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by pndmnm 7y ago
Great to hear. I signed up to check it out but I'm also of the view that I can't give direct access to online banking credentials to third parties (at least in the US, you're liable for wire transfers that can be initiated f
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by pndmnm 9y ago
I have a summer 2009 MBP whose battery failed in... 2013, I think. I removed the battery and have been running it off just the Magsafe adapter ever since (just as a low-power home server).
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by pndmnm 11y ago
I saw this at Boxcar last time I was in Denver -- a couple articles about their setup: http://www.freshcup.com/high-altitude-brewing/ http://sprudge.com/in-colorado-delicious-meticulously-brewed...
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by pndmnm 11y ago
Good collection of links on the topic a few weeks ago at Metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/151993/It-was-necessary-also-to-fi...
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by pndmnm 11y ago
I've found this to be fairly uncommon, but I usually notice since I eschew bookmarks in favor of remembering what page I'm on. I've never seen it not correspond to the physical number of page sides preceding the first numera
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Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April(mail.tarsnap.com)
172 points by pndmnm 11y ago|113 comments
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by pndmnm 11y ago
Borges is what actually got me interesting in literary criticism -- because of the nature of his output, it's actually possible to read nearly all of his major work (poetry and nonfiction included). This makes reading lit-crit about h
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by pndmnm 11y ago
A classic for a reason! If anyone is interested in the more complex brewing process and chemistry of lambic beer, Jeff Sparrow's "Wild Brews" is another great read.
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by pndmnm 11y ago
Sigh. I grew up on the Olympic Peninsula (far western Washington) and this is basically my whole wardrobe. Moved to the bay area over the summer and now I feel gross wearing it. Hopefully fashion moves on soon and I can wear the clothes
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by pndmnm 12y ago
Not specifically video-adapter-related, but on a tangential note this teardown by Ken Shirriff of an Apple charger and imitation Apple charger is interesting: http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-charge
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by pndmnm 12y ago
One of my favorite essays! Anyone interested in the topic should find themselves a copy of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's book "On Growth and Form" and give it a read. Fascinating discussion of the sizes & shapes of l
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by pndmnm 12y ago
On a tangent, this is pretty great article about wild honey gathering in the Sunderbans (including some stories about tigers): http://blog.longreads.com/2014/09/28/the-honey-hunters/
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Payphone Controller for Asterisk(github.com)
36 points by pndmnm 12y ago|5 comments
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by pndmnm 12y ago
A couple short stories: Arthur C. Clarke's "Crusade" is set on a starless planet between galaxies. A.E. van Vogt's "Black Destroyer" has as a minor plot point the idea that a civilization developing in a singl
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by pndmnm 12y ago
each particle and each subset of particles would have their own individual laws governing their interactions. An interesting (philosophical science fiction) read on this topic is Stanislaw Lem's "The New Cosmogony" (in the
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by pndmnm 12y ago
Many systems still use passwordless sudo to permit certain users to run specific commands -- but now, if those commands are shell scripts run via bash, the users can execute arbitrary commands (this isn't an uncommon class of privilege
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by pndmnm 12y ago
As a result, quasicrystal coatings have found their way into nonstick cookware. I remember reading about these pans back a decade or so (Sitram Cybernox). At the time I tried to find a place where I could actually test one out (they got
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by pndmnm 12y ago
For me, László Krasznahorkai, Carsten Jensen, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Roberto Bolaño are some of the best recent non-English writers around.
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by pndmnm 12y ago
Absolutely agreed. There's another (non-fiction & not about Franklin, but excellent Arctic survival from the age of exploration) book that just came out by Hampton Sides called "In The Kingdom of Ice", which is really ex
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Instagram iOS session hijack(gist.github.com)
5 points by pndmnm 12y ago|0 comments
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by pndmnm 12y ago
Interesting and semi-related: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?id=140598 Essentially, solving the traveling salesman problem in quadratic time using photon interference -- however, since the photons scale
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by pndmnm 12y ago
The commenting system on Google Reader (despite being neither open or distributed) is the closest I've seen to a system that acts the way I'd like online. I can imagine a distributed version that would operate e.g. with each of u
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Trying To Design A Better Parking Sign(laist.com)
2 points by pndmnm 12y ago|0 comments
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by pndmnm 12y ago
In fact, it's still not known if pi is normal (contains all finite patterns of numbers[π]), so you can't guarantee that any search will terminate. π: Not quite the definition of normal, but equivalent.
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by pndmnm 12y ago
To this day, my favorite naming scheme I ever encountered was names of elements, everything CNAMEd to the elemental abbreviation, with the last octet of the IP address as the atomic number. It was for a geophysics group, which probably mad
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by pndmnm 12y ago
Wow, I didn't realize that Amazon Blockview (part of A9 at the time) was so short-lived. I used it all the time in Seattle when it was running.
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by pndmnm 12y ago
The WWLLN has been around for awhile doing this sort of thing, though not in nearly as accessible a manner: http://wwlln.net/ They use VLF radio detection to triangulate strikes.
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by pndmnm 12y ago
Yes, but at Keller's restaurant it's not charged in advance -- it's just a "gratuity included" situation. The specific definition in the FLSA states that tips for an employee are "actually received by the empl
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by pndmnm 12y ago
I should probably just have written a blog post about this, but busy getting ready to move to SF ;) I met the author of this software over the weekend -- she runs a single-breed sheep farm in the North Fork valley in Colorado, and gathers d
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LambTracker: Open Source EID for the sheep industry(lambtracker.com)
18 points by pndmnm 12y ago|2 comments

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