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by ratsbane 13y ago
For Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libtest-perl-critic-perl
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Nice. I didn't know that. I wonder when they started that? https://www.bayareafastrak.org/vector/dynamic/signup/VTconfi...
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by ratsbane 13y ago
There are very good reasons for some businesses to use ALPR technology. EasyPass and other automatic toll-collection schemes use RFID tags on cars to uniquely identify them. There are parking-lot control systems that use RFID tags to allo
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I just noticed I don't have flag privileges either, at least for comments (I still have them for submissions.) I'm sure I used to. I can't remember ever having flagged anything. Is this based on karma levels or something e
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by ratsbane 13y ago
The hellbanning/ghostbanning/whatever is one of a very few things that disturbs me about this community. I can see how it could prevent the problem of a banned user immediately creating new usernames, but it's also easy to i
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by ratsbane 13y ago
That was my first thought too. And second, that if it's possible to rent a herd of goats I would like to do exactly that. I'll figure out a reason after the fact.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I wonder if the PRISM revelations might give defense attorneys a broad strategy to deal with inconvenient evidence: "the government was illegally intercepting my client's communications; they never would have found the {cocaine|bo
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I wonder if US laws would apply to foreign corporations entirely owned by US corporations? E.g., if Amazon set up an Irish corporation to own and manage a data center in Ireland, even though Amazon still exercised control, wouldn't th
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Six months today, no response on Whitehouse.gov petition to fire Carmen Ortiz?
14 points by ratsbane 13y ago|2 comments
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by ratsbane 13y ago
$20 million to run the whole program? That doesn't make sense. That amount wouldn't buy the hard drives to hold a firehose feed from any one of those companies.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Yes, fair point, but I do think it's a red flag. On looking a bit further I see that yes, in fact, he is using a GET link to delete records: https://github.com/Paton/Saaave/blob/master/_views/browse.ph... This is an actual, serious probl
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by ratsbane 13y ago
In any case the real problem with this line of code is not the int cast, it's that it's using a GET request to delete a record.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
There is an opposing viewpoint, i.e. if you actually need an int, casting to int is one of the most reasonable ways of getting it.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Yes. Furthermore, if the people responsible for these rules really believe there is a need for them then surely they are being derelict in not requiring RF monitoring devices in the cabin.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I have over 20k photos in my iPhoto library. The problems he describes here are real. For me, it's more of a problem of retrieval. I want to search on more attributes than just date, location, face, and a flat tag structure. Examples: sh
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I have an Solidoodle 2 also (see my other comment.) Which extruder are you using? I still have the original on mine. What about the 618? Where do you get it?
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I have a Solidoodle 2. I made a video demonstrating it here: http://youtu.be/Aafp7EnzmOY I'm glad I got it. For me it's not much more than a toy but because of it I've gotten a much greater understanding of the 3d printer phenomenon, wh
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by ratsbane 13y ago
Yes. Twenty and even thirty years ago we did have essentially the same ML algorithms used in self-driving cars today, just not enough computing power to use them effectively (I think SVMs are only about 20 years old but neural nets have
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by ratsbane 13y ago
This reminds me Falken's law from War Games. True for many games: the best way to win is to not play.
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by ratsbane 13y ago
I'm surprised he's not more of a command-line guy. So many things I would hate to do without: vim, grep, ssh, rsync, git, tab completion, cron, .... I suppose you could install all of those and a lot more on Windows but what a lot of both
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Ask HN: Long-term review of removing comment scores
2 points by ratsbane 14y ago|0 comments
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by ratsbane 14y ago
I always opt out, politely but firmly. I was flying out of SFO once last year when a TSA agent asked me "and your reason for opting out is...?" and I answered "...none of your business." He smiled and from his response I inferred that he
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by ratsbane 14y ago
It is. It seems weird, but there it is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity_bond
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by ratsbane 14y ago
I had the mistaken impression it was against Amazon TOS to call attention to the links. After reading the TOS again, though, I think that would be ok from Amazon's perspective. There's a line between saying on the page "click these links
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by ratsbane 14y ago
If you're doing a lot of development on an eeePC then line length may not be your biggest obstacle.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
80 characters seems like such an arbitrary restriction. Once upon a time we were limited to 80 characters but we were also limited to monochrome ASCII text. Just as syntax highlighting improves readability, I think the occasional use of
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Yes, sounds right. Quoting from the paper cited above "Thus, a device can be readily made by sandwiching an ion porous separator [Celgard 3501 (Celgard, Charlotte, NC)] between two identical LSG electrodes."
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Am I the only one to think "hey, I could try this at home?" 1) prepare carbon slurry 2) pour on dvd 3) etch with LightScribe DVD drive... 4) Peel of graphene layer ...? I wonder what, exactly, goes into the carbon slurry and if it's necess
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by ratsbane 14y ago
I'd have to think carefully about releasing names. Accountability without personal accountability is a bit shallow, though.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Tried it just now. http://flisea.com was confused when I entered "San Francisco" as the destination; I had to enter "SFO" when what I really wanted was "SFO | SJC | OAK" and it never returned any flights. Adioso has room to improve their

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