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by pjsg 4y ago
Mobile phones need charging and connectivity. As has been pointed out, existing landlines are powered by the exchange and so you can have a traditional phone that works whenever the circuit to the exchange is (mostly) working. In particular
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by pjsg 4y ago
My original (Leather covered) Chumby is still my alarm clock. The display is no longer as good as it once was, but it keeps working! Of course, it never had power fail recovery (or battery backup), so if you lose power in the middle of the
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by pjsg 4y ago
Take lots of pictures -- you will never look at the video. Take the "same" picture each month for the first couple of years. We had our daughter propped up on the couch next to a teddy bear. Stringing the pictures together showed
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by pjsg 4y ago
I think that this twitter thread describes the horror show in trying to build such a sensor. TL;DR It ain't easy. https://twitter.com/rbaron_/status/1491467468996431873
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by pjsg 4y ago
I have a Bramley tree in my orchard here in Massachusetts, so they are available. I have never seen them in a store or otherwise commercially available. Look at this as an opportunity to grow your own food!
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by pjsg 4y ago
When I was a consultant, the saying was A consultant is someone who borrows the client's watch, tells them the time, and keeps the watch. In doing consulting, my biggest failure was turning down a class A network for the client
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by pjsg 4y ago
I'm also a literal greybeard (early 60s) on the east coast, and I haven't found this ageism to be a problem. Young companies are about "what can you do for me" and 40 years of experience gives me the intuition about arch
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by pjsg 4y ago
I would like to have seen the decryption of a known WWII German message to verify that all the little details are correct.
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by pjsg 5y ago
All I wanted for my Macbook Pro (with 4 USB-C) was to get one USB-A and power passthrough. The USB-A would then get chained to a genuine USB-A hub. After two years, I'm now on my third hub. The second one was made by EUASOO and it died
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by pjsg 5y ago
Of course, it wouldn't have helped in this case as it was the third party site that had the bad certificate. That fact is not signalled anywhere. I don't recall anybody (even the most ardent supporters of EV) saying that the brows
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by pjsg 5y ago
One puzzling aspect is that these vehicles don't seem to be correlated with the age of drivers. Given that the older that a driver is, the more likely they are to have at least one DUI, you would expect to find a lot of cars that older
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by pjsg 5y ago
The problem with this filesystem is that it doesn't actually protect against power fails. Mostly you are OK, but not always. I run an afl-base fuzzer against it back in 2020, and found a bunch of issues leading to assert failures in th
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by pjsg 5y ago
I always thought that linkedin was a way to discover when companies are doing poorly -- and there might be enough signal to allow you to trade profitably on the stock market. Even if not, there probably is a good enough story to be woven ar
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by pjsg 5y ago
I play a fixed first word, and then one of 6 second words depending on the number of matches (any color) I get. I can remember these seven words and so it doesn't feel like cheating. Remembering words for all the 200 odd possible resul
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by pjsg 5y ago
AROSE MINTY GUILD CLICK FLICK No automation (apart from the first two words that I use in real Wordle)
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by pjsg 5y ago
Evil Wordle: "beefs". I won after 6 guesses arose until weeds peeks seems beefs
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by pjsg 5y ago
I wouldn't call this a maths question either. This is arithmetic. I learned from someone much wiser than I that "Mathematics is the art of avoiding calculation." This is a first year university math question (taken from an ex
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by pjsg 5y ago
Then, based on the number of matches in AROSE (0-5), I use MINTY MINTY UNTIL LAMPS RAGES FINAL (0 matches - 5 matches) Remembering all the optimal second words based on the pattern of matches seemed too much like hard work.
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by pjsg 5y ago
What is the benefit to the average user of running their own server? Most people (maybe even on HN) just want things to work. We buy connectivity services for our phones and our homes. I certainly don't want to run my own Wireless IS
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by pjsg 5y ago
The first version of the GIF<->JPEG converter came out in the spring/summer of 1991 (although Wikipedia says in October 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libjpeg ). I know this because I built the first ve
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by pjsg 5y ago
We make (very small quantities) of marmalade from our Poncirus Trifoliata ( https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFin... ) tree. This grows in the US in Zone 5/6. The fruit is very bitter, and thi
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by pjsg 5y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food
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Moody's invests $250M in BitSight to measure cyber risk(cnn.com)
20 points by pjsg 5y ago|1 comments
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by pjsg 5y ago
I have a slightly different manifestation of the same problem. I have a google alert setup for the name of my website (to see when people write stuff about it). Over half of the notices that I get are from spam/malicious sites who copy
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by pjsg 5y ago
In the 90s, I was talking about this problem to a structural engineering professor. He observed that they now had computers fast enough to do Monte Carlo simulations of buildings where the strengths of the beams and fasteners (and the numbe
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by pjsg 6y ago
Medlar trees are not that hard to come by in the US -- I have a couple in my orchard -- one is really prolific and we make a fair amount of medlar jelly each year. I hadn't realized that medlars were not that well known!
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by pjsg 6y ago
There are related problems in computer science -- e.g. how quickly can you multiply a pair of 65536x65536 extended double precision matrices together. Note that each matrix consume ~68GB of memory, so you need (probably) at least 200GB to s
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by pjsg 6y ago
I used to play the Essex MUD as well from probably 80-82 -- I can recall the huge speed boost when we got a 1200/75 dialup modem! I got to be a wizard (Gorpli) and I did meet a couple of the other wizards IRL. Fun times.
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by pjsg 6y ago
My model M (daily use on a Mac) was built 24-sep-1987 plant code J1 which seems likely to have been Lexington KY. I really need to pop all the key caps off and clean them as some of them are pretty grungy.
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by pjsg 6y ago
If the description is correct, then there would be a much worse problem if you had two clients talking to the same NLB. If they happen to use the same local port number at the same time, then it would all fail. This seems likely to happen a

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