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by 13of40 5y ago
The 90v(?) AC that comes through the phone line to make it ring was intended to be powerful enough to ring a physical bell. Back before the exchange was automated, home telephones had a hand-cranked generator to produce that signal. Accord
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by 13of40 5y ago
When you run a PowerShell script, the entire thing gets loaded and parsed up front, so any syntax errors are going to happen immediately. Not saying you didn't see an error, but it probably wasn't a syntax error. (Beyond that, w
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by 13of40 5y ago
Up until the end of the 90s, Microsoft stock was booming enough that it was reasonable for them to compensate employees with less salary and more stock options. They survived the .com crash, but the stock basically flatlined for several ye
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by 13of40 5y ago
Not only that, but if you have a business that actually makes, sells, and ships something, your AWS bill is probably a tiny fraction of your expenses. Switching to physical servers would be a little like getting solar installed on your hou
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by 13of40 5y ago
Many, many years ago, naive me bought my girlfriend one of those roses at a 7-Eleven, and I still remember her response: "Oh, Honey, you bought me a craaack pipe!" We're not together anymore.
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by 13of40 5y ago
It's actually pretty straightforward: turn_computer_off(); Assert(!is_computer_on(), "Computer should have been off but it's on."); The opposite is a bit tricky, though.
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by 13of40 5y ago
Odd they have a TI 99/4a platform but no TMS990 CPU.
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by 13of40 5y ago
It's the rational choice with inflation on the horizon, isn't it? Edit: No interest, but a flat fee, so possibly not worth it.
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by 13of40 5y ago
They definitely taught us secrets. They had a faraday cage in one of the armored vehicle garages just for that purpose. I was just agreeing with the parent that the secrets were all totally random and mundane. Like if you take a two mont
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by 13of40 5y ago
> Is it possible that you actually learned some important private cryptographic key No, it was more like "this chainsaw cuts through 3 inches of wood per second and it falls apart in half a minute, so the amount of wood you can cut
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by 13of40 5y ago
I had a secret clearance in the Army 25 years ago, and the sexiest secret I ever learned was a number...which was the obvious product (like literally x*y) of two unclassified numbers.
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by 13of40 5y ago
No, it was directly in the shoulder joint, like a rotator cuff injury.
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by 13of40 5y ago
> laptop-sized keyboard Interesting - I actually switched to a small keyboard about a year ago because I was getting shoulder pain from my right arm hanging so far to the side so I could work the mouse. The smaller keyboard forces both
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by 13of40 5y ago
> More experienced programmers know very well that the bug is generally in their code: occasionally in third-party libraries; very rarely in system libraries This was the bane of my existence when I worked on testing Windows years ago.
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by 13of40 5y ago
> It was not at all similiar to today's web and social media because each BBS was local... This is an important distinction, because depending on the size of your town and how social you were, there was a good chance you might meet
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by 13of40 5y ago
When I sold my last house, about seven years ago, we got a free consultation from Redfin. "Should we fix anything or stage it?" we asked. "Meh, don't bother, just put it up for $250K and we can sell it." Just to b
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by 13of40 5y ago
The way I interpreted it, the writer of the original question doesn't understand all of the mechanics of a Bitcoin transaction, and that's why they were asking.
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by 13of40 5y ago
So that you don't have people doxxing you then showing up at your door looking for a handout, like with lottery winners? That's how I read the last part of the original question: "Would you instantly be visible and known to
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by 13of40 5y ago
I've tried to love Linux since the early 90s, but things like... https://youtu.be/daadsaHhXB8 ...the ten step process to simply add an icon to the Ubuntu desktop to run a shell script are a bit of a buzz kill. Maybe i
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by 13of40 5y ago
No, my point is that essentially saying your man parts are going to stop working is an easy path to ground for propagandists. I'm just floating the idea that's why cigarettes, alcohol, weed, cocaine, steroids, COVID, (edit also v
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by 13of40 5y ago
I'm not saying that their data isn't accurate, but it is strange that there's a 1:1 relationship between what the government wants to clamp down on and what will make your sperm die, make your testicles shrink, or make your p
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by 13of40 5y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by 13of40 5y ago
I am also sorry for GPs loss. I would point out, though, that in an organization of that size, the people making personnel decisions are likely several degrees removed from the people making product and customer support decisions. Kind of
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by 13of40 5y ago
They've gone full CNC with the cheese, unfortunately. https://youtu.be/WWwkScY0b4E
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by 13of40 5y ago
Unless there's a bug in the JIT compiler, managed code can't accidentally write into another process's memory or jump to an arbitrary address, meaning that when an application goes off the rails it only crashes itself.
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by 13of40 5y ago
> it won't end well Per the article, it ended in 2008. Beyond that, there are probably dozens of embedded systems I interact with every day where I would choose performance over the level of security you're suggesting. Beyond
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by 13of40 5y ago
Kevin replied, “Stop the bugs, we need to stop putting bugs in...and the way we're going to do that is first, stop paying lip service to code reviews, second, actually take some time to write unit tests for each feature, and third, qui
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by 13of40 5y ago
I actually have a rule in my work email that tosses everything that contains the word "unsubscribe" and where I am the sole recipient. Hasn't done me wrong for years, as far as I know.
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by 13of40 5y ago
Having driven through Sodom, which is situated on the dead end of the dead sea, next to the apocalyptic salt factory they have there, it boggles my mind that you would be able to measure "increased salinity". What I'm saying
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by 13of40 5y ago
I used Linux for the first time around 1993, and had it installed on a 386SX(?) with a satisfying amber monochrome screen, both of which I got for less than $100 total, IIRC. Anyway, I had a friend whose mother ran a small data processing b

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