stewartbutler

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by stewartbutler 11y ago
It is amusing that 'salmon' shows up on the male side of the gender comparison chart. The only time I've ever seen that used for a color is in Halo. Wonder how much that biased the results.
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by stewartbutler 11y ago
No matter how egregious the security risk is, I have a hard time taking anyone who uses twitter to contact someone they want to do business with seriously. Or any social media, tbh. It comes off as unprofessional to me, and it is especially
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
*Works if properly implemented. Had to manually disable this behavior in eshell as it prevented you from running regex with two carets, e.g. '$ grep -E '^sometext[^ ]+moretext'. You can also just run a sed style substitution
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
Honest question: has Facebook done anything to indicate that they are willing and able to protect user data? Because social and financial are two words that I don't like seeing near each other. I ask because I deleted my account years
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
Yep, Sublime SFTP.
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
I use ssh + tmux + emacs. Security policy states no local copies of development files are allowed at my workplace without special authorization, which I never bothered asking for. Migrated my emacs configuration to the remote server as a gi
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
How much of business culture uses military terminology or idioms? If sports were eliminated I'm sure we would find something to fill the gap.
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
It struck me as ridiculous when I heard the story, but I can somewhat see how it happens -- first, civil-war era means that it is /old/, which makes it seem less dangerous unless you know about the age->instability relationship
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
Pigeon-guided missiles also come to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
PSA: old bombs are dangerous bombs. If you find something you suspect may be unexploded ordinance, contact the police or (in the US) regional ATF office. Many of the compounds used in older explosives (e.g. TNT) grow more unstable as time p
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
> keyboard software Sounds to me like they modified the driver so that it had some kind of emissions pattern they could track. Driver could be modified via a virus or something.
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
Maybe a nanopore/nanostructure battery[1,2]? They are touted to bring near-capacitor charge/discharge rates from fairly traditional chemistry. This specific application leaves a few questions, though: 1: What is the actual capacit
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
The Freaking Article.
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by stewartbutler 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_(safety)
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
Patent =/= trademark.
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
> It's not like the people using Facebook aren't aware that it tracks you. I call bullshit on this. The majority of the people using Facebook have no clue what information they are giving up to a third party, and would be very concerned
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
Seems like a horrible idea to have a nuclear reactor in your primary crumple zone -- most high-speed collisions would be front-end collisions.
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
A complete wild-ass guess -- those concerns are most important in small-scale reactors, and the primary driving force behind small reactors is Navy submarine use. At sea you are surrounded by water, so there is no reason not to use it as yo
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
They aren't valid at all -- 3D printing isn't limited to plastic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering http://www.solid-scape.com/products/solidscape-3d-wax-printe... http://www.contourcrafting.org/ Also, plastic 3D
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
AES?
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
Check your facts, please. ATF has its own share of assholes, but from personal experience I'm inclined to attribute its failings to incompetence in upper ranks rather than malice. http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-f
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
Also, zip ties are plastic. Most plastics decay when exposed to ultraviolet. As this is NASA, there is probably some funny polymer that can get the job done, but why fix what isn't broken?
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
Either they are laced parallel to a support strut, which can be thought of as a very hard wire, or lashed down to some support point. You can also see this in large data centers. http://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
I can think of two ways to do it. First, you could put the piezo film (commonly used in speakers for cellphones, more efficient for smaller transducers but requires a special amplifier) directly below (but in contact with) the display and u
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
Well... yeah?
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
My guess is that it is just a plastic that is IR-transparent and visible-opaque, viewed by a camera with no IR filter. Actually fairly common - coke cola is IR-transparent. Not sure you can get an image through it, but I wouldn't be surpris
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
When lives are at stake, people tend to be more amenable to changes like GMT and 24-hour clock. If the military can do it, a civilian organization with sufficient motivation (insurance terms, regulation, etc) should be able to make the same
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
Well, if it could be regulated, you could require that the hospital put the NTP server or equivalent on IP over power line.
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
> "Surely connected devices could use one centrally calculated timesource?" ... like NTP? Sorry, but I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here. Anything with a computer, even a microcontroller, and basic network connectivity c
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by stewartbutler 14y ago
As an addendum to your points, I do not have a Facebook account, and since deleting mine I've not even wanted one. Google, Amazon, Dropbox, and a few other services are compelling enough that unless they make serious errors, I will continue

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