Bluecobra

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by Bluecobra 2y ago
This is great, when I first started in trading in 2006 one of the traders actually used a Gravis gamepad to do click trading. I even remember conversations between devs debating about the latency of the human eye in order to make screen ref
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
Also this site works great in text browsers like Lynx.
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of the -a flag for snoop on Solaris in where you can listen for packets on /dev/audio. I wonder if that ever made it into tcpdump.
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
It makes we wonder if they have to do it that way, after what happened with VW lying about their diesel emissions.
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
It’s pretty trivial to do this, any big fiber company will provide you with Google Earth KMZ files (protected by NDA) when considering a purchase. This is absolutely necessary when designing a redundant network or if you want lower latency
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
I miss all the old personal websites on Geocities, Tripod, etc and using web rings to discover them. Also learning how to write a website in HTML with notepad and learning how FTP works, and working around your free quota. My computer art
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
Assuming the OP didn't have a reliable internet connection you would need to call in phone number to activate. I wasn't allowed online until I turned 16 and was able to get my own job and pay for a second phone line. Prior to tha
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
I don't think your dad was wrong here, viruses/malware/adware were rampant on filesharing platforms. Back in those days I downloaded tons of cracks/trainers/etc and got pwned all the time. It made me really good a
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
If you are a divorced parent with shared custody, this can be challenging if you live in another town or even in the same town due to how they draw school boundaries. The child can only take the bus that is tied to the custodial parent&#x2
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
> RTO is a tool used to cause no-severance departures of workers who are expensive to fire but can be replaced by cheaper workforce, in a way that will go unnoticed to investors during the next quarter. Yep. I seem to recall this happeni
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
> Notably if I see anyone parsing CSVs with cut again I'm going to die inside. Try unpicking a problem where someone put in the name field "Smith, Bob"... How do you tackle this? Would you count the numbers of commas in ea
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
Solaris 10 worked pretty good on x86 and was free back then. Once Oracle acquired Sun, they eventually started to demand $1K per year per CPU core on hardware that wasn't made by Sun/Oracle.
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
I once ran into an issue on a GNU Mailman host putting out an email storm and the load average was > 800 on an x86 Solaris box that probably only had 4x AMD cores. I was eventually able to get in as root on the serial console and fix it
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
> We take for granted the inter-connectivity of most modern equipment, but to this day companies still try to create synthetic technology monopolies to cash-in. i.e. to sustain a tenuous service commodity out of something that has essent
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
I think it was bad timing. We might have been able to migrate to IPv6 wholesale when the Internet was much smaller in the early 90s. One thing that comes to mind is the kumbaya moment when everyone got together to switch from BGP v3 to BG
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
It does seamlessly work w/ services like Apple's Private Relay. I was surprised to see an IPv6 address when checking my IP address on external websites. Maybe eventually proxies like this might be the solve for this.
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
My guess is that it has to do with index funds.
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
> Can Apple do something about eliminating all these bureaucratic barriers that hurt the health of so many? I sure hope so, because my experiences with sleep apnea made it seemed very quack-ish. I keep on hearing ads on the radio by a c
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
I have been really curious to this. In IRS Publication 502, it states: "Medical care expenses must be primarily to alleviate or prevent a physical or mental disability or illness." You could make the argument that the Apple Watch
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
Isn’t this only an issue with basic economy seats? I only buy standard economy seats and have no problem picking my own seat (albeit in the back of the plane).
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
Do you know of any resources to help learn bicycles? I wish I could tune my own bicycle but can't seem to figure it out. I can build my own computer, change the oil in my car, paint a house, etc. but my bicycle always befuddles me.
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
DOS gaming can be a bit tricky, it’s almost as if you need one for each generation of CPU/Graphics. Games like Ultima VII are too slow on a 386 but too fast on even a 75 MHz Pentium. Then you have the later DOS games near the end that
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
> I wish my OLED screen didn't have visible PWM at low brightness, and strained my eyes. Not everyone is sensitive to this, but some are, and I didn't have this issue with my 11. Have you tried playing with Reduce White Point i
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
I recall making a map of my high school in Duke Nukem 3D well before Columbine. I think the only reason was it was the closest floorplan I had readily available at the time and I had no Internet access. I was more interested in playing wi
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
That’s easy, any hot dog that is more than $1.50 USD is overpriced.
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
This is a good point. I would expect that a device like a SAN is just sending telemetry/logs/diagnostics back to the mothership for support purposes. Having a a persistent tunnel kinda of sucks and I much prefer something like s
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
> if you haven't been hired yet, don't start underleveled with a promise of a promotion except in dire circumstances I had this happen to me before, I was interviewing for a senior position and everything went well except the C
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
That might be fine if you are getting 100% salary + benefits, but some of these agreements can be too broad. It could say that the amount of salary can be an arbitrary amount determined at the end of employment. What if they decide they o
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
I think the original link already includes the conversion w/ inflation. It says that the book retailed for fivepence in 1735 which is ₤10 8s. 4d in today's money. It would be interesting to see the math behind this though. When
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by Bluecobra 2y ago
Indeed. Just recently a company got fooled into hiring a remote employee who turned out a North Korean hacker: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/us-security-firm...

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