d0ugie

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by d0ugie 4y ago
Does it have to be so sinister? Were you a trooper doing speed enforcement, what would you care whether someone give fifty bucks three years ago to your agency's own union, or the FOP? If you are like other union members I've know
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by d0ugie 5y ago
Yandex images preserves filters, and lets you specify dimensions.
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by d0ugie 6y ago
Reminds me of the reluctance in 2008 of the healthier banks to accept capital injections they didn't need to serve as cover for the banks that did, sort of. On top of concern for appearances of not needing it, one reason that may have
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by d0ugie 6y ago
Case closed then, F policing as a profession and everyone who sees it as a vital component to a civilized society? NYPD are well aware that they are vulnerable to this virus and in turn to spreading it not just to you but to other cops, but
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by d0ugie 6y ago
https://talksub.com/covid19 is the best I've found for the US, breaking figures down I think to the county level, with sources. For the world, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (if you ju
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by d0ugie 7y ago
Is there a detour here or is using letsencrypt reliant on these apis? https://medium.com/enigma-shards/lets-encrypt-uptime-and-ope...
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by d0ugie 7y ago
This is a rather imperfect comparison, but to try to answer whether the tech is mature enough yet, the Sikorsky 61N in its Pan Am configuration could ferry 25 passengers plus some luggage (though capable of 39 passengers), with a max range
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by d0ugie 7y ago
It's all gravy, the javascript WebP decoders, until you convert your 20K high res photo site to WebP, then not realizing for a week, scratching your head about the bounce rate spiking, that you're crashing browsers left and right.
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by d0ugie 7y ago
But it's not just postfix or sendmail you need to configure correctly and then put apt-get update/upgrade -y in cron to avoid the damage caused by making a mistake or falling asleep at the wheel. Casual self-hosters have other vec
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by d0ugie 7y ago
Whenever the government Al Capones someone, which ought to be a verb, it's a reminder to me that due to a legislative and prosecutorial discretion excesses combined with politics that those of us who aren't 100% squeaky clean are
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by d0ugie 7y ago
You are baffled that they reacted this way, that you became the villain? It's hard sometimes, but I've found it helpful to try to perceive both myself and the digital obstacles from the shoes of users I'm trying to help (cali
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by d0ugie 7y ago
I feed ADSB data I collect with an antenna sticking out the attic window to FlightAware and a handful of others. Not sure why I do that, maybe the attic is an escape from my ol' lady, but I'm glad to learn it's going toward a
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by d0ugie 8y ago
Perhaps the less discretion and selective enforcement we afford police, prosecutors and judges, the more productive we will be in improving the array of laws they are tasked to enforce. On the other hand, homegrown weed is one of those thin
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by d0ugie 8y ago
> .. trust Microsoft more ducks in advance - I acknowledge that Microsoft and Google are not without sin, especially Google, but at least the coding and engineering teams of Google that I've been watching, namely the prolific #web
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by d0ugie 8y ago
I just discovered the joys of sshfs which lets you mount whatever you can ssh/sftp into. What'll they think of next.. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
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by d0ugie 8y ago
According to this Q&A from the IRS, yes, miners are on the hook: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf : A-8: Yes, when a taxpayer successfully “mines” virtual currency, the fair market value of the virt
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by d0ugie 8y ago
Perhaps fairly inevitable eventual breaches of client data are more forgivable when a given firm can point to efforts such as this as evidence of having tried to keep a lid on leaks, and to elevate confidence that it is less likely to happe
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by d0ugie 8y ago
You mean in retrospect? Or was that the prevailing opinion of citizens at the time that had anything to do with trade or total war?
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by d0ugie 8y ago
I like open source self-hosted alternatives to everything, though some headhunters, for those looking for work, may either ask for your github link or figure it out themselves in order to further size you up, one possible utility specific t
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by d0ugie 8y ago
Goldman is experimenting, not smelling big bucks. Other firms, namely JPMorgan, won't touch bitcoin for the same reasons they train every employee over and over how to stay away from money laundering red flags. Banks have populist targ
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by d0ugie 8y ago
No, your first instinct was right, as I have other options, greener options, that include mass transit as well as, I suppose, video conferencing, but opting instead to drive, that makes me part of the problem. I don't know why but that
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by d0ugie 8y ago
I was going to cite crosstown traffic on a bus to get from the 125th Park Ave station to the 90s on West End and back but Google Maps is showing that if I took the 4 train to 149th to catch the 2 back down to 96th I'd come out ahead ti
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by d0ugie 8y ago
I drive from Connecticut to Manhattan and back during rush hour and have been reliant on Waze's aggressive and inventive routing decisions that often take me through quiet neighborhoods to hop from one highway to another, dodging traff
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by d0ugie 8y ago
Roundabout sex ain't what it used to since I got hitched... Nor is her cooking.
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by d0ugie 8y ago
Hadn't heard of Cockroach but based on the article, this thread and the rest of their site it sounds at least worth installing on a few hobby nodes if only to get familiar with the behavior and configuration should a need arise - like
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by d0ugie 9y ago
That sounds like a solution to me, it satisfies whatever the need is for human involvement while enabling the user to redact the weaponizable elements of the picture.
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by d0ugie 9y ago
Any particular recommendations for doing this?
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by d0ugie 9y ago
Amazing how many e-commerce sites there are out there with time to first byte in excess of 3s, DOM loads over five seconds, as if they have no idea they are throwing away sales and killing their SERP ranks. And the fixes quite often don&#x2
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by d0ugie 9y ago
I'd wager this sort of aggressive and possibly effective mass nudging toward effective encryption will lead to China further isolating itself from the rest of the Internet.
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by d0ugie 9y ago
Google's Pagespeed gods approve! https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

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