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by stevetodd 6y ago
Funny, I’m also the youngest of 3 boys and 4 girls.
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In Iran, power outages reveal the secret business of Chinese Bitcoin farms(observers.france24.com)
1 points by stevetodd 6y ago|0 comments
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by stevetodd 6y ago
Sounds like the Chrome bug in the latest iOS release. Tap the location bar and then hit cancel to correct the zoom. Hopefully it’s fixed in the next release.
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The Beep Project – translates distance into tones for the blind(theinterntm.com)
1 points by stevetodd 6y ago|0 comments
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by stevetodd 6y ago
> It's also easier than shipping a runtime like a JVM. jlink has shipped since JDK 9 and can package all dependencies and the JRE into a single file. Hello world clocks in at about 22 MB.
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by stevetodd 6y ago
Cool, it’s like WireShark for files. Looks pretty too.
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LifeHash: Hash visualization based on Conway’s Game of Life(github.com)
1 points by stevetodd 6y ago|0 comments
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by stevetodd 6y ago
Is there a simple file-system-like project out there that has git-like capabilities but basically commits and pushes on any save. I’d like to just keep notes in markdown and sync notes among my devices. I don’t even mind dealing with merge
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by stevetodd 6y ago
OT: Ugh. Another site that hijacks the back button to display more articles rather than letting me go back. (Chrome iOS) When did this start? Edit: Video: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0qLMMePqiSOETXWt2Z77Ae8jA
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by stevetodd 6y ago
Chrome, iOS.
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by stevetodd 6y ago
Aside: Annoying new trend in news sites used here is to inject their homepage in the browser history to make it so that the back button goes to their homepage instead of back to where you were.
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BYU study takes next step toward treatment for Alzheimer’s disease(news.byu.edu)
2 points by stevetodd 6y ago|0 comments
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Play-Based Learning with Moxie(embodied.com)
1 points by stevetodd 6y ago|0 comments
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Starlink – Fairing Deploy Sequence(youtu.be)
2 points by stevetodd 6y ago|0 comments
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by stevetodd 7y ago
Liberalism and conservatism are essentially religions—there are core fundamental beliefs to them and a community surrounding it. Rejecting the political party is not just rejecting beliefs but also rejecting family, friends, and social stru
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by stevetodd 7y ago
When you hear the Fed, it is referring to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is independent of the federal government. Essentially, it's the entity that can print money. When it does, it doesn't just give the money away, but
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by stevetodd 7y ago
“Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software“ by Eric Evans seems to be the preeminent book on the subject.
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by stevetodd 7y ago
Ugh, false. This document goes into quite some detail explaining the situation and all the many options you have to not paying Oracle: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nFGazvrCvHMZJgFstlbzoHjp...
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by stevetodd 7y ago
Even better, you have multiple ISPs on the same shared infrastructure. That’s how Utopia in Utah works—Utopia builds out and runs the fiber network and ISPs provide bandwidth and other services on top of the fiber. IIRC, they use VLANs to s
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The World’s Cash Is Disappearing. Bankers Aren’t Sure Where It Went.(wsj.com)
1 points by stevetodd 7y ago|2 comments
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by stevetodd 7y ago
Asterisk is still cool. I think a lot of people are now using FreeSWITCH. I have more experience with the former but using the latter more lately I am seeing the appeal. FreeSWITCH seems a little less hacked together, imho.
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by stevetodd 7y ago
It’s designed to reinforce the idea that piracy is morally wrong.
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by stevetodd 7y ago
> It seems like single-payer insurance and more federal funding for pharmaceutical R&D would be a far better solution than defending predatory drug pricing. That seems like just another prayer to a different god. As much as I would l
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Talos: OS for Kubernetes(talos-systems.com)
108 points by stevetodd 7y ago|78 comments
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by stevetodd 7y ago
I've always dreamed of a magic wand device that I could point at things and give commands. For example, point it at the window and say "close blinds". You could even add gestures to do it silently. With this UWB tech, accele
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by stevetodd 7y ago
Refusal is illegal, however, in the last two administrations, the DOJ just doesn’t enforce it.
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by stevetodd 7y ago
I prefer the definition of technical debt being an uncovered call option: at some point the debt will come due and you don’t have anything in place to mitigate the issues it will cause and may not know when it will come due. This debt might
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by stevetodd 7y ago
Sovrin[1] seems pretty interesting to me for distributed/decentralized identity. They use a distributed ledger for identity and allow for piecemeal disclosure of identity data. So by default the identity data isn’t public. [1] https:&
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by stevetodd 7y ago
The LDS Church doesn’t teach to retreat from the world but rather teaches that some of the natural tendencies of people are self destructive and should not to be indulged in. Now to correct some of your bright side points: - The church neve
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by stevetodd 7y ago
They’ve been trying to get started on one in Utah, though it’s been hung up a few years in court with environmentalists fighting about the water usage. See “Public Reaction” in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Castle_

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