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by RulerOf 2y ago
Since nobody directly answered some of your specific questions: > Lets say I want to boot a random old PC from one of these images - does the bios need to have iPXE support? Or PXE? The most-desirable way to use iPXE is to boot it from a
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by RulerOf 2y ago
Funny enough, the thing that brought this up for me most recently was that some value in `~/.gitconfig` is not idempotent when set through the command line, and I was trying to use it in a shell startup script.
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by RulerOf 2y ago
I got really excited when I saw `from_ini` but disappointed when I saw no `to_ini`. I would really like to find a good workflow for idempotent modifications to INI files, but haven't stumbled across one yet.
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> On fact, with all due respect, I never understood why VLC was so widely praised. It's praised because it "plays everything." It developed this reputation in an era when even average people were installing numerous Direct
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> That you can, worst case, boot it (or any other tools) from simple fat32 formatted pendrive that can be created with a file manager instead of rawdogging the hard disk is just a bonus. There was a wonderful, brief period of time where
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by RulerOf 2y ago
Other companies do similar things. Red Hat creates RHSA-YYYY:XXXX for example, like this one for Log4Shell: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0442
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by RulerOf 2y ago
>the prefix and then one or two digits — isn’t much longer I'd argue it's just enough to make the difference though. The problem is that people got used to being able to rely on memorizing IP addresses. IPv6 does its best at ma
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by RulerOf 2y ago
I set up TP Link Omada in less than an hour. All wired backhaul for me though. If it supports mesh I'd expect it to be easy.
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> showing everyone where and how I was wearing a money belt I only fly once every couple years, but I really hated emptying my pockets into those bins. The last time I went through, the agent suggested I put everything in my computer bag
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by RulerOf 2y ago
I absolutely do. I don't find wireless cameras to be a compelling product in any personal or professional use case, but I see their appeal. I only used the thing because it was a gift. When it comes to baby monitors, which the device I
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by RulerOf 2y ago
When I had my first child a decade ago, someone gifted me a PTZ camera that was viewable through a smartphone app. I set it up, connected it to wifi, and it worked... for about 4 days. Resetting it didn't work. Called the company and t
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> if the apps are well designed a smaller screen is just fine. This was the problem I ran into. They're not. I held onto the iPhone SE for quite a while. Everything became progressively more cramped as the years went by. Some app UI
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> I know I’ve transferred google auth across phones in the past - although possibly over iTunes? The new iPhone setup process works differently I guess. There were a few brief years where an encrypted iTunes backup was a perfect, univers
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by RulerOf 2y ago
That's a good point. I take for granted that I remember well what it was like in the analog age. Channels could be changed in what must've been around 30 milliseconds. I always found a modicum of latency to be generally acceptable
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by RulerOf 2y ago
This sounds intuitive, but isn't true in my experience. It's a natural consequence of aggressive dialing with a limited pool of agents. See my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40882163
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> I don’t understand what they are calling for either. I’ve answered a few and most of the time it’s a dead line when I answer. Just silence. The primary operating goal of a predictive dialing system is minimizing agent downtime. Ideally
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by RulerOf 2y ago
This is fascinating to me. I used Cisco wireless for several years and read the documentation enough to know about why 802.11k sped up roaming so much, but never put together that requiring a scan across the entire spectrum is an inherent d
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by RulerOf 2y ago
Maybe you (or anyone) could shed light on something for me? I'm sure leaf certificate pinning is very common among your customers. Assuming that pinning is a manual process where customers decide to implicitly trust a specific cert, wh
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by RulerOf 2y ago
My device shouldn't be carrier locked at all. I took out a loan to pay for this thing. They got their money for it immediately . During the February AT&T outage[1], my wife's phone was affected, and she had to go somewhere. I
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by RulerOf 2y ago
The last time I worked for a larger, local company with printing needs, we had printers that were either leased with a support contract or were rented or something like that. Pricing was per unit, with billing per page. Reasonably cheap, to
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by RulerOf 2y ago
Hmm. I don't typically mind throwing memory at a problem like that, but I can certainly see the issue. Is lazy marshalling something that other languages handle better?
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by RulerOf 2y ago
Symbolic links set up with dotbot[1]. Since the link directives are idempotent, you can run it on every login shell if you desire. I ended up setting up a shared jumpbox used by some contractors with it so they could work with our internal
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by RulerOf 2y ago
I'd suspect you could do that with Open3, but if you are, why not just read the file and process with Ruby instead?
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> Ruby does have a terse and intuitive syntax that would make for a good system shell. I learned enough PowerShell to be comfortable using it, and then picked up Bash and Ruby a few years later. I longed for a Ruby shell for a couple yea
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by RulerOf 2y ago
I probably should've clarified that I absolutely understand the hate for pointer acceleration. I just disagree that it's bad UX ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Your point though does make we wish that DPI, sensitivity, and the acceleration curve w
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> Pointer Acceleration being the biggest one. I love pointer acceleration, and won't use an OS that doesn't feature it. I _like_ being able to perform pixel-precise movement of the cursor on a ~20MP desktop without also having
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by RulerOf 2y ago
It was mentioned by a sibling, but there are ways to connect without using one of AT&T's gateway devices. Different methods are catalogued on https://pon.wiki/
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by RulerOf 2y ago
> I don't want anyone to know how many devices I have at home Even if your ipv6 host or border firewall allows pings through, it's not practical to scan an entire /64. There's just too many addresses in it, and your d
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by RulerOf 2y ago
"servers" I don't think anybody actually cares, but I resent discord for this terminology.
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by RulerOf 2y ago
I wonder if they tried jumping into the sales funnel.

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