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They're not exactly common in the Boston area, but they're here, and new ones are getting added (mainly in Cambridge, as far as I can tell). At least one even has separate traffic …

It's primarily a stove, and does a relatively good job at boiling water or cooking food. As a nice bonus for us, we used it to shave some crank time off a hand-crank/USB-chargeable…

You can do: Host hosta hostb hostc HostName %h.mycompany.com User usera I believe this isn't a super-new feature -- every ssh version I've run into client-side in the last couple y…

If you're driving your car on the road, I think you need to follow the rules of the road. Otherwise, get off the road. I've seen way too many cases where drivers make the roads mor…

I found references to it going back to 2008, and the git repo that has my dotfiles says I've been using it (in Linux) for 3 or so years. Maybe it depends on the OS/distro. The patt…

A favorite .ssh/config feature of mine is pattern matching on hostnames with "?" and "*". So you can say something like: Host bos-?? HostName %h.mydomain.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my…

They kept the Cambridge ones open this year, though, and it seemed like they were still regularly used.

If you're used to riding in traffic, it's not really any riskier than other seasons -- they salt the roads heavily and tend to have the main ones pretty clear the day after a storm…

Yeah, I won't argue that it's heavy. I haven't done any backpacking with it yet -- though if I did, I probably wouldn't be taking anything I could charge via USB anyway. (The afore…

I brought a BioLite stove with me on a recent camping trip and loved it. That had other advantages: easy to get a fire going during a very rainy week, no fuel to carry (in the Whit…

Battlecode (RoboCraft!) taught me a whole lot about the sorts of tradeoffs you have to make as an engineer in the real world in a way that nothing else at MIT really did. It defini…

Glad to see other people experimenting with this kind of setup. I've known a few people to use one of these [1] for Emacs (for Ctrl & Meta), and I finally picked one up a while bac…

I started heading in this direction a few years ago, and now I'm running dwm ( http://dwm.suckless.org ), no menu bar, with a couple of scripts that I have to manually run to see t…

Nearly the same thing happened to me back in May (hit by an oncoming left turn, ambulance ride, broken bone, etc., and just a few miles away from the OA's accident) and my phone go…

I do the same thing, but in GNU/Linux, using pwsafe for passwords and dm-crypt for disk encryption. IMO the one downside is that I have to remember to put stuff in the right place,…