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by dublin 7y ago
If you're OK with limiting your computer interactions to the 20th century, then yes, there's no reason not to run Linux directly. The most awesome thing about the WSL/Win10/Surface combo, though is that I get all the be
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by dublin 7y ago
No, on my iPhone, it will insist on downloading the update, and the ONLY way to stop it (as confirmed by the "geniuses" at the Austin Domain Apple Store) is to immediately go into storage management and delete the update. This
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by dublin 7y ago
This is what the ASME was formed for - to create standards for safe pressure vessels. At the time it was founded, there was just over one steam boiler explosion a week in the US...
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by dublin 7y ago
This is one of the best HN articles I've red in a long time - a fascinating look at a very well-developed infrastructure system in one of the most technologically advanced cities of its day.
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by dublin 7y ago
Location: Austin Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Only for exceptional opportunity Technologies: Many, both software and hardware Resume/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/dubdublin Experienced CTO for software and hard
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by dublin 7y ago
Actually, it's not just stationary masses, but it does apply only to things in linear motion - rotation is specifically excluded, as (IIRC) he makes clear in the appendix to his book on relativity...
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by dublin 8y ago
I had a SPARCstation Voyager for a while when I worked at Sun. One of the very first all-in-ones ever with a color LCD screen. (My "regular" Ultra2 desktop also had a couple of 24" HD monitors, which weighed more than a sac
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by dublin 8y ago
Little-known story about how this little box saved the shuttle program: When Dan Goldin took over NASA, he mandated that all of Mission Control would run on Windows NT. (This was back when the NT kernel was excellent, as it always had been
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Is the 737 MAX 8 showing that “We'll fix it in software” can be dangerous?(linkedin.com)
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Left to Their Own Devices, Pricing Algorithms Resort to Collusion(popularmechanics.com)
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by dublin 8y ago
Back when I worked at Chevron in the early 90s, I noticed that new SGI workstations were way faster NFS servers than anything else, even the Suns. It took me a bit in those days (Ethernet network analyzers were over $50K then, so hard to
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by dublin 8y ago
Actually, even though most connections are switched point-to-point these days, any properly functioning implementation (definitely up through 100Mbps) must still implement CSMA/CD. It's required for proper functioning of Ethernet
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by dublin 8y ago
Oddly, nothing has changed in the way God made the universe in the intervening years. Some things are timeless.
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by dublin 8y ago
Not only that, the very idea of clear, literate explanations is really a core part of the entire Internet ethos, heavily influenced by UNIX. (Read http://theody.net/elements.html - you'll be glad you did...) This was r
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by dublin 8y ago
Starting at Layer 7 is a fundamental mistake, because it perpetuates the execrable and obsolete OSI 7-layer model. Since IP protocols DO NOT map cleanly to the OSI model, trying to shoehorn IP into it causes more misunderstanding than anyt
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by dublin 8y ago
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but the answer to this, like most things in software development is, "It depends how you use them". They're wonderful if thought out, designed, and used properly, and a bloody nightmare if n
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by dublin 8y ago
Flask isn't bad, but as an absolute beginner, you might want to start with a "batteries included" web app platform like Web2Py. It's surprisingly good, and I've had teams use it as the basis for a fairly complex pr
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by dublin 8y ago
This is why we need tags and other metadata in the filesystem. (Windows actually supports this via alternate data streams, but very few apps and tools use it) Used to have an overview of this here: (archive.org might have a copy) http:&#
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by dublin 8y ago
Win10 makes it easy to automatically empty the Recycle Bin and Downloads (but sadly, not other locations). One major PITA is that Firefox does not use the standard Downloads folder/directory, but has its own. It's configurable,
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by dublin 8y ago
Mine's even uglier: Since disk storage grows much faster than my use of it, the last thing I do as I move to a new computer is to copy its entire hard disk to ~/archive/MachineName. (I do delete swap files since they're
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by dublin 8y ago
One thing I really liked in the old MacOS was that the Desktop wasn't really a location for files, it was just a place where you could move them to keep them handy to work on, and then use the "put away" command to send them
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by dublin 8y ago
OneNote is by far the best electronic note-taking and organizing tool out there, in spite of many glaring shortcomings. (e.g.: It really needs a way to tag things, as the full text search quickly becomes less useful as you pour more of yo
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by dublin 8y ago
Amen on getting rid of the H1Bs! Not only would doing soclear out the deadwood, the improvements in skills, capabilities, communication ability, and critical thinking would dramatically slash the true cost of software development.
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by dublin 8y ago
Last year, I took a contract leading a dev team at a top company here in Austin. The team, largely educated in India, said doing substantial ETL-like cleanup of the pipe-separated 15GB input file would take then about 3 days: 1 day to write
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by dublin 8y ago
Some anesthesiologists believe that, but there's really no solid evidence for it. The reality is that no one really knows how or why anesthetics work, we just know what generally does work. I was told this by an honest doc, who also
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by dublin 8y ago
Go read the requirements - HIPAA is really 90+% about disclosure and reporting of events that compromised private patient information. There is virtually nothing in HIPAA that is aimed at preventing privacy breaches in the first place. On
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by dublin 8y ago
Frequently, those are code words - for instance, at one hospital system I worked with, "quiet lady" might be used to describe a really slow, stupid woman, since they couldn't put "evidence of low intelligence, mental ret
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by dublin 8y ago
I trust a few (definitely not most) doctors with medical information about me. I trust no EMRs, ever. I've worked with too many of them and seen how they're abused. Security and privacy in healthcare are a joke, and I say tha
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by dublin 8y ago
Anyone who would ever consent to psychiatric care or treatment of any kind (especially pharma) should have their head examined! ;-) Seriously, the risks of seeking such care far outweigh the potential benefits in virtually every circum
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by dublin 8y ago
Let me know how that works out for you... Cats do a fair amount of environmental damage to birds and the like, but they also contribute to the natural order as food - my neighbor takes in strays, but never has many cats, as the (too few) r

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