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easton_son Texas passes law that bans kicking people off social media based on ‘viewpoint’

State law can not superseded federal law.

https://www.drti.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20161106083817/http://www.drti.c...

The true master of SDR....

easton_son Ajit Pai apparently mismanaged $9B fund–new FCC boss starts “cleanup”

TLDR: FCC used outdated maps to award funds. They updated the maps and are now awarding companies based on revised maps.

easton_son Cargo cult programming (2020)

If every programmer doesn't understand the nuance of any random section of code in their product they are bad...

easton_son Google is capping Meet’s group video calls to an hour for free accounts

This is entirely due to the record meeting feature has been decimating their google drive infrastructure.

easton_son User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

I hated it. Good Job!

easton_son The original XSS advisory (2000)

In 1998 a buddy and I made a site for ladder style Total Annihilation game matching site, built entirely with ASP 2.0 and VBScript. I honestly thought nothing of security. I was just happy that I got it working. I luckily had a friend who cheesed the entire site showed me several xss and sql injection attacks. At first I was happy that users could use HTML to decorate their messages, then I saw a login box appear where I know it shouldn't be...

easton_son I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

If youtube has taught me anything: 1) Do not talk to the police without a lawyer. 2) Do not talk to the police without a lawyer. 3) Do not talk to the police without a lawyer.

easton_son StyleCLIP: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagery

All I know is we are 2 research papers away from fully realizing Celery Man.

easton_son Elon Musk Is a Con Artist: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Scam Revisited

He is neither the savior of humankind or a con man. Both claims are hyperbolic and are easily dismissed by evidence.

easton_son Reprojecting the Perseverance landing footage onto satellite imagery

If you look at the last final seconds to the left of the landing you can make out an ancient river delta. That is one of the prime targets they want to investigate.

easton_son Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019)

Firebase also survived and has thrived as a brand.

easton_son NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap

So the gist is NFTs allow contracts to be traded on a secondary market?

easton_son Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011)

Customer service is expensive.

easton_son Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]

It feels like watching your kids accomplishing something difficult on their own. The fear of mortality is loosened a bit.

easton_son Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]

I know Linux is way more then just one man, but holy hell what one person can inspire.

easton_son Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?

I use view local history of selected so I can blame myself and view git history of selected to I secretly seethe at some one who left the company 3 years ago.

easton_son 1977: Zork

"kill troll with sword" was my mavis beacon

easton_son DeepMind A.I. unit lost $649M last year and had a $1.5B debt waived by Alphabet

Considering how much deep learning is showing up in every possible Google product I'm assuming they will continue to keep paying the bills.

easton_son Neverware is now part of Google

Neverware was too good for Google not to kill. If you are a Neverware employee "Thank you" for saving our K-12 10's of thousands of dollars. Great product and great customer support. Good Luck!

easton_son Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right

Watching the Cosmos series those giants in their times were like Atlases carrying their work and the social sigma of trying to break dogma. Many of them suffered greatly for us to enjoy the elevated view.

easton_son 750M genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida

You have now re-invented the TV series "Island City" from 1994.

easton_son Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel

>Some industrial processes require very high temperatures, for which electrical generation is ill suited.

Seems like an engineering challenge to me not an actual limitation.

easton_son Introduction to Google Cloud Functions

My tiny team has been using Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and Apache Beam(Dataflow) to process tens of millions of daily events. I'm middle of the road on them.

Pro: - They are stupid fast to develop, deploy, and update. - Firebase tooling emulators makes local dev much easier. - Simple enough a developer can build, deploy and monitor; Cost less then hiring another person to handle devops. - Now has decent IAM restrictions - Baked in access to almost all other GCP tools.

Con: - Like any google product could be deprecated at any time. - They have poor versioning compared to App Engine or Cloud Run. No rollback, A/B, or multi-version deployments - Cold starts are slow. - Like any google product could be deprecated at any time.

easton_son FBI, DHS, HHS Warn of Imminent Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Hospitals

My local hospital was hit with ransonware. They had backups but it took almost 5 months to get back to normal.

easton_son Launch HN: StartPlaying.Games (YC W20) – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters

Cool. Pricing looks looks great. Low enough to justify a few hours of fun. High enough to only get people who really want to be there. Hopefully its enough to keep DMs engaged. Looks like me and my boys are going to dive into a star wars story.

easton_son CSS Layout – Grid vs. Flexbox

Por que no los dos?

easton_son The Cement of Society Is...

Public health

easton_son Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video

Who here hasn't faked a demo? And this is a very different case then Theranos. They faked the demos and never had a working product. Nikola faked the demo and now has an actual working truck.

Don't lie. You've faked a demo before.

easton_son Universal Paperclips

30 septendecillion!