LordGrey

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by LordGrey 5y ago
Like all things, there is apparently a whole spectrum of visualization: Aphantasia (the black wall) and Hyperphantasia (AR-like superimposition of images upon reality). What I find interesting is that every single one of us is somewhere on
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Those of us with Aphantasia[1] are jealous of people that can visualize anything at all, let alone a memory palace. Not all of us are "jealous" of course, but a memory palace seems like an incredibly useful technique if you can ma
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Watching that for 10 minutes was really irritating. I saw nothing but red and black flickers the entire time. I learned about six months ago that Aphantasia was a thing, and that I seem to have it. For me, this was a cool (if massively an
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by LordGrey 5y ago
The github repo has benchmark versions of most of their examples that include built-in timers. I just checked both versions the "reverse a string" example (a single-core and a multi-core version) in an Ubuntu 20.04 VM: Single cor
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Thank you!
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Is there a version of this that would tell you the number of bytes an integer would use? If so, how would it differ with signed versus unsigned integers?
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by LordGrey 5y ago
With apologies to Jamie Zawinski: > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use Kubernetes." Now they have two problems. Kubernetes can be a great solution to a set of problems, but it is not autom
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by LordGrey 5y ago
> When I need to open an editor QUICKLY. I solved this need long ago with BBEdit (hi Rich!): I leave it running all the time. It is the only application that starts with my user login, and it is always available.
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by LordGrey 5y ago
If by "change" you're asking, "when did I stop underselling myself and getting in over my head" then I am not sure I could identify a single point in time where that happened. It's been an improvement on a con
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by LordGrey 5y ago
I really liked this story, and it resonated with me. My programming career began in much the same way, at about the same time. The only non-computer job I've ever had was my first, a six-week stint at a Burger King, and I was desperat
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by LordGrey 5y ago
> I get 1/4 of the way in and suddenly the scales seem completely arbitrary and I have no way of deciding where I fall. That sounds a bit like Semantic Satiation, where words (usually when repeated) suddenly stop making sense. I ha
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Blockchain to Mitigate Challenges in Service Access for the Homeless (2020)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Those of us with aphantasia[0] might disagree with that. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Another anecdotal data point: I received full dental replacement implants (the all-on-four style) a couple of years ago. During the procedure, I came out of it enough to remember trying to get "something" out of my mouth that was
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by LordGrey 5y ago
Thanks! That helped me finally see the mother-in-law. I showed my wife the picture and she couldn't see either woman until I pointed out features. Interesting!
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by LordGrey 5y ago
I spent 10 minutes staring at that picture and saw only the wife. The mother-in-law never appeared. This happens to me often.
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by LordGrey 6y ago
OAuth 2.1 addresses some of the deficiencies in OAuth 2.0. In summary: * PKCE is required for all OAuth clients using the authorization code flow * Redirect URIs must be compared using exact string matching * The Implicit grant (response_t
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by LordGrey 6y ago
I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.
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by LordGrey 6y ago
You can enable "infinite scroll" for both search results and images. That is not explicit pagination, but it does save a mouse click.
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by LordGrey 6y ago
> GM announcing this means they have secured their battery supply. GM has announced that they're moving away from fossil fuels, not that they were going all-electric. Granted, electric is most feasible, but they could also be hedgi
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by LordGrey 6y ago
For anyone needing a refresher on PKI, CA, etc, the article references an earlier blog post that is very well-written and informative: https://smallstep.com/blog/everything-pki/
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by LordGrey 6y ago
A while back I used MacPorts to install the latest bash and changed my admin user to use it. Worked great. Then Big Sur came along and I had to upgrade MacPorts. This involved uninstalling installed packages, upgrading the base MacPorts,
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by LordGrey 6y ago
My favorites: Larry Niven - The Jigsaw Man Larry Niven - The Fourth Profession Issac Asimov - The Last Question
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by LordGrey 6y ago
I really liked the intro. I purchased both the "Building an Interpreter from scratch" and the "Parsing Algorithms" courses from Udemy and went through the first four modules of the former. Very clear presentation!
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by LordGrey 6y ago
Huh. 21.5% probability that I'm an INTJ. Which is ... correct. I'd like to know more about the algorithm behind this.
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by LordGrey 6y ago
My trick is to delay the task to a specific day and/or time. I use a reminders app to create a schedule of sorts, and I've trained myself to do the task right when the reminder pops up. The presumption here is that I've alre
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by LordGrey 6y ago
Do you happen to know how Fork compares with Tower ( https://www.git-tower.com )? I've been a Tower user for quite some time and like it, but I'm always interested in better options.
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by LordGrey 6y ago
Our tests seem to be somewhat staggered. We may see phishing email tests twice in a month, then nothing for several months. Typically there is a two-month lag between the tests. I should note that phishing tests are just one component of
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by LordGrey 6y ago
My company regularly runs internal phishing tests like this, using an outside organization. We apparently have a near-constant 7% failure rate. Personally, I cheat: Long ago I discovered that the outside org puts some identifying headers