gregholmberg

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Employee ID badge monitors you at work – except in bathroom(washingtonpost.com)
39 points by gregholmberg 10y ago|50 comments
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Collaborative Problem Solving by Humans Using a Brain-To-Brain Interface(journals.plos.org)
2 points by gregholmberg 11y ago|0 comments
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by gregholmberg 12y ago
Your system isn't one of these 58 supported platforms? [0] [0] netbsd.org/ports
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by gregholmberg 12y ago
I believe you. :) I have no experience with balloons at all, but even a plowed field feels like a sidewalk to me when I run into it at the same speed under canopy. I leave a sizable mark, and I have seen friends break femurs, pelvises, e
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by gregholmberg 12y ago
What do the Loon components look like up close? Here's a gallery showing the solar panels, avionics bay with covers open, and some staffers. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gallery/2013/jun/16&
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by gregholmberg 12y ago
Dropping at 2000 feet per minute is not quite free fall, but it's a long way from a drifting dandelion seed. I wonder if the balloon payload left a crater.
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by gregholmberg 12y ago
In the 90s, I would sometimes trip over ethernet cables that had been strung between server racks, across an aisle. Will this be the decade where I get to experience being struck by falling routers and switches, far from any data center? (E
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Google Loon balloon crashes near Yakima(blogs.seattletimes.com)
97 points by gregholmberg 12y ago|45 comments
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by gregholmberg 12y ago
Yes. Western civilization became estranged from scientific inquiry itself for many long centuries. If not for the patient and curious scribes of medieval Islam, many significant works from Ancient Greece and Rome would have been lost foreve
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by gregholmberg 12y ago
French networking / disk throughput terminology ... Mo: un méga-octet, un million d'octets Mo/s: méga-octet par seconde meaning "Megabyte per second". OVH is based in Montréal, Québec. [or not, actually]
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
One happy benefit of being able to read Russian is being able to use Yandex as a second or third point of view when researching a topic primarily through Internet search. There also seems to be variation between Wikipedia articles in differ
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
"The Dark Playground is a place every procrastinator knows well. It’s a place where leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening. The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn’t actually fun
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
We forget so soon. Labor movements within recent memory were fought at great cost to secure the possibility of shorter working hours. People were killed at factory gates trying to get labor laws enacted, in part to reduce employer demands f
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
A careto is a costumed thief character from an ancient pagan ritual in Portugal. "Caretos are masked young men dressed in suits made of yellow, red, black, blue and green fringe wool quilts, wearing brass, leather or wooden masks and r
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
What if the tip names the wrong park, and the officers detain a similar person, and decide to plant incriminating evidence?
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
Parallel construction allows intelligence agencies to make criminal allegations that might turn out to be less than factually accurate, while facing no review and no repercussions. The concept of allowing evidence from secret sources should
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
On a whim, I asked yandex.com: 'k-d tree'. Nine results were about the space-partitioning data structure. Also, there is a tree-trimming service on Long Island called K&D Tree Masters. Surprisingly, pleasantly -- all ten items
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Obama throws the NSA under the bus(latimes.com)
3 points by gregholmberg 13y ago|0 comments
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
SB 1168 would amend FISA (1978) to require that the Attorney General provide specific, individual details when requesting a ruling from the FISC, and report back semi-annually on how effective the authorized actions were. Naturally, it is d
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
Yes, much finer optical resolution is possible if you use multiple instruments separated by a controlled interval. In radioastronomy, there are arrays of dishes that use this technique. There are good pictures in the Wikipedia article. [0]
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
I have a similarly mixed opinion about the City. I used to love to go to the Roxie Theater in the Mission, where they showed movies you might never encounter otherwise. During a retrospective for some anniversary of a Friedkin film, the gre
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
Time Magazine science writer Maia Szalavitz interprets ... [0] "Your Drive to Compete May Come Down to Dopamine" http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/02/your-drive-to-compete-... [1] "Amphetamine Spurs Slackers to Work and Workers to Slack
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by gregholmberg 13y ago
> ... At this point, it started seeming somewhat impractical to go and patch rails and all these other gems that I use, so I decided to investigate the amount of effort that would be required to actually solve the problem in MRI. ...
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Why Lua? I have been running Node.js and Lua at fairly large scale on EC2 recently. I like the V8/Lua/Luajit platforms just fine. Each has some nice strengths. With Lua, I see significantly less memory use, and moderately increased perfor
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secure.netflix.com uses SSLv2, vulnerable to BEAST attack(ssllabs.com)
3 points by gregholmberg 14y ago|0 comments
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
No, I did not know Todd, except by celebrity reputation. We climbed in different circles. He was a widely known and well-regarded big wall guy who had freed gigantic routes in Pakistan, Greenland and the Yukon. I read his trip reports with
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Here is a story is about equipment failure. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fatal-fall-at-Yosemite-sh... There are also errors in judgment, but the gear is the center of this story. The final paragraphs are still hard for me to read, s
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
I remember being invited to visit the cockpit of a commercial airliner during a flight when I was little. On US airlines, at least, that kind of openness is a distant memory. If you don't work in network security, you might find it unsettli
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
When I clicked on the link, I expected to see an unlocked closet primarily used to store mops, floor wax and boxes of copier paper. Instead, I saw a small carpeted room containing a half-full rack of telecom gear, featuring several Ethernet
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by gregholmberg 14y ago
Here is an alphabetical list of cognitive biases. There seem to be more than 170, including a 'Google effect'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases . Daniel Kahneman (prominent psychologist, 2002 Nobel in Economics) helpe

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