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I feel like this is mostly a marketing piece. While it's maybe not terribly wrong (I'm not confident enough to really discuss the topic) since startpage produces a browser extension to manage privacy it seems suspect to me.

How did they find these instructions? Did they just try things while in the red state?

This breaks down when you have commas in your CSV data like if you had something like locations as the quoted string "Atlanta, GA"

It's probably not super "significant", but it's neat. Someone has a light bulb (the omni-directional beacon) 40 km away, and completely invisible if you go looking for it (from his ground station location).

The author pointed a telescope (his directional ground station antenna) straight up and on a rainy day and could see the light bulb turn on and off.

I think it probably has more to do with path loss than the multi-path effects that the rain drops would have. That is the reflection from water in the cloud only has to travel through a smaller amount of rain than it might if you were doing it over a terrestrial network, but I definitely don't know all the ins and outs of CW transmission.

I see an article with a first subheading of "In this report, we apply basic scientific techniques to answer the question “Is Kansas as flat as a pancake?”." It's kind of a funny article. Maybe try this mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210511013956/http://www.usu.ed... ?

I wonder how they'd draw that on a mercator projected map.

Similarly I was surprised by the "Gulf of Mexico Fiber Optic Network". It's apparently operated by BP for offshore gas and oil drilling

I have the same story. I'm sad I missed it.

This is really nice. Have you given any thought to visualization of non-Gaussian processes / systems (think particle clouds, or systems that are mixes of Gaussian and non-Gaussian processes?)

Does anyone have sources for suggestions about what we should do?

I read these articles, and worry, and wonder what can I do. It's not clear to me that buying organic mono-cropped bananas at the mega mart is in anyway better or worse than buying non-organic mono-cropped bananas.

I'd really like to just build up some more understanding on what I can do in my daily life to make things not worse.

I feel there's probably a benefit to general purpose systems. Most non-general purpose machines I encounter are IoT or PLC devices and the S in those acronyms is for security. At least with a general purpose system I can implement hardening guidelines like DISA STIGs and automatically scan to be sure that they're enforced.

Maybe you get away from that with real software engineering, but that seems a bit like no-true Scotsman to me.

The dual camera is a design choice I hadn't thought of. I've thought of scanning a couple books, and that's probably the trick for me. Though maybe I'll rotate the book and scan / rotate images separately.

No, just a bad joke related to the other (currently) front page story about a cyber attack impacting the beef industry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359515

If only they'd beefed up defense of the beef supplier

I have [1] which has a similar chip to what the parent described. Its a fun little computer.

[1] https://www.newegg.com/supermicro-mbd-a1sri-2758f-o-intel-at...

The customer service of my credit card company accepting a charge back is better than Amazon's. If the customer service of <no name vendor> is terrible the remedy is simple.

You can have a time system based around sunrise.

I mean with most clocks also being internet connected computers it wouldnt be too hard to make a system where you measure time in hours after average sunrise in a tike zone.

That is where I live right now it's sunrise +3.

I'll reschedule the daily 'standup' to SR+3.5, the banks open at SR+3 and close at SR+11.

One major consequence I can see is that now we have north south timezones on top of east west.

This would break in the extreme north or south where there are days without a sunrise.

My complaint comes from the at scale part.

I don't do anything at scale. I don't have to scale. My core competency is as a library or tool builder, and often my primary deliverable is a tool or library.

In the past year I got a new JR engineer on my team who was all hot and bothered with docker and k8s and he spent a month changing out CI process to be docker based. It went from a 20 line shell script to a pile of garbage.

I disagreed with the decision at the time, and while a subject matter expert I'm not the team lead so I couldn't say no stop that's bad.

While I'm sure k8s solves problems for Google I'm not google. My company isn't google, and my team isn't solving that class of problems so docker is useless crap for me.

The person is no longer on the team. They left their docker mark, and ran off to dockerify some other project leaving a team with no container expertise and a CI pipeline that is hacks around docker bugs.

If I flipped a coin and it came up heads 93% of the time would you say it came up mostly heads?

This isn't quite what you're after, but it's a pleasent read. https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html there have been some discussions on here about it too.

It at least gets you all the right words to start googling for turbine options which helped me to do some back of the envelope math. It's a steeper hill than seemed feasible to me.

That sounds amazing.

Is there a way to use the clicker with the kindle?

In some parts of the world cigarettes are called darts. I snickered reading your reply because of it.

Three standard deviations doesn't hit in our life times again

Yeah if there's an added fee I reach for debit or ACH, the points I get back on the CC purchase never pays back the transaction fee for bill payment.

The biggest reason I have my preference of CC first is points and to a lesser degree consumer protection.

I'm guessing you couldn't let me use Amex as a middle man between me and your service and not charge some fee, and I have a feeling I (personally) wouldn't be all that interested as the overhead of bill payment isn't that high (for me as just one person). Not to say it isn't an issue for some. I definitely know it was when I was younger, but I'm not sure how much of that was how available online payment was at the time.

> Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Knowledge is knowing repeating your self causes a maintenance burden, wisdom is repeating yourself judiciously.

My preference is always auto pay, in preference order credit card, debit card, ACH. I only allow ACH access for my mortgage. I tend to use the merchants site to set it up, and allow them to draw. It would be nice if there was some kind of reach back where I could de-authorize these things with out interacting with each merchant.

I'm curious how this compares to normal, and other crises like 2008.

My state doesn't require real id and I see no reason the get the realid compliant id my state offers. I have a passport, passport card, and global entry which are all federaly issued and "real" ids.

Why is it so hard to just travel with a passport or passport card?