billsmithaustin

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by billsmithaustin 9d ago
Does anyone here question the integrity of the US government’s jobs report two months away from a mid-term election?
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by billsmithaustin 3mo ago
A similar thing happened in a first-year CS class at Purdue this year: https://thecheatsheet.substack.com/p/432-cheating-at-purdue-... .
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by billsmithaustin 6mo ago
Or not a Golang bug at all but rather a new Golang feature that the developer chose to use rather than trying to be backward compatible with some older Golang versions.
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by billsmithaustin 1y ago
Congrats to the author. I plan to do Oregon -> Virginia next year but I'll take more like 80 days than the author's 51.
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
He probably started out wanting to make just one pipe bomb but you know how it is, you get a great discount if you buy the ingredients in bulk. So he made his pipe bomb and then he had all these leftover ingredients just taking up space in
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
Destroy it now.
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
"Moreover, even for those who would like to rightfully consider Airbnb results positive, there’s a huge price on culture companies managed this way have to pay. We can get a glimpse from a few Glassdoor reviews I found, all subsequent
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
Or perhaps Elon is not personally involved in what network protocols they use on their Dojo AI supercomputer.
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
For you cyclists, the Great Allegheny Pass trail and the Chesapeake & Ohio towpath meet there.
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
You're suggesting one of the developers went through all the trouble to create a browser, then allowed someone to add assets to the repo without the developer reviewing them first?
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
Just playing back what you said because it's surprising. You're saying that explosion was not caused by water that was superheated by the supervolcano below the greater Yellowstone Caldera? It was heated by some other source? In
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
My experience: a lot of the confusion in technical conversations is due to two parties using the same term for different but related concepts. Relabeling the concepts to clarify the distinction is the right thing to do. >> or could w
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
All of that. Plus, wrap your head in aluminum foil.
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
I guess that's what the article meant here: "This particular Pi doesn't have a real-time clock. The very newest ones (5B) do , but you have to actually buy a battery and connect it. "
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by billsmithaustin 2y ago
The GAP trail from Pittsburg to Cumberland is especially awesome. It’s well-maintained, the trail towns are welcoming, and the scenery is fantastic. The folks who live near the trail are lucky to have it.
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
Moka pot rubber gaskets are replaceable.
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
In at least some Mazda models, you can replace the firmware in the entertainment system to eliminate that message. I’ve done it.
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
Even better would be closed source firmware with an annual license fee.
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
I had COVID a few weeks ago. You will remember.
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
I would not have guessed any of those were mastodons.
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
Bruce Schneier made a similar point in his book, “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World“. Quote: Society needs defectors. Groups benefit from the fact that some members do not follow the group norms. These are the outlie
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
What would be an example of a non-bullshit form?
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
I see Morning Edition and All Things Considered on KQED's weekly schedule ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrFgenUlR9TW8bZJ26LopRObTuB... ). KQED pays NPR for that content.
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by billsmithaustin 3y ago
Anyone have a non-paywall version?
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by billsmithaustin 4y ago
I agree that if the shoes were perfectly good, it would have been better to keep them. Are you asserting the author recycled perfectly good shoes, or are you just describing a hypothetical? If the former, what in the article suggests the
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by billsmithaustin 4y ago
As late as the 70’s, you could get in trouble with the local telco for using an acoustic coupler on a residential phone line.
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by billsmithaustin 4y ago
Another in this genre: https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
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by billsmithaustin 4y ago
That would depend on the restrictions accompanying the money. The federal government has had mixed success funding technology projects. The Feds aren’t necessarily experts at solving state/local-level problems.
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by billsmithaustin 4y ago
I used the MV/8000 at a SCADA company where I worked part-time in college. It was a nice step up from the 16-bit DG Nova machines we used earlier.
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by billsmithaustin 4y ago
Wasn’t there a startup that did this in the late 90’s?

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