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by rrauenza 8y ago
As a kid I sometimes played our PET tapes through a tape recorder to listen to the data. At the time I wondered if data could be written to the tape to play a particular song. Anyone else wonder this and actually try it?
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by rrauenza 8y ago
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
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This is Peter Thiel’s favorite interview question(qz.com)
4 points by rrauenza 8y ago|2 comments
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by rrauenza 8y ago
I generally feel it hurts an advocacy group's credibility when they advocate for something without a rational argument. (And it's not just the EFF that do this.) It's an interesting dynamic in the role of advocacy...
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by rrauenza 8y ago
More background on Oakland: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Oakland-PD-s-Harleys...
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by rrauenza 8y ago
Also, many masks are nose only for those who sleep with their mouth closed (or learn to.)
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Flux version 4.84: Grayscale mode, distraction-free reading(justgetflux.com)
3 points by rrauenza 8y ago|0 comments
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by rrauenza 8y ago
I suspect it has less to do with the age of the pioneer, but rather with the perception/opinion of what decade the pioneering happened.
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by rrauenza 8y ago
I just watched the Kurosawa one the other night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8 When I just read Spielberg's quote, >The grain is always moving, it’s swimming, which means that even in a still life, let
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by rrauenza 8y ago
This doesn't change anything right now -- it allows the California legislature to pick either PST or PDT: https://votersedge.org/en/ca/ballot/election/area/73/measure... The way it is
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It’s called vomit fraud. And it could make your Uber trip really expensive(chicagotribune.com)
48 points by rrauenza 8y ago|57 comments
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Groundbreaking New technology harnesses twisted light beams(phys.org)
1 points by rrauenza 8y ago|0 comments
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'Twisted' fibre optic light breakthrough could make internet 100 times faster(theguardian.com)
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by rrauenza 8y ago
My biggest difficulty is moving the edit cursor when trying to edit text. It takes too many tries to get it exactly where I want. I wish they'd add cursor keys...
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China Plans to Launch an 'Artificial Moon' to Light Up the Night Skies(msn.com)
1 points by rrauenza 8y ago|0 comments
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Aron Wall Wins Breakthrough New Horizons Prize for Work on Black Holes/spacetime(news.stanford.edu)
2 points by rrauenza 8y ago|0 comments
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This Subsidy for China Is Dumb as a Post(wsj.com)
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by rrauenza 8y ago
Actually, it is once a year... I was mistaken.
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by rrauenza 8y ago
I like working at VMware. It has a good work/life balance, age distribution seems well distributed, and only a couple hackathons a year -- totally optional.
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Heathrow fined for USB stick data breach(bbc.com)
1 points by rrauenza 8y ago|0 comments
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by rrauenza 8y ago
The comic is by both. One of the names is a pseudonym.
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by rrauenza 8y ago
Larry was just discussing this with my wife (the official(?) Perl poet) yesterday. His wife and my wife didn't like the name he proposed. I kinda liked it. I don't feel at liberty to disclose the name, but it might be in the rec
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by rrauenza 8y ago
They also express it that "now we've got N+1 victims we have to rescue, and one less helper."
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by rrauenza 8y ago
I've been reading (and watching) content on both sides of this to gain a better perspective. Firemen definitely do also have a mentality of no unecessary risks -- which, yes, is a little different. But there is a mentality of 'I
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New facial recognition system nabs imposter at Dulles International Airport(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by rrauenza 8y ago|0 comments
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Dulles Facial Recognition Tech Nabs 3 Impostors in 40 Days(baltimore.cbslocal.com)
2 points by rrauenza 8y ago|0 comments
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by rrauenza 8y ago
...like returning a pointer to the stack: char *dupstr(const char *src) { char new[1024]; strlcpy(new, src, 1024); return new; }
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Feds Force Suspect to Unlock an Apple iPhone X with Their Face(forbes.com)
4 points by rrauenza 8y ago|0 comments
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What to make of a bizarre interview(workplace.stackexchange.com)
3 points by rrauenza 8y ago|1 comments
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F-35 flies first combat mission in Afghanistan(militarytimes.com)
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