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by ransford 4y ago
Check out the English audiobook, read by Herzog himself.
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by ransford 6y ago
If you're in Seattle, consider supporting Unloop, https://www.un-loop.org/ , with donations of time or money. [EDIT to add detail:] They help people re-entering society establish tech skills and find work. I've bee
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Nvidia's chief scientist designs a cheap ventilator to help fight Covid-19(cnet.com)
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by ransford 7y ago
Immersion. Work in the industry at a position where you're likely to encounter inefficiencies. In healthcare, for example, you can't spit without hitting an optimization opportunity. Working midlevel can mean you get to see low-le
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by ransford 7y ago
It's a nice concept. Your webpage says "Sqreen blocks attacks without false positives." What's behind that claim?
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by ransford 7y ago
Kudos for interrogating your values and seeing your way to something you feel good about!
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by ransford 7y ago
Startup Hall in the U district has a nice community, is well located & well run, has lots of optional events, and is a great place to set up shop if you're going to hire UW students.
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by ransford 8y ago
Related in name/title only, but just seeing the word gave me a happy memory of my favorite web grimoire to date: http://grimoire.computer/ ( https://github.com/lifewinning/grimoire.computer )
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by ransford 8y ago
Feynman mentions the physicist Julian Webb in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" [1]. The staff at Oak Ridge were generally kept in the dark about their role in the Manhattan Project, including the fact that the stuff they w
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by ransford 8y ago
Not an answer to your question, but: this is how Meraki started in the previous decade, as RoofNet at MIT [1], then as an independent company building wonderful idiot-proof mesh networking gear. I keep hoping another team of students somewh
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by ransford 8y ago
Was the $100K mentioned in this article the total amount Facebook gave Snopes? Because that's, like, one new-grad signing bonus.
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by ransford 8y ago
FWIW, Wi-Fi is generally considered a poor source of harvestable RF for little doodads you might want to power passively. Among other issues, there's a lot of "quiet time" as radios on the same Wi-Fi network negotiate who get
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by ransford 8y ago
I've been getting perfectly adequate IPv6 via their 6rd gateway (on fiber, in Seattle). I wrote some nerd notes on using one's own wifi router and setting up IPv6: http://b.tra.in/2015/07/notes-on-century
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by ransford 8y ago
It's good to see attention paid to the day-to-day challenges hospital IT folks face when grappling with medical devices. These folks deserve better. As an industry of thing-makers, we've done a pretty poor job of supporting use ca
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by ransford 8y ago
Marriott's incident page [1] links to a Q&A page [2]. Apparently the forthcoming sorry-we-lost-your-data notifications will come from "starwoodhotels@email-marriott.com". "Let's immediately set up a separate do