sammyo

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by sammyo 5y ago
Wifi was a pain occasionally until I went with Gnome. The cmd line tools were a struggle with some web based authentication schemes.
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by sammyo 5y ago
Deeply agree with your sentiment, yet, information yearns to be free? No not quite the right catchphrase. As a society we need mechanisms developed to rapidly peer review at a kind of instant level, "quality report", "new unt
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by sammyo 5y ago
Right, but in the case of a vaccine, you wait, you die.
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by sammyo 5y ago
Or broader, what do they want not talked about? Funny stories are often released as a distraction. There are potentially some seriously embarrassing stories about issues around january 6th. What else do the generals want ignored, perhaps S
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by sammyo 6y ago
Just a reminder that the international admiralty laws are very different than any country legal codes, and generally utterly non-intuitive. Responsibility usually follows the vessel and is not related directly to the captain or whoever is a
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by sammyo 6y ago
Wait, this is real? Not an april fools post?
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by sammyo 6y ago
Really interesting approach. I've bookmarked the page. You should consider gathering emails to give updates. This should be the new killer app for e-readers. That tech is generally closed with too low powered processors due to power re
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by sammyo 6y ago
Actually the simple rule is choose apples so sour and hard they can barely be eaten raw, smaller the better. Oh and De Morgan's theorem.
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by sammyo 6y ago
The first battles certainly, but unless MAD occurs we have at least a few Patton/Eisenhower/MacArthur's that would rise to the occasion. And as impressive at the Chinese are at tech they are in a sense dependant on yankee ing
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by sammyo 6y ago
Very likely in a serious run all the crypto exchanges will crash hard quickly and for an extended time (forever? ;-) essentially stopping trading except for personal direct transactions.
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by sammyo 6y ago
Perhaps a railgun plus a skyhook? Railgun up the side of a mountain on the equator and an orbiting station with a capture mechanism that is in a sense the strongest bungee cord imaginable. 17k mph is a lot of speed to make a grab. Exiting t
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by sammyo 7y ago
Looking forward prediction should be superseded by announcement. Each vehicle should be broadcasting it's travel vector and next plan to alter that vector. At some point the SDC traffic will look like a high speed motorcycle team weavi
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by sammyo 7y ago
There are a lot of folks out on the water in "ugly" boats that are not costing the arm&leg but safe and a lot of fun. Get a 100 foot boat, that is a boat that looks great from 100 feet away. Sailing is totally possible for a
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by sammyo 7y ago
Totally an art project. And stopping is optional if there's a slight gap between the gaggle or one seems a bit slow.
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by sammyo 7y ago
This will be great for nautical charts, quick refresh is not needed and often used in strong sunlight.
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by sammyo 7y ago
HN needs a TIL tag. (Would probably reduce the flow by 80%)
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by sammyo 7y ago
grep
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by sammyo 7y ago
Yes but ALL estimates are bunk. Whoever can predict business cycles keeps it more secret than the NSA inner sanctum.
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by sammyo 7y ago
"nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded" -Satchel Paige.
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by sammyo 7y ago
I was thinking of basically using gmail as a filter. Get a custom domain, forward all email to gmail then read via another service.
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by sammyo 7y ago
Shared Virtual Reality...with haptic interface, nudge nudge, wink wink.
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by sammyo 7y ago
And if they ever manage to build a few houses on a barge outside territorial waters, about 12 miles, they'll call on the closest government for emergency rescue a few hours into the first good storm.
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by sammyo 7y ago
Compare to the NTSB's "unnerving" silence on every investigation.
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by sammyo 8y ago
An art photographer had a show where he presented his original photos of... other famous photographs. Lovely controversy about what is an original photo. It's just what a segment of the art world does - mess with the definition of the
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by sammyo 8y ago
Have never heard of a seasteader that had actually spent significant time out on the open ocean.
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by sammyo 8y ago
Move the nasty industrial processes out there, factories in space and only ship high end processed materials. Once there is rocket fuel in large quantity "boost backwards". Slow a well designed space plane to a safe entry velocity
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by sammyo 9y ago
In many cases crying "ponzi" is likely an exclamation of "something wrong here" which your comment gives several examples. But cash, check and other instruments all have something wrong. I'll suggest that the differ
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by sammyo 9y ago
Maintainers make the world go round, innovators MAKE the world.
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by sammyo 10y ago
Not long ago (historically speaking) one could get a cuppa joe for one thin dime. Not great, but usually drinkable. So with inflation the equivalent would be a quarter. A basic affordable cup of coffee could have a significant market.
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by sammyo 10y ago
I see no stagnation, there's a growing spectrum of models from the lowest cost chromebook to insanely powerful gaming and video production optimized units. There is a large midrange that is just good enough for use and little need for

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