Chlorus

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by Chlorus 7y ago
lol he's escalated; before he just had text complaining about brogrammers at HN. I've wondered for years what the original beef was.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> So now there’s significant complexity to getting on the network Not really, every OS (even Network Manager does a good job) has support for the WPA enterprise login flow. You basically get 1 prompt to trust a cert, then enter your user
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> What is a "proper service" in this case? Something like one of the 802.11 Enterprise modes that don't use a PSK and actually check against a user DB before handing out a session.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
It happens pretty frequently(well, maybe every couple months) on an individual channel basis for me; I think this is just referring to the fact a whole lot of channels will be shifting frequencies at once.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Because the way it handles copy/pasting to the native OS clipboard with multiple panes annoys the hell out of me? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758368 Also, not really a Tmux problem, but every so often I'
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> Companies with responsible business models will emerge overnight to fill the void. Can't wait to see his standard applied to, say, a newspaper, which also are products of that American business culture. Somehow, I get the feeling
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by Chlorus 7y ago
This explains so very much - imagine trying to hack on something as big & as crufty as iTunes without guidance.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification on here + and the other posts, that makes perfect sense.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
I take back every bad thing I have ever said about mailing lists - at least it was easier to follow the drama than these damn twitter links.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
>"it seems that archive.is responds to queries from Cloudflare’s systems with an incorrect response." What makes the response incorrect? I was under the impression that DNS implementations were under no "practical" ob
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Also, does DKIM really provide the same sort of authentication that PGP / s/MIME would? All DKIMs verify is that the message was in fact authorized to emanate from that domain - PGP & S/MIME attempt to confirm that a part
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by Chlorus 7y ago
I actually don't believe that, but I find it very dubious that you can simply reverse-engineer someone else's career path.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
My cynical asshole take is that because most of this advice is so reductive that it's useless, and they were probably embarrassed to attach a name to such a low-value clickbait post - I feel very stupid to have clicked it. For example.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> the traceback showed he had a broken half-Py2/half-Py3 install. Hey, at least they're _trying_ to migrate to 3 :P
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> Mathematically, its trajectory in phase space never duplicates itself, representing maximal degrees of freedom and behavioral flexibility. In the terms of physics and mathematics, this is a chaotic attractor.”" Someone at Paramoun
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> Even if you pay for it and don't use g, you can't know with absolute certainty that your email is going to get to the person you are sending it to. And there's the core of all of this. SMTP is a best-effort protocol that
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Uh, SPF was being developed long before Gmail was a thing and was pushed for by at least 1 other (Yahoo) mass mail provider, as was reverse DNS verification. If you're going to be salty at someone, it should be the spammers.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
It's not like you'd notice the email you're not receiving, so I'm always a little leery of these "it works perfectly for me!" stories for email stuff.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> I like the idea that laypeople might hear whispers among their tech-savvy friends that it's not considered "cool" to have a gmail address I haven't laughed this hard in a while. How'd that go with convincing pe
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by Chlorus 7y ago
> And let's not forget that we lost MagSafe with this too. MagSafe has to have been one of the best ideas in all of personal computing, and now they've just completely abandoned it. The least Apple could do is give up their pat
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by Chlorus 7y ago
Thought this was going to be about Start-of-Authority records in DNS & was wondering it could possibly be irrelevant.
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by Chlorus 7y ago
That would have gotten in the way of making wild generalizations about what Developers & BAs do.
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by Chlorus 8y ago
> How funny they look when production guys show them how their lame piece of code doesn't scale up with billion of entries in the production platform...But they dont care cause they are developpers, (or so called) Why did the produ
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by Chlorus 8y ago
There's a lot to learn about this craft, and people have to prioritize - knowing algorithms & data structures is more immediately useful compared to, say, knowing what scratchpad memory is. If I spent my time learning every detail
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by Chlorus 8y ago
> (usually Firefox has the truest implementation of which). Is there an "objective" test for standards compliance these days, like the good ol' acid test was for the box model? I agree with this sentiment, but only anecdot
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by Chlorus 8y ago
> It has been practiced for thousands of years in religious context A buddy of mine was wondering when flagellation will be touted as a self-improvement technique in Silicon Valley circles, and it looks like that day is coming sooner rat
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by Chlorus 8y ago
"Let's write our line-of-business app in ActiveX, everyone already has IE6 anyways"
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by Chlorus 8y ago
Listen, I just want to know what machinery someone makes that could possibly last centuries. This was engineering curiosity. Hundreds of billions were spent to develop nuclear reactors & spacecraft, and you're lucky if you make it
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by Chlorus 8y ago
I'm familiar with those firms, but I wouldn't call them Mittelstand enterprises, unless we're calling Siemens and Thyssen Krupp small-to-medium sized. What do they make that lasts centuries that say, General Electric(such as
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by Chlorus 8y ago
> People chose to buy German technology from small to medium enterprises because they get bespoke quality which lasts centuries. They buy American mass-produced technology for a disposable culture. What is this uniquely German tech that

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