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by quasse 9y ago
What value do the ISPs actually add to the market? It seems like a government granted middleman position to me, where I'd rather just purchase service from the government or the government's selected infrastructure manager. Presum
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by quasse 9y ago
I think a lot of self proclaimed "libertarians" have no idea what the term means. Mr. Money Moustache recently had a quote about Uber that made me laugh, regarding the unfair information and pay disparity the drivers exist under:
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by quasse 9y ago
>The idea of being legally required to provide government-issued identification to a law enforcement official under any circumstances is simply verboten in the US. As long as you're not within 100 miles of the border inside the &quo
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by quasse 9y ago
Some carriers offer that option but it usually seems to waive the (limited) liability they would have had for stolen packages.
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by quasse 9y ago
Ah yes, the old municipal-services-every-citizen-is-a-bill-collector model. That reminds me, I'll need to go and kneecap my neighbor over his unpaid sewer bill tonight. I expect municipal internet as a utility will nearly double the am
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by quasse 9y ago
My friend and I did something similar using Haar Cascades for vehicle detection and Hough transforms to detect the lane lines. We used that to analyze dash cam videos and calculate following distance between the cars in the video. The final
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by quasse 9y ago
Libertarianism for thee, not for me.
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by quasse 9y ago
Ugh, our AD domain at work isn't even that old but was set up by some local consulting company and of course they used .local. It causes all sorts of grief when shared SMB drives won't resolve on linux, or you can't tell at f
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by quasse 9y ago
Luckily Wisconsin figured out the solution to this problem... Make the corporate welfare deals an order of magnitude larger and give 3 billion to Foxconn instead of a piddly tenth of that. Even in the best case for "jobs created"
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by quasse 9y ago
My anecdotal experience having done some work in the automotive sector is that the volume is probably less but brake dust is much nastier and something you do not want to be breathing. At least it doesn't have asbestos in it anymore.
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by quasse 9y ago
One level of critical thought too far, apparently.
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by quasse 9y ago
I'm a fairly serious cyclist (currently own 5 bikes) and the two I use most are my cyclocross bike and my electric bike. Most of the cycling nuts who consider them heresy are weekend warriors who've never ridden a daily 14 mile co
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by quasse 9y ago
If that were the case you would hope they would at least be good at software engineering, but all evidence points to that being completely false.
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by quasse 9y ago
It sounds to me like they are in fact running a giant devops system, all for the purpose of not using virtual static IPs. Instead of just provisioning fresh VMs and migrating customer data they're doing this massive upgrade in place on
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by quasse 9y ago
That's a bit different from talking to "the cloud" as the parent poster was talking about. Cars will be using a short range radio technology like DSRC (5.9ghz band) to communicate locally. The FCC and DOT are already pushing
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by quasse 9y ago
I've worked professionally in both fields now, and luckily mechanical engineering seems to have a much less toxic attitude towards for older engineers. The amount of ways an experienced engineer will know not to do something is mind
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by quasse 9y ago
Just to be clear, I don't want to claim expertise I don't have: I'm only just a bit past that stage in my career and have had a lot to learn in the past few years. Just a stream of consciousness set of notes from my reading o
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by quasse 9y ago
I am a mechanical engineer (a machine design engineer in fact) and this press looks like would happen if you hired 30 of 23-year-old me fresh out of college, gave them an effectively unlimited budget and said "make me the swankiest pre
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by quasse 10y ago
My laptops for the last 7 years now have all been ones I found in the trash or recycling bins. I've had two macbooks, and HP with an i7, and a decent Acer. The stuff people trash is mind boggling, it's like they lose all powers of
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by quasse 10y ago
I was really looking forward to having Docker available. I run 5 or 6 jails at home and they have been the absolute biggest pain point for me. At some point, the jail booter image was shipped with a broken version of pkg that didn't st
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by quasse 10y ago
I don't program in Android as my main focus at work but have been doing to quite a bit lately and I have to say thank god for my three monitors. The Android ecosystem is such that you are going to want documentation up at all times,
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by quasse 10y ago
My experience has been that this works well for job interviews. Spot something that they seem to have struggled with and talk to them all about their solution. Not only do you learn something but it often seems to leave an impression of you
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by quasse 10y ago
"Some of the lowest in the world" is pretty creative wording for second highest in the world. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
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by quasse 10y ago
It wasn't much of a climax, I was pretty annoyed at that point and he mumbled something about individual tests (probably he meant that little swab they do for explosives?) and then just handed it back without doing anything. I was pret
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by quasse 10y ago
I had an incident with the TSA in Austin where they silently removed my MacBook from the bin of my stuff and just wandered off with it. I was travelling for work so I was carrying two laptops, two tablets and some custom network hardware th
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by quasse 10y ago
I think you might have wanted to do some input validation: http://imgur.com/a/510dc
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by quasse 10y ago
I wish. Too bad there isn't any meaningful competition in the ISP space for most people.
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by quasse 10y ago
I think the final answer to your question might be that they're going to argue you in circles using irrelevant tangents until you get tired and stop challenging them.
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by quasse 10y ago
Where is your user input going in the end? If it's going to a server, I sure hope you're validating it there. Anything you do on the client side via JavaScript can be bypassed by the end user and provides no guarantees about the i
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by quasse 10y ago
"Often, a person accused of misconduct will try to “isolate, humiliate, and terminate” the whistleblower, says Patrick Burns ... But he’s never seen a case involving a forced mental exam." Unfortunately this is certainly not the f

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