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   by watersb 11y ago

   I used to believe that overall standard of living had increased, the realization of technological advance. We have better toys and probably better food now than in my childhood. Adding to my confusion was my experience in Silicon Valley, or
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   by watersb 11y ago

   1Password is great. Love it. I have been getting excited about Universal Two-Factor auth tokens. Sure, yet another standard, but U2F seems dead-simple from user perspective, and easy for developers to add to web apps. If we rely more upon w
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   by watersb 11y ago

   I rely upon 1pw on iOS and Mac, so I was really happy with the Windows Store version of 1pw. It is billed as a work-in-progress, but on my terribly limited HP Stream 7 tablet (Windows 10), 1Password is no less stable than any of the other a
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   by watersb 11y ago

   I have the Github-branded YubiKey, as well as another U2F FIDO key that I purchased last year from Plug-Up. But now PlugUp web site, http://pu1.fr , redirects to a trendy, rebranded site that I can't get to work. So I don&#x
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   by watersb 11y ago

   While technically correct, "simplified" is not part of the Discordian vocabulary.
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   by watersb 11y ago

   Thanks for the pointer to self-licensing. I am sure there are many such mistakes at play here. (Also, in the context of gender issues, I felt weird when you referred to two Ph.D. students as "girls", because they probably are not
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   by watersb 11y ago

   This multi-aperture camera was delivered rather before the Light L16: https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/vla It's about time someone did this for consumer products.
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   by watersb 11y ago

   Coder porn?
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   by watersb 11y ago

   Serious question, since I'm decades out of date with corporate IT: Are these considered problems or solutions? AD solved problems for the last company I was at, but only for the minority of machines running Windows.
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    by watersb 11y ago

    SOFIA is (of course) an infrared instrument. For infrared, water vapor really messes up the light, like trying to see through fog. So getting above almost all of the water made up for the complexity added by a moving platform. If a glider c
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    by watersb 11y ago

    Man o man I have sat at that table...
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    by watersb 11y ago

    Sounds like you found something that works for you. Excellent! Diet and exercise were certainly where I started. That was seven years ago. Still no joy. Infections eventually go away. Maybe. Or we treat them with drugs, diet etc. Stress can
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    by watersb 11y ago

    Only 10% Windows? Has ESO switched to Linux?
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    by watersb 12y ago

    Great post! I was born in Clarke county but didn't know much of this history. (When Oglethorpe was 4 years old, a baby named Joe Waters was born in Virginia. He eventually migrated south, with descendants in Georgia and Alabama. Lots o
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    by watersb 12y ago

    I love these kinds of write-ups, because I always learn new techniques and tools. I've done this sort of thing with rsync, and with ZFS send/receive. And of course, mailing hard disks.
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    by watersb 12y ago

    Awful tragedy. I fucking hate cars. I really tried to like them, because they are required for child care in the United States. But I failed. Haven't driven a car to work since 1997. But I used taxis in 1998. Moved out to a remote area
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    by watersb 12y ago

    Kits - including the raft - are available to rent for trips over the ocean. Flying a little plane around Hawaii or the Caribbean, it's a good idea.
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    by watersb 12y ago

    Standard equipment on a Cirrus SR-22. Ballistic Recovery Systems, a company from Minnesota.
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    by watersb 12y ago

    As I read this, I'm sitting in Los Alamos. Wow.
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    by watersb 12y ago

    > I don't understand why eBay (and others) don't offer two-factor authentication eBay implements 2-factor auth via a PayPal s/Key hardware token. https://www.paypal.com/securitykey
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    by watersb 12y ago

    Short answer: Tarsnap can back up a sparse image without messing up any de-dup properties of the contents of the sparse image. I haven't tested Tarsnap with my Time Machine backups yet, but I've used non-Mac file systems as file s
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    by watersb 13y ago

    Qt runs fairly lightweight on top of the native BCM compositor of the Raspberry Pi. [1] I wonder how this LXQt might compare to Maynard [2] resource usage. [1] http://youtu.be/0j-Wakm5B84 [2] http://www.raspberry
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    by watersb 13y ago

    34 years. I learned to program by reading every page of every BYTE magazine, as they arrived at my local library. Then my junior-high school principal noticed this, and gave all of his, so I could take them home to read. These issues were r
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    by watersb 13y ago

    Anand also taught us that an iPad draws about as much power as an 11-inch MacBook Air. Configure an ARM platform with 8 GB of DDR3 DRAM and a PCIe-based SSD, and you may well blow the power budget versus the current Intel platform design. I
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    by watersb 13y ago

    The NRAO has telescopes that have been used to communicate with spacecraft. But the are out of money, too. http://NRAO.edu
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    by watersb 13y ago

    If you just 'read' SICP, you are wasting your time. You read it in the best possible way.