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by mmaunder 5y ago
Many want to be seen as a writer, filmmaker or programmer or they want the rewards. If you don’t love it, don’t do it. Writers write because they’re compelled to do so. Shonda Rhimes says exactly this. She is compelled. Same with the other
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by mmaunder 5y ago
English Wikipedia is 20 gigs which takes a few mins to download on a fiber connection. How is this product compelling without Wikipedia actively throttling downloads and access to unpaid users?
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Simplistic. Starts with lowest common denominator (monochrome nothingburger) and progresses from there too slowly.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
If you love synthwave check out Mega Drive’s VHS album. It’s epic and not known by many. I’ve seen acts like Com Truise live and I think Mega Drive is seriously under appreciated. It has a Neuromancer or Johnny Mnemonic cyberpunk urban dark
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Friends are made through shared experiences. The more intense the experience, the more durable the friendship. Figure out what you love doing and then find others to do it with. You may have to take social risks a few times to make the init
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by mmaunder 5y ago
The internet isn’t a static thing. It’s constantly evolving across multiple dimensions including tech, legal, costs, security, censorship and so on. The real challenge is creating a sustainable legal entity that is an organization that will
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Such a great read. I thought Paul's most profound insight was right at the end where he mentions a connection between writing and discovering new ideas. I've found this personally to be true. I was blogging heavily from 2005 until
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Release cadence. Trendy isn't a factor for a productive dev.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
While the authors accusation audit is impressive, I can assure you, as a CPAN contributor and someone who has launched some very successful Perl web apps, that Perl is in fact, completely and utterly dead. It died well over a decade ago whe
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by mmaunder 5y ago
They should drop a trap with food if the dogs are still ambulatory. Avoids having to hover and make multiple trap attempts, and risk running out of power in flight. It's also easier to pick up a trap with a dog in it than trap a dog te
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by mmaunder 5y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58749529
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by mmaunder 5y ago
BBC article on metaverse yesterday got me thinking that the time may have come for the success of lifesim/metaverse applications. I think we’ll see several providers emerge as we did with social, some consolidation and failures, with a
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It’s Not You. It’s Them. On Hacking and Responsible Disclosure(wordfence.com)
7 points by mmaunder 5y ago|0 comments
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Warns kids against jumping off cliffs. Accused of causing gravity.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Someone I know did something similar, was arrested in their college dorm, and at the sentencing hearing in federal court was fined and sentenced to 5 years probation, and now has a criminal record. This kid is very very lucky. Obviously the
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by mmaunder 5y ago
I wonder if ATC rerouting flights on routes that use more fuel, due to ATC staff shortages and military training on Friday, may have caused SW to elect to cancel more flights than other airlines. They’re on a very tight margin compared to l
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Unboxing starlink was a transformative experience for me. It was a weird feeling literally getting internet in a box without cable, copper or DSL or even a rural dish pointed at a local tower where you have to worry about obstacles. I plopp
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Repeaters fail too. And the solar cycle has been at a low for the past few years for HF, but if you can wait until 2025, it's going to be amazing!! ;-) https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Side note: We use Hughes Satellite internet when camping in BLM land and it works great. The only down-side is that the dish is almost 1 meter and takes up my entire truck bed. It takes 15 mins to point at the bird, which isn't a biggi
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by mmaunder 5y ago
I do. And I live on Orcas Island, so lets use that as an example. We have repeaters on Mt Constitution which is 2300 ft. I live right next to it and I'm in shadow for repeater coverage. When we hike the lakes in the area, we also can&#
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Same here in King and Snohomish counties last time I checked. The SAR teams have been using repeaters. I agree re better cell coverage for that use case, which would include data that could make SAR teams way more effective by e.g. tracking
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by mmaunder 5y ago
There's a difference between modernization and monetization. Commercial traffic can remain banned. License requirements remain in place. And we can have a standard way to transmit digital callsign before an encrypted packet. There are
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by mmaunder 5y ago
It can be if it's not available for commercial use. The WiFi spectrum is for commercial use. The ham spectrums could still require a license and could only be used for hobbyists. We'd need a way to verify who the sender is via une
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by mmaunder 5y ago
I actually think this is an excellent point and a good path forward. There's a LOT of spectrum available for this, and the HF bands could be particularly interesting. Right now we have large swaths of the bands used by contesters and r
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by mmaunder 5y ago
The trouble with HAM radio is that it isn't that useful anymore. We have amazing cell coverage, wireless broadband just about everywhere and the ability to socialize online. Ham used to be incredibly useful for global communications, r
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Masterclass is brilliant in that it is flattering to the audience (master learners only), taught by actual masters of the craft (credibility) and positioned in a way that gives the teacher permission to omit the fundamentals (this is master
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by mmaunder 5y ago
> "Breach" may be the required term for the Californian government, but this wouldn't qualify to most people as a traditional breach 6000 customers affected. If it wasn't a YC company you'd never say that.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
I’d speculate CFs secret sauce here is working their asses off to negotiate peering arrangements globally, and avoiding paying transit. Then passing on the savings.
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by mmaunder 5y ago
Conflict is not what you see on TV. Both physical and legal conflict come with tremendous long term cost and risks. Physical conflict is incredibly dangerous. You can accidentally kill someone or injure them for life in a street fight, ther
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China: Big Spender or Loan Shark(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mmaunder 5y ago|0 comments

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