amichal

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by amichal 4y ago
45. Been at a desk job since 18. Did 400 miles of the AT then starting at 8 miles a day and working up to 16 (with a very heavy pack). I quit the thru bike but returned for visits and did a couple 20+ mile days a few months later. Years pa
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by amichal 4y ago
Pure speculation but the semantics of and usual purpose of “legal hold” strongly imply that keeping the data even with an unpaid bill would be the correct implementation. Even at much smaller scales contracts state fixed data retention or e
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by amichal 4y ago
I have been one of those people. There must have been a lot of them because “export” is now an option which dumps all or selected keys and a giant non standard? QR code that can be imported into another instance. Mine are now on two devices
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by amichal 4y ago
Google Voice needs to be linked to a valid +1 land or mobile number to function long term. My google voice number lasted for almost exactly 6 months after the us cell number it was linked to was disconnected (moved overseas for a while).
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by amichal 4y ago
There is something like a 90% return rate on lost wallets in Japan. Failure to attempt to return a lost item of value is an actual crime... so if the bag was not sitting on the street next to him when he woke up and not returned by a kind s
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by amichal 4y ago
Firebug and firebug lite were amazing but to keep the record clear it was possible to debug client-side JavaScript (and other script types) using Visual Studio since very early on in IE. It was granted a major pain to setup properly for br
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by amichal 4y ago
True but also highly context dependent, logged in/out, incognito, vpn, timezone, geography, os, recent searches of others on your network, neigherborhood etc all seem to influence what you see.
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by amichal 5y ago
I’m confused. Most of the tweets in the article have a response from Google directing the user how to report these as abuse spam from within google drive and docs. https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2463296?hl=
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by amichal 5y ago
I was at first guessing this this might have had as a (partial) data source the hsts static preload list[1]. But, a domain I know we never submitted to it was on there while one which was submitted (but has since aged out) is not. Also thes
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by amichal 5y ago
Reminder that you should have your authention setup in whatever you are developing before you bind to 0.0.0.0 or a routable address. Even if you trust all the people and devices on your LAN. There are ways to port scan from within a webpage
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by amichal 5y ago
https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest really removed the FUD for me when i started learning Ruby and Rails. Its full of metaprogramming and fancy tricks but is also quite small, practical and informal in its style. e.g
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by amichal 5y ago
Right and my recollection was from moving our self hosted authoritative name servers to new ip addresses and dealing with unclear/delayed updates to those glue records. Of course this was 20yrs ago and the UI for making changes was muc
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by amichal 5y ago
They other edge case I used to see is incorrect “glue” records. The parent name server needs to know the A records of your authoritative server. if your domain is example.net and you told the .com that your NS/SOA (can’t remember that
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by amichal 5y ago
Would this tool have have scaled as well as 24 separate OS processes? I remember hitting this same issue many years ago. Some primitive in the library (c++) didn’t on the surface appear to involve shared state and cache write lock but of co
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by amichal 5y ago
Indexes and compound indexes tend to become slow themselves when you end up indexing a significant fraction of the columns or when your result sets are a significant portion of the total for count. They cost extra time and space to update o
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by amichal 5y ago
I would also add (reading other comments) that coding in particular is very much a thing that feels like I’m slacking off for hours or days. Just fiddling around or fighting some random problems that is not the actual thing I’m fixing. The
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by amichal 5y ago
Similar job here. Except I’ve been a consultant billing through to our clients mostly by the hour. I’ve run a key logger on myself for over a decade. While my start and stop times vary wildly I spend between 30 and 45 hours doing somethin
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by amichal 5y ago
I have in the past directed users here on HN who were complaining about https://status.aws.amazon.com to the Personal Health Dashboard at https://phd.aws.amazon.com/ as well. Unfortunately even though the accoun
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by amichal 5y ago
> Most American high schools teach algebra I in ninth grade, geometry in 10th grade and algebra II in 11th grade – something Boaler calls “the geometry sandwich. It’s an exceedingly dumb setup. In my highschool it was optional in grade
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by amichal 5y ago
I have heard of some of these but watched none of them. I do watch a lot of media (hours per day if you believe my devices’ records) but it’s all documentaries, public television and various “maker” YouTube videos. I tried recently to watc
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by amichal 5y ago
I once spent nearly 2 weeks as a team of three chasing a intermittent bug in some multithreaded Windows NT codebase (around 1999). We were sure it was some subtle issue with multiple CPUs since it only happened on the one quad cpu machine w
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by amichal 5y ago
I once chased
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by amichal 5y ago
I’ve added an activrecord interface to an existing schema (on sql server no less). A lot of overriding of it’s assumptions and sometimes preventing writes via active record but it is doable.
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by amichal 5y ago
20 years ago I ported an app from Microsoft SQL server to Oracle as a new requirement from the incoming CTO equivalent. I was told the whole place was standardizing on Oracle as they had in house expertise. Turns out they didn’t and while
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by amichal 5y ago
Our local small town cafe did this up until COVID... via a big three ring binder. You could run either a credit or debt as long as it was close and a couple of families i know would do this so their kids could stop and get snacks without ca
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by amichal 5y ago
1/1000 errors/bugs/exceptions are still a big deal in my book! I have a relative who worked in high volume manufacturing. Uncaught errors that could hurt people were still a problem even if they could in theory happen at 10^-
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by amichal 5y ago
Dublin core has always been rough and strange and I’m SURE actual librarians can tell me all sorts of stories about complex things but schema.org has a fine model at first glance https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle . Check
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by amichal 5y ago
It prompts for some sites (using some .well-known URL protocol?). But I recently learned you can add the "One Time Password" field type to any Login entry manually. I do it all the time for intranet/test sites that need MFA a
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by amichal 5y ago
Fairly early on in my career I was on a team writing a GUI programming environment (think old school flow charts) that generated ASP (classic) or Java backends. We allowed simple expressions in assignments with the basic arithmetic operator
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by amichal 5y ago
I like it. I've always wanted to promote mailto: links over silly contact us forms (and all the hoops you have to jump through to keep them functional and not abused) but never had a really good argument for non-techy folks and lots o

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