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Related article:

https://interestingengineering.com/negative-reviews-for-scen...

During my flip through the many pages of the article (not sure about that navigation UI) I was disappointed not to see any reference to ISO, shutter speed, and aperture used for the comparison shots. Hard to draw meaningful conclusions without that data.

I love this: Simple and entertaining, not to mention the creative utility.

For simple, web-based speedtests on a local LAN/WLAN, I like librespeed[1]. Really helps identify subpar WiFi coverage (for example), better than just signal strength. Runs nicely on a Pi, up to line rate (1 Gbps) on a Pi 4.

[1] https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest

Also, with the preview in the foreground, Command-C will copy the screenshot to the clipboard (e.g., before putting it into the trash).

Perhaps apropos to this thread: The closest airport to Oracle’s headquarters is San Carlos, which has the airport code SQL. The airport and code were around long before the database company, however.

Isn’t “noise” in this context just another form of “nurture” (i.e., environmental factors at a molecular level)?

There are a number of speed-corrected vintage film clips on Youtube. Here’s an example from late-1890s France:

https://youtu.be/NjDclfAFRB4

While not upscaled, they are still pretty impressive, and interesting to watch.

Very nice, I like the real-time domain name availability check. However, I tried it with “photo” and it appeared to provide two suggestions that were the same (photoality, IIRC).

EPB (the local power company) in Chattanooga, TN, has been offering 10 Gbps residential[1] for some time, now.

[1] https://epb.com/home-store/internet

This sounds like a fairly good representation of true white noise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaOrSuWZeM

They exist; I’ve hired a few myself who’ve chosen this path. But it’s just one of many approaches to get into security as a career, and there are many.

Along these lines, I highly recommend Rachel Tobac’s talk “The Path to Infosec is Not Always Linear”[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWAeDVo8mXc

None of those are necessary, though it depends on what your desired path is.

Here’s one approach:

1) Find several local security meet-ups and get involved. Volunteer, talk, make friends. Network early and often, ask questions and learn.

2) Using the contacts and exposure developed above, find either an internship or contract role doing whatever security-related work you can find. You will (most likely) need to pay your dues, meaning it might be pretty basic security work to start with, but you’re looking for experience and further opportunity to grow your skills.

3) On the pentesting side, you’ll want to learn the target systems well (e.g., use them in practice), learn the common types of vulnerabilities and how to exploit them, and immerse yourself in opportunities to use your nascent skills (online challenges, capture-the-flag events, etc.). Read vulnerability reports published by other researchers, watch relevant videos, experiment on your own setups, and so forth.

4) As you feel more comfortable with your assessment skills, you might consider entering bug bounty programs.

Again, this is just one approach, there are many options depending on what works for you. Best of luck!

Edit: Line breaks.

Behind a paywall, however in case it’s helpful to anyone else, you should be able to Google the title of the article and access it from there. This often works for other publications, as well (e.g., WSJ).

Yep, that seems to be supported by this article[1].

https://padailypost.com/2017/11/17/traffic-complaints-to-res...

There’s one in Los Gatos, I believe, where they did this partially. Cars can empty on to the larger street, but can’t enter from the that direction.

When these articles show up now and again, it’s not clear to me why the various impacted cities don’t choose to ban through traffic. Some articles have implied that this is not possible. Los Altos did this a while back[1]. Is there a legal issue the communities surrounding Los Angeles want to avoid, that Los Altos simply took the risk on?

[1] https://slate.com/business/2017/06/suburbs-finally-figured-o...

To stick, it does need to be a lifestyle change. If our diet and exercise (etc.) cause our health to degrade over the long term, then we probably need to change our habits in a way that avoids that.

That is, normal for us should be what provides continued health, rather than something we have to “fix” now and again with special diets.

Also, I’m not the person you asked, but to answer your specific question, I changed my lifestyle about five years ago, and — although I needed to make adjustments based on whether I was looking to lose weight or gain muscle or whatever — the overall idea going in was that this would be permanent. And that’s worked for me.

After reading entire original series (Dune through Chapterhouse), I eventually read Butlerian Jihad, Hunters of Dune, and Sandworms of Dune. Taken together I felt they provided sufficient context and closure for questions posed in the original series. And notably, although they are written by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, the last two in particular are based on notes of Frank Herbert’s for a seventh book, discovered in a safety-deposit box[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070703213605/http://www.digita...

A British Airways 787 with the Trent 1000 engines had to make an emergency landing in Istanbul on June 15 while en route to London:

http://avherald.com/h?article=4c9549b4

Congrats! It worked well on a few sample articles that I tried. Can you provide background on how the text is summarized?

PDF of the full Science Magazine article:

http://www.indiana.edu/~abcwest/pmwiki/CAFE/thought%20for%20...

Or the “MacBook SE”.

Although I appreciate the attempt at transparency, there’s an awful lot of info here for potential attackers.

Examples: Where the CEO prefers to dine and drink, or how to send an email so it has a higher chance of being read (or acted upon) — the latter is quite helpful to phishing / whaling attempts.

One interesting bit of trivia (I always wondered about but finally read-up on): Early on, amateur radio bands were allocated in a manner that ensured (in all but one case) harmonics would bleed into another, higher amateur band, rather than into a frequency used for another purpose. Changes in the late 1920’s dispensed with this[1], but we do still see rough multiples in many cases (160/80/40/20/10 meter, 60/30/15 meter, etc.).

[1] http://w2pa.net/HRH/family-harmonics/

Reminds me of Robin Sage[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Sage

Norton Utilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Utilities

I use both Chrome and Firefox daily on Mojave, and see significant performance differences between the two. My understanding, based on reading[0] and experimentation, is that this may be due to use of display scaling on macOS. Turning this off does help, but makes using external 4K monitors difficult (for example).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054395

From deep in the article:

Even Antone, who almost filed the bill that would nix the nuclear option, doubts that the step is necessary. His bill, he told CityLab, is aimed at making contract arbitration binding for Reedy Creek firefighters; the nuclear clause was likely added for leverage, he said.

The Russian word vodka is a diminutive form of voda (water) — in essence, vodka is “cute water”.