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by notakio 4y ago
This probably doesn't deserve it's own HN article, but seems highly appropriate for this thread; in 1998, an artist named "The User" released an album of music composed for dot matrix printers. The recording quality is o
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by notakio 4y ago
That's a reasonable bet, you're on. End of August deadline, my chosen charity would be the Green Beret Foundation (having nothing to do with the issue in question; I just believe that their work does direct good for those they ser
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by notakio 4y ago
Roe vs. Wade has not actually changed. Once it does, we can "circle back" and discuss the real world changes, which I suspect won't be anywhere near as widespread as we are led to believe. What has happened seems like an in
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by notakio 4y ago
Our "representative democracy" has been entirely coopted by a single entity which has mastered, through marketing and deception, masking itself as two separate entities. The reality of this entity is that it is uniform, philosophi
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by notakio 4y ago
Know when to walk away. Be aware of the signs you should, and heed them. When the people you respect are all leaving, there is likely a solid reason to do so, yourself. And when you're leaving, if the company suddenly feels compelled t
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by notakio 4y ago
The IFF system of the Stinger weapon system is surprisingly robust, and non-trivial to circumvent. It essentially prevents you from locking on to any vehicle equipped with an IFF transmitter (meaning if you point a western-made Stinger at a
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by notakio 4y ago
Rah. USMC austerity is fundamental to the corps, from what is supplied to individual Marines, all the way up to expenditures on larger tactical equipment, with the notable exception of the Osprey.
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by notakio 5y ago
I train periodically for a small subset of medical response skills, but I'm not dedicating the kind of time to it that would be required to keep the license up to date. And I would hardly assume "no experience"; though I&#x27
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by notakio 5y ago
Yes, to both; the latter as the result of my experience with the former. But I would say that the vast majority of the training that I have received the most use out of was obtained outside of either, though often from trainers who are gene
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by notakio 5y ago
"Combat skills" include medical skills, communications skills, planning, coordination, and effective teamwork skills. None of the training I've ever been involved with has been focused on turning a single person into Rambo, b
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by notakio 5y ago
Training is training, and it's all beneficial. And a good portion of my training has been in trauma care, medical response, and techniques. It resulted in my getting my EMT license, though I never used it. It all falls under "hard
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by notakio 5y ago
One aspect that the article does not cover enough is the importance of training. Whether that's medical training, self-defense training, survival training or general preparedness training, training is what makes gear/supplies usef
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by notakio 5y ago
If it isn't broke, you don't need to fix it.
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by notakio 5y ago
Technically the name for this was "Open Compute."
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by notakio 5y ago
It seems to be wholly lifted from Pete Blaber's "The Mission, the Men, and Me" ( https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Men-Me-Lessons-Commander/dp/0... ). For what it's worth, the book is fascinating, a
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by notakio 5y ago
I'm building a method to use Twitter (via API) as a configuration management repository, storing encrypted configuration files in twitter, then using API calls from new network clients to grab the role-appropriate configuration files f
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by notakio 5y ago
As someone who was online in 1987, I've found the internet significantly less enjoyable as it has become filled with "regular people", hoping to share the knowledge they don't have with people who didn't ask for it
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by notakio 6y ago
As the dude who built POIPAAS.com, it amuses me greatly to see it here.