justizin

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by justizin 11y ago
> I really like Wikipedia because it's neutral in tone for the most part. Assuming that the conventional perspective of white straight males with an interest in sci-fi is neutral. ;)
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> And there is finally no social stigma related to nerds. People are just not telling you to your face anymore, because they want your money. :/
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zillions? raises eyebrow
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When I was 14 a cop drew a gun on me while I was running away and said, "Stop or I'll shoot". Actually, I think it was, "Stop or I'll pop a cap in your ass!"
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> That won't be true forever. I've run into some tolls that are EZPass ONLY. Some of them read your license plate and send you a bill if you don't have EZPass. This is true as of recently for the Golden Gate Bridge as well
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by justizin 11y ago
Would be great to see Safari support for this, was a happy Privacy Badger user on FF for some time.
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> with stipulations of affordable housing as part of the deal If that works out anything like it has been in San Francisco, those commitments are extremely soft, and "affordable" is often defined as a household with over $150k
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Who do you expect to work construction building housing only for the rich? To work at bars and restaurants? Basically anything other than jobs that can be done sitting in your underwear at home? Even if you aren't a bleeding heart, e
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by justizin 11y ago
ILM and Pixar are routinely rejected from the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, while 30 second shorts from students often make it. Noone cares that your computer graphics made a billion dollars, people care that they are cool. SIGGRAPH also had
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by justizin 11y ago
SSH with a keypair should be much more secure than user/pass over TLS.
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Though it may be incredibly impractical or theoretically impossible, depending on the key and time of day, there is always a possibility that a public key can be used as an attack vector to guess a private key.
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We know that the very first bitcoins in the blockchain are "his", and IIRC some other coins have been tracked as "his" based on being in the same wallet or wallets. There are a number of articles on this over the past y
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They do, it's called a protocol handler, this is how video worked in the 90s.
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by justizin 11y ago
> The ad industry needs to get its shit together. When I have brought this up at work in ad-driven companies, the numbers I have seen basically show that the worst ads are the most effective and they don't give a fuck, and we let th
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I use a handful of services that still rely on it, but I'm happy with click-to-activate for them.
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> I don't know if you use Google Chrome, but Adobe Flash Player in sandboxed in Chrome as a Native Client module. That is, indeed, smart, but I stopped using Chrome on the basis that I don't want to use a browser that is develo
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by justizin 11y ago
> It's annoying enough to force people to update while still giving you an option to run the old version if you absolutely have to. FireFox now has changed the default to click-to-activate for the Flash plugin, but this behavior a c
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by justizin 11y ago
Why not just get together with tech folks over tech, and bonsai people over bonsai, and cross-pollinate your life a bit? :)
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Light the way!
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by justizin 11y ago
Can you spend the credits on reserved instances? If so, they shouldn't have to be used by end of august.
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It seems like the argument being made here is that perhaps the systemd developers are afraid / unable to innovate in the kernel, which is in fact the overall system-wide daemon and parent to all processes.
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> For some (bad?) startups, this is an even more valuable function of engineers than engineering. It would be fantastic if that stopped being an important indicator.
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by justizin 11y ago
Nothing, really, but if that person gets into an accident, the insurance will probably be canceled immediately. When I was younger, my dad had my car on his insurance policy, but didn't tell me that it was cheaper because he said I liv
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by justizin 11y ago
I worked at OneLogin and always lamented that we didn't care about managing engineering-level access at all, esp since that was actually my job at OneLogin. Definitely impressed with some of what I see.
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They do their best to interfere with their fishing practices, following them around and pulling up their illegal nets, and sending their location to Interpol. It's likely that whatever remaining shred of legitimacy such operations have
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by justizin 11y ago
> We can setup manageable and productive fisheries that not only can sustain populations but also continue to reproduce and be healthy. We're not, really, though. :/ As long as the demand is highest for the least sustainable fi
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by justizin 11y ago
Seriously, I was reading a WIRED article, and in an ad slot, there's an image asking that I disable my ad-blocker for them, so I did, and reloaded. The two-page article was fronted by a 30-second or more preroll video and there were an
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by justizin 11y ago
An old friend of mine who visits SF periodically has certified that a mission burrito will make it through TSA, and always buys one at the last moment before boarding a plane, to enjoy during his readjustment to east coast life.
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Mission Accomplished!
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> Certain parts of Africa back then were just not tourist spots. Glad it's caught up to your expectations.

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