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by korethr 5y ago
Well, this a nostalgic article for me. I first started dialing into bulletin boards as a tween, on a 386 (and later a 486) cobbled together from bits scrounged from garage sales and the e-waste from the various businesses of my parent'
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by korethr 5y ago
On that first example, "prepone" might not officially be a word, yet, but I encourage them to keep at it. Its construction follows the same structure as its intended antonym, even back to the etymology of "postpone". Unl
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by korethr 5y ago
When Chrome was new and shiny, I used it for a time. Then, the first time I found myself needing to kill Chrome because it was completely locked up, I found myself staring at a wall of chrome processes in the task list, not knowing which on
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by korethr 5y ago
> The shutdown mechanisms are specifically about the containment of heat. The problem is generally about a reaction not being shut off. Indeed? I was of the understanding that the shutdown mechanisms were specifically for halting the cha
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by korethr 5y ago
> Now healthy people with a fraction of a percent risk of hospitalization, much less death, act like agoraphobes - apparently willing to do so indefinitely. If someone wants to be an agoraphobe, they can do so. But what bugs me is that t
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by korethr 5y ago
So, do these operate on the same design principles as the various Gen 2 reactor designs that have been involved in nuclear accidents, e.g. Three Mile Island, or Fukushima? I raise this question not out of an anti-nuclear hysteria, but a won
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by korethr 5y ago
> What I'm very curious about is what makes me perceive risk so much differently than these others. I'm wondering if it's conditioning (I spent a big chunk of my life building houses, and therefore climbing on extension la
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by korethr 5y ago
If anyone is interested in starting composting at home, I can recommend a Hotbin[1][2]. I recently purchased one and have had a good experience with it so far. Being made entirely out of expanded polypropylene (not polystyrene/EPS&#x2F
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by korethr 5y ago
I didn't post about backups to imply that they're the solution to ransomware. But having seen what ransomware can do, I know that backups can be the difference between loss of productivity, and the end of the business. If you are
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by korethr 5y ago
I thought this was sufficiently implied with "keep them segregated from the rest of your infrastructure," but yes, you are correct. It is important to have a set of backups that can't be destroyed by the attackers. You might
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by korethr 5y ago
Backups. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of backups. Take backups, verify your ability to restore from them, and keep them segregated from the rest of your infrastructure. It doesn't matter how inelegant and hacky your backup
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The Complext Origins of Food Safety Rules(scientificamerican.com)
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by korethr 5y ago
I will offer a counter-example to this. I was an alternate for my local county's grand jury for a year. I was selected through the same voir dire process used to place me on a petit jury for a criminal trial years later. It was wholly
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by korethr 5y ago
In my experience, it depends on the band and the venue. Indoor venues are a lot harder to get the bass resonance right. I don't think I've ever had bad sound (for whatever style of music was being performed) at an outdoor venue. O
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by korethr 5y ago
Dollars to doughnuts the PPPoE implementation is tied into a billing system.
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by korethr 5y ago
Just because they are major places doesn't mean they are right or such practice buys any improvement in security worth the operational cost it imposes.
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by korethr 5y ago
There's a difference between blanket blocking all ICMP and selectively blocking or rate-limiting a subset of ICMP messages according to an accurate threat model for your various networks. The latter, properly done, is unlikely to brea
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by korethr 5y ago
Is it just me, or does his look quite a lot like a population density heat-map? XKCD 1138[1] comes to mind. For those persons concerned solely about light polution, this is definitely useful. But another thing I think would be interesting i
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by korethr 5y ago
And when I am in my less charitable moods, I would claim that said people are unqualified to not just to configure networks, but to have opinions worth considering when it comes to setting network policy.
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by korethr 5y ago
> Of course, there was a misconfigured firewall that wouldn't fragment and wouldn't send "ICMP won't fragment". Blocked or dropped ICMP has caused me heartburn as well. I am pretty sure my co-workers are used to
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by korethr 5y ago
IMO, the CompSci department would be the one most severely and immediately affected. Is it not better that the CompSci dept head addresses the issues of their department before the dean has to get involved?
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by korethr 5y ago
I would love it if those down-voting this comment would explain why. Is this comment untrue? How? Does not metal siding end up grounded, however weakly, by rain downspouts anchored to the side of the house then contacting the ground. Does n
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by korethr 5y ago
I actually tried coordinating an effort like this with my neighbors when I lived in an apartment complex. That effort very quickly died, for most neighbors not knowing much about their wifi other than that the box with blinking lights made
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by korethr 5y ago
I'm probably romanticizing and projecting, but I imagine that scenario going something like this: * lrvick knocks on guilty neighbor's door. * guilty party's non-technical brother answers Brother: Yeah? lrvick: Hey, I notice
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by korethr 5y ago
And yet, there are Fortune 100 financial institutions that require their vendors to have a policy of mandatory 30 day rotation for sysadmins and 90 days for non-privileged persons. Companies that don't have and enforce said policy are
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by korethr 5y ago
As someone who's painted professionally, I can confirm the truth of this.
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by korethr 5y ago
The big box stores employees at the paint counter seem as ignorant as a novice about the vagaries of application most likely because they themselves are novices. They may know quite a bit about colors and matching and how to work the mixing
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by korethr 6y ago
Upton Sinclair supposedly said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." That would be why SEs at Google et. al. seem incapable of understanding. The business mo
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by korethr 6y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, the Sparkfun and Adafruit breakout boards are indeed a boon for prototyping. It's just that many hobbyists (myself included) get as far as the prototype working as intended, and call it a day. And with &quo
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by korethr 6y ago
I like that phrase, "Sparkfun spaghetti". I shall be stealing it.

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