YesThatTom2

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by YesThatTom2 1y ago
> there was a university president who couldn’t send an email more than 500 miles, and the wise sysadmin said that’s not possible, so the president said come to my office, and lo and behold, the emails stopped before going 500 miles. NO.
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by YesThatTom2 1y ago
I wrote about this a decade ago https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2945077
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by YesThatTom2 1y ago
What you’re demonstrating is called survivor bias.
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by YesThatTom2 1y ago
The ads for Hayden Planetarium show mostly highlight that it’s narrated by Pedro Pascal. But, yeah, the spiral thing is cool too.
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by YesThatTom2 1y ago
Silly rabbit! Env is for reading. Nobody should set env variables. (Except, of course, the shell, or a non-shell program that is doing shell-like things.) It’s not a freakin’ database.
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by YesThatTom2 1y ago
CygnusED’s speed made it feel unlike any other editor. Brilliant engineering!
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by YesThatTom2 1y ago
This is how Trump will win and become king.
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
John Ioannidis (first name on the list… IPsec) passed away a few weeks ago and almost nobody noticed. I attended a memorial on Zoom and people said he also created the building blocks that permitted Mobile IP (IP on your cell phone) to work
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
Why is this a BAD thing? The goal of cryptocurrency is to have a financial system with none of that pesky government regulation. Yes, there will be scams but eventually people will learn non-governmental solutions that (my libertarian frien
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
SRI was scammed. Randi literally walked in, showed how vaudeville magicians do spoon bending (spoiler alert: the spoon is swapped for one that’s already bent using sleight of hand) and the researchers blushed in embarrassment. They’d been H
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
“Remote viewing” is a scam, debunked time and time again by psychic debunkers like James Randi and others. The people doing the “remote viewing” use vaudeville tricks but pass it off as real. Sadly the US government has spent millions on pr
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
IP was originally an overlay network on top of the telco network. That has many benefits most importantly it makes adoption easy. Now we run telco networks over IP for legacy apps. If this Yggdrasil stuff is successful, I presume eventuall
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
If it supported an infinite tape, that would get me closer to my dream of owning an infinite number of legos! I love it!
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
Sometimes I think that when a Product Manager is feeling unimportant, they rename the product so that every. damn. department. from marketing, to sales, to all the peer products have to take notice. "Fear my importance! I'm chang
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
Usenix LISA (now called SRECon) had a paper about this technique in 2004: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin... Those who ignore Usenix are doomed to repeat it … 20 years later.
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
I love state machines and every time I use one my workers think I invented it because they’ve never seen them before. The data for state machine in this article might be best prepared by generating it from a program. That generator progra
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
.co is the marketing site for .com
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
Elections have consequences!!
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by YesThatTom2 2y ago
I’m impressed! The way the 2600 does graphics I would have thought this to be impossible but you did it!
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Dennis Ritchie had nothing to do with C++ and is rolling in his grave because of your reply.
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Don’t anthropomorphize computers—they hate it.
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
For those not in the area: it is literally the last bridge one that waterway before you reach the Atlantic Ocean. The outer-most bridge! The fact that it is named after the first PANYNJ president (Mr. Outerbridge) is amazing. It’s like disc
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Years later, part of Menlo Park, NJ was renamed “Edison, NJ” in honor of Thomas Edison. Ofc, California didn’t adopt a similar change.
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I used to write code. Now I just play with strings(yesthatblog.com)
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
In no way is that true
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Buffet’s point was the people that make money in hedge funds are the managers, not the investors! I live 15 miles west of Wall Street in a suburb called Montclair, NJ. There’s a neighbor of fancy mansions locally known as “hedgefund manage
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The Myth of the Unemployed College Grad(theatlantic.com)
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
I came here to say the same thing.
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by YesThatTom2 3y ago
Agreed! I’ve noticed there are two kinds of policy advocates. Agenda advocates: no matter the problem, they push their agenda. Anti tax people are in this category. Down economy? “Lower taxes!” They shout. Up exonomy? “Lower taxes to ke
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Barbershop Computing(cacm.acm.org)
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