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by 13of40 4y ago
I have an older Surface tablet (that I recovered from a recycle bin, TBH) and I've been using Chrome on it, but I was annoyed by some of the latency and tried Firefox the other day. It had all the problems of Chrome, plus jittery scro
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by 13of40 4y ago
I traveled internationally for the first time since 2019 recently. Coming back to Seattle, I was prepared for an hour of queuing up at kiosks, getting body scanned, getting facially recognized, etc. to get back into the country. To my sur
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by 13of40 4y ago
I think I read that something like half a million people died in the shows at the colosseum. Imagine the reputation it must have had while it was operating - like a real-world version of The Running Man.
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by 13of40 4y ago
When I was about 13 years old, a retired engineer (slash wizard) who was friends with my mom gave me a 25,000 volt step-up transformer. Why any adult would do that is beyond me, but I was always very safe with it and managed to do a lot of
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by 13of40 4y ago
The down-side is you get to find out whether they would hire you again if you weren't already on payroll.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Or use multiple rounds of hashing to generate and validate the hash. IIRC about 5 years ago MS Office was using 500K rounds of SHA512 by default (as a keygen for decrypting documents), which meant about 8 guesses a second on a good machine
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by 13of40 4y ago
The way I would put it is when you think about a REST API, for example, the tendency is to see the sum of the methods in it as 'what matters'. But shipping is actually the sum of source control, the deployment story, development
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by 13of40 4y ago
No idea where it eventually led, but I read about work done back in the 80s to vaccinate against the bacteria that cause tooth decay. That suggests that some people might have natural immunity to them.
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by 13of40 4y ago
During the time that "ban" was in place, you could still walk into any gun shop and buy an AK-47 for a couple hundred dollars. The only difference that actually trickled down was a new one would have a thumbhole stock and no flas
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by 13of40 4y ago
I still have my card from the early 80s, in semi rural Oregon. The way I remember it (with a caveat of me being six) was it was the only copy. I don't think my parents would have done it if the government was keeping one.
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by 13of40 4y ago
I'm pretty sure having the Eiffel Tower in view of your window pushes up the value of an apartment. Maybe they should do the opposite and just place about 20 replicas around the city?
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by 13of40 4y ago
Probably over a decade ago my wife bought me a Sony Walkman MP3 player for Christmas, and even though I ended up going with something that was Audible.com friendly, I was so impressed with the earbuds' quality I've sourced them a
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by 13of40 4y ago
(If you click on the time-posted field of a dead message, there's an option to "vouch" for it, allowing you to reply directly. Please use it sparingly.)
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by 13of40 4y ago
Somewhere around 1998 or 1999 I was working as a web developer and I listened to a pitch from a guy who wanted to build a video streaming site. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out who was going to pay a subscription to watch gra
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by 13of40 4y ago
The way I remember it, the need for a new shell language for system administration was something that lots of people in Windows Server were trying to solve. Ballmer talked about it, we had a push to add a handful of new command line tools
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by 13of40 4y ago
Not totally on topic, but what's your take on being able to roll out autonomous vehicles in places with more "fluid" driving habits? I've driven in some crazy environments in the past, but I just came back from a very l
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by 13of40 4y ago
Two counterpoints: First, the top performers on my team right now are essentially ghosts. One I just went on a business trip outside the country with, and I hadn't seen his face for a year and I might not see it again ever. Another o
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by 13of40 4y ago
I can't imagine a circumstance where I would compel someone to share a video of themselves when they're apparently not comfortable with it. If she went six months without creating a pull request that would be a different story.
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by 13of40 4y ago
Where I work right now, the status quo is to have your camera on in meetings with other managers, but have all cameras off for meetings with individual contributors. To be honest, at this point the idea that we're anything more than j
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by 13of40 4y ago
In the second year of COVID I was hiring for a dev position and got a really good candidate who came across as a very bright, outgoing young woman, who got "hire" decisions from 4 of 4 interviewers. She worked with us for about
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by 13of40 4y ago
If they're the ones I'm thinking about, with the pieces of bamboo, holes drilled in wooden blocks, etc. I've seen those in Germany, Switzerland, and the US. Can confirm that they work in Western Washington, but they're
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by 13of40 4y ago
One of the worst examples I've seen recently was that article with the title "Physicists Have Discovered A Never-Before-Seen Particle – Sitting On A Tabletop". I can just imagine some annoyed grad student trying to explain h
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by 13of40 4y ago
Funny story: Years ago I was one of the first recipients of an AMD64 box at Microsoft because I was working on a build system that cross-compiled for that and IA64. I asked the internal DL where to get a build of Windows for it, and (possi
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by 13of40 4y ago
> an encrypted attachment and a separate email It's a useful vector for things like malware because an intermediate scanning service can't examine the attachment without having both emails. If there's a concern about some
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by 13of40 4y ago
I've got a million of these, but one of the weirdest ones was when a friend of mine suggested we go to one of the islands northwest of Seattle for the weekend. The next day, I was googling "things to do in..." and it autocom
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by 13of40 4y ago
If you're verifying (air quotes) something like whether someone is 21, I wonder if it would make better sense to ask the year of their birth, then ask the month and day only if they answered with the year where it mattered. You don&#x
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by 13of40 4y ago
Is this actually a thing? I'm a bit of a map nerd and I look at the King County (i.e. Seattle and surrounding area) parcel maps a lot, and I haven't seen more than one or two single family residential properties that weren't
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by 13of40 4y ago
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it sounds like according to the FAA flying a drone over a Navy ship is only restricted if you're below 1000 feet: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-establishes-restrictions-dr.
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by 13of40 4y ago
When I bought my first house, I got Comcast cable internet and they guy had to put a filter on to block the TV and just let the internet signal through. Or at least he would have, but he couldn't find one in his truck. Years later, I
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by 13of40 4y ago
The place I'm in right now is supposedly a modern development but the sidewalks are in such disrepair / built over / covered in debris that everyone just walks in the road with the traffic.

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