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by smoyer 5y ago
The Russian Embassy described the incident as a "criminal act of insanity" - I feel the same way ... Mr. Putin, tear down that war!
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by smoyer 5y ago
Reaching relativistic speeds in minutes to hours and covering interstellar distances in days to weeks as proposed in the abstract seem to not be compatible - wouldn't a relativistic speed mean we'd need 4ish years to reach another
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by smoyer 5y ago
First, I understand your technical arguments above (but IANAL.) Find a technical lawyer who understands that your logs and/or subscribers list sets a hard limit to the damage you might have caused. I'm a bit curious about why yo
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by smoyer 5y ago
The first 15-20 years of my career were spent as a hardware/embedded engineer and I'd like to add a few notes to the list above: 5. Unless you've got very specialized instrumentation, the power supply and case will dominate
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by smoyer 5y ago
This is a cool tool but it should differentiate between "users" and "customers" so that weighting is based on the potential for making paying users happy (or perhaps the word "user" should just be changed.) It
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by smoyer 5y ago
Yep ... us "Muricans" generally spend more than we earn and are not very good at choosing what exactly we spend all that money on. To be a bit more serious, we've made a lot of promises to other countries that, unless we can
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by smoyer 5y ago
If you've designed a good front-end from an HCI perspective, you'll still end up with sooooo many edge cases. Human behavior is much more variable than the calls sent to an API or SQL sent to a database. (It also helps that ther
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by smoyer 5y ago
Adding a word to the beginning does however make a good marketing slogan. And as the parent of a child who's highly-skilled as a procrastinator (don't put that in the skills section of your resume), adding a fourth word to the en
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by smoyer 5y ago
See my comment above (I have a handicapped son ...) - I don't think that use of retard is offensive. The other common non-pejorative use that I can think of is talking about the timing of the spark igniting the fuel in your (gasoline)
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by smoyer 5y ago
I have a disabled son and agree that using the word "disabled" or "disable" isn't an issue. Please DON'T use the word retarded (unless you're talking about the timing of the spark plugs in your car) - thi
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by smoyer 5y ago
One of my HCI favorite books is "TOG on Interface" by Bruce Tognazzini because it's filled with stories about why certain GUI elements work and the failures that were tried as they finally adopted working GUI concepts. TOG w
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by smoyer 5y ago
Very true and I realize I wasn't clear enough above - my comment was strictly about the image.
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by smoyer 5y ago
American oligarchs should have plenty of resources to expand their coffers through this program. I don't recognize this publication or author but you have to admit their honesty when they lead with a horribly photoshopped image and ca
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by smoyer 5y ago
Agreed! ... At the same time, it's sad to see someone who's obviously passionate about their field recognize that their reputation has been degraded/eliminated strictly due to affiliation (in this case, citizenship).
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The Songhai Empire(worldhistory.org)
3 points by smoyer 5y ago|0 comments
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by smoyer 5y ago
I'm not going to refute anything you've said but I am curious to hear what you have to say about Trump's statement which was something like "this wouldn't have happened with us in the White House". It seems mo
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by smoyer 5y ago
Each of my phones has its own private key and can decrypt the stored passwords. Having a private key protected only by a six number passcode is obviously a weak point in my security. Since password-store is encrypting each password with s
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by smoyer 5y ago
I do rotate which key is off-site. For the "critical sites" this means I've only got two keys registered for some period of time. I don't use the TOTP on the Yubikeys for most sites so signing up for a new service invo
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by smoyer 5y ago
I have three Yubikeys that I use for TOTP and that house my GPG keys and SSH key. At any given time, I have one on my person, one in my home office and one off-site. I only use TOTP on the Yubikeys for "critical accounts" and us
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by smoyer 5y ago
We laid down our arms and embraced our invaders and you won't believe what happened next! When I was relatively young, my mom was against violence and wanted me to talk things out with some kids that were bullying me. Things didn&#x27
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by smoyer 5y ago
This is off-topic but are people actively trying to falsify Betteridge's law?
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by smoyer 5y ago
I can't reply to your comment (I'm not sure why it's dead) but there's a time limiting on editing a head-line (and maybe a limit based on up-votes and/or comments). Since you're new, I don't know if you c
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by smoyer 5y ago
If it's a warning it's a bit strange that he also provides a description of our response - we need to be a bit faster and slam the door on his nose.
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by smoyer 5y ago
This title should conventionally be prefixed with "Ask HN:"
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by smoyer 5y ago
Your title would conventionally be prefixed with "Ask HN:". Your chances of getting a useful answer might improve.
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by smoyer 5y ago
The main problem your hypothetical person might have is that you have to find someone willing to take your Rubles in exchange for Bitcoin. Who wants more of a currency that is rapidly collapsing and that you can't spend? It might be
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Russia's second biggest oil company calls for an end to Putin's war(lite.cnn.com)
6 points by smoyer 5y ago|0 comments
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by smoyer 5y ago
Mixing lisp and c syntax together? I guess if they wanted a real challenge they could try mixing lisp and forth syntax (if you merge prefix and postfix notation together maybe you end up with infix?)
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by smoyer 5y ago
I'm sure this is just bias but this sounds like something that should be written in the application for a research grant. Seeing it on Twitter makes me discount the idea and wonder about the author's credentials.
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by smoyer 5y ago
I use Ergodox Infinity keyboard and I'd suggest: separate left and right hand boards, columnar or ortholinear layout, thumb clusters, mechanical keys and profiled keycaps. Maybe a good question to start with is "how much are you p

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