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by snerbles 10y ago
DoD contractors.
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by snerbles 10y ago
> and if those admins didn't get into DEEP TROUBLE, they're either very lucky or your administrative discipline system is VERY broken Our commander talked to their commander, I'm sure at least one finger was wagged at th
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by snerbles 10y ago
It was either not fully thought out, or Microsoft's analysis figured that it would cost less to do it this way. Anecdote: When I worked dispatch, the local Network Operations Center pushed out an update that forcibly rebooted all of o
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by snerbles 10y ago
SIZE is defined as 2048 bytes (line 59). Firefox can do GET requests with 8KiB URLs.
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by snerbles 10y ago
For meetings I almost always use a pen and notepad - I'm often the only guy in the room without a laptop. For project/task notes at my desk I write to a single markdown file in the following format: ### Task Name * Note
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by snerbles 10y ago
Machine guns have been heavily regulated since the National Firearms Act of 1934, and civilian ownership of full-auto weapons manufactured after 1986 has been effectively banned.
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by snerbles 10y ago
They still use IRC over SIPR.
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by snerbles 10y ago
In my view it's okay to tell them that at any time, and just as acceptable for them to throw it back in our faces. What's worrisome is when action is taken to silence and suppress speech considered problematic, because that is
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by snerbles 10y ago
At what point have they have had their say? When does it go from merely saying that the minority has said too much, toward actively crushing their ability to say things that annoy the majority?
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by snerbles 10y ago
NoMachine works quite well on a headless Mac Mini. You'll need a display emulator dongle to prevent OSX rendering artifacts: https://www.amazon.com/CompuLab-fit-Headless-Display-Emulato...
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by snerbles 10y ago
Having worked in 125F with near-zero humidity (Kuwait) and 90F with 100% humidity (Alabama), I'll take the dry heat every time.
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by snerbles 10y ago
The willfully ignorant "I have nothing to hide" crowd may be a viable source of volunteers.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Why not generate browsing sessions from the mean? As a crude example, feed the browsing histories of many "typical" users into a Markov chain and do random walks during typical browsing hours.
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WiFi and Bluetooth do not operate in the 900 MHz band.
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by snerbles 10y ago
It seems that us as engineers either partake in pushing these souls into oblivion or join them. I see no way out unless we invent an economic use for those who will be useless.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Gorillas for QBASIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
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by snerbles 10y ago
At 14 my first programming class was in C at a local community college. One of the texts was K&R 2nd edition. So, if unusual, it's not totally unprecedented.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Such information is valuable and often guarded while products are under development.
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by snerbles 10y ago
Germany just lost the first world war, with a significant fraction (~20%, or 13M of 64M) of the population having directly experienced the horrors of that catastrophe. To add insult to injury, Germany in the interwar years was subject to i
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by snerbles 10y ago
It's the Harrison Bergeron approach to space exploration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
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by snerbles 11y ago
-- Mark Zuckerberg, after receiving the personal information of thousands of people at Harvard. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
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by snerbles 11y ago
Too much overhead for the occasional batch report from an embedded system. A replacement for wkhtmltopdf would be nice, though.
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by snerbles 11y ago
Of course not, but the stability of such a state is becoming a concern with the current migration situation. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/wel...
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by snerbles 11y ago
At what point does reacting to free speech become a call for control, though? I imagine that answer will differ from person to person.
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by snerbles 11y ago
> It doesn't matter what you own, the government will win every time. You are guaranteed to lose. You're thinking at the individual level. Of course the state is going to have far more firepower than anything an individual can
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by snerbles 11y ago
In the industrial space, no one ever got fired for buying Rockwell Automation. Even if FactoryTalk is absolutely horrid.
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by snerbles 11y ago
I've used bloom filters in cross-referencing multiple data sources, where queries from one badly-optimized database were very expensive. In this case, the penalty of a false positive was merely a five-second lookup.
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by snerbles 11y ago
It's closer than you think. Until 2000, strong crypto was classified as a munition under US export rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
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by snerbles 11y ago
Is this with Jessie on the XPS 13 9343? I'm only getting around 6 hours on mine.
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by snerbles 11y ago
I'd rather suffer along on my XPS 13 after Lenovo's Superfish fiasco.

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