gknoy

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by gknoy 11y ago
Putting on my tin foil hat ... one could imagine a box the size of a phonebook (or just a laptop) that could, when it encounters packets or encrypted data, send signatures and packets to the NSA data centers, and do the kind of matching&#x2
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by gknoy 11y ago
I think the parent's post point was that for the price of a Raspberry pi, you can buy a router that __does__ support it.
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by gknoy 11y ago
I work near a team of people I'd consider "good JS developers". If I were to just go over to their workspace and say, "We should totally use Clojurescript", they'd look at me with a mixture of "LOL, Emacs&
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by gknoy 11y ago
One takeaway from this article, for me, was that Avis' customer service, and the agents at these rental places specifically, were __awesome__. This is the kind of experience that would lead a customer like me to choose Avis over their
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by gknoy 11y ago
I only recently learned that fax` prints a tree of processes! Not always what I want, but good to find which python processes are the ones I want to kill, and which are not. :)
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by gknoy 11y ago
If I were on a team of developers, and every new team member got a loaded Macbook Pro, and I were stuck with Ye Olde HP from 2007, I would feel pretty slighted. It's patently unfair that other devs would be seen as valuable enough to h
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by gknoy 11y ago
I think my problem with Twitter is, I have no idea what I would tweet about. Do you just use it to follow things and post replies to people looking for help? I have skipped Twitter for years because I didn't feel a need to micro-blog
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by gknoy 11y ago
I found that doing easy and medium Sudoku in pen is remarkably enjoyable, far more so than it ever was when I would make temporary marks. It's harder, and I'm not very good at Sudoku in general, but it really reinforces the &quot
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by gknoy 11y ago
I bet you could do something neat with small tethered submersibles that you remotely control. Of course, they might not be small enough, but at least it would be safer.
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by gknoy 11y ago
As a Git user, it seems Very Hard to accidentally force push: you need to add a command line parameter, and I was simply taught "Don't Do That". I've certainly never done it. e.g.: # yes! git push origin my-featur
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by gknoy 11y ago
Some people dislike it, but I LOVE it. I like being able to run a command, open a new terminal, and be able to control-r to find that command again. It ensures that I don't have race conditions over which terminal writes its history t
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by gknoy 11y ago
I believe it would be in Matlab, as [1, 2] + [3, 4] would be considered matrix addition, in which one adds elements in corresponding places. Numpy (as mentioned in the GP) probably does similar.
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by gknoy 11y ago
I'm a fan of AdBlock, but there's also an AdBlockPlus AdBlock: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiob... AdBlockPlus: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de
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by gknoy 11y ago
Some people use "play the market" to mean, "I make investment decisions, and purchase stocks". That's the conventional meaning. In this case, though, he's contrasting the "play" as in "fun"
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by gknoy 11y ago
The above is exactly correct, though: Write it down, put it in a safety deposit box (or two if you're paranoid about losing it?). Note that fireproof safes normally won't protect digital media (temperature) but paper survives wel
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by gknoy 11y ago
I'm going to second the "definitely a nerd", since not only did he make up an arbitrary rule, he even altered his behavior to be logically consistent ("well, matches can happen in random choice, so I can't disallow
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by gknoy 11y ago
My wife has about twenty pairs of socks, and no more than a few of the pairs are the same variety. It's like some masochistic combinatorics problem every single time I fold socks. My kid and I literally were playing "sock go fish
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by gknoy 11y ago
I discovered that SOME combination while mashing would close my tab in Chrome. Fortunately, ctrl-shift-t brought back not just the form, but __saved_responses__. What a pleasant surprise. I wonder if that saving is done by the browser, or
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by gknoy 11y ago
I loved them. I seem to recall them not being waterproof, though. For paper, try the bamboo-based paper from Staples. :)
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by gknoy 11y ago
I miss writing with fountain pens, and use gel rollerballs exclusively now (cheap, waterproof, I don't cry if I lose it, and the office has boxes of them). I like them well enough, and my writing is more legible ... but I really miss
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by gknoy 11y ago
Maybe it's that I'm not confident enough, but "First, find a skill of yours you can monetize..." sounds an awful lot like "First, find oil in your backyard...". I like what the author wrote about the subsequent
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by gknoy 11y ago
I thought rationality was a measure of how one's actions are based on what you know, but not the things you don't know. Prior to finding out that the NSA was wiretapping all the things, it might be considered irrational to expect
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by gknoy 11y ago
OTOH, sometimes you might be building something that gets beginners into something, before they need those extra features. E.g., I don't yet blog, and if I were to, starting out with Ghost or similar would be very appealing. Only lat
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by gknoy 11y ago
In case you miss the link inside the article, be sure to read the ruling[0]. It is both thorough and entertaining. http://www.la3circuit.org/Opinions/2015/03/030415/14-0943opi...
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by gknoy 11y ago
PIP stands for "Performance Improvement Plan". I don't have experience with one, but from what I've read, it sounds like management-speak for "We're going to find a reason to fire you". Michael O. Church
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by gknoy 11y ago
I like your `git watch` alias! That's very slick. I like my git prompt to show me my branch name, colored with grey (no changes), red (unsaved changes), or green (staged changes), with the depth of the branch, e.g.: gknoy@host:~&
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by gknoy 11y ago
While I admit that at times I wish I could Reply Later to my wife, I remember that almost every time I text her, it's a matter of relative time sensitivity, even if not important. "Do you want me to buy X or Y beer?" "Do
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by gknoy 11y ago
In my area (north of SF), 911 calls from cellular phones get routed to a call center on the other side of the bay from me (if I recall right). This means that response time for 911 calls from a cellular phone are about 20 minutes, whereas
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by gknoy 11y ago
Command line use. You grep some files, and think, "man, this really needs this ONE LITTLE FILTER". So, you pipe it to `perl -e "..."`, and soon have a very short program that you iterate on a few times to make sure you
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by gknoy 11y ago
Saying that in face-to-face conversation does not make it civil.

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