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In the DSRC projects I've been across, V2X packets that aren't signed appropriately are dropped by the stack

A happy user since 5.04! A happy Debian user prior to that.

A low-overhead bullet journal (i.e. zero time spent to make it look pretty) works best for me - preaching to the choir, man!

Nice link, thanks! I was put on to this by someone who had done defence work in their past. They used the "Concept of Operations" for their preferred document style which I also li…

I use the "pyramid format". Conclusion first. Main points with little explanation next. Explanation of main points after that. Details last. That way someone can stop reading at an…

I often print out my D&D maps (say, from a scan of one I've drawn), transcribe important features on to it using coloured pens and run the game from that. Whitespace and simplicity…

You'd need to ask the author of the article. I backed the original DW project and was a user of Google+ in that time and place where the "Old School Renaissance" (my preference) cl…

The "all this debugging was done in assembly language with minimal symbol table information" was basically true in 2009-2011 too. The (non-CrowdStrike, non-Microsoft) team I was on…

Those who have spent time writing NDIS/TDI drivers are those who know the minefield!

In > two decades I've never set eyes upon someone using Apple hardware for development unless it's as a dumb terminal. I work in embedded, hardware and applications, not mobile, we…

Thanks for posting this! I have very fond memories working with/under various ex-INMOS folks including the author while at XMOS. I also read Gries at University :-)

I got a Sensor Watch Lite after reading about it here on HN. LOVE IT. I don't use the TOTP complication but I did add a number of D&D dice rolling modes.

I recently got a russet brown Vario strap for my silver "Casio Royale" and I do rather like it. I'm not ashamed to admit I prefer cheap and cheerful digital watches to pedigree ana…

To be honest I don't like WOTC-era D&D all that much and prefer early TSR-era stuff and modern OSR games. However, I am surrounded by young people in my circles of real world frien…

Indeed. "Why won't more people play the games I like after I've been snarky about the games most people enjoy?"

Yes, would be nice to not need to mentally prepare to make that call.

Managers, if you're reading this, and you have engineers/developers "on call" but not contractually (off book), make it so, because it slightly sucks when you're having Christmas d…

I think the definition of "campaign" has drifted significantly since that book was written but I agree.

I'm a little out of touch with the space-related investment right now in Adelaide, so I hadn't heard of these guys, but as soon as I saw that airport photo on the main page I knew …

"YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT." [Gygax, 1979] (I missed a chance to use "thrice".)

I play/run D&D three times a fortnight using the O.G. editions (AD&D, B/X, retroclones). The brand is dead, long live the game!

I've got the whole Malazan series sitting in a box ready to read... alas, I'm pretty bushed by the time I have a moment to read and I'm sharing those precious moments before sleep …

Why destroy yourself? Work on getting that 50-60 hr/wk down or at least re-point it at something you want to learn on the job.

I've had a Kindle of some sort since 2011 and not once have I read a book through Amazon... not due to avoidance on my part, just haven't needed to! My first device was an "ad supp…

In a Herzberg sense... For office tools and videoconference: primary OS is a hygiene factor For software/hardware development: primary OS is not a factor (VMs feature heavily)