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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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From what I gather watching UK TV there's also the charming and efficient use of "half X" to refer to thirty minutes after hour X.
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The alternative would have been either no appropriation out of congress or an appropriation beholden to the evildoers, which is kind of where we are now anyway with Mulvaney running the wrecking crew.
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> I think that'd be an uphill battle. Yeah, nothing in this arena's going to come easily to either side, there's far too much at stake. The Supreme Court didn't help planning or…
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If it's at all effective congress will preempt it.
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Right? It is hard to believe government in the 21st century taking a countervailing position protecting consumers against powerful interests running roughshod over consumers. The Credit Reporting Age…
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I was surprised by three new mini traffic circles in Florida on a new road extension. The approaches are embellished with speed bumps. The bumps took away all enthusiasm for the thing. (Cattlemen Rd…
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The article's confusing and surprising. He tried postgresql on FreeBSD UFS where it sucked but on ZFS, it rocked.
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If you can un-zoom (de-zoom?) the umatrix grid with ctrl/mousewheel does that fix it?
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These should be low yield non junk but for some reason they're high risk/high yield in spite of the principle being backed by the full faith and credit of the US Govt. and bankruptcy non-dis…
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Not for no reason does Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism [0] refer to cryptocurrencies as "Prosecution Futures" [0] http://www.nakedcapitalism.com …
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As one who's working to get to a productive place with functional programming I disagree: Decades of embedded c preceded by asm hasn't helped out at all.
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The FCC is superior because it involves interstate commerce. Whether a local law can survive alongside a federal law depends on whether there's undue conflict, and conflict is determined by wheth…
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It was, but lacking NoScript support triggered a speedy manual downgrade to 56.0.2
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No no no no, none of this is correct. Income limits are based on your state's median income for your family size. Chapter 11 is always available; it doesn't make sense for most individuals b…
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> why PDF? It started out as presentation sides? It's better as a pdf then it would have been had it been an RSI-inducing multi-page web presentation where you're clicking next every 10 s…
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Spoliation
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As was this comment: > Mike says Wouldn't you also urge your clients to resist the impulse to blog about these things?
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No. Yes. No. But it's not viable. Same-county Giant Bank will still cost anywhere from $55 to $300 to file a small claims action if in my state (FL). Add $40 to pay the sheriff to serve the st…
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Those cancer victims aren't getting coupons
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How about the earth-moon-earth path for 768,000km? EDIT: For the EME path that's around 3 gigs in flight
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Take that idea in the other direction. Vendor tie-in with browser maker to grant users a decent discount for use of IE or even the new and allegedly compromised Opera? I'll give it a shot on your…
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It's that feeling of being watched - yes.
I can't quantify it but since I've been accidentally promoted into an office (only managers are supposed to have offices in this company but my…
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OMFG this brings back memories, like the promise of a processor that executed p-code. Good times.
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WTH was a sailboat mast doing in front of the runway? Was the pilot performing a short approach?
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The 10 and 11 kernel ABIs differ
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I love the fact that the Baofeng is cheap and I have one myself thinking I'd finally deflower myself on 220 and 70cm. But the rig sits in my trunk unused. I just don't want to use it. The UI…
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If we had inflation wages would rise and it'd be a lot easier to pay down debt than it actually is.
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The reasonable doubt burden is high but don't worry about the company, we don't even get there when there isn't any criminal liability for what looks like the reckless disclosure of vas…
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The NRC publishes daily reports of lost materials, criticality issues like this, and related kerfluffles here https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/…
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This. FreeBSD's been building on CLANG for amd64 and i386 since before 10.0 (now on 11). See, for ex.,
https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang
https://unix.s…