bradknowles

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by bradknowles 5mo ago
It’s easy enough to just configure TouchID so that it doesn’t work to log into your computer. It’s only used for authorization to do certain operations (like ApplePay), once you have logged on with a password. I do this on all my devices.
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by bradknowles 5mo ago
I don’t think these methods are possible anymore in this modern economy of “fire everyone because of AI and then rehire them a few months later at half the salary”. If you’re not one of the senior managers, I don’t think these kinds of long
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by bradknowles 8mo ago
You know, if this was software, I would agree with you. Let’s just say that hardware and I are not a good fit.
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by bradknowles 8mo ago
I regret to inform you that I am not competent to make electrical systems design changes on a device like this.
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by bradknowles 8mo ago
You should ask Daniel Stenberg of CURL fame. He might appreciate some help in this area.
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by bradknowles 8mo ago
Trump: Yes, let’s kill all the children. Surely that will improve things.
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by bradknowles 8mo ago
This design appears to be 220VAC only. And I’m assuming all metric threads and other measurements, too. I think I could live with all the other components being metric, if they just had a way to work with standard U.S./Imperial contai
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by bradknowles 8mo ago
Only until OpenAI or one of the other hyper-scalars makes sure to adequately pay him off.
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by bradknowles 8mo ago
So, use a good VPN. IMO, the main thing they’re actually useful for is protecting you against abuse from your own ISP.
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by bradknowles 1y ago
For the time I worked at AWS, pretty much everyone inside the company used s5cmd for its speed. I think that speaks pretty highly of it.
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by bradknowles 1y ago
Yeah, that jumped out at me, too. If they can’t re-run the benchmarks on the same hardware, it’s hard to compare the numbers.
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by bradknowles 1y ago
You can send power without wires, over short distances. Induction charging on devices like iPhones and Apple Watches are common examples of that. But it gets exponentially more difficult to transmit power wirelessly, the greater the distan
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by bradknowles 1y ago
Is it supercavitation or is it riding in a bubble of steam that it creates ahead of itself? Either way, it’s effectively flying through the air bubble underwater, which was the concept I was thinking of.
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by bradknowles 1y ago
This is not a new concept. You can see a discussion of this technique being used (to a degree) on battleships in WWII, by watching some of the videos on the Battleship New Jersey YouTube channel. There’s also a Russian torpedo that uses a
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by bradknowles 1y ago
So, Kiri Engine?
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by bradknowles 1y ago
No, but there is still common use of the related form “wary”.
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by bradknowles 1y ago
One of the reasons why Ipe (pronounced “e-pay”) wood is so fire resistant, is because of its density. You can get Class-A fire resistant Ipe that can be used to build in the Wildland/Urban Interface environment. Other woods like Teak
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by bradknowles 1y ago
With regards to cerebral palsy, my mind always goes back to Chuck, a guy I knew in high school in 1983-1984. His case was pretty severe, most people couldn’t understand him when he talked. He was able to drive his motorized wheelchair pre
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by bradknowles 1y ago
Salt water is a nasty substance and difficult to handle properly. That salt interacts with metal and other substances in the pipeline, etc…. You might not have to go to fully potable (drinkable) status to get something that will work for c
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by bradknowles 1y ago
Datacenters need four things: power, water, cooling, and access to the WAN. A dry desert environment is not very conducive to datacenter operations with regards to those first three items. If you’re located close to the sea or an ocean, at
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by bradknowles 1y ago
For years, my dad and I had pun fights. Sadly, my mom was caught in the middle. Literally. Her chair was between my dad’s chair on one end of the living room, and mine on the other end. That stopped after a while. I guess it was all the
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by bradknowles 1y ago
VCs and PE will fund anything, especially if someone like Peter Thiel tells them that Palantir will make trillions of dollars selling this information to their bestest buddies in all the governments that they own.
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by bradknowles 1y ago
Many years ago, I did a six month contract for Apple Retail Software Engineering, to deliver a Jenkins CI/CD system for the code that was used to communicate with the employees in the stores, to allow those employees to communicate wit
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Even with solar panels, you have to have the right equipment at your meter and in the first box connected to the meter, in order to backfeed power to the grid. You can’t just slap random gear inside your house and have it start feeding cur
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by bradknowles 2y ago
The description was very poor. They could only feed power back into the one circuit that hardware is on, and the would also be a violation of multiple safety standards, as well as the National Electrical Code. That’s a good way to get som
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by bradknowles 2y ago
It's a UPS. Compare it against APC SmartUPS and CyberPower. I've already got multiple APC SmartUPSes in the house. They don't need to be networked together. And they've got multiple output sockets, not just two. At 2.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
It's a UPS. It doesn't do any back feeding. Compare it against APC SmartUPS and CyberPower.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Last time I looked at `mtr`, I believe that geolocation was already available.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Well, it was down when I looked at it. It does seem to be back up now. Which leads me to the next question — how is this any different/better than `mtr`? I’m not seeing any benefit here, but maybe I’m missing something?
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by bradknowles 2y ago
For me, the most important thing is to think about what data you’re sharing with third parties, and how that data might be abused. Or maybe that third party doesn’t abuse it themselves, but they’re vulnerable to someone else stealing it, an

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