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by mcshicks 4y ago
There is legislation, the secure digital identity act making it's way through congress. It would task NIST to create a standard.
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by mcshicks 4y ago
There was a bill to improve digital identity in the us Congress but I don't think it went anywhere. I wrote my congressman about it more than once. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/
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by mcshicks 4y ago
There was a bill to improve digital identity in the us Congress but I don't think it went anywhere. I do think govt issued digital id, while in some ways problematic would be a step in the right direction https://www.congre
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by mcshicks 4y ago
Because websites change the rules when they get popular.
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by mcshicks 4y ago
You might try sonus locus they Livestream some outdoor places.
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by mcshicks 4y ago
America spends more per Capita than any other nation. https://www.statista.com/statistics/236541/per-capita-health...
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I wonder the exact same thing. I worked on CDMA infrastructure in the 90s and that's exactly how we did it.
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by mcshicks 5y ago
While I've generally been pretty good at picking up things by just doing them I was always a just ok student. Later in life when I wanted to start learning some things outside of work I took the coursera course "learning how to l
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by mcshicks 5y ago
There is a digital identity act making it's way through Congress. Check it out and if you support it write your local representative. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4258...
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by mcshicks 5y ago
You might try asking your question over at the eevblog forum. I have a Rigol scope and when I wanted to use a linux host I found a driver for it over there. So in terms of host side options there is quite a bit. I think this was the one I
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I remember reading about Dynamicland on hacker news, I think quite a while ago. A few years ago (pre-covid) I went to the very popular art exhibit "teamlab borderless" in Japan, which was fascinating. While I understand their go
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by mcshicks 5y ago
We really enjoyed the book "101 unuseless japanese inventions" with our kids when they were growing up, which was the first time I heard about chindogu. It might still make a nice gift for some people, especially adolescents. It
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by mcshicks 5y ago
Afaik that solution isn't available on any existing consumer electronics for legacy bt audio e.g. a2dp.
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I feel like the real improvement in aptx is not the audio quality, but the latency for keeping audio and video in sync when watching tv (or computers for that matter). I used to work in the bluetooth chip industry and there really were ver
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by mcshicks 5y ago
Not exactly the same problem, but my wife has been unable to visit my elderly mother in law who lives alone in a different country because of covid. My mother in law has problems from time to time with email, skype, etc. We switched to zo
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I was going to make a similar comment. Basically don't do anything for a few years to get used to the money, although I might rent for a while before I buy unless I really knew I wanted to live in that place. It's a good time to
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I had to do some testing with ble temp sensors once we're I needed to isolate them and then put them in a freezer. They were in advertising mode so I could tell at least if I could see them with a phone. A round tin that was used for
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by mcshicks 5y ago
Specifically in terms of being predictive you might be interested in reading Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock if you are not familiar with it already. He tried to empirically test experts poli
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by mcshicks 5y ago
Legos are great. My son was lego fanatic and he did learn some programming on mindstorm (rcx) and did some c like programming on it as well (not quite c it was called). He also learned basic from books and old tandy computers. I taught (
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I think it's pretty popular for cloning raspberry pi SD cards. It has a feature where you can stick a bunch of USB SD card peripherals and program multiple cards at the same time. Honestly most people don't care too much about th
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by mcshicks 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210901081906/https://kevinboon...
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by mcshicks 5y ago
Yeah I think I was expecting a home lab = "home electronics lab", although some networking equipment is still required. The rack mount stuff is nice, but yeah, scopes, bench dmm and power supplies, solder station, cable hangers a
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I got a good deal on a used x230 ($140) with a docking station and charger on craigslist. But I had to wait like half a year before I saw one I thought was a good deal, and drive an hour to get it Luckily I was able to combine it with ano
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by mcshicks 5y ago
You are exactly right about the hand waving. I think it's kind of actually an ad for the "monitoring partners", like this one mentioned in the link. Here is a video from one of them that talks about their "Universal Ch
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by mcshicks 5y ago
You might like Philip Tetlock's "Expert Political Judgement: How Good is it? How can we know?". He quantitatively studied political predictions for I think it was 20 years and how different cognitive styles affect effective
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I have a friend works for American cinematheque. If you live in the Los Angeles area this is what you are looking for. Not just old movies but q&a with people involved in the film making. https://americancinematheque.com&#
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by mcshicks 5y ago
Hey that could be. So yeah I didn't mean to imply the goods were different, just less selection. I mostly go to the ones in Oceanside and Keary Mesa, and the last one I visited in Japan was in Fujisawa early 2019. I haven't bee
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by mcshicks 5y ago
There are Daiso locations in the US (and I think many other countries now), at least in California. They aren't as good as the ones in Japan, and they have somewhat different items in one location than another. But they do have lots
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by mcshicks 5y ago
I found some Japanese erasable pens (frixion) at my local Daiso and fell in love with them. .7 and .5 mm tips.
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by mcshicks 5y ago
It's pretty easy in California to go to Community College while in High School, I took second year algebra in my high school, and on the recommendation of my high school teacher took Trig at the local community college (next door to th

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