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by smoyer 7y ago
Some of the old-wives tales were descriptions of things that worked just like a lot of the herbal medicines. We didn't know why they worked so I agree it's hard to call them science. It's also possible it worked for you due
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by smoyer 7y ago
Sorry for your loss (Kelly) ... I was also a (Nittany) Lion and had a similar experience but it wasn't software based. In my second year, a good friend of mine was killed in a car accident. She was a year ahead of me (and not in a ST
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by smoyer 7y ago
I was involved in several of the efforts at the time including building the communications systems for the "studio NOC" at AT&T in NYC. I started hearing about vulnerable systems about 5 years before 2000 and we were doing se
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by smoyer 7y ago
That's true ... my in-laws believe everything he says (or that's reported on Fox News) and they truly believe it's just the flu. They're 78 and 80 so they're in the high-mortality population - the logical reaction
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The Pennsylvania State University has also moved to remote education(news.psu.edu)
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by smoyer 7y ago
I am a US citizen and believe that I am rightly suspicious of our current government. It's also my opinion that, since the number of questionable situations has continued to rise for the last three years, there is no road to the admin
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by smoyer 7y ago
We use this quite a bit but we actually have a constant timeout with random "jitter" added to it. You almost never want the timeout completely randomized because there's a chance you'll get a zero.
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by smoyer 7y ago
I'd be really curious to know how this got 43 votes ... especially this early in the day (US).
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by smoyer 7y ago
"Thinking I had the symptoms" ... this is why the shortage of test kits is so critical - you can't (easily) dismiss those with similar symptoms in a way that leaves them feeling as though you cared for them. You'll get
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by smoyer 7y ago
Another major cost in retail is "loss" ... I can see this being pretty effective at loss prevention and coupon fraud (even my small town grocery store require an associate to visit the self-check kiosks if a customer has a coupon)
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by smoyer 7y ago
I remember in the late 80's when things actually seemed pretty good - but all through Reagan's presidency, the press had been lambasting "supply-side economics" (and even his VP called it "voo-doo" economics).
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by smoyer 7y ago
Are you implying that Tiger Woods wouldn't put his mask on correctly?
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by smoyer 7y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines would say "no" (as would @mbell in this conversation). Curious, the author says "undefined". @mbell FTW!
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by smoyer 7y ago
Hmm ... I guess it could have been designed with a stand that tipped it back to almost horizontal? Try going flatter than 30 degrees and you'll really slow it down!
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by smoyer 7y ago
Yes ... I have no qualms about killing flies either. All I was getting at is that a) even back then there was a line you could cross as shown by this candidate and b) that my personal views on killing have changed.
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by smoyer 7y ago
Hmm ... I can't scam you out of free content any more but the image of your signature at the bottom of your blog post is going to be very useful when emptying your bank account.
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by smoyer 7y ago
That's actually a great idea ... I'm going to create clusters of Bug-a-Salts on PTZ platforms, write a custom Kubernetes operator and then use Kubernetes to orchestrate their target acquisition and elimination.
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by smoyer 7y ago
Why is the post about the morality of killing for fun getting up-voted? This community, at this instance in time seems to be against it. A funny story from when I was younger ... there was a candidate running for County Commissioner who li
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by smoyer 7y ago
I love the "Turing Tumble" for teaching boolean logic as well as other electronic/computing/programming lessons. With an expansion kit or two you can build some pretty sophisticated components! - https://www.
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by smoyer 7y ago
I love that you're here ... and as transparent as possible. Thanks for the work you do in keeping the Internet running (and as far as possible - "safe".
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by smoyer 7y ago
I'm not arguing that data centers aren't power hungry but I will say that I'm a bit concerned that proof-of-work crypto-currencies are consuming way more power than the coins will ultimately be worth. I know that bitcoin has
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by smoyer 7y ago
I came here to basically say the same thing ... if Knuth weren't demonstrating Literate Programming (LP), he would have used a library version of the Trie function that took up most of those eight pages. At that point, who cares wheth
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by smoyer 7y ago
Funny! ... I only looked at the blog page (my bad)
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by smoyer 7y ago
I like the idea, want to participate but am NOT signing up for yet another stupid newsletter. Please publish an RSS feed (I see that it's Github Pages ... perhaps your site generator can do it?)! Someone noted that the forums are Goog
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by smoyer 7y ago
I had the same thought ... having a "get-out-of-jail-free" card lowers the risk for authorized pen-testers but how do you calculate the risk-to-reward ratio if you're actually a criminal? You have to figure that it's le
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by smoyer 7y ago
It's not straightforward at all but it's better than it was five years ago ... you can use something more "meta" like SymmetricDS ( https://www.symmetricds.org/ ). I haven't used it personally but a
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by smoyer 7y ago
I've eliminated cookies from my systems too ... I just put my tracking information in local storage.
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by smoyer 7y ago
Use https://privacy.com/gog for a discount on one-time user credit cards.
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by smoyer 7y ago
I built two products on CouchDB 1.x starting in 2010 ... version three is another amazing step forward! For my more recent projects, I've replaced CouchDB with clustered PostgreSQL using JSON columns as I really enjoy the ability to w
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by smoyer 7y ago
I think we're more like a first-world banana-republic.

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