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by pjsg 2y ago
I tried entering "Marty Feldman" as a search query. Unfortunately, the responses don't show movie titles, but I couldn't spot him in the few that I tried. "The Sting" was one movie that I could identify. Needs
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by pjsg 2y ago
There are two challenges -- one is getting a sensitive enough camera to be able to record meteors. The Sony 'starlight' sensors have the required sensitivity. The next is to handle the data stream from the camera and to extra the
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by pjsg 2y ago
The meteors go in the direction from darker to white. So the white part of the trail is the lowest and last part of the trail. Nearly all meteors do not actually impact the ground -- they burn up in the atmosphere. However, sometimes you ge
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by pjsg 2y ago
Unclear what the relationship is with the Global Meteor Network ( https://globalmeteornetwork.org/ ) that has people build meteor cameras, often based on RPis, and then contribute the data so that meteor orbits can be determi
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by pjsg 2y ago
A film (well worth watching) about this sort of place is Manufactured Landscapes: https://archive.org/details/ManufacturedLandscapes_201902 -- you don't really get the whole scale of things until you see something
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by pjsg 2y ago
Interviewees rightly complain that whiteboard coding exercises are unfair -- some people don't perform under pressure. A take home exercise is the solution for that. Make it time boxed (say 2 hours) and the interviewee can use any reso
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by pjsg 2y ago
The article is misleading. You can just implement SRS on your personal domain and it will work just fine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Rewriting_Scheme for an overview of how it works.
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by pjsg 2y ago
As far as I can make out, SRS is actually the solution to the forwarding problem that the linked article is complaining about. Yes, it is a pain to setup, but it is quite doable. I also forward email sent to my domain to gmail.
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by pjsg 3y ago
I felt it in Mass -- I was working on the second floor. My wife was on the ground floor and didn't feel it. From our internal slack channel, this seems fairly common -- people on the ground floor don't feel it here in MA, but high
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by pjsg 3y ago
Actually I'm more interested in the game board. If a space has (say) 3 mines next to it, then the numeral 3 will appear (as today). However, when I add a flag next to it, then the count should go down to 2 -- i.e. the number is always
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by pjsg 3y ago
I'd like to have the option to show "remaining" mines. I've played https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/ enough in "countdown mode" (i.e. where the numbers are the number of hidden mines) that I can&
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by pjsg 3y ago
Yes -- that is right. Back in those days, you could build the linux kernel from scratch on a laptop with 16MB of memory! I used to commute (on a weekly basis) from Boston to NYC, and you could build and boot and test a kernel between taking
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by pjsg 3y ago
This is sad news. I worked (a little bit) with him when I added the adjtime system call to linux back in the 0.99 days.... He built stuff that worked and is run everywhere. That is a great legacy. He will be remembered.
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by pjsg 3y ago
I'd pcap a bunch of the traffic -- in particular the DNS requests -- that will tell you where it is connecting. Hopefully it is using TLS, and then the SNI headers can give you more information. I run a local DNS resolver and so I capt
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by pjsg 3y ago
At the start of my career (late 70s), I worked at IBM (Hursley Park) in Product Assurance (their version of QA). We wrote code and built hardware to test the product that was our area of responsibility (it was a word processing system). We
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by pjsg 3y ago
Yeah -- it is certainly quicker to use the keypad that I have outside the garage door than try and use their app. In particular, it keeps asking me for a username and password (which I can't remember because who remembers 16 character
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by pjsg 3y ago
MQTT is the solution for this. Note that the garage door openers talk MQTT to the myq service (over TLS with preshared keys). It should be possible to subscribe to events from your garage door opener(s) and also to send commands to it.
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by pjsg 3y ago
When I was at Cisco (over 10 years ago), one of the clauses in the PSB (Product Security Baseline) was "No default credentials". Back then, most of the issues arose in products that were produced by companies that Cisco subsequent
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by pjsg 3y ago
Note that this is entirely different to Google Photos Archive. I have appear to have two pictures in Google Album Archive -- one of which I have used in a blogger post (maybe 10+ years ago). I have no idea whether this shutdown will break m
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by pjsg 3y ago
When the school was based in Berkshire (before they moved to Bath), we used to see the students, dressed in the uniforms, waiting on the railway station platform at Kintbury -- which, in retrospect, is a little surprising as I would have th
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by pjsg 3y ago
If a candidate said that they would use ChatGPT to answer the problem, then I'd start to talk to them about the legal issues surrounding that approach. What would they do if the hiring organization forbade the use of ChatGPT for anythi
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by pjsg 4y ago
Yeah -- I was disappointed that he didn't show an example of a maze which is not solved by water (for a finite amount of head). I most often experience this phenomenon is when I'm putting the garden hoses away for the winter when
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by pjsg 4y ago
I heard Jeff tell this story and it was about a dining table that often arrived with a gouge in the top surface. It was costing Amazon a lot to ship, and a lot to get it returned, and the table was essentially worthless when returned. Even
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by pjsg 4y ago
Doing this is not actually that complicated -- check out https://globalmeteornetwork.org/ for more information. I have a camera pointing due south in Massachusetts and I didn't record it -- I think it was too far west
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by pjsg 4y ago
I want to know how to prevent my house from freezing (I'm in New England) in the middle of winter during a multiday power outage. Today, I run a 7kW generator that can keep the oil furnace running and the fans to circulate the air thro
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by pjsg 4y ago
I worked with Mike in 1977 when he was he was assigned to mentor me as a gap-year student working at Hursley. He was a rock climber and I recall many discussions about the physics of ropes and what happened when/if you fell and the rop
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by pjsg 4y ago
I can recall a letter from Japan being delivered with "Wolfram, Eton, England" on it. So I believe the parent comment!
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by pjsg 4y ago
Who were you in the Essex Mud? I was playing at about the same time as the Wizard Gorpli.
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by pjsg 4y ago
I always object to US retail adding Tax to the price of the items. In the UK (and I expect Europe) the price on the shelf is the price that you pay. VAT is included. In the US, you walk into a store and have to become an expert at understan
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by pjsg 4y ago
I never understood how Amazon decided which orders qualified for Smile -- but now (too late) I know. It turns out that I only contributed $1.29 -- but my charity (EFF) received over $1M. I guess that this indicates that they did some good o

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