mmagin

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by mmagin 9y ago
Yes, it's all shitty low bandwidth mobile phone voice codecs or VOIP stuff. Good old digital trunk lines (8 bit 8 ksample/sec mu-law -- the same as the .au file encoding, I think) sounded really quite good.
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by mmagin 9y ago
“If you are a parent and you have a teenage son or daughter coming home late and not doing their homework you might wonder what they are doing. It’s the same as employees.” Uhh, no. Employees are adults.
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by mmagin 9y ago
And in the old days you just looked these things up in the encyclopedia...
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by mmagin 9y ago
Related talk and slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffTJ1vPCSo https://schd.ws/hosted_files/osseu17/84/Replace%20UEFI%20wit... Interesting Atom boards mentioned in the talk: https:&#x2
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by mmagin 9y ago
Arguably this subject is just as interesting as other things (for example timekeeping in calendars) where attempts at computer (or pre-computer) recordkeeeping intersect with human realities.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Box fans don't work especially well with the backpressure. You'll get vastly less air flow. I think the dust-catching products I've seen like http://www.leevalley.com/us/Wood/page.aspx?p=65482&c
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by mmagin 9y ago
In my experience, using them for pollen, buy the largest ones and you can run it at the lowest level so that it's quiet and the filter lasts the longest. I've had the Kenmore-branded version of the Whirlpool Whispure AP51030K. I
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by mmagin 9y ago
Isn't Houston famous for having basically no zoning laws, at least compared to most developed parts of the US?
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by mmagin 9y ago
I recall last I looked at Solaris, it was far bigger than that. Microsoft was even in there (due to Xenix.)
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by mmagin 9y ago
Reminds me of the time they removed the feature of configuring NFS mounts from disk utility. (Admittedly it was this separate thing accessed through a menu, but it was useful.)
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by mmagin 9y ago
Remember that time the patent system saved us from Skynet!
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by mmagin 9y ago
As has been hinted at by other commenters, I think the big thing that's wrong with modern industrial agriculture (including some "organic" agriculture) is that it typically does not add carbon to the soil (via composted plant
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by mmagin 9y ago
So, you do not regard mental health problems as "disease"?
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by mmagin 9y ago
Unfortunately this link wants me to login.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Probably, I haven't really seen much other value so far in their fork. I would love to see more effort go into PHK's ntimed.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Cost, durability, probably easier to fit into an even thinner form factor. I don't like it either, but I'm pretty sure they're not just doing it to be a jerk.
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by mmagin 9y ago
It doesn't matter, those people are in meetings all day anyway.
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by mmagin 9y ago
> Yes, it was stupid for them to have everybody's PII attached to that one webserver. A single point of failure should never result in compromising the whole system. But think about how that architecture would work in practice. A cu
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by mmagin 9y ago
I actually love forcing people into a fairly consistent coding style, but everything else about the language irks me compared to my previous extensive use of Perl (on a large enterprise software product). One particularly big thing, that it
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by mmagin 9y ago
Every time I use some kind of graphical/web email client, I'm appalled by how hard it is for me to find the "show me all the headers" feature. In mutt when I have doubts about something I just hit "h". Admitte
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by mmagin 9y ago
Thank you for correcting me.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I've wondered if I'm unusual in finding white noise mentally exhausting.
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by mmagin 9y ago
The banking industry decided to, in effect, use it as an authentication token. Even though it was stated that it should not be used for such.
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by mmagin 9y ago
USPS is no longer really part of the federal government.
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by mmagin 9y ago
The first (2010-vintage Apple Airport Extreme) and second (2017-vintage TP-Link something something) I'd done IPv6 with behaved this way by default if you enabled IPv6. I don't see why Comcast or AT&T would likely do worse.
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by mmagin 9y ago
It is unlikely that ISPs are going to provide CPE that doesn't firewall incoming connections by default, even if it issues devices on the LAN real public IPv6 addresses.
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by mmagin 9y ago
I think most corporate deployments and most home routers that do IPv6 effectively firewall inbound connection attempts much like would have been done in IPV4 NAT implementations.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Ha. The defaults on Sun workstations (at least mid-late 90s) weren't that bad. HPUX seemed to default to making delete the interrupt character, at least in a shell when I telneted into them remotely.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Not really, I'm a dilettante at this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes is one of the more successful developments that really focused on passive solar design that I'm aware of.
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by mmagin 9y ago
Most Linux distributions do that by default today, Ubuntu included. It is definitely one of those things where the default case has been made to cover everything and has gotten really complicated. But the upgrade tool really should be smart

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