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> There are other ways to lessen the CVE workload. > 1. Disable unused components with defconf or make menuconfig. +1 for avoiding vulnerabilities, but were you saying this lessens…

I've been using a little set of bash funcs I called `hs` for this for a few years: https://github.com/mikemccracken/hs your snippets are stored in a git repo that you can sync arou…

In 2004 I tried integrating the RA into OS X via the Input Manager mechanism, a way to load external code into Cocoa apps that'd have access to the contents of any text field, so y…

https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io/ for Macs uses .bib natively

Always interesting to see some hypertext history. I have a personal connection to KMS, so it was interesting to see that although it wasn't mentioned in the article, it was include…

Excel also has named rows/columns and cells - one of the bunch of useful tips I learned from Joel Spolsky's "You Suck at Excel" presentation - here's the part where he covers that:…

If you like this, you may also enjoy the CPUDB: http://cpudb.stanford.edu/

Here's my favorite story of said "Big Boy Engineering": http://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ It's about fixing a short in a power transmission line. Sounds simp…

I went to UCSD about 10 years ago, and have lived in the area since. If we're talking about new faculty, who probably want to buy a house and may want to live near campus, I'd agre…

Those terrible meaningless PDF names, along with wanting to automate grabbing BibTeX from online databases (mostly ACM and IEEE for me), were the main drivers for writing BibDesk, …

Those terrible meaningless PDF names, along with wanting to automate grabbing BibTeX from online databases (mostly ACM and IEEE for me), were the main drivers for writing BibDesk, …

This looks like a nice API on a quick glance. But, since this service proposes to store email data, I was hoping to find some information on the site about how they plan to make mo…

Weatherspark has some great visualizations of historical weather by time of day, e.g.: http://weatherspark.com/history/29735/2014/Seattle-Washingto... Unfortunately they don't have…

The allthingsd article submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938138 has more info, including verification from company execs.

From this article: http://www.sportvu.com/PDFs/ESPN_62011.pdf "Three cameras on each side of the court..." This reminds me of a talk I heard a long time ago from Takeo Kanade at CM…

$100k/year is certainly a lot :) I can imagine facilities like hockey rinks buying the cameras and selling the service to the teams that play there, but not at that price. My impre…

The "ghost" players in these animated replays that show where the system thinks a player should have been are fascinating to see. I wonder how automatic it is - if games could be a…

In a variety of government-funded computer science projects, I've seen everything on the spectrum from "here's some cash, tell us what you do with it" to extremely detailed, measur…

The source material is pretty accessible - mostly just tables of data: http://cra.org/uploads/documents/resources/taulbee/CRA_Taulb... So 23.9% are in other parts of academic compu…

Then do it somewhere else and point here, please? Another comment mentioned version control, which is a very important thing to get right, and I don't know how I'd diff two Self wo…

Nothing - if everyone knows how to use it. Version control is not as commonly used in research & business writing as you might hope.

True - HN reader, if you build this, my dogs and I would probably use it.