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by xraystyle 9y ago
> Do Oakleys block the sun better than $5 checkout counter sunglasses? Not all sunglasses, especially cheap sunglasses, block 100% of the UV spectrum. If sunglasses are just tinted but don't block UV light they're actually wors
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by xraystyle 9y ago
High end watches serve the same function as jewelry. They're also magnificent pieces of art and engineering in many cases. If you just want something that keeps time, the $20 Casio is fine. In fact, most people I know just look at thei
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by xraystyle 9y ago
It's not that a shirt and tie is uncomfortable, it's that a t-shirt IS comfortable. If I can pick between two jobs where I sit at a desk all day in front of a keyboard, and only one requires a button-down shirt and a tie, the tie
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by xraystyle 9y ago
> It seemed obvious that they were aware it was a sticking point in recruiting. Understandably. I don't even own enough clothing that would qualify to make it through a week. This would most certainly be a deal-breaker for me unless
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by xraystyle 10y ago
> That's what Amazon Locker is for. Not sure if it's 100% accurate, but as an example, there doesn't seem to be a single Amazon locker location in the entire state of Mississippi according to Google Maps.
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by xraystyle 10y ago
> But your server still has a service provider. It might not be literally tied to your billing information but that was never going to be anyway. The idea is to use a VPN provider that keeps no logs and runs many concurrent connections N
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by xraystyle 10y ago
It seems to me that largely the issue is there's no mechanism to force people into treatment for drug/alcohol addiction and mental illness. Here in Los Angeles the number of homeless who are severely mentally ill is incredibly hig
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by xraystyle 10y ago
Niche interest subreddits are about the only thing Reddit is good for anymore as far as I'm concerned. I don't subscribe to a single default sub and never check the front page. I subscribe to subs like sysadmin, woodworking, ruby
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by xraystyle 10y ago
But see, that's the point I'm trying to make. Having the benefit of hindsight as someone who actually went on to recording records and regularly playing live in front of paying audiences, my teachers were focused on ENTIRELY the w
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by xraystyle 10y ago
I had two of the world's worst piano teachers as a young kid. Everything was exactly the boring nonsense in the parent comment. There was honestly more focus on posture than on actually making sound come out of the piano. The songs I h
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by xraystyle 10y ago
Exactly. If you want to see who's sharing a file you just join the swarm and look at the IPs in your torrent client. There's absolutely zero benefit to running a torrent honeypot. This is all civil copyright infringement anyway.
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by xraystyle 10y ago
I think the main takeaway here when I encounter these complaints about Slack all boil down to "you're doing it wrong". If you set good guidelines on usage and make sure you actually police them Slack is in an incredibly usefu
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by xraystyle 10y ago
I've been there too, I get it. I'm trying to roll out a new company-wide backup platform and people come by my desk because Candy Crush isn't working on their personal iPad. Non-technical people have a very strong tendency to
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by xraystyle 10y ago
Network administration frequently involves looking up the vendor info for numerous MAC addresses, as well as chasing MACs across a network over devices belonging to multiple vendors. Network gear vendors have zero standardization when it co
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Show HN: Mac_format, rapid OS X OUI lookup tool and MAC address format translator(github.com)
3 points by xraystyle 10y ago|1 comments
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by xraystyle 10y ago
In Los Angeles the policy is just to parking-ticket the hell out of drivers at every opportunity. The 'unofficial' policy of parking enforcement here is to ticket everything you see, regardless of whether or not the car is actuall
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by xraystyle 10y ago
How is this relevant, exactly? Ruby was written on and designed to run on *NIX OS's, as is most of the software commonly found in webapps, because it all runs on Linux servers. I'm sure it'd be a pain in the ass to get MS Pai
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by xraystyle 11y ago
To me, non-disparagement agreements are an instant red flag that a company is doing something heinous. I don't think anyone has problems with NDAs, but when I see non-disparagement, that instantly translates to "We know we're
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by xraystyle 11y ago
> Corporations are central planning. Just on a smaller scale. No, they're not. Corporations plan their production and allocate their resources based on market information within their industry in an attempt to capitalize on the mark
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by xraystyle 11y ago
I'm not sure who you're talking to, but generally when I ask people why they don't like taking the bus the response is usually much more likely to have something to do with the fact that getting anywhere by bus in LA takes ea
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by xraystyle 11y ago
Almonds aren't that high-value. Agriculture in total accounts for 2% of the state's GDP. I'm guessing less than 5% of all ag in the state is almonds. The California economy is expanding at faster than 2% per year currently. I
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by xraystyle 11y ago
> The lawns and fields were green, the backyard pools all full and people were washing cars like normal. The reason for this is that lawns and pools aren't the problem. The problem is, and continues to be agricultural use of water.
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by xraystyle 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. When I'm trying to think through a problem I want everyone around me to be friggin' quiet and leave me alone. When I'm thinking about an abstract concept, trying to visualize how the pieces fit toget
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by xraystyle 12y ago
Do you have a source for this? Is there any documentation of this in the 802.11 spec? I'm also wondering if devices send a single probe per SSID they're looking for, or one probe with a list of SSIDs?
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by xraystyle 12y ago
Speaking of fun with "say", this was a hit around my office for a while: https://github.com/xraystyle/talking-computer
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by xraystyle 13y ago
DOMAIN.COM/ARTIST Giving people directories vs. their own subdomains is much easier/simpler to manage.
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Show HN: Ruby app for managing Google Apps users and groups(github.com)
7 points by xraystyle 14y ago|0 comments