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by warner25 4y ago
I think we still have a long way to go before people are actually saying "Bing it." Then it's a serious threat.
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, most people shouldn't need more, but you're right. For example, to update the maps in our minivan's navigation system, I need to install some (crappy) Windows-only desktop application, "Garmin Express."
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by warner25 4y ago
This is interesting insight. So Chromebooks aren't cool? I guess I can see that when every school is issuing Chromebooks to the kids these days. I remember Mac computers being uncool when I was a kid because that's what we had in
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by warner25 4y ago
Interesting to hear this. My last job was in a shop that ran RHEL servers and I always felt bad for not using the support that we paid for. Like after working through a problem, thinking, "Oh, we should have called Red Hat." I gue
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by warner25 4y ago
> Am I misremembering? Maybe it was only that no warrant was required to monitor me on company systems... I've only been in uniform, not worked for private defense contractors, but it should be this. On government (classified or not
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by warner25 4y ago
What "core infra" do you imagine is at the Pentagon?
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by warner25 4y ago
There are still periodic reminders about this but, to the parent's point, it's still the case that nobody gets fired for erring on the side of prudence. You might get a few stern words from someone senior to you, but won't ge
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by warner25 4y ago
I think the embedded media program is much more problematic than TWI. Embedded media is at the invitation and discretion of operational public affairs officers and commanders, and those public affairs officers and commanders absolutely ha
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by warner25 4y ago
For what it's worth, I'll give some perspective here as a career Army officer. I think this is one of those things that sounds like the plausible work of a highly intelligent and effective monolith, which is how conspiracy theoris
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by warner25 4y ago
Good point. I was also thinking that I never saw a scantron while studying CS at two different American R1 research universities, but the CS departments were small with at most 25 people in a classroom. Peeking at some other universities
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by warner25 4y ago
I have a bag of BIC Cristal pens that I've been working through for over a decade now. There are still a few left. What am I missing? I've used a lot of random pens when signing my name at various places of business, and none of t
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by warner25 4y ago
Wow, that's fascinating. It really speaks to the utter dominance of Windows over Linux more than anything else. Like even among Firefox users, as of last year , there were an order-of-magnitude more Windows 7 and 8 users than Linu
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by warner25 4y ago
Back when I was in college in the mid-00s and TheFacebook was cool, because it was still limited to people with .edu email addresses from top-tier and Boston-area schools, I remember a group named "I'm a Computer Science Major and
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by warner25 4y ago
I had a friend to sit with at lunch and talk to excitedly about computers, PC gaming, robots, military hardware, etc. This was in the 90s.
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by warner25 4y ago
> I wonder if kids today have similar thoughts I'm sure that some do, and most don't. Most kids 30 years ago didn't have similar thoughts either. Few people are meant to be programmers, engineers, etc. Were you not shunned
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, I have no inside knowledge, but it certainly looks like nothing in the way of criminal punishment. From various articles, it sounds like he only intended to do a two-year term, and he actually stayed in the position a few months after
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by warner25 4y ago
If someone puts classified information into Quizlet, that constitutes spillage whether they set it to private or not. Sometimes this kind of thing needs to be explained even to very senior people, not just lowly troops. I knew of a four-sta
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, that's more than I paid for my Framework with the 11th Gen i7, 32 GB of memory, and 1 TB of storage. I've been saying for a while that Framework doesn't get enough credit for how competitive their prices are on the high
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by warner25 4y ago
That makes sense except for the fact that servers can still identify the smaller set of actual Mullvad VPN users by their IP address(es).
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm a parent to four little kids, and I've spent a ton of time at home with them over the last few years. When I take them to the park, it's often so that I can have a break, because it's a safe place for them to sprea
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by warner25 4y ago
What's interesting to me is that all this happened after he already had a $17M net worth (20 years ago, so worth almost double that now with inflation, and in a low-cost-of-living area), per the Wikipedia article. That's far more
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by warner25 4y ago
Interesting to see this on the front page of HN. I'm a career Army officer. I've only skimmed it, but this is indeed a very thorough history of Army IO. A couple other comments: 1. While Army doctrine and organizational structure
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by warner25 4y ago
> updates feel too infrequent Wow, really? I think I see available updates everyday if I run dnf or open GNOME Software. I just checked right now and got the 6.2.8 kernel. I guess it wasn't available on Fedora until 28 March, after
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by warner25 4y ago
I don't "hate working remotely," but this is well said. I have four kids. The oldest was born in 2014, and since late 2016 I've spent an enormous amount of time working from home as a graduate student and as a profession
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by warner25 4y ago
See my other comment about this being a way to achieve all the nice properties of the Signal protocol in an efficient and scalable manner for group messaging instead of just 1:1 messaging.
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by warner25 4y ago
I know some academics working on MLS and I spent some time last year trying to understand it, to decide if I wanted to work with them. I think this blog post doesn't mention the core problem that MLS is trying to solve, which is effici
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by warner25 4y ago
I suspect that this is the real answer.
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by warner25 4y ago
There are very few websites that I love and might trust to not abuse notifications, and HN is probably one of them. Still, I only want an inbox or page showing unread messages that I can check at my own initiative rather than something th
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by warner25 4y ago
Whenever I get prompted to allow them from a website, my immediate thought is "why would they ever think I'd want this?"
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by warner25 4y ago
Yes, I keep an old laptop around with Windows 10, which sometimes goes months without powering on. When I do boot it again, it potentially takes hours of non-deterministically finding and downloading and installing updates over multiple reb

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