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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
I 'tried out' a standing desk experience with an overturned packing crate, a piece of plywood.. for the right height for keyboard/mouse. And then two reams of paper to bring the laptop display to the right height above the ke
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Go to the bay area, spend a few years becoming ridiculously skilled and invaluable to your organization. Then tell employer you'll be moving to X and telecommuting. X being somewhere with a lower cost of living, and someplace you love
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
The 56K modems of 20 years ago were near the theoretical limit of bandwidth on a conventional phone line. They required the far end (the ISP) to have a digital connection to the telco; i.e. you can't have 2 56K modems call each other a
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Along with the usual 'we are out of ipv4 space' - If you are in the IoT space you are dependent on IPv6. And if you are AWS you may be losing customers who are rolling out IoT infrastructure because of your lack of IPv6 support.
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
I infrequently have the need to encrypt some files; and traditionally I've used symmetric encryption with passphrases. But I feel like we're in a post-password world where any phrase that I as a human can remember is short enough
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Show HN: Doing file encryption with SSH keys(github.com)
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Most of them are near a 2 hour drive, if you are anywhere around commute hours and you live in a typical (not right off the freeway) area in SF. To name a couple, Intel and Cisco.
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Depends on where you live in SD as far as bike friendlyness. La Jolla, PB and mission Beach are very bikeable. I live in PB and hardly ever drive, but am fortunate that I can telecommute for a bay area company from my home office. If I had
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
El Camino is a street. It runs from San Jose nearly to San Francisco.
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Option 3, (which may not be a option at F500 Co) is bring him on as a contractor and if he performs convert him to perm. A college degree is this decades version of "nobody got fired for buying IBM"
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Why is shelling out six figures to go to college even a thing? Any of the knowledge obtainable through a college course is available free on the internet. Is it having the accountability of grades and adult supervision? 60k/yr/stu
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
What if I want to pursue an education in driving luxury cars and sailing yachts? Is that a valid subject matter? And if not, what makes it a less valid subject matter than any other degree that costs money but does not have a clear path to
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
I haven't found a cloud email service which will let me keep my procmail filters. (A group-3)
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
That's like saying programmers would get their projects done sooner if they'd just type faster.
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Perhaps the secret of success she has is convincing the people around and under her that THEY need to work 130 hours a week. In my personal opinion the code I've seen written by someone who worked 130 hours the previous week is complet
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
A commercial company writing software dependent on your GPL code is obliged to release their modifications/code under GPL. Not neccissisaraly so with other licences. So it's a way to force them to give back if they want to use you
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Does it still fit on 30 3.5in floppies?
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
I can see why advertising networks want to use ads which slow down browsers. The only ads I've 'clicked on' lately are those where the site was loading slowly and the bowser registered my click late, on an ad window which cha
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
I wanted to get into robotics as a way to get up to speed on neural nets and reinforcement learning. I found the Lego EV3 kits to have a good mix of sensors motors and supporting parts. The EV3 bricks run Linux, there's a distribution
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Because if I wanted to spend the time and energy to learn a new ui it'd be macos not metro. Also, my roommate upgraded her few year old laptop and 10 is much slower than 7.
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
It's a free country. If you feel like you are not compensated adequately for those nights and weekends, then refuse to work them.
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by gregatragenet3 10y ago
Probably doesn't prevent the granting of a patent, however it makes it impossible to enforce the patent. Mike and I published this in 1998 http://www.rage.net/wireless/wireless-howto.html . A Cisco legal team foun
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by gregatragenet3 11y ago
Probably related. Mammals dream, and we humans experience time in dreams much faster than the actual passage of time. Dreaming is likely the same mechanism as 'experience replay' used in AI reinforcement learning. We're just
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by gregatragenet3 11y ago
Of course the US does poorly in this survey. The survey measures life skills. We've spent the last decades changing our schools from teaching life skills to pure college prep. A terrible disservice to young people. Here's some sam
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by gregatragenet3 11y ago
If degrees are worth far less, yet cost far more than in the past - why do people pursue them as if they are mandatory? Intertia? Stigmatization of not having a degree by society/government? I ask in all seriousness, as a large percent
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by gregatragenet3 11y ago
My generations biggest fear was that there would be a global thermonuclear war that destroyed civilization, and those few that survived would have short miserable lives picking through the ashes ala 'the road'. Being 50 and rentin
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by gregatragenet3 11y ago
Improved per-worker productivity metrics down not mean workers are working harder. It means you can now Google something in 30 seconds instead of spending 2 hours at a library - and similar effects with other tasks.
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by gregatragenet3 11y ago
Which one? Distracted driving accidents are a leading cause of non-natural deaths, and cryptography is a neccisary technology for cellular networks. Could be argued that crypto shares responsibility for those auto fatalities. If you check t
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by gregatragenet3 11y ago
Because with IoT companies move consumers from owning the devices they buy to renting them. The company retains control of how the device is used, what content it displays, even if the device works or not. You make the consumers buying the
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by gregatragenet3 11y ago
Make yourself a rainy day fund, 6-12 months of living expenses. Make sacrafices to make that happen. This puts you in a position of power when you do have to look for a new job, you don't have to be desperate to take the first crappy l

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