CottonMcKnight

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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Solution: Let's reimplement PAM in systemd! That should make everyone happy.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Considering how long it took AWS to add IPv6 to services across the board, I'm not surprised that it's taking so long. On the other hand, it would be nice if they would be transparent about the challenges or the reason for the del
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Neil DeGrasse Tyson made the point quite a while ago that if we had the ability to terraform another planet, we'd have the ability to fix our own.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
I would absolutely love it if dividend yield stocks made a big comeback.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Wouldn't it be great if the grid and the car could negotiate when to charge?
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
The first thing that happens when visiting that site is a modal overlay that forces me to interact with it before I can do anything else, so that website is what's dead, at least to me.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
The best way I've heard it put to describe savings rates and banks is: they take the elevator down, and the stairs up.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
The AWS CLI, at least, promotes their official Docker image with instructions in the docs. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cli...
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
I would wager there is a coach (or several) communicating with each live presenter via an earpiece.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
Spotify was so desperate to get into podcasting that they immediately did whatever it took to get the biggest fish in the sea. Joe Rogan is their Moby Dick. They got their whale.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
This is a problem that has a trivial non-technical solution that NYC should have implemented decades ago: Put a compass rose outside every subway station exit. It's an obvious enough solution that some Chaotic Good souls took it upon t
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
Quite the opposite. Microsoft has all the momentum: GitHub and NPM were very strategic acquisitions; Visual Studio Code is completely dominant; TypeScript is already a de-facto standard for large projects. Those acquisitions in particular a
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
There is a TC39 proposal for a "Javascript Standard Library." It's at stage 1, which is better than stage 0. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-built-in-modules Even so, unlikely that a "Faker" w
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
I wouldn't wish the byzantine nightmare that is Cognito on my worst enemy.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you willfully ignore the whole meaning of the metaphor: it is impossible to lift oneself up by tugging on one's own bootstraps.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
So, AWS is hoping to exploit developers' willingness to do free work in exchange for nebulous "reputation" points ("Klout", anyone?) that they have been convinced is worth something on their resumes. Instead of actu
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
She's very lucky it was a mechanical heart and not a donor organ, as being anti-vaccine is enough to get kicked to the bottom of the recipient list.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
Reminds me of the years Apple spent praising the superior performance of Motorola chips over Intel when running a couple of very specific Photoshop tasks.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
It is actually fairly rare to see nested rings of contour lines on a map that do NOT increase in elevation, because sinks like this tend to get filled up with water.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
I'm a bottom-up learner. To take bottom-up "fundamentals of CS" to an extreme (without venturing too far into electrical engineering): First, work your way through Kernighan & Ritchie and do EVERY exercise. Then read Henn
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
To stretch the metaphor, I'd say we've been low on gas for a long time. I first noticed the low fuel indicator light on when Congress cancelled the Supercolliding Super Conductor in 1993.
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
Add some random diacritics to make text look creepy. < https://lingojam.com/CreepyZalgoTextGenerator >
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
mpv --quiet -vo=caca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
I cut my teeth learning to program by writing a script to play my Tele-Arena (MajorBBS MUD) character while I was at school. It took advantage of a simple game exploit: in TA, your character gained experience simply by attacking; darts, a t
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
Inflation theory has been around since the 70s. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology) >
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by CottonMcKnight 5y ago
That reminds me of an issue I've had with Twitter for seemingly forever: It is impossible to reset the password on an account if only the email address or phone number is known, and not the username. In my case, the account was created