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by osteele 8y ago
I've been using Krypton[1-4] for 2FA PGP and ssh. It uses a phone as a security token, instead of using a Yubikey. (I'm not affiliated, or even a paying customer. I just benefit from freeloading off their freemium model.) This is
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Adam developed the initial runtime implementation of data binding and constraints — with additional help from Max Carlson, and, later, P. Tucker Withington and Henry Minsky — while I did the compiler work and language design[1][2]. Adam et
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Also worth noting: Hydrogen , the Jupyter plugin for Atom[1][2]. Hydrogen is a fantastically well-executed and useful piece of software. (As is Jupyter.) I’ve used it in my own programming, and also in teaching introductory software develo
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I’ll put in a plug for my former employer’s OpenLaszlo, introduced in 2002 (preview) and 2003 (version 1.0). OpenLaszlo was most immediately inspired by HTML and (for data binding) XSLT. I looked at Mozart for ideas on constraints, but we e
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by osteele 8y ago
Museums are used by historians. Art museums are used by art historians — professional, but also anyone interested in questions about the history of art: when and where was this subject, theme, material, or technique introduced; how common w
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by osteele 8y ago
The works of the philosopher J. Austin, author of _How to Do Things With Words_[1] (and the wonderfully titled _Sense and Sensibilia_[2]), seem eminently more relevant to law, and I hope are cited as well. Austin writes about “performative
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by osteele 8y ago
I thought it was broken in my browser, because it looked like the content area was missing and I didn't see any links!
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In UCG gardens — as with data structure and algorithm design — there are trade-offs among retrieval difficulty (friction, for humans; time complexity, for machines), update difficulty, centralization and skill set of contributors, and centr
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For most of us, it's cheaper to rent, for example, an AWS p3.2xlarge @ $3.06/hr on-demand or $2/hr 1-year reserved.
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“The Union of Concerned Scientists did the best and most rigorous assessment[1] of the carbon footprint of Tesla's and other electric vehicles vs internal combustion vehicles including hybrids. They found that the manufacturing of a fu
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GM had inventory >> demand, Tesla has demand >> inventory. Durant micro-managed; Musk both has obvious tendencies there, but also just broadcast a memo directing employees communicate directly, without going up and down a chain
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I expect a more conservative CEO would have been better at setting and meeting expectations, worse at marketing, and maybe worse at thereby gaining access to capital under favorable terms (including via reservations). A traditional CEO woul
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by osteele 8y ago
Google’s gen2 TPU was announced May 2017, and available in beta February 2018. That 2018.02 date is probably the appropriate comparison to Volta’s 2017.12 and Zen’s 2017 dates. EDIT: I’m trying to draw a comparison between the availability
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by osteele 8y ago
A patent doesn’t grant the assignee the right to use a technique. It grants them the right to keep others from doing so. Whether or not this patent is granted, a separate mechanism, such as regulation or legislation, would be necessary to
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by osteele 8y ago
This is standard legal advice. It reduces the chance that an infringer will be found guilty of a willful violation, that results in treble damages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treble_damages
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“Would it not be a great satisfaction to the king to know at a designated moment every year the number of his subjects, in total and by region, with all the resources, wealth & poverty of each place; [the number] of his nobility and ecc
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“The moving sofa problem or sofa problem is a two-dimensional idealisation of real-life furniture-moving problems and asks for the rigid two-dimensional shape of largest area A that can be maneuvered through an L-shaped planar region with l
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by osteele 8y ago
Claims that a previously-hyped technology is now uninteresting are pretty standard for this phase of the hype cycle.[1] Of course, the fact that other technologies have gone through both a peak and trough before settling between them isn&#x
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Cf. xkcd #1468 How worried you should be when various things happen to you in movies vs. real life. https://www.xkcd.com/1468/
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When the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, files had a data fork and a resource fork[1]. The data fork was normal file data. The resource fork was an map of (OSType, int16) -> data, where OSType[2] was a four-character resource type iden
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“ Although e-residents receive government-issued digi- ID’s similar to those of citizens, e-residency does not confer citizenship, tax residency, residence, or right of entry to Estonia or to the European Union.” – https://e-resi
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by osteele 8y ago
This is un-broken as of 2018-03-09[1,2,3]. `brew install python` installs python3, but it only installs a link to this at `/usr/local/bin/python3`, not `/usr/local/bin/python` (as it did for a while).
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I used to do that but sometimes you have to read them over the phone. Now I use the “Words” recipe to generate a 2-3 word answer for each field. For example, if I had to fill out my answers right now, my high school would be “Popcorn Gizzar
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These things can be different: whether you take personal responsibility for a mistake, whether you are legally responsible for a mistake, whether your manager holds you responsible for a mistake, whether your team holds you responsible for
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This PHP code https://github.com/osteele/wideurl.com/blob/master/wideurl.p... turns e.g. http://osteele.com/archives/2006/04/wideurl into `http://w-i-d-e-u-r-l.
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“And then we take this information where we find it and we go into our architecture team and our performance architects and really drill down and figure out where is the bottleneck. Is it the OS is it in the drivers is it in the application
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“Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for. In plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means. I’m an optimist. I believe people are smart. And some people want to share more data than other people do. Ask them. Ask them ev
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Two uses for tests are (1) detecting a corner case or other non-standard or exceptional case, and (2) performing case analysis on a type that can have two values. (1) often raises an exception or returns an error, failure type, or zero type
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danah boyd wrote in a 2010 essay (“Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated”, http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/15/faceboo... ): “In my post yesterday, I emphasized that what’s
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Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated (2010)(zephoria.org)
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