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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> Phones are bigger than ever If you want to experience what your app is really like for the vast majority of real world people, go get a cheap monthly prepaid phone and try it out. Using the modern web on them is a complete nightmare.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> Homeless people get free smartphones and free service in the US Recently former homeless person here. The Republicans in Congress refused to renew the Lifeline program in 2023 and the replacement is objectively worse in every single w
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> The $licenseFile can be controlled by the attacker using the adminUploadLicense function This is just as likely to be an RCE as it is to be a backdoor. Calling `include` on a file the user can write to is just asking for it. This has
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> it seems like the subquery is getting re-run on every single row of the task queue table Y'all might find the term "correlated subquery" helpful here. When I want them, I always get them. Sometimes I get them when I don
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> Show me a similarly soft pedaled, deferential NPR interview of a right wing extremist. Steve Inskeep did 30 minutes with Steve Bannon this week. They did a piece with Chris Rufo yesterday (he's the guy that got right wing media t
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
If Apple was worried about this, they shouldn't have flaunted the court order in a way that made the judge say in the subsequent order that "this is an injunction, not a negotiation."
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
Dev turned doordash driver here. Let me tell you why those estimates are bullshit. First, there are three different ways that orders can come in. 1) Tight integration into the POS system. 2) Through a separate parallel physical tablet.
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
Grandparent commenter here. I'm on the Oregon state health plan, which requires you to cycle through any of the standard ADHD drugs before they'll let you prescribe the long term versions. The lowest dose of adderall (sp idk) didn
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
Not the parent, but I'm also AuDHD. My current drunk baboon is named OOH LOOK, SHINY but sometimes it's named THIS IS BORING LETS GO DO SOMETHING ELSE. A sufficient dose of a medically prescribed stimulant medication quiets him d
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
Despite the imperfections in your work, you still contributed something amazing to the internet. Even the imperfections ended up helping people. Thank you.
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
Like many, I got my start with perl by finding myself having to customize a WWWBoard. The site owner then switched to a new perl based forum that used flat linear threads, the Ultimate Bulletin Board. (Which itself is based on code in Sel
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
You can totally use machine learning to classify stuff, that's one of the main things we've been trying to do with it, after all! But that automatic stuff often is entirely without soul and without contextual understanding. Usef
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
A lifetime ago, on Stack Overflow, I was one of those people that monitored tags. I nuked needless new tags as often as I could, replacing them on each post with more correct existing tags. I ended up with a set of huge search bookmarks w
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
The thing that became the 990 minicomputer was developed for a hotel chain. Perhaps you're thinking of another? Source: David Pitts, who worked on the platform. https://www.cozx.com/dpitts/ti990.html
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
> "Bits" is a stupid measure of "computer". But that is the very way that they are defined through our historical understanding. The 990 platform, established in 1973 , not the 80s, is 16-bit, with 16-bit words and
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
I've been working on a TMS99110 homebrew & emulator, and have studied the architecture of the 990 a whole lot over the past couple years. I want to make a very important distinction in a few things you said. For anyone that didn&#
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by McGlockenshire 2y ago
This should probably be a direct link to the comment announcing the resignation: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322#c17
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
I think you just described compiler output.
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
> bidirectional logical replication Just to make sure, this is what we used to call multi-master, right? (This is not a "why did they change it" post. Do not make it into a "why did they change it" post.)
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
Kids, you have no idea how much better we have it now! Back then, there wasn't a reasonable reliable cross-browser way to get single pixel collapsed table borders. If you wanted to have such a thing, you'd need to nest the table
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
What a delightful web design throwback. I hit the zoom a few notches so I could actually read it, and then felt right at home reading the news like I used to do decades ago. I don't like this whole "getting old" thing.
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
I know that dang hates culture war shit when it shows up here, but this is one of those times when I can't bite my tongue. > the majority of CoC documents have been templated and written by one particular in-group of people who shar
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
That's why I prefer the form "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work." There's always going to be a minimum level of complexity. Sometimes that minimal level calls for throwing a PHP script up on some shared hos
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
Two tips to follow twitter threads: 1) Only ever use it from a desktop browser with a sufficiently configured ad blocker. The mobile apps are intentionally designed to pull you out of the thread with only a single line of text delineating
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
The application is also constructed in a way that lets you call the internals directly. I ended up building a few bookmarklets that: - Call the "the make a clip button got pressed" function a few thousand times - Monitored the op
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
The entire site is nerd porn. If you haven't read the one where he installs Linux on a hard disk, here it is: https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
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by McGlockenshire 3y ago
I'm not sure if "always" is right here, but this has been true since at least 2015.
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by McGlockenshire 4y ago
> These days The DS9 folks have outright said that they've not done things because people assumed or guessed online. The first one that springs to mind is Eddington. > Although "The Adversary" shows Eddington was misid
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by McGlockenshire 4y ago
I struggle to identify any situation in which price gouging shouldn't be demonized.
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by McGlockenshire 4y ago
> I think the reason that 0.1 + 0.2 prints out 0.3 in PHP is that PHP’s algorithm for displaying floating point numbers is less precise than Python’s It's a display thing, not an algorithm thing. It rounds by default at a certain l

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