thejefflarson | 7 months ago | on: Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
Every Blender tutorial starts with "hit a, hit x to delete the default objects." I don't think this is a valid point.
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thejefflarson | 1 year ago | on: Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones
thejefflarson | 1 year ago | on: The NYT book review is everything book criticism shouldn't be
Michiko Kakutani didn't work for the Book Review. She was the chief book critic of the arts section. The Book Review is a separate organization within the NYT, with an entirely separate editing staff. Sure sometimes critics like Kakutani and A.O. Scott would review things there, but it was always an assignment, not representative of the NYTBR. Generally, editors in the NYTBR strive to pick folks who are "interesting" to review the book rather than not, which leads to spicy reviews because they want to sell the Sunday section.
This article is confused from the get go.
thejefflarson | 1 year ago | on: Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
See page two of the document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...
Seems pretty clear that they could decrypt the traffic they were interested in, they also talk about 5 years of retention of all traffic that they can decrypt at anytime. Sound familiar?
Looks like they used a squid feature: https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslBump
thejefflarson | 2 years ago | on: National Engineering Handbook
And that turned out really well. I’m unclear what your point is.
thejefflarson | 3 years ago | on: F-15s Scrambled from Portland Air National Guard Base
Sure my point here was it quickly? Or routine?
thejefflarson | 3 years ago | on: F-15s Scrambled from Portland Air National Guard Base
I live right by where these birds takeoff, we heard them, and I can tell you this is a normal day of the week. Not sure "scrambled" is correct here.
thejefflarson | 5 years ago | on: Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
So as a married man, I use partner: it fits with my understanding of marriage, we’re partners, we both have a hand in managing a household. It feels good to say.
thejefflarson | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
I’m almost finished with a RISCV core in verilog targeting FPGAs:
https://github.com/thejefflarson/little-cpu
I’m four instructions away from implementing the compressed extensions, and probably next week I’ll tackle the control and status registers. It uses an open source tool chain and is formally verified using riscv-formal. My hope is to eventually be able to compile some rust and get an fpga to blink an led :)
thejefflarson | 7 years ago | on: Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e
I wrote a small program do exactly this on OSX and Linux (Gnome):
https://github.com/thejefflarson/getpasswd
It accesses the OS keychain to get the right password. I don't use offlineimap -- I use mbsync instead which has a PassCmd option where you can pass in a shell command (e.g. getpasswd <imap-server> <imap-user>). And another tool to add passwords to the GNOME Keychain:
https://github.com/thejefflarson/setpasswd
Adding passwords to the OSX keychain is easy enough, but I found it fiddly in Gnome's GUI. YMMV.
thejefflarson | 9 years ago | on: Machine Bias
Thanks for posting this. I encourage this crowd to to take a look at the methodology too: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-analyzed-the-compa...
thejefflarson | 10 years ago | on: Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts
Information sharing greatly increased post 9/11. See my reply to the sibling comment.
thejefflarson | 10 years ago | on: Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts
I don't think it is in anyway limited:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/facilitating-an-enhanced-...
As to the point about selectors, if a selector has an even remotely domestic terrorism related component, and is authorized by the FISA court, the FBI can and does see that information.
Edit: added qualifier about terrorism
thejefflarson | 10 years ago | on: Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts
The FBI most definitely has access to intelligence databases and information:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/us/25stellarwi...
A key part of the FBI's mission is "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats" after all:
thejefflarson | 12 years ago | on: WebGL Water
That depends. At ProPublica we've done a bunch of visualizations with canvas and SVG in the past, and they are powerful tools. However, as part of our investigation into Hurricane Sandy flooding we knew we wanted to make a 3D visualization of NYC of show the storm surge:
http://projects.propublica.org/nyc-flood/
If your data is inherently 3 dimensional I'd say it is worth the effort to dive in, but the majority of visualizations that we do are charts and plots which don't really need to be 3D.
thejefflarson | 12 years ago | on: I was read on to COI BULLRUN in 2011, AMA
I'd love to chat with you. [email protected], PGP Key: https://s3.amazonaws.com/thejefflarson/pubkey.asc
thejefflarson | 13 years ago | on: How Dangerous Is Your Couch?
The Chicago Tribune has a good series about how Big Tobacco and chemical companies have pushed for more flame retardants in everything despite health concerns:
thejefflarson | 13 years ago | on: Census Bureau's American FactFinder software cost taxpayers $33.3 million
You can download the data behind the interface here:
ftp://ftp2.census.gov/
My point being that the census data is independent of factfinder.
thejefflarson | 14 years ago | on: We Can Do Better: An Apology from Sqoot
Are you serious? "Generate some copy?" Copy doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Someone wrote that, and meant to write that, you're kidding yourself if you think they didn't.
thejefflarson | 14 years ago | on: The story of the hardest platform game ever
I went to UCSB as an undergrad for 2 years. I can guarantee if you ask -- and really listen! -- to women at UCSB, every single one would find this unwelcoming. Sexism isn't a 'culture' it is disgusting. Way to go 'bro'.
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