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ConroyBumpus | 2 years ago | on: Buy well, buy once

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

ConroyBumpus | 8 years ago | on: Using RTL-SDR to Open Car Doors (2016)

Enjoy your subsequent trips to the oncologist.

ConroyBumpus | 8 years ago | on: Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

Just because patches are available does not mean that they have been applied. Legacy applications, specialized hardware, vendor shenanigans, and organizational inertia can be significant impediments to keeping operating systems at current runlevels.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons

It's way funnier if you read it in the voice of Boris Badenov (of "Rocky and Bullwinkle" fame).

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Whole Foods is struggling

The HEB Central Market on Westheimer might have more of what you're looking for insofar as Organic meat.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Below Deck: Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers

Not unique to the cruise industry. Filipino crews make up a lot of the maritime industry's labor force. Container ships, tankers, offshore drilling, you name it. Some of the best food I've eaten offshore was on vessels with Filipino catering crews.

The cruise ship guys, comparatively, have it good. There are innumerable stories of entire freighter crews being marooned in third world ports by shipowners who didn't want to pay them.

The global shipping industry is, unfortunately, a race to the bottom. Every time that John McCain proposes the repeal of the Jones Act, I cringe with the thought of what it would do to what's left of the American merchant marine.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015)

Don't discount the Omega Speedmaster Professional. I've had multiple people comment on my "moonwatch"

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Gene Cernan has died

There's also some really great material at the JSC Oral History project:

https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_histories/oral_histori...

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: The red Solo Cup is a marvel of modern engineering

Well, yes. Foamy keg beer of dubious provenance deserves no less than a cheap plastic cup.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you organize your tasks / life?

todo.txt and its accompanying structure [0] / rigor are a good starting point. Keeping the thing in a place that syncs across multiple platforms is an exercise for the reader.

[0] https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/wiki/The-Todo.tx...

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Jacques Pepin, unlike other celebrity chefs, will actually teach you how to cook

My local PBS station reruns 1970's Justin Wilson episodes in the middle of the night. Pure awesomeness.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Energy Giant Shell Says Oil Demand Could Peak in Just Five Years

There is a very high likelihood that this has already happened, and the voting will follow in the next day or so.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS

Remove the space from her name and then look for a word in the middle that is commonly associated with spam emails.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: ZMODEM

Leech zmodem, scourge of the 713.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Don’t let your anger persist

Eventually, however, the persistently squeaky wheel gets replaced.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: The Fall of Avalon Hill (1998)

What amazed me was the overlap between serious tournament MtG players and professional poker players. A lot of the mechanics are more transferable than one would initially think.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: The French Number – Connect to a random French person and talk about anything

"Um, bonjour. Est en cours d'exécution de votre réfrigérateur?"

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat

Things are tough all over.

Signed, person that bought a first generation iPad.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: The People’s Code

We had them, for decades. They involved the use of punched cards and a butterfly ballot. The voter could physically inspect the ballot to determine which holes were punched. Sadly, the "hanging chad" of Bush v. Gore (2000) pushed many states into using electronic machines, with predictable results.

ConroyBumpus | 9 years ago | on: Trial by Jury, a Hallowed American Right, Is Vanishing

I would be thrilled if the amount dispensed were at least enough to cover the parking that the courthouse charges.