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by rotten 6y ago
They would go to a bar and comment that the ceiling fan was spinning at 23 rpm, and the compressor motor on the cooler had a bad bearing.
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by rotten 6y ago
The best sonar operators have perfect pitch, except instead of saying "that is an A-flat but there is a ghost harmonic because the slot in the bridge for that string is too wide" they would say "that is a 415 Hz sound with up
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by rotten 6y ago
The systems described in this article are "passive". They are simply listening to the sounds around them. This is much more common for submarines than "active" sonar - which ensonifies the water around you and then you
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by rotten 6y ago
Having been through well over 30 layoffs in my career, both as someone being retained and as someone being cut, I can say that they almost always start with a senior manager who doesn't usually give speeches, giving a speech to the tea
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by rotten 6y ago
I'm not so sure that many graph databases use a relational database as the data store. Some use Linear Algebra representations of the graph. Some use key-value stores. Some are proprietary implementations that we'll never know
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by rotten 6y ago
A Graph in the computer science world is a type of data model. There are many problems that are easier to solve with that kind of data model. For example: What is the shortest path between two locations on a map? (ie, every time you a
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by rotten 6y ago
Which is something both Google Cloud Composer and Astronomer.io are trying to do.
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by rotten 6y ago
The problem is that you need a cold fusion reactor to make it, and that technology is still too new.
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Mauve(cormullion.github.io)
3 points by rotten 7y ago|0 comments
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by rotten 7y ago
1) There were/are sometimes ways to break out of them. 2) The process table is mixed in with your OS process table - making it hard to tell what is running chrooted and what isn't. 3) The network stack is shared 4) They share an O
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500000 server, router, and IoT passwords leaked(zdnet.com)
19 points by rotten 7y ago|1 comments
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by rotten 7y ago
My complaint about the name is that it would be hard to "google" it. This means if I don't bookmark it or remember where I found it, then a couple of years from now when my laptop needs to be rebuilt, I'll have the darn
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by rotten 7y ago
My understanding is that we have been.
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by rotten 7y ago
I work for Finite State, one of the companies mentioned in that article. Here is more information on that report: https://finitestate.io/2019/06/26/report-finds-cybersecurity... . And here is a video of our CE
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by rotten 7y ago
A review of Huawei devices by the company I work for, Finite State, found numerous (and some trivial) backdoors in 55% of Huawei projects. It is briefly mentioned in the article above. Here is more information on that report: https:&#x2
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An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei(latimes.com)
87 points by rotten 7y ago|88 comments
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by rotten 7y ago
LA Time article on Huawei that came out this week with lots of background on the sanctions and issues with their technology: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fg-huawei-timeline/
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by rotten 7y ago
Lack of support for screensharing is why I stopped using Wayland.
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by rotten 7y ago
Many new cars don't come with spare tires any more, so at least they have one.
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by rotten 7y ago
I'd like it to be more like git. Yes Docker has "push" and "pull", but I want branches, and automatic attach when I do a checkout, and rollback when I screw it up. As a developer I'd like to be able to check o
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by rotten 7y ago
Snarky conservatives who never heard of energy storage would say - "And nights too?"
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by rotten 7y ago
Isn't pea protein the base of the Beyond Burgers that are getting so much hype now?
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by rotten 7y ago
Is the only reason to create a startup to experience exponential growth and get really rich and have your own stock symbol? Or, could someone create a lifestyle business and call that a startup? Where the goals might be simply to make a li
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by rotten 7y ago
It is what Excel should have evolved into. I still think Microsoft should have bought them and merged it into Excel.
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by rotten 7y ago
Weight. In order to start the turbine spinning at the lowest possible wind speed (meaning it will spin more often) it helps for the blades to be as light as possible. There are other factors involved in getting the blades to spin, but tha
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by rotten 7y ago
The controls are terrible. I can't figure out how to zoom, and if I right click I get into some sort of "tilt" mode that can't be escaped from without reloading the page.
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First Ever VR Music Festival(hub.jhu.edu)
1 points by rotten 8y ago|0 comments
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by rotten 8y ago
Life gets in the way for a while: Kids. Spouse/partner. House. Hobbies. Cynicism. Burnout. Health. Elder care. Then things settle. You work through the life thing, and in your 50's you get a fresh perspective and new
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by rotten 8y ago
The very finest cheeses, I suspect, will benefit from live performances instead of canned recording played through some cheap speaker. Perhaps he should hire a chamber music ensemble to play to the cheeses every day.
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by rotten 8y ago
Good idea. I tweeted at them.

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