Kozmik1

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by Kozmik1 9mo ago
That's a funny choice, I thought Europe was done with SMS. I can see this 1-to-1 mapping with other cellphone derived messaging like Whatsapp, etc being an issue for privacy but it's certainly possible to have multiple phones.
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by Kozmik1 9mo ago
How would internet access in a coffee shop be traced to the specific user?
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
Waves at Midway Atoll and Guam are reported to be 3ft (1m) amplitude by Hawaii Governor Josh Green as of 6:24pm Hawaii Time
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
Do not stay in Haleiwa or go to Waikiki. Consult a map, and find some uphill areas above 100ft to drive to. Drive towards Mililani and wait it out in the upland areas. My kids are at camp right now on the North Shore and are being evacuat
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
I've been using Radio Garden for years. A tip that took me a while is you have to click the place name for larger locations to get a list of all stations. Try music from Dakar, Senegal or Guinea-Bissau. Super funky music. There used
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
As if my ATI video card doesn't lose its Windows driver every other reboot.
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
I saw trained pigeons flying from my hotel rooftop in Wuhan when I visited in 2001. Someone on another building was commanding them to fly in patterns with flags. I don't recall if there were any whistles involved, but it was a reall
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
I made the mistake early in our startup of spending several months and quite a bit of cash building our first iot product on the Intel Edison platform, only to get zero support on the bugs in the SPI chip and the non-existent (but advertise
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
I had not heard of/seen the pool noodle idea - looks like a simple and effective way to draw attention to cycling safety. Here's a video of the NYC Pool Noodle Bike Ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97YJOQRQ4Ds
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
Weird. There is little that depresses me more than watching my wife sit at the table for hours a day slowly scrolling Facebook while ignoring me and the kids. We have talked about it and she's tried to reduce it to no avail.
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by Kozmik1 1y ago
Back in my day the arrogant devs just used printer paper and a hand drawn sign saying "GO AWAY!" taped to the back of their chair.
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
Use a password manager, like 1password to securely encrypt and store your secure information, including cc info, so that you don't have to store it in your browser. 1password can fill in your browser fields for you.
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
My favorite German food is Turkish. My favorite British food is Lebanese.
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
Has anyone tried Le Train Bleu inside Gare de Lyon station in Paris? It's a very fancy restaurant (French, obviously). Like many such places, the reviews are mixed, but it was plenty to impress my simpleton American expectations. Cer
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
I think we can talk about it. If you lived in Taiwan you would want it talked about. If you live in Greenland you would want your concerns talked about. Watershed moments of rapid change such as these can be democratizing, or not... It is w
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
For anyone getting started, especially if you just got funded, I highly suggest you personally buy a stack of laptops, chairs or desks from one of these places to provide all your new hires. The experience should leave you humbled and give
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
It's easy enough to imagine an actual emergency which would necessitate remote or local intervention to stop the car, and the call seems to indicate that they don't have an emergency override or at least not without escalation. Wh
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
Can anyone comment on the current prevalence of bullying in schools in the UK vs the USA? We have been considering moving from the Us to the UK but perceived higher likelihood of bullying for our mixed race kids is one concern holding us b
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
I remembered as I enabled this great setting, that I am usually very quick to turn it OFF because it causes the configured sound to play when you hit backspace at a blank prompt, which I tend to do when I'm thinking of what to type, or
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by Kozmik1 2y ago
The classic audio diagnostic on Linux/Unix is some beeps occurring and kernel debug text on all virtual terminals when something really horrible has gone wrong. If you want to make a beep in a linux console, try adding this to your she
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by Kozmik1 3y ago
Making CarPlay for boats would not be so hard, but making Waze for recreational boats might be. But if you have ideas on that and are sure you can avoid directing people into deadly obstacles, considering all sea and weather conditions, in
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by Kozmik1 3y ago
In the US Commercial Tug & Barge market, Rose Point Navigation (out of Redmond, WA) has a near 100% saturation of the navigation software market. Why does nobody disrupt them? The overlap between experts in software and experts in ves
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by Kozmik1 3y ago
If you want to reduce risk, I don't suggest spending more time at sea, or buying boats.
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by Kozmik1 3y ago
Does Slack actually open on Plasma 6?
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by Kozmik1 3y ago
I was in Cape Town, South Africa last week working from my mobile hotspot during one of the rolling power blackouts and Gmail and Slack on the web browser were both so slow they were effectively dead. I was hunting around (with poor connec
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by Kozmik1 4y ago
Try one of the following on your Macbook: - replace a battery - upgrade the memory or SSD/NVME - get your data off a Macbook whose motherboard has died In other words, do any of the common repairs. To spend top dollar for a laptop and
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by Kozmik1 4y ago
Salvador Dali would love this.
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by Kozmik1 4y ago
Check out those prices! That Atari 800 at $699 would be $2,150 today adjusted for inflation. I guess it was pretty capable but today you could have a hell of a computer for that price! The sewing machine at $300 is $920 today and looks bas
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by Kozmik1 4y ago
My small town carnival in Wachapreague, Virginia, had a ride in the 1980s called (most likely from research and my fading memory) the Fly-o-Plane in which you climbed inside a similar metal can on arms and rotate around an axis while having
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by Kozmik1 4y ago
"Ok team, today we're going to learn how to close all those pop-up windows that appear when you turn your Mac on. Remember, just hit 'Remind me tomorrow'."

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