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by shabble 12y ago
Successful drugs, or successful drugs that are eligible for patent protection? I imagine[1] it would be much harder to turn a profit on the massive upfront costs if you immediately had to compete with the existing manufacturers at generic-s
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by shabble 12y ago
"We reduced downtime by 37% by wiring our CI build status direct to the building sprinkler system above the dev team"
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by shabble 12y ago
> ISPs are explicitly excluded from this and not held responsible. Time to form a shell company in the ISP business to host your Tor servers, then? Or are there specific requirements that would prevent such a plan (recordkeeping seems
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by shabble 12y ago
Isn't this what the SRV[1] record type is designed to solve generically? Getting adoption at the client end is likely the limiting factor. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
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by shabble 12y ago
It also seems like it would negate one of the biggest potential hazards of GMO applications - the accidental spread of damaging traits to native species through cross-pollination. IIRC the seeding ability was intentionally bred out of culti
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by shabble 12y ago
> I'm shocked that Bill Gates drinks 3-4 Diet Cokes a day. Why? The caffeine, or the fact that it's Coke and not coffee or tea (or ...)? > at least with smoking, there's a chemical dependency at play Diet Coke still
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by shabble 12y ago
I wonder how stable the "charged" state solution is? Could you charge it up in one location, and truck/ship/pump it somewhere else for consumption? Imagine refitting crude oil supertankers to handle the acidity and ship
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by shabble 12y ago
Always nice to see more tools, and the X- headers idea is pretty neat. I've been using a mix of django-debug-toolbar (mentioned repeatedly in this thread), and django-devserver[1], which is more useful when writing non-html serving API
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by shabble 12y ago
> A specific set of technologies dictates the problem set and the approach. I recently heard about a college class, for instance, that challenged students to solve a business problem using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. I won't den
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by shabble 12y ago
Whilst I suspect you're taking the piss, I wonder if you could you induce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena without receiving a medically serious dose of radiation? Those buzzkills at the F
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by shabble 12y ago
I imagine you already know, but for everyone else, the full comedy of the P25 system can be found in "Why (Special Agent) Johnny (Still) Can’t Encrypt"[1] by Clark, Goodspeed & others. Chapter 4 covers the DoS using a kid&#x27
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by shabble 12y ago
If you've not taken it before, be extremely careful with Lariam, it has been well-established to cause numerous kinds of really unpleasant psychological side-effects in some people. Even got an FDA Black Box warning for it[1] recently.
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by shabble 12y ago
I'm using mozrepl[1] which exposes all sorts of FF guts over a simple localhost telnet connection to automate stuff that might otherwise be applescripted. It's a bit of a hassle, but for simple things like 'get url of current
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by shabble 12y ago
Of course, in the UK/Commonwealth you might offend a surgeon if you call him "Doctor"[1] [1] http://www.bmj.com/content/321/7276/1589
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by shabble 12y ago
> * Don't ask me how you got a cardboard box up to that speed, but you probably do not survive. 2) You manage to get a Maersk E class up to 70MPH and crash it into another Maersk E class* I'd be more impressed if you got the Ma
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by shabble 12y ago
one minor annoyance is that there's a max limit to the ControlPath string (seemingly due to there being a max path length for Unix Sockets) which I've occasionally hit when connecting to hosts with very long hostnames (AWS default
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by shabble 12y ago
It's great for tab-completion of remote paths for scp & friends. It does have a few quirks though. One that I've noticed is (IIRC) that closing a shared session isn't sufficient to pick up new groups membership when you r
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by shabble 12y ago
...which is fine up until someone forgets to use visudo and buggers up the sudoers file so nobody can get back in to fix it. A user login followed by su to root is a valid alternative, but I wouldn't have a problem with allowing key-on
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by shabble 12y ago
With relatively recent ssh versions you can use the Match directive[1] inside your config file to do various conditional things. Then you could do something like this: Host foo Hostname foo.example.com Match exec 'at_
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by shabble 12y ago
> Unfortunately, my memory is failing me, but if anyone knows of the paper - or an article or paper along these lines - please feel free to contribute I believe it's normally referred to as the "Substitution effect", the
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by shabble 12y ago
Are there reliable sources on that? Also, using Lead Acetate[1] as an artificial sweetener probably didn't help matters. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%28II%29_acetate#Sweetener
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by shabble 12y ago
Protomold[1] are probably that niche, although I'd treat it more as proof of concept than as scalable as proper production molds. If you've validated your prototype that way, you'll probably end up with DFM[2] changes you wa
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by shabble 12y ago
Very, very small. The 'birthday attack'[0] article covers this pretty well, but if we take the output size of a SHA-1 hash as 160 bits, and assume it's outputs are equally distributed[1], a brute-force approach (equivalent to
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by shabble 12y ago
"tputs reset" has much the same effect (I think; there are some cases I've noticed it not fully restoring things) without the delay.
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by shabble 12y ago
Setting up SSH multiplexing with ControlPersist[1] can help quite a bit here, since after the first connection you don't have to go through the init/connection phase for subsequent completions. You can even preemptively fire up a
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by shabble 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-version_programming
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by shabble 13y ago
http://transistor-man.com/macbookpro_gpu_reflow.html
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by shabble 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire#Change_of_purpo...
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by shabble 13y ago
Pff. A pair of exchanged 32GB microSD cards full of random data would give you OTPs for a hell of a lot of tweets/SMSes :)
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by shabble 13y ago
I'm not entirely clear on the exact process either, but I think your initial summary has it mostly correct. There are additional complexities in Share Dividends (you receive a fraction of the companies profits proportional to your numb

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