hw_penfold

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by hw_penfold 8y ago
The subject of the NPR article was also kind enough to appear for an interview in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PyKSuPl2g
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
Well, the air combat of that period represents an odd microcosm of behaviors never to be repeated again, by another human civilization. Even if we wanted to fight another war the same way, it wouldn't make sense to even try it. The tra
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
I think the natural interpretation is that the January 1977 numbers showed a value 60 times greater than the January 2013 value. (the dry weight of all the captured invertebrates) Here's a direct link to the relevant graph: htt
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
one of the most distracting and dangerous things I can think of No worries there. You won't actually be driving your own car by then. It'll be driving itself .
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
Thank you for the kind words. I don’t intend to write articles under any particular name, since it’s too easy to become typecast, and have expectations develop around a name. I dump my thoughts out in the open, under arbitrary handles, when
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
Coming from the perspective in security, the one that says biometrics are identity tokens or user names, but not authentication tokens or passwords, the concept you present is reasonable. However, let’s not simply dispose of the conversatio
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
more of the same Oh, I don't know about that. There are many new things I can think of, and wish to create, but there are some non-trivial artificial barriers between me, and the tools I need, to complete the tasks. Things like
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
You should listen to some Vaporwave. It's specifically geared toward bastardizing a mutant version of that sort of close-of-the-twentieth-century mind set. A good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdwUOli
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
I'll take a moment to spell out what's going on here, since they seem to be beating around the bush in the article itself, possibly for fear of imitation in the wild. They take a smart lightbulb with certain features: infrared and
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
The social brain hypothesis is on a pretty weak footing, since schools of fish, flocks of birds, herds of ungulates, and swarms of insects all manage to socialize in largish groups that don't correlate especially well with disproportio
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
This is the weird part about the internet of things. No one has any generalized rule for differentiating which things should be smart, and which things should stay dumb. One thing that consistently jumps out at me, though, is the lack of le
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
This is likely an “ advertorial ” in case you’ve never heard the term. It’s an open secret that editorials are often paid advertising slots masquerading as news. No one likes to talk about it, because the by lines are real, which... means i
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
In many ways this is malicious deception. In any instance where a login form is included in the scraped mirror, that represents an attacked user, and a phishing attempt. If someone did this in the wild, in an uncontrolled situation involvin
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
B&H Photo in Manhattan is still like that. I think high-end photography is conducive to that style of operation, though. Handling the photographic items, and carrying them around the store, would likely lead to damage before sale, if th
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
Near as I can tell, there’s nothing in this agreement that prevents me from choosing another license model. If I can choose to apply whichever license I want, then it would seem that The Commons Clause could only possibly harm those that ch
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
The result would be mixed and scattered. Basically, we see exactly how it unfolds when a ransomware epidemic breaks out. Ransomware, in many ways tying people hands, such that an outage occurs. In many areas, servers would chug along undist
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
It feels like widespread use of this sort of thing could only result in an arms race, not unlike ad blockers. First encounters would probably provoke immediate hang up by some portion of unamused human operators, then middle managers at cal
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
I also wish they ended the video with three or four middle-aged actors and actresses, in household settings, visibly demonstrating how much they enjoy consuming electricity, before turning to the camera and saying, “ Thanks, Clampstar! ”
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by hw_penfold 8y ago
The 32GB of RAM is silly, because virtual machines, and PCI buses lol. But I suspect the 150 mile marker has some other objective driving factor behind the reasoning for that number, which Amazon incidentally has some advanced insight on, d