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by jdblair 7y ago
ISPs usually don't do it "for free." Placing caches on operator networks is typically part of a larger business agreement that may not involve exchange of cash, but will exchange something of value.
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It's not difficult, though. It just takes practice. You use the same channels that you are using for remote work: chat, email, voice, video. I understand the desire to not put something like that in writing, but that's what voice
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by jdblair 7y ago
That's not true. American entrepreneurs can acquire Dutch residency for the purpose of starting a business in Netherlands. Access to Dutch social services is a different thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT (
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Traders Accused of Stealing European Taxpayer Money Using Double Refund Scheme(nytimes.com)
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by jdblair 7y ago
There's a reason that Smart TVs (and set top boxes, and streaming sticks) usually don't allow you to load an arbitrary URL: it increases the attack surface by allowing you to load any arbitrary endpoint on the Internet. When you &
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by jdblair 7y ago
Reviewing this history of the legal case, this does seem to be exactly where this case is stuck. The treaty doesn't apply to the beach below mean high tide, but the road does.
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by jdblair 7y ago
He doesn't own the beach, and an easement to access public land is a normal, non-controversial thing.
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You're discounting energy use. This is a bad strategy on a battery powered device.
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by jdblair 7y ago
I've been using my "dots" script for over 10 years to give me feedback that a long task (like un-tarring a big source tree) is still running, without flooding the terminal with text. I pipe the "verbose" output of a
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by jdblair 7y ago
It's interesting to consider a thought experiment: what if the ozone depleting nature of CFCs had been discovered during the modern Internet age? Would the ozone hole be dismissed as a hoax? Would we be able to organize an internationa
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by jdblair 7y ago
Yes, there is copper or aluminum for power. Most of the metal in a submarine fiber cable is steel. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable
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It is neighborhood by neighborhood, with the best service in places with AT&T fiber to offer competition with Comcast. I moved from West Oakland, where my choices were 3Mbit DSL or Comcast, to San Jose, where I have gigabit fiber from S
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by jdblair 7y ago
I'm not misinterpreting. I am able to buy more equity in other companies using the cash from my salary than I ever earned directly through equity sharing.
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by jdblair 7y ago
Not everyone is good at being self employed. I've done it, and I'm putting more money away now that I'm part of a corporation. Someone else may be capturing some of the value of my labor, but the part I capture is bigger in a
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by jdblair 7y ago
That's one possibility. Another is eliminating all the things you managed before because you found a different, better way to add value.
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At my place of work "engineer yourself out of a job" is a mantra. The end goal isn't to actually lose our jobs. The goal is to raise our individual productivity by changing the nature of our job until, over time, its a new jo
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by jdblair 7y ago
With co-host Gary Kildall, of CP/M and Digital Research fame!
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It's also worth noting that Danger was Ansy Rubin's company. He sold it and then started Android, which was originally envisioned to have a physical keyboard as well.
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People figured out pretty quickly that if you crush the pills, you absorb the oxycodone quickly. It was the coating that delayed absorption.
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There's no mention here of inspecting core files, something that very much allows you to inspect the state of a program when the bug occurred, but after the fact. Is this because inspecting core files also sucks, since it's a snap
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by jdblair 7y ago
Did you do it?
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The M65 and the Davy Crocket were designed to stop a Soviet tank invasion through the Fulda Gap[1]. NATO knew the Soviet army had a numbers advantage. Tactical nukes were developed to stop a mechanized invasion with a smaller force. The ide
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by jdblair 7y ago
If something is in a thrift store with tags, it's because someone shoplifted it and then sold it.
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Linux is pretty much hacks all the way down. It's the other Unix philosophy.
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To really understand what the author is getting at it helps to have some experience with lower quality data sheets from other manufacturers. Take, for example, the WS2801, a popular LED driver chip from World Semi[1]. All of the necessary i
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by jdblair 7y ago
But DoH is provider independent. It's just like I can swap out AT&T's regular DNS service for Cloudflare's in my home setup. Which I did. Mozilla's move to reconfigure Firefox to use DoH is a bit sneakier, but it f
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Yes, the justice department and federal courts have domain experts who understand the nuances of the tech industry. You are conflating elected officials (Senators) and the staffers in the justice department who are experts in their fields.
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I've been on both sides of the whiteboard interview (candidate and interviewer), and I've failed a good number of them. The last one I had as a candidate was about 4 years ago, incidentally when I was 42 (I did get that job and I&
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by jdblair 7y ago
I don't remember the exact wording, but the last time I had a subsidized phone (with T-Mobile) it was made clear to me that the phone could be unlocked after a period of time. The period was shorter than the contract period. T-Mobile e
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by jdblair 7y ago
A contract was violated when these phones were unlocked. In return for a locked phone the buyer received a subsidy from AT&T on the cost of the hardware. I don't want people to violate contracts with me, why should I recognize some

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