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by pridkett 6y ago
This is still popular before marathons. In my last few I got a Tyvek set of pants and hoodie that was lightweight and disposable. About 30 seconds before starting the race I stripped them off, bundled them up, and tossed them into the first
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by pridkett 6y ago
It’s Goldman Sachs in this case, not Apple. While a few companies run their own banks to issue credit cards, most have partnerships with banks like Synchrony, Capital One, and Chase. Depending on the scope of the partnership, customer servi
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by pridkett 6y ago
Back at Argonne National Lab in the 90s/early 2000s we had “Waterfall Glen”, a MUD that you could almost get work done in. Actually, because there were NPCs and it was extensible, it was probably easier to get work done there than in S
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It’s referring to strict background checks for the volunteers.
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At the rate things are going you're likely going to want to just blackhole all of the public DNS-over-https providers[0] to ensure that it's not switching to DoH to get around your rules. [0]: https://gist.github.com&#x
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The Raspberry Pi 4 can drive 4k displays and easily run Kodi[0]. [0]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/build-the-ultimate-4k-home-...
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As long as you get one with 16GB RAM you’ll be okay. The SSD in 2015 MBPs can also be upgraded - MacSales sells complete DIY kits. I knew I was going this route and managed to find a 16GB RAM/128GB SSD and just upgraded to the 2TB driv
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I’m really pleased the author called out the Apple TV as a device that lets you avoid ads. We tried to go cheap on another of our TVs and get an Amazon Fire Stick and in addition to it being not as smooth (combo of UX and speed) at the Appl
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> Seems shortsighted to end this mission after 30 days. At this point, NASA is getting rather famous for this. Opportunity had a 90 day mission that survived for nearly fifteen years. Curiosity, a much bigger and more complicated machine
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Well, you’re in luck! There’s a modern version of TurboVision that works on modern systems. I used it the other day to show tvedit to some of the folks at work who were using nano. They were kinda mind-blown by the fact that editors in the
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Most of this is correct, but thankfully, wind turbines do not appear to be frozen. In fact, current wind power to the grid is 4300MW. The predicted level is about 2450MW for right now. That’s difference amounts to the entire reserve power i
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This is what I’ve done with my team of about 20 people about once every six weeks. I put them on my iPad and then share that audio and video via a USB cable and QuickTime recorder to the team. It works well enough - particularly if you have
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It’s an old reference to Usenet and AOL. It used to be that many Usenet groups had problems every fall when new college students would discover Usenet after getting internet access for the first time at their university. In general this mea
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As much as that sounds like a good idea, at most schools you can’t just share the name of cheaters with other faculty due to privacy issues. Yes, I’m not kidding. There’s also the issue that students can appeal and the process usually takes
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I don’t think this adds much to the discussion with name calling and over generalization. There are many people who gladly participate in both ecosystems.
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This has been done for decades - long before HTTP took over as the standard we had sites like ftp.cdrom.com and ftp.kernel.org. Usually this is done by using a DNS that either is localized to your or round robin DNS. There were many times w
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For Python check out the “rich” module[1]. It even uses a table of Star Wars movies as an example. It gives you access to colors and other niceties, like outputting syntax highlighted elements and colorful exceptions with little effort. [1]
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It’s not even a wink-wink. In many states, for example, Connecticut[1], the territory of each. cable provider is regulated by the state. There’s only a few tiny spots that have an overbuild of another provider. The state claims that DSL is
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That’s not really the ethos of this community. If you make a claim, you should provide context to back it up. Asking someone else to do your research and closing with “I’m not going to spoon feed you” isn’t how HN works.
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Airlines have always banned some subset of people from flying them for various behaviors and actions. What would be interesting to understand is how much of an increase this is - both relative to the number of flights and number of passenge
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This is incredibly delightful, thank you for sharing. Now that you have reasonably high quality versions of the videos you can start exploring other things to “enhance” the videos. If you want to make a parent cry, surprise them with a 1080
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We know that Samsung TVs aggressively try to connect from the internet and that they capture fingerprints from content played on them to show you ads. I, like a good number of other people, run an Apple TV, which has some ads, but nearly li
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I’ve been playing with this for a while - primarily as an interface for me to work in while working with my LTE iPad. It’s okay, but for most things using a mosh shell works just as well. If you’re going this route, there’s a few things to
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This really makes me want to see someone recreate the Sony Mavica digital camera using a Pi and a USB floppy drive. Those things were awesome back around 1999. Would be pretty straight forward.
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Although it’s not quite as good as uBlock Origin, moving to a network based setup, like PiHole or AdGuard Home, can make great strides across all your devices with minimal headache or worrying as much about Google making it harder to contro
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Does your company use both Avro and Protobuf for message serialization? Most places tend to standardize with one or the other and I’m wondering if there is a use case for both.
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Do we ever get full accounting of what the injuries sustained by police officers are? Seattle claimed 21. It seems like there is an incentive to be incredibly gracious with the descriptions of injuries to officers while holding a very high
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I can also cite papers in various journals. However, it only matters if the citations are relevant. In this case the author is largely citing papers that show how wearing masks can prevent the wearer from becoming infected, not preventing o
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I’m writing this with the caveat that it takes an order of magnitude more effort to refute bull than to produce it. The way I understand the current mask guidelines is that your mask isn’t there to help you, but to help other people. I clic
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Inside of companies with data protection requirements, these can be handier and more natural than censoring PII or PCI or replacing them with an encrypted string. It’s much more natural for the data science process.

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