SloopJon

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by SloopJon 10y ago
Figures that something like this would be posted on my day off. I put this through a parser that I cover, and found that the only failures were for top-level scalars, which we don't support, and for things we accept that we shouldn&#x
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by SloopJon 10y ago
It sucks that someone scammed David, but he needs to grow up and pursue legal options against the scammer and/or Upwork. Meanwhile, Michelle should get a lawyer to help her get control of the Upwork account, and to stop David's li
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I've had an Aeron at home for ten years or so. Both of the arms have broken off. It actually seemed like an improvement, so I never got around to a warranty replacement. Arms aside, I'm not crazy about the chair. It's not
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by SloopJon 10y ago
> I think those books have a specific time in people's careers. Agreed. Code Complete gave me a huge boost as a liberal arts refugee in computing. Having given away my copy, I bought the second edition, thinking it would be wort
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by SloopJon 10y ago
The roadmap on the same site shows a "dynamic binary translator for Alpha and Itanium images" planned to be available with the general release ... in 2019! http://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20160906.pdf
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I work with an old DEC guy who co-wrote a book about the BLISS compiler back in the day. He thought it made a much better "portable assembly language" than C. He also likes to talk about the binary compatibility on VMS; e.g., VAX
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by SloopJon 10y ago
The author covered this: "Facebook is not saying only that a licensee’s rights to use React will terminate if the licensee claims patent infringement by the React library itself. ... Facebook is using its publication of React source co
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I know someone who lives with severe chronic migraines. She writes about her experience when she can on thedailyheadache.com. Similar to the author, she searches desperately for triggers, treatments, and even moved to a drier climate. My
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by SloopJon 10y ago
As I see it, the main benefit of deterministic password generation is the convenience of not needing a password database. Indeed, if the scheme is simple and/or portable enough (e.g., PBKDF2) you can implement it from scratch in a min
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I think it's easier to agree that a picture of a naked person is NSFW than that it's pornographic.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Anyone else see the irony in acknowledging that NFSW is subjective and contextual, but assuming that pornographic images are not?
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by SloopJon 10y ago
> Developer compensation has skyrocketed since the demise > of the Google et al. wage-suppressing no-hire agreement Is this true? This seems like a bold claim, given that most of the post is about how little data there
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Yahoo's announcement (link changed since some of these comments were posted) says the "vast majority" used bcrypt. I've been getting an "Unexpected sign-in attempt" email from Yahoo every day for the last coupl
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by SloopJon 10y ago
The big takeaway for me is that first impressions matter. Although the bulk of the post is about hard-earned knowledge and workarounds for completely unreliable features, getting a proof of concept in twenty minutes sealed the deal.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Jason Snell "joked on Twitter last week that it’ll cost $19 if Apple’s sort of sorry, $29 if it’s not sorry, and if it’s free in the box then Apple’s really afraid of consumer backlash." https://sixcolors.com/post&
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by SloopJon 10y ago
My recollection is that TV manufacturers didn't even want to include digital tuners until the FCC required them to. Of course, that tuner isn't doing me any good now that the FCC allows Comcast to encrypt broadcast channels.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I like projects like this. I started reading Code a while back, and thought it would be fun to make a computer out of relays, light bulbs, tinker toys, or whatnot. Then I started reading The Elements of Computing Systems , and thought
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by SloopJon 10y ago
No, it doesn't, because existing scripts don't include this new statement. You only have to make your aliases explicit if you edit a script to use this new namespace/module feature.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I'm not too familiar with PowerShell, but I wonder if they could introduce new syntax to fix this. Add a new statement, like import, include, use, or using; if your script includes that statement, you don't get the aliases unless
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Each time Microsoft releases free software, there has been discussion about whether they're really participating in a community. When Jason closes a PR, saying that it needs an RFC, and oh, by the way, you aren't allowed to start
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by SloopJon 10y ago
There was a study posted here recently on this very topic: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12272425 From the abstract: "Th
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Totally agree. It's nice when things work, but a total pain to troubleshoot. I built my home desktop with recommended parts almost four years ago and installed 10.8. Since upgrading to 10.9 about a year ago, the built-in audio stoppe
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by SloopJon 10y ago
This is a disappointingly defeatist perspective on the new crypto wars: unbreakable encryption is why we can't have nice things. I would rephrase most of his examples with the old saw: if you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will have
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I've been using an Advantage at work for about a year, and this happens to me once or twice a week, usually with the Shift key, but sometimes with the Alt key, which is even more disorienting. It goes back to normal after tapping one
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by SloopJon 10y ago
It's an interesting question as to which is more readable: -module_param(max_sets, int, 0600); +module_param(max_sets, int, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR); However, I'm missing context. Did someone at Intel really spam 1,285 pat
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Seconded. I also recommend C Traps and Pitfalls and The C Puzzle Book to improve your understanding of this subtly complex language.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I'm not familiar with the entire exchange, but I think the last straw was Milo posting fake screenshots of homophobic tweets from Leslie.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
I wish GOG was more transparent about native vs. emulated titles. I'm much more inclined to buy a native port like this than something that uses DOSBox.
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by SloopJon 10y ago
The point of Quintuple is compatibility with the IBM Quantum Experience, so that you can noodle around on your own system before trying your program on the real thing. Is there an easily available quantum device on which I can run a Liquid
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by SloopJon 10y ago
Not quite the same thing, but ID Analytics claimed that "6.1 percent of Americans have at least two SSNs associated with their name," and "more than 15 percent of SSNs are associated with two or more people" in commercia

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