Shish2k

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by Shish2k 5y ago
Facebook HR also got the same question (with the same answer) in the company-wide forum this week. Did I miss some big news story that’s causing this to be on everybody’s mind recently?
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> Just a piece of paper has been sufficient whenever I've needed to OK so you need a printer, ink, probably a PC… (Or at least access to one, which would be a fine requirement, if the US had good public transport and libraries...)
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Your insurance company used SQL? Luxury! My insurance company had everything in a collection of inter-linked Excel spreadsheets on a shared file server, millions of dollars a day being moved around with VBA macros :P (Though for the specifi
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Technically yes, but the licence forbids it
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> He is firmly of the school of thought that he and his team can do anything, and do it better than anyone else. “I don't wanna live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place, better than we do”
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Anyone know if there are any open-source libraries which wrap this all into a usable `get_{tcp,udp}_connection(peer_id)` API, preferably with fallback to a relay server? I feel like there really should be, but nearly all the tools I’ve seen
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by Shish2k 5y ago
In a winamp discussion thread a couple of days ago somebody linked to https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ , and I had the same reaction to their "It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and GStreamer. Strawber
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> It’s good fun and very inexpensive. Once you have the equipment and the knowledge, it takes around $2 of electronics to turn any random simple device into a smart device. Speaking for myself at least, it took around $1000 of tools and
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by Shish2k 5y ago
You’re very optimistic to think that they’d allow reality to limit them :) The first time I was buying 18650 batteries I naievely went for the largest advertised capacity, and got some whose claims broke the laws of physics… (And of course,
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> things were not always this divisive Um… *gestures vaguely towards all of human history*
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I’m using mine as a frontend for a simple HTML5 online game, left unattended at a conference so that anybody can walk up and start playing. Any entry-level hackery can be fixed by rebooting, any more advanced abuse can be fixed by flashing
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Speaking of building immutable images - I want to do that for one of my projects, but scanning the docs for buildroot and yocto, I don’t see anything about applying updates - which is the part where I most want an off-the-shelf battle-teste
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Reading the actual document, I don’t see anything about “interoperability” implying “federation” - it’s more like “third-party clients must be allowed to use the same APIs as first-party clients”
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> Edit: I shouldn't have said duck typing but rather the lack of strong/compile checks Every compiled language I can think of would also be totally happy for you to pass (int width, int height) to a function designed to handl
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Every non-trivial collection of humans contains drama; personally I’ll be sticking with Rust for as long as the language itself continues being great.
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Dedicated over cloud? Yeah, I am personally saving 40x on bandwidth alone. Colo over renting? Savings seemed pretty small, and hassle was large...
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> The ends justify the means? So how do you justify the existence of this comment, given that the electricity used transmitting and storing it has contributed to global warming?
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by Shish2k 5y ago
ash also supports `command -v`
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I’m using it for a collection of small projects -- I appreciate that I can come back into a codebase I’ve not touched for 3 months, and my IDE tells me what the data structures are instead of me having to page-in all that knowledge manually
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I’ve been using the `bitflags` crate to do my bit-banging, and it seems to compile down to a single OR instruction quite nicely :)
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Alas, I think a lot of people would consider “random anonymous internet commenter” to be more trustworthy than “professional researcher”; and others would consider “not boosting the voices of non-experts” to be censorship...
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Maybe they could make their own SBC, just an M1 and four USB-C ports… Apple Pi?
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by Shish2k 5y ago
I’d assume this is the case, but is there actually any evidence either way, or are we all just speculating?
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Hard reset would log you out, but the more significant question is “are my existing purchases tied to my FB account?”
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by Shish2k 5y ago
PHP still doesn’t have XHP though :(
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by Shish2k 5y ago
You are completely correct from a computer science perspective - unfortunately, this is not a computer science discussion. As far as the FBI are concerned, “storing encrypted child porn on behalf of people with the keys to decrypt it” still
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by Shish2k 5y ago
How would thousands of competing networks deal with a government-enforced “no E2EE; wiretapping API required” law?
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by Shish2k 5y ago
> The shareholders should ask Facebook management how they allowed their growth to be tied to the decisions of a completely unrelated third party company Is this something Facebook-specific, or are you suggesting that _every_ company cur
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by Shish2k 5y ago
Same - there seems to be a huge gap in between “home NAS” (2 drives, ~$200) and “enterprise NAS” (16 drives, ~$4000) I’m currently using an old HP microserver (4 x 3.5”), but outgrowing it a bit… My dream is a CM4 board with 2xM2 slots for
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by Shish2k 5y ago
It still has by far the lowest barrier to entry for basic deployments (pick any random cheapo shared web host; FTP your files to it; done) - that counts for a lot in the real world, and I’m sad that nobody else is even trying to compete :(

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