herewulf

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by herewulf 8y ago
I'm not keen on social network-type sites either but the emoji reactions are far better than getting showered with "+1" e-mails.
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by herewulf 8y ago
Posted a mere three hours before this thread, regarding writing code in a language more reliable than Bash. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18852855
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by herewulf 8y ago
I agree. However, the people that are paying for this mission still use imperial units. Those of them that are paying the most attention would probably agree with us though.
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by herewulf 8y ago
I've read a lot of their articles. In general they are high on facts, low on fluff, and they are not afraid to criticize Tesla. It's what journalism should be. I think everyone without a vested interest in oil or short selling Tes
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by herewulf 8y ago
The best part about Wave was that it was/is federated, so your data isn't completely siloed like basically every other modern app mentioned in this thread. It's more like e-mail. With sufficient resourcing, it could have revo
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by herewulf 8y ago
Do we really need to morph the name of every random software product into a verb? "Can you video chat tomorrow?" is plenty short and to the point. Add "on <product name>" if you really need to.
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by herewulf 8y ago
> "Many Microsoft employees don't believe that what we build should be used for waging war" Someone is lacking in perspective. The modern US military cannot operate without Windows, SharePoint, Exchange, Internet Explorer,
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by herewulf 8y ago
No, the US military goes to great lengths (and sometimes expense) to have things domestically made, mainly for security but also for economic reasons.
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by herewulf 8y ago
Consider what happens when effective ballistic missile defense is developed. This still leaves the threat of tactical nuclear weapons (artillery) and short range missiles from submarines. It will also spur the development of improved ballis
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by herewulf 8y ago
No, because no major country has its entire economy mobilized for the purpose of war. Outside of the countries where these conflicts are taking place, most people's lives are not being affected whatsoever. That is an enormous differenc
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by herewulf 8y ago
Well, in the good ol' USA, gov't seems to be increasingly shifting to Twitter these days. That's more than a little disconcerting.
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by herewulf 8y ago
Every time we get snappier hardware, we just add more software bloat. I pretty much run two kinds of GUI apps (on Linux with a lightweight, tiling window manager): web browsers and terminals. My terminal apps are always very snappy, the web
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by herewulf 8y ago
On the other hand, articles written by experts with full detail is much more useful to those already well versed in a given field. To use myself as an example: I would look elsewhere for computing or linguistics information if the articles
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by herewulf 8y ago
You've clearly never done that "job". It cannot simply be left behind. It fundamentally changes a person. Especially in SOF. It is probably true that in countries like Thailand, serving in the military is somewhat thankless.
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by herewulf 8y ago
United States Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Geological_Surve...
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by herewulf 8y ago
AI assistant calls could start with a modem style handshake to determine whether they can conduct the transaction much more quickly with an Internet API. I'm sure it could be much shorter these days, but hearing the same noisy handshak
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by herewulf 9y ago
It's still an entertaining read. And I have no stake in all this Facebook (or other "social media") nonsense.
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by herewulf 9y ago
I use most of these on a regular computer but this is very helpful for something like Termux. My smartphone doesn't even have arrow keys! The diagram is very helpful.
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by herewulf 9y ago
I don't use i3wm but I use XMonad. I set my (window manager) meta key to the "windows key". You can probably do the same thing. I can't live without alt-. in the shell!
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by herewulf 9y ago
Have you looked into getting an "au pair"? Even better option than a nanny for language immersion because an au pair lives in your home. Also more cost effective!
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by herewulf 9y ago
Do you have a trick to finding this stuff on Netflix? I've always been disappointed about the language options for shows on Netflix in the USA.
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by herewulf 9y ago
Interesting. If I were still working with Oracle, I'd love to see a sqlplus replacement. It has to be one of the most braindead CLIs ever, yet is too often instrumental to getting some actual work done with the shell et al.
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by herewulf 9y ago
This from the guy with all his passwords in a notebook in the desk drawer.. Have you thought of ROT13 encoding them?
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by herewulf 9y ago
I was curious about your mention of Harry Beckwith. A little searching turned up this interesting story: http://www.afn.org/~guns/ayoob.html
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by herewulf 9y ago
I loved the Army-Navy store when I was a kid. In those days there was a ton of Vietnam surplus and my genuine GI helmet liner, pistol belt, etc. were prized items for backyard war games. Even though the surplus store in my city has morphed
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by herewulf 9y ago
Best pay up, Equifax. Even if it is a scam, $2.6m is a drop in the bucket of the total potential damage. Though suppose this group does have the actual data and does get the ransom. What is to stop them from holding onto it to milk it for a
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by herewulf 9y ago
> dumbshit "street you grew up on" nonsense. I call these what they are: Insecurity questions. I have also taken to writing completely unguessable nonsense as the answers and recording them in my password manager.
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by herewulf 9y ago
My SSN won't change for my lifetime, so really they need to pay that cost of monitoring. Equifax, you owe me $23,392.20. It's in your interest to pay upfront to avoid the cost of inflation.
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by herewulf 9y ago
As part of the DoD I generated my SF 86 with e-QIP and sent it to my S2 but he needed the S1 to get some PII out of SIDPERS which required a DA 4187 to send to the G1 but I couldn't sign it with my CAC because the NIPR is down and the
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by herewulf 9y ago
The Social Security Administration could make everyone's SSN public[1] immediately and then we could watch the entire credit industry scramble. Probably not a good idea without a reasonable alternative already in place but I think a ce

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