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by samdcbu 4y ago
If this is depressing let me tell you about quants and consultants, the true black holes of human capital.
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by samdcbu 4y ago
Google's datacenter in Iowa is apparently operating with 97% CFE. I think they have both wind and solar power purchase agreements for that data center but I assume wind is the differentiating factor that makes it their lowest carbon da
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by samdcbu 4y ago
Wow, I didn't realize there were currently any hosting providers who had managed to find 24/7 carbon-free electricity (CFE). Hydro seems like the only option right now for data centers because we don't have energy storage on
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by samdcbu 4y ago
I would say right about now is when you'd get your bag for helping to create a market for radio altimeters, but I think they exclusively do kickbacks in Spirit Airlines miles.
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by samdcbu 4y ago
Google’s advanced protection program is probably the most secure way to have an email address if you believe you are likely to be targeted by a sophisticated attacker. It requires a security key to sign in every time, limits sign in with Go
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by samdcbu 4y ago
This literally sounds like an FBI honeypot, they would love it. The almost complete inability to moderate due to 1A is the largest of many fatal flaws in government run email
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by samdcbu 4y ago
Based on Google documentation you can still turn off 2fa, so we are weighing the account security of the hundreds of millions of users who would never turn on 2fa but really should, versus the people who lose their 2FA verification method a
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by samdcbu 4y ago
The irony of SIM cards being a cryptographically strong smart card and then carriers let their employees give out replacement SIMs left and right. Ah, humans. fun fact: SIM cards can run applets based on Java. That’s how mobile payments are
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by samdcbu 4y ago
Only works if you live in a major city. Sounds like the DMV but 10 times worse.
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by samdcbu 4y ago
2.5 Gb is becoming the new 1 Gb. 10 Gb networking gear is still often a significant premium over 1 Gb gear but 2.5 Gb is approaching the point where a smart future proofing move would be to avoid buy 1 gig networking gear going forward even
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by samdcbu 4y ago
Where do you live/who is your ISP? Do you live in Chattanooga, Tennessee or in certain Salt Lake City Suburbs? Residential 10 gig just isn’t super common yet and I’ve only seen a few community/coop fiber networks offer it.
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by samdcbu 4y ago
Cell towers are designed for terrestrial users because their radios aren’t pointed at the sky. Gogo provides inflight Wi-Fi in the US through its ground based towers and all the antennas are pointed at the sky :) Flights (at least in the US
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by samdcbu 4y ago
In 2013 the FCC started a regulatory preceding to evaluate allowing the use of mobile phones on airplanes, because currently there is an FCC regulation prohibiting cellular mobile phone use while a plane is in the air. in 2013 the FCC also
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by samdcbu 4y ago
TLDR; the aviation industry had a decent technical study done on radio altimeter interference from 5G and the FCC determined it didn’t show radio altimeter interference from 5G was likely. Then an aggregated summary of that technical data w
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OnionPoison: Infected Tor Browser installer targets users located in China(securelist.com)
1 points by samdcbu 4y ago|0 comments
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by samdcbu 4y ago
We already have exactly this system for library e-book lending. There is a queue of people on the waitlist for a book and once loan period for the current reader is expires it is automatically loaned (no scare quotes because it is in every
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by samdcbu 4y ago
The US government is the primary funder of Tor as well.
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by samdcbu 11y ago
Berkeley's Aritifical Intelligence course,CS-188 is a great content base for concepts. The projects of the course include the implementation of search algorithms with Pac-Man. If machine learning is more interesting to you, Udacity&#x2