randywaterhouse

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by randywaterhouse 2y ago
This is common practice across the US and the rule-of-thumb 40x generally tries to take most cases into account. i.e., 40x after taxes and other typical debt levels is "risk appropriate" for landlords... Though don't get me s
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by randywaterhouse 3y ago
Underground, perhaps (although German's U-Bahn is the equivalent). Metro, accent aside, is in common use worldwide, isn't it? (Tokyo, Washington DC, to name two Metro systems)
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by randywaterhouse 5y ago
Posted this after receiving an email from the Wiretrustee team this afternoon. Unfortunately it seems their RPi CM4 SATA board has been cancelled (supply chain!). Full text of the email appears below. --- After you haven't heard from u
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Wiretrustee CM4 Stata Board (Discontinued)(github.com)
24 points by randywaterhouse 5y ago|15 comments
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by randywaterhouse 5y ago
I think it's largely too early to say (in the sense that it has yet to be thoroughly researched in vaxx'd areas). It's clearly taken over the population of infections in South Africa but they're rolling with fairly low v
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by randywaterhouse 5y ago
Deep fried at 350F for just over an hour. Bird was ~17lbs. Pulled with the thickest part of the breast at 155F (other parts were hotter). Did pseudo "dry brine" by salting it lightly 48h before it's molten bath. Came out juic
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by randywaterhouse 5y ago
> "for his involvement in the Sparks Group, an international piracy group that illegally distributed movies and television shows on the Internet." (from the announcement) in case you were wondering if this was some "simple
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by randywaterhouse 5y ago
Thought this was a compelling illustration of how market dynamics intersect w. potential shenanigans... Carol is careful to not level any direct accusations, which I appreciate--but the presentation definitely suggests the data is either in
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by randywaterhouse 5y ago
Wholeheartedly agree about process vs. color-by-number recipes... For those who do like to read offline, I do recommend Ruhlman's "Twenty" [0]. It is well written and illustrated and provides a lens into process via carefully
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by randywaterhouse 5y ago
Cracking DES as set 9 of cryptopals [0] :) ? Awesome challenges in general, of course, but iirc no actually breaking a symmetric key cipher ("actually" doing a lot of work here, I admit, since there's all kinds of oracle atta
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by randywaterhouse 5y ago
And, as usual, Coinbase is also down at the moment [0]. Don't have a super-strong opinion on the crash itself (or whether we should call it a crash given crypto's volatility)--but it does seem peculiar that the exchanges in the sp
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by randywaterhouse 6y ago
I use Unbound in a similar way, although I return 0.0.0.0 rather than NXDOMAIN. Don't really know why I decided to go that route, but when I was setting my Unbound server up I'd read how quad 0's was the pi-hole's prefer
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by randywaterhouse 6y ago
Seems to be using a university proxy to get around FT's usual paywall. I had not seen this method before, am somewhat surprised the university proxy doesn't require some kind of SSO/auth. (if it's indeed working the way
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by randywaterhouse 9y ago
While I have no idea given the... oddity... of this subthread, I might posit `tinc` is being referred to here: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/faq/ ETA: this is based on the open source code which may be modified, userland da
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by randywaterhouse 9y ago
Might be an indicator of the old FOMO maneuvers. Whether the underlying realities are solid (fast, cheap transactions) or not is less relevant if people were, say, profit taking on their alts and pouring it into BTC since they feel BTC is r
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by randywaterhouse 9y ago
Sniper in Mahwah [1] details a lot of the structure of HFT trading infrastructure, especially how microwave towers are used. It's a rabbit hole though, he's got tons of stuff on the various ways HFT networks make things work, incl
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by randywaterhouse 9y ago
I've heard a number of conflicting arguments about the reliability of Ethereum switching to proof of stake... From "they will" to "this is difficult, why bother". There's also the other side of the equation - w
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by randywaterhouse 9y ago
I recall seeing this comment as well. Measuring BTC in GWP is an odd concept - maybe I misread - but I take it that means 2 trillion worth of global world product is made in BTC? Or just that BTC price X coins in existence = 2 trillion? App
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by randywaterhouse 9y ago
One thing I have been remarking recent conversations with other long-interested crypto-friends hasn't been about the price action, or about the drama, or about the lack of transparency on exchanges like Bitfinex -- but rather about the
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by randywaterhouse 10y ago
We've already lost when an arrest is equivalent to a conviction. Although, in some ways, we've been here for a while. Maybe less-so for individuals but for corporations, whom the law generally treats with a degree of "individ
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by randywaterhouse 10y ago
Interesting bit on the authorities viewing him as a counterfeiter. I'd guess that if parties are willing, and none are misrepresenting the note as currency, it's alright and a transaction of goods/services in exchange for art
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by randywaterhouse 10y ago
Granted, short-term losses are undeniable. But long-term, ordinary Canadians living in these properties stand to make out alright (indeed - assuming this is not a long-term depression in prices). They get their utility out of the property (
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by randywaterhouse 10y ago
Interesting to consider the reasons for the past valuation -- before everyone realized Alibaba was blowing up (I believe it was < $1bn of that $44bn deal). So, in 2016 dollars we're talking $5bn for their core web business vs. 50bn+
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by randywaterhouse 12y ago
I answered 6-8 hours, although its rare they are adjacent hours of productivity. I am a student though, which may make me a little off-topic for this question, but it is time spent researching, designing, and implementing complex physical m
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by randywaterhouse 12y ago
It's perhaps a slight exaggeration, but it is to make his point that "UI dead simple" >> "Complex UI that you can't tell what's what with a blur". You may not have had blurry vision... But your attit
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by randywaterhouse 12y ago
Sure. If one had conviction that it would rise. One could buy now and see it at 10 bucks by the end of the week. If one had that belief... One would not invest. If you have conviction BTC will be back then of course you'd get in now. B
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by randywaterhouse 13y ago
Without stated context I of course jumped on this link like "oh jeez what's Mozilla done, broken some click-to-flirt functionality on OkCupid"!? But alas, it is not a technical reason. Nor even a product oriented one. It is a
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by randywaterhouse 13y ago
There are two types of DDoS attacks, which Github actually wrote about last week (thereabouts[1]), although you'll be unable to read the blog post until the site is back (unfortunately). But I can outline the two they discussed. The fi
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by randywaterhouse 13y ago
"Along with the new design, you may also notice that comments are no longer present. Don't worry. I love comments. They'll all be back. This is only a temporary state, as there's another notable open source project I wan
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by randywaterhouse 13y ago
Implementations of crypto, such as Truecrypt, rely on algorithms/ciphers such as AES which (in some modes) basically appears random... But the appearance of randomness is not enough if someone is convinced there is meaningful data ther

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