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howard941
22,428karma·4,690submissions·November 1, 2014
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My article submissions aren't endorsements, unlike my favorites...
My professional interests: Embedded and RF/networking. Droooooones. Bare iron, freertos, lately NuttX. Resource constrained or ARM. Hard realtime. *BSD / linux embedding and BOFHing. New product and sustaining devel.
Amateur radio. Attorney (Fla.)
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What you just wrote had me wondering if my wife was posting to HN because I'm sure she too is also at the end of her rope dealing with my anxiety and depression. If your person is anything like m…
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Before Trump's tariffs were even a twinkle in his advisors' eyes we (where "we" == some of we domestic OEMs developing new solar power products) were facing a more difficult market…
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Or you don't because you literally default on the mortgage. Or perhaps you rent and it's really hard to consider housing an investment. It's more like some hybrid of necessary living ex…
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> My father worked on the A-12 (OXCART) The most beautiful airplane ever built.
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Minor nitpick. Garden-variety speeding and most other traffic offenses are "strict liability" infractions that aren't crimes in most states. The differences include the severity of the…
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They do when driving.
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Build and deploy the homebrew system quickly if you want to avoid California Rule 21-style grid support mandates. Depending on where you live and how cooperative (!) your utility is it may already be …
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The Rehnquist drug exception to the 4th amendment opened the door for everything else.
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Nice and elegant. Boss is a hardware dude with a compatible rule of thumb: Don't use a micro until it has to do more than three things.
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One new development here is that the FAA apparently trumps everything not expressly exempt from it. Used to be that later laws preempt conflicting prior laws. The FAA should be called the Class Actio…
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That's the one
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HNers seem to find the best stuff. I subscribe to the weekly email one of our peers sends that gathers up links to books mentioned on HN. Every week there's at least 2 or 3 worth picking up.
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There's one of those that hawks bad terrible credit advice products on local PBS pledge drives, leveraging PBS's credibility to bolster her own. Same with the shady quacks peddling their sna…
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So as to effectively but inefficiently beat the hell out of or defend against competition by way of patent shenanigans.
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To me the interesting bit is the underlying study showed exercise increased the dementia's progression and was actually harmful. What mechansism's behind that result? Having gone through t…
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If I continue to maintain mail and web server syslogd logs and Europeans access one of the swervers do I risk getting nailed under the GDPR?
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Was there enough of a delay between the request and the reply to mitigate the risk of a bad actor flooding a particular cellphone with battery-discharging pings? Props for finding the vuln.
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> the long hump has less drag. Does that translate into less lift?
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Way to disrupt the market for RFID-blocking wallets
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> Law really needs to evolve. Or at least updated to protect against modern abuses such as purchased adjudicators and unconscionably forced waivers of a meaningful right to argue for relief before …
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Concur completely. My cow-worker located a little package called Tiny-AES * that weighs in at 1848 bytes of code and under 300 bytes of RAM for AES-128 CBC with 128 bit blocks targeting a Cortex M0+ …
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It's a cool idea but that particular build has 4 fans.
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It was worth the click to get to the article's embedded link to this article about the "Grand Tack" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jupiter-destroyer... …
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It's comparable to using an RBL that excludes dynamic IP clients. The difference is one of culpability IMO, where the dynamic IP clients are likely to be innocents with compromised boxes but the…
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In the embedded world I keep getting run over by vendors peddling Eclipse IDEs that look beautiful and support a nice dark theme that I really miss but not enough to say goodbye to IAR and a fast deve…
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Pity there wasn't a free house but I shouldn't be surprised. Thank you for sharing both stories. That Argakov one is particularly spooky with the viable death fear. From the first hit I cou…
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Curious if you tried to change any of the boilerplate terms and if you did, how did it work out?
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Widespread open and mutlidirectional surveillance comes to a mostly good ending in David Brin's Earth . The doctrine gets a non-fiction (and IMO persuasive) treatment in The Transparent Society…