale. Synchronous event
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by dmckeon 12y ago
"Stranger" was published in 1961, 20 years before Reagan, but still has many good insights on social and political patterns in the US. For a more dated, but more detailed and insightful view by a stranger, try: https:/&#x2
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Among the choices of: a) minimize a current financial crisis b) avoid future financial crises c) penalize the law breakers responsible The feds have done fairly well on a), avoiding a complete collapse of depositor confiden
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Looks more like SCADA software than plans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Can anyone with knowledge of Citrix speak to this: > Because Boegly uses a Citrix application for payroll data, and “Citrix doesn’t like packet loss,” according to Boegly, the process was failing. ... > “Any time you have packet loss

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