packet_nerd

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by packet_nerd 6y ago
In the Bullshit Jobs book, he quotes then president Obama as defending not streamlining healthcare because millions of jobs depend on it's inefficiencies.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
The box in people's home's colloquially known as a router actually commonly combines a lot of functions into one: * router * firewall * NAT device * modem * switch * access point * DNS resolver * DHCP server And probably others I&
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
My wife and many of her coworkers quite their jobs in the last two weeks as working from home wasn't an option. My understanding is they won't be eligible for unemployment?
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Switch and router OSes have a unique CLI configuration system that is both simple and quite powerful. Compared to Linux I especially like the ability to enumerate the entire configuration with one command ("show running-config" in
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
L1 to L4 are just a shorthand way network engineers talk about: 1. The physical connection and voltage/light levels 2. Switching and MAC addresses 3. Routing and IP addresses 4. TCP/UDP and port numbers Of course we k
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Agreed. The wireless (and wired) login/ToS page redirects common in guest Wifi and corporate environments were never really designed for. They work now by abusing what are essentially design flaws, and they don't even work very we
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
They use wood construction because of fire codes? How does that work?
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> VPNs do help maintain one small level of privacy (namely from your ISP) I never really saw that as a VPN's main purpose. Far from cutting out the ISP, you now have 2 ISPs. One that can see "everything" and another that c
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> I also think there should be a similar file for the regular expression that expresses a site’s allowable passwords. I disagree. Password "complexity" requirements need to die and instead every site's password regex shoul
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
It starts with an oscillator circuit producing an alternating current sine wave at the desired frequency. The oscillator circuit often involves a crystal in order to generate an accurate and stable frequency. The alternating current is then
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I didn't see addressed in the article, what about the ground? What keeps air from leaking out through porous sand and rock?
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I want a browser extension (or native feature) that searches several engines at once and display's the results side-by-side. Sort of like this: +-------------------------------+ | Search string | +--------
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I know it's a minor annoyance, but it's something that jades me every single day and gets really old after a while. I feel companies and websites should do a better job of being respectful. A "what should we call you" fi
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
It's not something Burmese women are used to doing, and if you think about it it's kind of a weird holdover from a much more patriarchal time. But, if she'd known how difficult it would be I think she would have anyway.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> There are people who only have one name My wife for one. At the very least make the last name field optional.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Myanmar is another one, almost everyone has just one given name unless they are specifically following the western or some other style (and that's rare in my experience). The last name field should always be optional at a minimum.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
My wife is from Myanmar, where most people only have one name (no first, last, etc.) and has experienced endless frustration since immigrating here to the US. It's been quite difficult for her and even limiting in some ways and she&#x2
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Not the parent, but true in a sense. Communication is the act of conveying information from one person's consciousness to another. In the usual encrypted chat scenario, that path is unencrypted at two points (plaintext input, and plain
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> Few companies survive pissing off the nerds I wish this sage advice was part of every business executive's education. :-)
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
It's interesting to me to think, compared to our evolutionary history, schools are really really foreign and unnatural. Until relatively recently, the average kid would have grown up in a small community surrounded by her parents, rela
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
My Kindle's never been connected to the network (always in flight mode) since I got it and I haven't had issues. I use Calibri and a USB cable to load ebooks. Not sure, would it be possible for it to call home through the USB cabl
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
It should be about learning. I think finding exploits should be encouraged and rewarded.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Singapore and South Korea?
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Agreed. However, in terms of perverse economic incentives I think the private for-profit prisons are a much much larger problem than prison work programs. They are not bringing in anything on the scale of what private prison systems bring i
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> Illegal drugs channel money into large organized crime syndicates An excellent argument for decriminalizing them. > All drug offenses are violent. Illegal... First you say "all", then "illegal". Which is it?
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Don't even get me started.... In many countries it's hard or near impossible for US citizens to get bank accounts and other financial services, I guess due to them not wanting to deal with reporting requirements? Europeans, Aussie
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I haven't tried it yet, but Peertube looks like an interesting alternative to Youtube. Mastadon and Matrix are similar exciting projects too. I host a Matrix instance that I and my extended family use to keep in touch, and we can seaml
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Slack excels? In my experience it's really slow and clunky and consumes way more memory than it should. As the sysadmin at my company I ban all electron apps unless it's clear they are exceptionally well written and/or there
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> It works by pushing against the surrounding medium. Not really. If a fan was able to blow air in a vacuum it would produce thrust as well. Basically a rocket does that. It's just blowing gasses out the back. It's Newton'
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
It really should not be acceptable for financial contracts either. Consumers lost more than 16B to fraud in 2016: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/consumers-lost-more-than-16b... The Equifax breach lost data o

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