daveevad

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by daveevad 4mo ago
I like this a lot and I've just been watching the default BBC Earth and it's amazing. edit: It appears to be Seven Worlds, One Planet narrated by you know who.
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by daveevad 4mo ago
I'll argue there's potentially a standards based advantage at the end when this all shakes out. It will probably take a couple hundred years but I'm pretty sure I'm right about this :)
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by daveevad 11mo ago
Sorry to be pedantic but if you're clicking the link, YT gets the referer header even without the share id url parameter.
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by daveevad 11mo ago
myself man, myself needs work
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by daveevad 1y ago
my undergrad econ degree suggests there was more demand than supply
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by daveevad 1y ago
Got here too late so seems like it went viral. So, it was a really good idea?
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by daveevad 1y ago
I hope you're talking about the original The Jackal. That's a great movie that has fascinated me essentially because of the theme you've identified. A truly motivated, highly-intelligent person could commit horrendous acts
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by daveevad 1y ago
> hiss of communication Allow me to speculate massively. Hiss sounds more like weak signal acquisition. Perhaps in this case, Mitnick was interfering but not defeating encryption.
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by daveevad 1y ago
You reminded me that one of Brian Wilson's favorite songs was "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_My_Baby#Effect_on_Brian_Wil...
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by daveevad 2y ago
> Are there any good out of the box or open source self-hosted Aereo-like services, that let me access OTA broadcasts in another market? Jellyfin with an HDHomerun is a pretty nice combo for this.
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by daveevad 2y ago
> - Starliner leaving ISS autonomously early September What shall we make of all of this should it succeed?
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by daveevad 3y ago
> the ability to use StringLike conditions so much depends upon a regular expression
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by daveevad 3y ago
That's the first time seeing that Gates photo for me. He would've been 14 or 15 years old.
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by daveevad 3y ago
It makes my day whenever eastern Kentucky content shows up on here. It's such a contrast to life in the valley and it seems like our homestate might be setup well for remote work going forward, or is that just the eternal optimist in
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by daveevad 3y ago
It's not that deep.
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by daveevad 3y ago
Between Youtube and PirateBay, who do you think has distributed more unauthorized copyrighted works?
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by daveevad 3y ago
Full disclosure: I haven't cut my hair in awhile. It may be influencing my architecture decisions at this point.
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by daveevad 3y ago
That's fascinating to this lay clay tablet thinker. It had never occurred to me that clay tablets were reused. In fact, it nearly fundamentally changes my estimation of them as a long-term durable storage medium.
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by daveevad 3y ago
Any examples of major predictions verified in this way?
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by daveevad 3y ago
That sounds amazing. Are there more details like what sort of ads even?
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by daveevad 3y ago
Anyone able to share the definitive history of the polar bears that visited the office? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Polar_Be...
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by daveevad 3y ago
> Imagine being asked to work for a week on a project and once completed, being told to delete it without consideration because management irrationally decided to go a different direction before considering your project, you'd be un
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by daveevad 3y ago
Presumably there is a way to find out which other wireless client is impersonating another in a confined environment like an airplane. A multicast packet might vary based on physical distance to the imposter?
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by daveevad 3y ago
> The other person will get frustrated and disconnect and reconnect a few times, and finally give up and read a book... That makes me really reconsider my past struggles with this form of Internet access.
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by daveevad 3y ago
> the, apparently erroneous :), assumption that no glass is brick-proof That reminds me of: > With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1925
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by daveevad 3y ago
> Turns out that the LOS between the wifi dongle and the AP went through the roost, and chickens absorb enough wifi signal to drop it off the net. That sounds like a chicken motion detection system to me.
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by daveevad 3y ago
Someone at work recently got bit by unexpected YAML parsing a git commit hash that contained a substring which was a valid number in scientific notation (IIRC 5e38031).
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by daveevad 3y ago
https://archive.is/5bGPU
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by daveevad 3y ago
> So long as the bill gets paid (and for an absurdly long time, even when it doesn’t), your data is treated as “this cannot be lost under any circumstances.” Does anyone have experience with unpaid AWS S3 bills? I can imagine the work t
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by daveevad 4y ago
The local stations I watched when I was a child. There are a handful of newscasters still around from when I last lived there 25 years ago. It's a pretty fun way of keeping a pulse of back home.

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