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by fizgig 11y ago
I recall that on the Dynix (Sequent?) and SunOS lab workstations back in college (early 90s), users' TTYs had pretty open permissions. One could echo a message and redirect directly to your buddy's TTY. Also good for blasting an
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by fizgig 11y ago
I think the argument is that if helmets are not mandated by law, more people will ride. If more people ride, that will raise more awareness of bikers and their safety in relation to motor vehicle drivers. Therefore, in aggregate, the safe
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by fizgig 11y ago
I was wondering about that. I set one of those up a few years ago on a breadboard. It was a fun project (for this non hardware guy) and somehow very satisfying to watch a "dead" AA power a bright blue LED for weeks. I wonder how
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by fizgig 11y ago
I can so relate to this notion of a lost culture or era. In grades 4-6 I lived near Olympia, Washington, as my father was stationed at Ft. Lewis. Me and my peers were all gaming/computer types. I had an Atari 2600 and a TI-99/
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by fizgig 11y ago
I've been anxiously following this game ever since I heard about it last year. No Man's Sky is the first game in 30 years that I feel will capture the awe and wonder I felt when playing the original Starflight on my family's
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by fizgig 11y ago
Moving cheaply can also be done if you don't have (or keep) much stuff. A couple of years ago, I got divorced, so I wiped the slate clean. Everything I couldn't fit into my beat-up 4-door sedan got thrown/given/donated
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by fizgig 11y ago
Playing the "what if" game, has anybody discussed how large-scale adoption of charge-at-home EVs would change the collection of fuel taxes? The federal and state additions to a gallon of gasoline here in the US are non-trivial.
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by fizgig 12y ago
There's been modern experimentation with "intensive grazing" to emulate what the early bison herds did to grasslands. Densely packed cattle are moved using temporary electric fence over smaller areas of pasture for shorter a
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by fizgig 12y ago
I wish they'd bring back the real estate search part of Maps. Anyone remember that short-lived project? It was awesome.
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by fizgig 12y ago
That's cool. I've toyed with PC-BSD, which has a per-application jail setup function called Warden. FreeBSD jails are supposedly a more secure version of standard chroot (which historically was pretty easy to break out of). I ha
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by fizgig 12y ago
It's both. The spam war causes a lot of collateral damage. For a decade I ran a mail server for a small client. Yes, they ran a ~15k membership newsletter, yes some cranky people would flag as spam since they were too lazy to click
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by fizgig 12y ago
Yes. From the stock bash prompt, run "startxwin". With the resulting xterm, you can launch any X apps within Cygwin, or you can SSH in (with appropriate flags and xauth config, etc.) and blow back X apps from the remote Unix box
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by fizgig 12y ago
I dig the ability to cross into remote file systems transparently (much like PowerShell). Running "df -h //devwinserver1/c$" is cool, as is the ability to clean up cruft when a Nagios disk alert goes off, all from
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by fizgig 12y ago
I'm into keto. You should give xylitol a try, as it's bulk and texture match table sugar closely and can be used interchangeably. It can cause gastric issues for some in certain quantities. Debates on /r/keto rage all
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by fizgig 12y ago
Or how Hitchcock had the ratings board watch his famous Psycho shower death scene a second time unchanged and get the thumbs-up when it didn't pass the first viewing. I'm sure history is sprinkled with many such interesting stori
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by fizgig 12y ago
Nice idea. I'll give it s spin once the permissions are dialed back a bit. Seems like a nice compliment to a daily visit to Free Rice (a habit I need to get back into). Daily learning is good. Charity is good. What's not to li
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by fizgig 12y ago
I know, right? Better yet, why the hell would anyone take anything with that much incriminating info out in public like that? I wince when I read of security goofs like those mentioned in the article or Poulson's book Kingpin. These
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by fizgig 12y ago
Seems outside the relevant scope of discussion regarding gun policy. Just my opinion, though, as a former card-carrying NRA member with a liberal political leaning. I am curious, though: Are carbon monoxide suicides-by-car counted in the c
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by fizgig 12y ago
Was it "To Build a Fire"? It's story about a man and his dog who venture out at the onset of a storm. A very good read.
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by fizgig 12y ago
> They are in crowded conditions. Humans do the same things will kept locked up in crowded conditions. Many animals do. Goats are downright nasty little shits with each-other, if they have horns (even w/o) Hens very much have a &qu
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by fizgig 12y ago
> I've yet to find an egg like that, though I've heard you can get them if you raise backyard chickens. As a former back yard chicken owner, I can confirm the startling difference between typical store-bought eggs and fresh egg
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by fizgig 12y ago
Sounds like compulsory licencing. Is a pricing schedule spelled out, demanding a minimum charge? Cannot these small shops simply charge Google a token, blanket licence for all their content for, say, $1 and side-step these legislative she
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by fizgig 12y ago
Years ago my kids went through a similar progression. I set them up with a really old, crappy PC running Linux. Taught them how to tinker around on the CLI and run Zork in an emulator. They had many hours of fun. Then set them up on the A
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by fizgig 12y ago
First thing that popped to mind was projecting on top of a goban so I could get stomped by GnuGo while playing with my nice board and stones. There's something lost in playing Go w/o the tactile nature of a physical board and sto
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by fizgig 12y ago
I'm curious if the NSA data center and Google Fiber being planned for Provo, UT (of all the wasted places...) is coincidental.
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by fizgig 12y ago
Not sure if your comment was a general statement or aimed at the author of the article (Paul), but for the record Montana has "real" winters. I lived a much similar life in rural Utah for many years, doing many of the same lifest
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by fizgig 12y ago
There's a structure in the US and its states that regulate what (subsidized?) farmers can grow. I don't know if it's solely the USDA. Anyway, if a farmer is supposed to be growing soybeans, they cannot grow (for example) po
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by fizgig 12y ago
Here's a nifty calculator that tells you vitamin D values for exposure times taking season and latitude into account. http://nadir.nilu.no/~olaeng/fastrt/VitD-ez_quartMED.html
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by fizgig 12y ago
Ultra low-tech: thread. One could conceivably let thin thread wind up around the blade's spindle during a timed run. Measure the wound string length and work your way back to the RPM of the blade. Not sure how various materials (say,