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by hnbear 4y ago
I had to do something like this at home with a flaky cable connection. It was a 100Mbs connection, or maybe 200Mbs. Several years ago, but fastest I could get. Periodically it would drop to 5Mbs or so, nothing faster. The ISP came and said
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by hnbear 4y ago
For anyone interested in the language, it’s called Rule 17a4, and you can see it here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.17a-4 It’s got a long list of things to keep, some specific and some very gen
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by hnbear 4y ago
We have two Panera subscriptions. Our kids love their drinks, my wife and I like the iced tea and iced coffee. We'd spent more than that at Starbucks, or Dunkin per month, so it was an easy switch and actually saves a lot of money. In
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by hnbear 4y ago
As a Brit who doesn't like IPAs the beer scene in the US is awful. There are thousands of small local breweries (amazing), all of which specialize in IPAs, with their key products being a double of triple IPA. The fancy brew pubs will
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by hnbear 4y ago
Better add a consultancy arm to "tune" the computers to remove the CPU scheduling issues, sort out the P states and C states to remove those pesky optimizations. Maybe you can create an audiophile BIOS, as well that automatically
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by hnbear 4y ago
I had a PowerMac 6500/300 back in my mid-teens as my first computer. To play games I later bought a PC Voodoo 3 which you could flash with a Mac-version ROM. Much cheaper than buying an actual Max version. Unreal was incredible. The wh
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by hnbear 4y ago
Give you a MacBook and a cloud Linux dev machine (or as many as you want). Secure access to dev environment with multiple easy factors - MBP biometrics, yubikey, etc Enforce strong password and FDE on the laptop. Obviously doesn’t need to b
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by hnbear 4y ago
Levine had a nice, and more detailed, write-up last week too ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-02-23/slam-d... ), including this bit: --- NBA Top Shot’s Twitter account promoted not the coolness
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by hnbear 4y ago
I have a largish beard and my kids are always amused by how badly the filters work with the beard. It's like the edge detection for faces gets completely thrown off by it, so the filter just half removes it, leaving an aurora of beard
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by hnbear 4y ago
My primary email is on my domain that's firstlast.com, so I purchased a random one and use that. Used with Fastmail I typically register as company@company.domain.com and it all forwards automatically. 1Pass+Fastmail will automatically
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by hnbear 4y ago
Recently on calls asking to verify my birthday I've stopped saying the full 4-digit year. Being born in the 80's it's pretty clear I'm neither 140 years old, nor unborn. I've been forced to actually say the "19
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by hnbear 4y ago
There are also some interesting larger projects focused on insect health and diversity like Brighton (in the UK) mandating Bee Bricks: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bee-and-swift-bricks-mandate... These are similar in des
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by hnbear 4y ago
A colleague with a recent Land Rover Discovery Sport has screens on the buttons/dials. Little mini screens for things like an AC knob. It’s a Land Rover, so obviously those screen crash/bug out then he gets no HVAC. He hates that
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by hnbear 4y ago
For anyone interested in the interconnectedness of the medieval world, I'd highly recommend The Bright Ages: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/09/the-bright-age... It covers 200-1200 AD (ro
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by hnbear 4y ago
The Thick of It presents the contemporary view. Equally hilarious, but taking a very different approach
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by hnbear 4y ago
He was a fantastic and inspiring speaker. Interesting enough to remember ~25 years later. Thank you for bringing up his real name.
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by hnbear 4y ago
When I was in high school (in the UK) we had a talk from someone who had been the Principle Private Secretary to the prime minister in the 80s and 90s, as well as cabinet secretary. Similar roles to Bernard and Sir Humphrey. He commented on
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by hnbear 4y ago
Yes, Minister was the original series. Yes, Prime Minister was a follow-up after Jim Hacker is elected Prime Minister. The series is just a continuation and just as funny, or more so.
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Quantum breakthrough could revolutionise computing(bbc.com)
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by hnbear 4y ago
First Sea Lord and First Lord of the Admiralty are both fantastic and very real titles, with long histories, along with Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, which is a bit harder to get. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by hnbear 4y ago
I’m not much of a knife guy but have a couple and know what I’m looking for feature wise, less so on specific steel types. But, proper drop downs would help a lot, I can’t always remember all the terms. And, once I’ve found a knife, showing
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by hnbear 4y ago
Really assessing likelihood is just part of a larger risk assessment how you manage, store, and backup your data It's worth segregating out the risk here into: - What can easily be backed up and restored (eg. email, calendars), and so
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by hnbear 4y ago
I do something very similar, and have a similar result - almost no cross-sharing/selling of addresses. The two sources I have: - Leaks - Guesses - eg. webmaster@domain.com - Kickstarter Kickstarter gives over your email to projects, an
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by hnbear 4y ago
I deployed 1000+ over 3+ years, and never had one break. It’s anecdata and I believe they can fail, but we never saw it once. Using the A and C nanos. Helped they were permanently in machines though. No mechanical risk.
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by hnbear 4y ago
I remember being on a long (9ish hour) flight from London to Nairobi as a child. My heavy-smoker parents thoughtfully bought non-smoking seats for the flight. We turned out to be a row or two away, made no difference at all. But, they both
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by hnbear 4y ago
I’ve found it immensely frustrating in numerous roles when discussing security, audit and compliance requests that the requesters can seldom actually explain their reasoning. I want a clear statement of risk and why their proposed compensat
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by hnbear 4y ago
As original poster I meant more that if you know somewhere like 4Chan is generally a highly negative place, I'd stay away from it, and in bulk (ie, the whole site), cut off that source of noise. Really applies to somewhere like Faceboo
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by hnbear 4y ago
I have the "hide comments section" turned on my ad blocker. Makes the internet a much nicer place in general on a lot of general news/info type sites that aren't explicitly for discussion (eg. HN, Reddit). I was pretty e
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by hnbear 4y ago
I had a friend with a common Indian name get bounced off a flight and then be unable to book flights after it turned out he shared his name with someone on the no-fly. He had to petition his senator/congress person to get off it. TSA h
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by hnbear 4y ago
Not all Gemini deposits were sent to Genesis. If a Gemini user opted into Gemini's Earn product they were notified that any Earn deposits were going to Genesis. You can argue those warnings weren't big enough or obvious enough, bu

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