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by geoffeg 4y ago
I'm of two minds here. I agree with you but hopefully having Biden involved in the briefing will draw more attention to what I think it one of the coolest large science and engineering projects in decades (just my opinion).
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I've wondered about this a lot recently as I've spent a lot of time recently fighting with Terraform, Atlantis, CircleCI, github and AWS. The first half of my career was deploying code to various UNIX machines. When there was a pr
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by geoffeg 4y ago
Many years ago I tweeted something about a project I was working on, tagging #HTML5 and #CSS3 or something like that. There as a Twitter bot that retweeted anything with an #HTML5 tag, and another, seemingly independent bot that retweeted a
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by geoffeg 4y ago
And, unless you setup an appropriate DNS server and the default from your ISP, then they also know that you looked up the site's hostname(s).
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by geoffeg 4y ago
iOS, where Apple only allows WebKit-based browsers, so basically Safari.
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I've been burned by eBay enough times at this point that I generally avoid using it unless I have no other choice. Is there a good alternative with fewer scams, better customer support and a better user experience?
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by geoffeg 4y ago
It is somewhat wild to me that PC towers are still a thing. So many other tech products have had significant form factor reductions in the past ~40 years yet gaming PCs have largely remained unchanged. (I understand we've had massive i
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by geoffeg 4y ago
The listen count is huge for checking out new artists. Find a new band, try the first four or five tracks to see if they're a band you're interested in. At least YouTube still has view counts... for now.
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by geoffeg 4y ago
Spotify is full of those UI frustrations. There have been many times where I've thought "Just give me 'select * from songs where artist = % order by listen_count'". I started slowly moving myself away from online st
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I'm really fascinated about why so many infrastructure-as-code tools are actually infrastructure-as-markup. Many of them seem to "evolve" until they're awkward attempts at bolting full programming language semantics onto
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by geoffeg 4y ago
Overly complicated, color QR codes.
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by geoffeg 4y ago
This is great. I did something very similar with a laser printer and a scanner many years ago. I wrote a script that generated pages of colored blocks and spent some time figuring out how much redundancy I needed on each page to account for
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by geoffeg 4y ago
Will that be less of an issue when a larger portion of their satellite fleet have laser interconnects? I think I read somewhere that the required ground stations are a limitation of the initial launches without laser connections...
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I'm aware that they expect one of their customers to be stock market companies where lower latency is highly important. Are you referring to that or something else?
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I've often wondered how much overlap there is on people who live in an HOA and people who are opposed to government regulation. I realize government regulation isn't quite the same as HOA regulations, but it's amusing to me h
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by geoffeg 4y ago
> Growing vegetables on what should be a lawn is verboten in many locations, if not by the government than by private association bylaws. I'm aware that some HOAs limit (sometimes to what seems like an extreme) what can be done with
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I've really wanted a server-side uBlock Origin like this for a while now for devices that can't run uBlock (mobile, etc) or where uBlock is limited in functionality (Chrome). This looks like a great start.
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by geoffeg 4y ago
The project seems pretty cool, and it seems like it'd be fun to add to my homelab, but I just don't have a need for it. I have a little server running Proxmox, so I can create as many hosts as need to play with things like k8s. I&
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by geoffeg 4y ago
Which episode of Futurama is that from? ;)
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to call the OP-1 a toy. The interface is definitely limiting but it's also whimsical. I use mine as a kind of stress relief tool. It's small, self-contained design means I can put my laptop away and fo
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I've been frustrated with Spotify's UI for so long now. It just seems so full of dark... or at least dim(?) user patterns. I started buying albums from bands I like off Bandcamp and loading them into Plexamp. (I really hope Epic d
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by geoffeg 4y ago
I worked at Monsanto for a few years. I won't get into the ethics of the company on this forum, but as a software engineer it was a pretty great place to work. Good engineering culture, lots of very dedicated and smart people and some
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by geoffeg 4y ago
Along the lines of piaware, also checkout https://liveatc.net . If you live near an airport that's not currently served by the site you can set one up moderately easy.
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by geoffeg 4y ago
Many years ago I worked as a contractor at a financial institution that was a little full of themselves. I had to be escorted from the entrance, through the main office, to a smaller, "less secure" room inside the main office. The
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by geoffeg 4y ago
About twenty years ago I had a boss that was a submariner, one of the guys that operated the reactor (I think they call themselves "nukes"?). He was quite odd but wickedly smart and it always seemed like he could engineer his way
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by geoffeg 5y ago
Is there any manufacturer with plans to come out with an Apple Silicon-level ARM chip (in terms of performance and efficiency)? Ever since the first benchmarks for the M1 chips started appearing I've been kinda dreaming of a Raspberry-
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by geoffeg 5y ago
I actually find it easy to read since the format requires users to break things up in to what feels like shorter, bite-sized pieces.
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by geoffeg 5y ago
I started signing up for privacy.com, right up until the point where they asked for my username and password for my bank. Why can't they just do electronic funds transfer like Paypal? Seems like a strange user experience.
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by geoffeg 5y ago
There's a few YouTube channels that provide live feeds of LAX. They operate a few times a week, usually during the late morning to early evening hours pacific time. Airline Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/AIRLINE
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by geoffeg 5y ago
So instead of trying to limit the number of bots on this new social network, we'll encourage them!

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