wonko1

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by wonko1 8y ago
Can anyone attend these lectures? It's always been a dream to attend Knuth's Christmas lecture.
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by wonko1 9y ago
Of the 2 employers I've had who self-hosted, they both did this. I've also done this when self hosting, it's super easy. I guess there are probably no surveys of this though...
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by wonko1 9y ago
I really enjoyed this, it reminded me of early experimental sites like what hell dot com used to be...
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by wonko1 10y ago
That's really interesting. I've been considering moving back to my own mail server from gmail for a long time but have been worried about the security issues. This is one more thing pushing me in that direction.
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by wonko1 10y ago
It's not really changed. To be honest, I don't think it so much of an issue any more. I have a library of parts I use regularly and just design footprints for new parts. I'm my case, I doubt that Altium would have footprints
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by wonko1 10y ago
This is a really nice tutorial, not just on keyboard PCB design but Kicad in general. I also recommend the excellent "getting to blinky" videos: https://contextualelectronics.com/learning/getting-to-blinky...
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by wonko1 10y ago
An unrelated but interesting point he noted was that Apple are one of the only vendors that provide long term firmware updates (he mentioned 8 years). It's a shame nobody else really does this.
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by wonko1 10y ago
In summary: Coreboot+Linux as a bootloader I think I've seen this before in an HPC context. But they've build a firmware distribution called Heads. It boots using coreboot then fires up a Linux kernel from flash. The kernel is the
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by wonko1 10y ago
Why do so many MongoDB installation lack a password on the Admin account? I tried search for me info, but could find anything. Was this the default? Procedure given in a popular tutorial? It seems pretty insane.
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by wonko1 10y ago
Interesting idea. I use Ad-blockers but I'm not so sure I'd go so far as to encourage other people to use them, each to their own.
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by wonko1 10y ago
A Lenovo X200 running Debian which I paid 50USD for. I use a 128Gb SSD (which cost more than the laptop). My daily contracting rate is more than 10x the cost of the laptop, but this setup just works really well for me. When my daughter pour
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by wonko1 10y ago
It's clear that he was lucky to have a school teacher who inspired him from an early age and effected his world view significantly. I guess he got lucky, but as a parent I worry about this. He points out that most educational establish
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by wonko1 10y ago
The hardware is google home. Software is less clear, someone said it was cleverbot.
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by wonko1 10y ago
I guess I was looking for a lower bound. I'll be surprised if they can manage to implement this on their cheapest products.
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by wonko1 10y ago
Looking through their site the cheapest home applicances that LG sells are microwaves. They cost on the order of 100USD for the cheapest models. The cheapest Wifi "IoT" microcontrollers are on the order of 1USD. Seems like it migh
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by wonko1 10y ago
If I'm honest with myself I have to admit that a general purpose human level, strong AI would shake my world view significantly. For that reason, I find it difficult to have a completely unbiased opinion on our current state of progres
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by wonko1 10y ago
Doesn't make it right, but doesn't seem worth mentioning if you're talking about specific issues with Google, rather than websites in general.
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by wonko1 10y ago
No, this is true. I wonder how hard that would be.
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by wonko1 10y ago
Check out w3m (which has some graphics support). There's also Netsurf, I've not used it but it. Looks awesome: http://www.netsurf-browser.org
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by wonko1 10y ago
Polifact: http://www.politifact.com Seems to be doing a pretty good job.
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by wonko1 10y ago
I don't think there are any hard and fast rules. If the new hires told you their salaries the difficulty is discussing it without revealing this fact. Management sometimes frowns on that. If the pay range was publicly disclosed in an a
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by wonko1 10y ago
His reasoning that it uses "non-free JavaScript" seems a bit redundant these days (given that almost every site does). I always value Stallman's commitment, but it's often impractical to maintain while being a productive
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by wonko1 10y ago
I'd love it if the default was to use some very lightweight WebRTC app where you just created a new link for each conversation. I don't think it's likely to happen any time soon unfortunately. Regarding Facebook, it still fee
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by wonko1 10y ago
I think the original question was querying if the runtime is statically or dynamically linked. It's also possibly a subtle dig at go, because unlike other languages go does not use dynamic linking, meaning bugs in libraries require rec
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by wonko1 10y ago
Interesting. I can't see myself using it for work though, which the majority of my Skype calls tend to be.
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by wonko1 10y ago
Yes... a world in which Sarah Palin is apologizing to Assange isn't one I understand very well. How they respond to the Trump administration when it's in power will tell us a lot about what's happening at wikileaks. But it se
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by wonko1 10y ago
Another reason not to use Skype is that their support is pretty poor. They've deleted Skype numbers from my account without warning. Someone linked my and my wife's account because we used them on the same PC, and refuse to unlink
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by wonko1 10y ago
I don't really get the appeal of voice prompted ordering. Is there really a big enough market of people for whom this is more than a novelty? For many products, you want to do at least some research before ordering. For products you or
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by wonko1 10y ago
I think this is a little overstated (not much but a little). I just read through their Yelp reviews (shockingly they're pretty good). What surprised me most was that doctors were sending people to Theranos centers to get tested. Perhap
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by wonko1 10y ago
The title here omits the name of the series this was published in "A time of endings". The article is really about the death and re-birth of Activision. It covers the role the Baer patent played in this, rather beautifully. I was

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