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by dwyerm 9y ago
Amazon has an eerily cultish dedication to customer privacy. The phrase "work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust" is practically line one of their principles[1]. Amazon appears to be under the belief that retaining custome
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by dwyerm 9y ago
IBM did a lot of the early research in my hometown on cosmic ray errors. It essentially said that you were 5x more likely to see single bit errors in Boulder, Colorado than NYC, and ten times more likely in Leadville, Colorado. It was mostl
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I suspect there are some restaurants who are just now finding out what that mandatory binding arbitration and class action waiver clause in Opentable's terms[1] really means, today. On the other hand, there's an Opentable lawyer w
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by dwyerm 9y ago
By the way, if you're looking for a replacement for Opera, there are still options for the look and feel, even if not the internal tech features. I stopped using the Big O pretty much when Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner did. He went on t
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I am the tiniest bit disappointed that Mosfet didn't have three legs.
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by dwyerm 9y ago
Sure, but now you've got the problem I've been dealing with day-to-day: You need to launch your code using a specific version of the interpreter that has been pre-loaded with all the specific versions of the libraries that you nee
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I second this. Because it keeps forever and is relatively small, I keep it around in the medicine cabinet. If you've ever had a guest lose a fight with a Norovirus, you appreciate having some of it right at hand. By the way, the Amazon
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by dwyerm 9y ago
It drove me a little bit crazy to hear a mom complaining about how she couldn't find sugar-free Pedialyte for her child. It is difficult to explain that to a person who has spent their whole adult life demonizing artificial colors, art
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by dwyerm 9y ago
Yes, but resolving this might be a case where the cure is worse than the disease. Take Colchicine for example, which is one of the first medicines ever . It was cheap and plentiful, and thousands of people used it daily to help control go
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by dwyerm 9y ago
vDSL is what changed to make the speeds higher, but although it got a little better, it seems like the distances are still pretty limited. I suspect that the DSLAMs have become smaller and cheaper, so that you can push those out of the cen
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by dwyerm 9y ago
You don't even have to boil it, technically. Most pathogens die at a much lower temperature, given enough time. For what it is worth, our backwoods trip had us looking for clear, running water that had a small amount of green stuff gr
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by dwyerm 9y ago
"Aging profile" is a really good point. Especially since LEDs generally don't burn out, but just get dimmer and dimmer. You might need to remind yourself to replace them someday even if you don't notice a problem. I had
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by dwyerm 9y ago
There's an interesting middle ground forming, though: First-Quality Third-Party. I would not want to buy a first-party charger because I think they're way too expensive. However, I'm also not going to just buy the least expen
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I think that all NSAIDs (like naproxen and ibuprofen) chew holes through your stomach lining, and a whole class of them were yanked from the market for causing heart attacks[1]. (But, yeah, naproxen seems to be one of the safest ones...) [1
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I noticed RTD had new buses last time I was there. I recall that the original TransTeq EcoMark buses were very progressive for their time. If I remember the story correctly, RTD couldn't find a company that built the right bus for them
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that they do. They're parametric speakers, like the 'Soundlazer[1]', that use a very loud ultrasonic carrier and make audible sound from the interference between the beams of ultrasonics. Even when an par
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I would add a recommendation for Peter Hook's book, "How Not To Run A Club" as a cautionary tale. In it, he's talking about how to run a dance club, but the things he mentioned impacting his club were the same as those t
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by dwyerm 9y ago
The end of the article talking about where the actual doors are reminds me a problem that we had to solve in a previous job: finding your way ON to the road network. Take this address, for instance: "9901 Grant St, Thornton, CO 80229&q
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by dwyerm 9y ago
You might really enjoy this blog, then. The author has been watching both the decline and advancement of radio of the last few decades. It was interesting to see these big-iron transmitters being replaced by half-a-rack of solid state gear,
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I think you're probably right. I was fully expecting to be billed, especially when the tech ended up climbing under my desk. Normally, they draw a bright line at the dmarc. But I cynically wonder if it didn't have something to do
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by dwyerm 9y ago
That hard "if" really bothers me, too. My phone has the FM receiver unlocked, but the software will not allow it to be turned on unless there is something plugged into the headphone jack (which my phone is also progressive enough
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I got quite a sense of whiplash just in the first page of the article. It is an article from Japan Times, with a leading photo from California, over a byline from Toronto, about an attack on equipment from a French firm in a site in Saudi A
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I had the same experience, except it was my fault. I crimped a cable poorly. But I had no idea anything was wrong. I didn't even bother testing it because it Just Worked. The phone company (Centurylink) just one day called me, "He
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I'm just surprised that anyone can have this discussion without mentioning the Pontiac Aztek, which allegedly was designed to tick all the most-requested feature boxes, but ended up being... the Aztek. Or you end up in Zune territory w
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I worked in a mixed shop, and when my Linux box showed the BSOD screensaver, my Windows-aligned co-worker helpfully rebooted my machine for me.
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by dwyerm 9y ago
Fair warning: Jamie doesn't appreciate the discourse this crowd brings to his site. Visit this URL without a referrer for the best results.
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by dwyerm 9y ago
I've been doing ecommerce for years, and I think one of the best-kept secrets of the industry is that their fulfillment systems exist. Even inside of the company, the warehouse guys seem like they're second-class citizens. But I t
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by dwyerm 9y ago
The actual enforcement action notice is at the link below. The FCC does not mess around. They started at $42k, but were 'nice' and offered him a 25% discount because he voluntarily relinquished the jammer. https://app
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by dwyerm 9y ago
It's it kind of funny... one of the first home-brew CV projects I ever saw was an engineer's system that would unlock the cat flap door when it detected the cat's silhouette. A desirable side effect is that it would not open
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by dwyerm 9y ago
The colorblind community is not impressed with the new set of colors. They appear to be coupling the colors with reasonably clear symbols, so it might not be too bad. Still, if you're trying to communicate data through color, you can&

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