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by gonzo 6y ago
Similar background story, I was 8 in 1970, and my father knew what a slide rule was, and how to use it, so I learned a bit of trig from him before repeatedly checking out a textbook on trig from the public library. True story: my son took a
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by gonzo 6y ago
“Bezos’ ex-wife” is one letter shorter than “MacKinzie Scott”. Drop the “and”, use a comma. “, others.”
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by gonzo 6y ago
Mackenzie Scott has a name, and the title/headline should use it, instead of her “status” as Bezos’ “ex-wife”.
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by gonzo 6y ago
It’s not years, it’s “cycles” take-off/landing with pressurized passenger compartment in-between. And it’s not often the wings fall off, but the tail does, or sometimes a huge hole opens in the “skin” of the airframe. Example: Aloha Ai
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by gonzo 6y ago
You have a fantastic engine. When I was young, it was guaranteed that a lifter would let loose just before you picked up your date on Saturday night if you had not “run the valves” in the past month. Clack-clack-clack-clack-... Date: Why do
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by gonzo 6y ago
Brigham did way worse than that to black people. Brigham Young and most other Mormon leaders, believed that the(ir) scriptures justified the subordination of black people because they were descendants of Cain or of other biblical figures wh
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by gonzo 6y ago
> but we like pfSense for the router/firewall part. Thank you very much! > FreeBSD's wireless support has been horrible every time I've tried it compared to the same hardware running a Linux-based platform. That’s why N
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by gonzo 6y ago
Interesting, reminds me a tiny bit of the BGP listener in Java that was written back at Smallworks https://github.com/pjz/java-bgp
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by gonzo 6y ago
Place next door does tower climbing courses. They’re still busy in the time of COVID, though I assume the class sizes are smaller.
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by gonzo 6y ago
the efficient market hypotheis isn't dead, but markets are efficient only if P == NP https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
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by gonzo 6y ago
> my most recent employer had someone under qualified as the devops lead so we had to use pfSense, an endless source of frustration of issues that couldn’t be addressed, but that I knew exactly how to address with OpenBSD [...] I, for on
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by gonzo 6y ago
“X is rasterop on wheels” — wnj in Unix Today 6/25 page 5. "..., Richie reminded the audience that Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that X was brain-dead and would soon die. "He was half-righ
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by gonzo 6y ago
> Someone alert the physicists! Physicists already know about relativistic mass. /s
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by gonzo 6y ago
Born n raised in Vegas. It’s a technical distinction that most locals don’t understand or care about.
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by gonzo 6y ago
when it's ready, of course. It just started passing packets (ping) last week. It would have been at this point weeks ago, had Jason not baked his e-mail address into the handshake protocol. (Harumph.)
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by gonzo 6y ago
bhyve is cool, but ESXi has some good tools.
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by gonzo 6y ago
The company that makes pfSense used to run its (pfSense) firewalls in ESXi, but then I got tired of having to wait for VMware to come up before the firewall(s) would come up. That, and CARP on VMware is ... tiresome.
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by gonzo 7y ago
That’s not what happened.
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by gonzo 7y ago
> The author seems to have enough experience with IPSec that people would dismiss his first-hand experience or benchmarks as biased anyway. OK, if you want to claim bias... I own the company behind pfSense, and am sponsoring the work to
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by gonzo 7y ago
Wireguard will likely replace OpenVPN. But it won’t be faster than IPsec (basically the same framing overhead), and won’t be replacing IPsec.
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by gonzo 7y ago
I drilled the well at the visitor’s center.
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by gonzo 7y ago
Having spent the first 25 years of my life (see other comment), and having lived in Austin 1992-2003 and 2011-now, I can tell you that summer in Las Vegas is far more miserable. And as ruined as it is by the influx, Austin is, by far, the b
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by gonzo 7y ago
I was born and raised in Vegas, left when I was 25 for Dallas. Never went back except to visit family. Dad was born there in 1936, and passed away there in late 2018. His father moved there to work on the dam during the Depression. Met my g
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by gonzo 7y ago
I think you mean angels.
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by gonzo 7y ago
Speaking as a fellow ex-Mormon, I agree with your statements here.
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by gonzo 7y ago
> I can put any bit in any drill, and any blade in any saw, Not really, no. Try fitting a bit with a 1/2” shank into your typical consumer battery-powered drill.
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by gonzo 7y ago
Well, the RSS does, but LRO does not.
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by gonzo 7y ago
This. I started on a 10.5’ board.
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by gonzo 7y ago
I’m the guy who left a case of champagne at the office one weekend, to celebrate an early release. Thanks for the memories.
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by gonzo 7y ago
WireGuard will completely replace OpenVPN with time.

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