mikehollinger

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by mikehollinger 5y ago
> Somehow I managed to salvage an old computer and source myself a copy of the ISO and managed to setup an ADDS domain controller and join my mother's laptop to the domain. Ha. That brings me back as well. I installed (pirated) Wind
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
> You should test it then. If you've never tested you backups, you have none. I have, and so far we're one out of three. Mac A seems to restore (at least the last time we tried it) Mac B failed to restore Mac C fails to back up
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
Based on this, and on my own experiences, it looks like it's time to move on from Synology. But... to what? I've had a DS412+ since, well, 2012. I've dutifully replaced drives as they went bad, run disk scrubs, file system sc
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
>> The situation is even better with usb-c now It isn't. It really isn't. I spent two weeks buying various inexpensive, possibly knock-off, and expensive name-brand cables from monoprice, amazon, and best buy to attempt to c
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
You captured this well. I genuinely thought this was just something that happened in my company, which has been around for a bit. ;-) I accidentally stumbled upon your technique independently! A) I’d love to have a coffee with you. Virtual
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
This possibly sensationalist article [1] on Vice discusses a motorcycle airbag vest that requires a subscription to work. [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyyd/this-motorcycle-airba...
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
Slightly related, but there's a great hour-long lecture [1] by Colonel Randy Gordon, who's a test pilot, discussing the flight control systems for the F-22, contrasting it (a bit) to other jets, and even to a Cessna. He talks abou
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
> Shoddy hardware here, not shoddy software. Mm-hmm. Story time! Let me tell you about my favorite chip bug that was resolved with firmware. :-) My first assignments out of college were on firmware for complex enterprise-class servers.
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
> I've never had a fake product I've accidentally bought a fake board game. We didn't know until we reached out to the manufacturer because the cardboard cutouts for coins / tokens / markers were all offset rando
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by mikehollinger 5y ago
> An (IMO) Interesting question is how to reduce the risks of things like this happening. I look forward to finding out if this was a “fraud system gone wrong” or a more basic ledger system failing to do sums correctly. Partially address
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
> Here what is claimed is encoding for any betacoronavirus's spike protein. Aha! That's what is surprising to me - I assumed that that would have been done previously / protected previously. That explains it.
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
> It's an interesting structure... I think that's the question. I'm very much used to reading "A machine-readable medium, comprising..." I'm curious what bits are unique to COVID-19, and what bits are genera
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
Reading the primary claim is fascinating: "A composition, comprising: a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) comprising an open reading frame encoding a betacoronavirus (BetaCoV) S protein or S protein subunit formulated in a lipid nanopa
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
If you like that, I encourage you to try out Universal Paperclips! [1] It's actually a quite clever take on the genre. :-) [1] https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
Yup. That raspberry pi with stuff on it is a clever way of addressing a wider market. :-) If you’re clever or worried about business continuity you can learn from the practices of some enterprise it providers and add built in self checks, c
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
> People will never pay for what people now derisively call "content" nowadays. Correct, but would you pay for better content? I started a subscription to the local business journal over the holidays. I'm genuinely glad I
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
Cool beans. :-)
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
I'm actually kind of confused here; NVDLA has been around for a while. What is new or interesting here that changes anything? I did a cursory look to see if there's any new announcements, but - even things like the roadmap on the
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
> I have no idea who the CEO of any other car company is... On the topic of a good story, allow me to introduce you to the story of Carlos Ghosn, who assembled together Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi into a single conglomerate, was arre
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
Huh. That rather ominous reset option did it. Why thank you kind stranger. :-)
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
> They are becoming the AT&T Wireless of Cloud providers. On that note - I have AT&T. I'm fine with AT&T, except that group MMS / messaging is broken with non-iPhone users. I've tried calling support, walking i
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
> Ah yes the commitment to make macs the best gaming machines! So... if Apple brings iOS games to a MacBook, does that satisfy that promise? :-)
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
There's a pretty good article from the BBC [1] on the "bad grammar" of ordering a marinara pizza with cheese in Italy. It got covered on HN back in 2015. [2] There're some pretty good anecdotes in there if you like this
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
Best Buy is my secret weapon. For the last couple of years I’ve gotten gifts for people last minute with same day pickup - as small and simple as new earbuds and as large as a color laser printer. This Christmas I even got an echo show from
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
So where do I go to see my profile and data? I got a kick out of requesting my lexis nexis profiles - which eventually resulted in two very large packets of paper (several hundred pages) arriving in the mail.
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
Ha. I actually hadn’t. Nice.
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
> inappropriate for all the uses mentioned above... I'll raise you. See Papyrus. [1] Who needs "'I'd rather be golfing' on a t-shirt in Papyrus, of all fonts? [1] https://www.instagram.com/papyrus
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
Chevy did something similar with OK Go years ago. [1] It was pretty slick. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
There's a second chapter to this story that the OP didn't get to see! If you leave a bad review on a genuinely-bad experience (for example the 3rd-party Apple stylus that I tried) - you'll find that after a few days you get
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by mikehollinger 6y ago
> Now think about if some gmail accounts got Thanos snapped out of existence. What kind of digital death would that be as you would NEVER be able to recover your accounts, at least for most people who don't have 2FA. An interesting

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