Mister_Snuggles

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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
In Alberta, it's required by law to pay before you pump. This happened after an attendant was killed during a gas-and-dash robbery.
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
This seems like a poor solution to the death of journalism. There aren't enough details to go on in the story, but I'm going to make an assumption that this person was charged with a crime, stories were written about the charges,
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
My first exposure to a ThinkPad laptop was when work issued me a T60. It was absolutely awful in virtually every aspect. Performance was terrible, the bundled software was complete garbage (but the machine wouldn't function properly w
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
It's on my list of languages to learn, but I haven't gotten to it yet. My first job was supporting a custom application running in UniVerse on Solaris. It originally ran on a Prime mainframe and UniVerse was one of the ways you c
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
The challenge is that even a minimal implementation requires quite a lot of functionality. Take a Wifi-based smart outlet, for example. The functionality is literally a single output that drives a relay. But in order for that to work, it
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
One thing that most TUIs have but most GUIs (web or native app) don't is fast keyboard navigation. There are obviously exceptions to both cases, but as a general rule this seems to hold true. Watching people who are very familiar with
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
There are ESP32 boards with ethernet and PoE. This device[0] uses one and it works very well. I'm not aware of any ESP32 boards with a camera and ethernet though, but I haven't gone looking on AliExpress either. It's a reas
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
And even if it did run a backdoor, you've got all of your cameras on an isolated VLAN which can't access the internet (or anything else), right?
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
Ah, that makes some amount of sense. But... Why not just call it "_forms" or ".forms", which are already prohibited due to the first character?
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
Thank you! That was bugging me, but now that you mentioned FrontPage I clearly recall all of the _vti stuff.
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
I sort of get most of these - they're internal to various bits of Microsoft technology. 'CON' plus the ones ending in $ are internal device names dating back to MS-DOS, 'desktop.ini' is a magic file that Explorer u
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
I've got a few. Text editors: I've used emacs, pico, nano, jed, vim, AE (UniData), ED (UniVerse), Sublime Text, VSCode, BBEdit, and countless others that I've forgotten. Sublime Text wins for simple edits of single files, v
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
At my work we have a couple of different roles that get involved in each ticket, so we created custom fields in Jira to assign those roles. So each ticket gets a Primary Developer, Primary SME, etc, but might get assigned to some one else t
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
We've just migrated our ERP from a regular deployment on VMs into Kubernetes. We have a very bursty self-service component, so being able to scale up easily for the week we need it is quite nice. We've taken advantage of this ab
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
> Probably more importantly, all of that and still not proper datetimes in sqlite. Home Assistant recently did a ton of changes to work around the issues caused by this. The short story is that they stopped storing timestamps as 'ti
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
Interestingly enough, I've got a thing for "ancient" technology. My dream retirement job is to work at a tax agency, like CRA or IRS, and help maintain their mountain of COBOL. I don't know COBOL, I don't know the
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
Very nice - scarletdme in the browser is brilliant! The two things I do to start playing in a new MV environment both worked exactly as I hoped they would: LIST VOC And ED BP BLAH I PRINT "THIS IS A TEST"
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
My first job was supporting an in-house system built in UniVerse. My second job was supporting a commercial ERP that ram on top of UniData. I like the more modern stuff I work with now, but I truly miss the multivalue world some days. Every
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by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago
At my last job I supported a system that was largely built by one person over the preceding 20+ years. This was roughly his philosophy as well. He told me, paraphrased since this was 20 years ago, "Whenever I'm designing a new fe
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
In Alberta, I'm on a fixed-price contract for 8.69c/kWh. Add in the distribution, transmission, and local access fee charges and my all-in rate is actually 15.217c/kWh. But that's not all, there's also a 20.6c&#x2
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
So opening a directory picker and allowing access to user-selected files is fine, however opening a serial port picker and allowing access to user-selected serial ports is not[0]. My use-case is a web-based system which includes, among othe
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
Some merchants were already allowed to add a credit card surcharge. Some post-secondary institutions did this for years before this change came in. The funny thing is that, apart from the aforementioned post-secondary institutions, I haven
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
It looks like the author gave up on using Make with this commit: https://github.com/topojson/world-atlas/commit/8f92f6eb692d1...
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
There are also some other 'interesting' ways to use Make. As a batch runner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602 As an init system (which inspired my use of it as a batch runner): https://web
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
The best part of that is that they actually made a bit of a wheel-centric UI just for this gag.
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
For local WiFi, anything that's HomeKit compatible should work, but you'll likely lose out on something by restricting its access to the internet. For example, my Ecobee can be controlled locally via Home Assistant (using Home As
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
The ironic thing is that if the user stops using this software the company benefits because they don't have to pay out the expense claim that the user didn't enter. This seems like a win for the company and the company would conc
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
The last printer I bought (HP LaserJet Pro m254dw) seems to do it right. My black cartridge is at 0% and has been for a while. The supply status printout says something to the effect of "Just because it says 0% doesn't mean it&#x
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
Enpass may be worth a look. It doesn't do cloud syncing itself, but it lets you pick from a number of different providers (DropBox, iCloud, OneDrive, plus a few others) which you probably already use.
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by Mister_Snuggles 4y ago
There are some. One of my favourites is Terminal.Gui[0], but you have to be in the .NET world in order to use it. [0] https://github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.Gui

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