mpapi

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by mpapi 12y ago
They're not exactly common in the Boston area, but they're here, and new ones are getting added (mainly in Cambridge, as far as I can tell). At least one even has separate traffic lights that turn green for bikes a few seconds ear
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by mpapi 12y ago
It's primarily a stove, and does a relatively good job at boiling water or cooking food. As a nice bonus for us, we used it to shave some crank time off a hand-crank/USB-chargeable lantern, deep enough in the woods that a solar pa
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Slices of Pi (Short Story)(inkwellandoften.com)
4 points by mpapi 12y ago|0 comments
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by mpapi 12y ago
You can do: Host hosta hostb hostc HostName %h.mycompany.com User usera I believe this isn't a super-new feature -- every ssh version I've run into client-side in the last couple years has supported it.
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by mpapi 12y ago
If you're driving your car on the road, I think you need to follow the rules of the road. Otherwise, get off the road. I've seen way too many cases where drivers make the roads more dangerous for everyone.
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by mpapi 12y ago
I found references to it going back to 2008, and the git repo that has my dotfiles says I've been using it (in Linux) for 3 or so years. Maybe it depends on the OS/distro. The patterns are similar to shell globs: * matches zero or
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by mpapi 12y ago
A favorite .ssh/config feature of mine is pattern matching on hostnames with "?" and "*". So you can say something like: Host bos-?? HostName %h.mydomain.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my-boston-key
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by mpapi 12y ago
They kept the Cambridge ones open this year, though, and it seemed like they were still regularly used.
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by mpapi 12y ago
If you're used to riding in traffic, it's not really any riskier than other seasons -- they salt the roads heavily and tend to have the main ones pretty clear the day after a storm. Probably the riskiest part (as a commuter) was t
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by mpapi 13y ago
Yeah, I won't argue that it's heavy. I haven't done any backpacking with it yet -- though if I did, I probably wouldn't be taking anything I could charge via USB anyway. (The aforementioned USB lantern isn't exactly
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by mpapi 13y ago
I brought a BioLite stove with me on a recent camping trip and loved it. That had other advantages: easy to get a fire going during a very rainy week, no fuel to carry (in the White Mountain National Forest, anyway) and it was pretty easy t
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by mpapi 14y ago
Battlecode (RoboCraft!) taught me a whole lot about the sorts of tradeoffs you have to make as an engineer in the real world in a way that nothing else at MIT really did. It definitely put freshman-year me in my place, too. Pretty sure it w
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by mpapi 14y ago
Glad to see other people experimenting with this kind of setup. I've known a few people to use one of these [1] for Emacs (for Ctrl & Meta), and I finally picked one up a while back. My setup has one pedal bound to Escape for Vim, and t
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by mpapi 16y ago
I started heading in this direction a few years ago, and now I'm running dwm ( http://dwm.suckless.org ), no menu bar, with a couple of scripts that I have to manually run to see things like the time or my unread email count. It did take so
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by mpapi 16y ago
Nearly the same thing happened to me back in May (hit by an oncoming left turn, ambulance ride, broken bone, etc., and just a few miles away from the OA's accident) and my phone got the whole thing. The recording is an interesting souvenir
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by mpapi 16y ago
I do the same thing, but in GNU/Linux, using pwsafe for passwords and dm-crypt for disk encryption. IMO the one downside is that I have to remember to put stuff in the right place, e.g. moving dotfiles with sensitive data into the encrypted