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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I was sued back in the Palm Pilot days for writing a game that involved moving blocks. The company that owned Palm Pilot rights to Tetris® claimed I was violating their trademark, which was clearly frivolous and incorrect. But I was just a
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I've been in discussions with vegans over the 9.1x10^2 to 1.3x10^8 bacteria in the average indoor m^3 of air.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
At previous job v.2, changed an IoT system that received daily text files from remote devices from dumping millions of them in the top level of the /data partition to using a /data/YYYY/MM/unit_id/ structure. T
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendation!
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I'll have to look into the web-server customizations. One of them has a custom Apache module for talking to a 3rd party mainframe, but that should theoretically be movable too (if it's the correct platform architecture). Of course
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
All good recommendations. I think the difference is in the contracts (I'm reporting second-hand, since I don't have access to the actuals). With Linode, anyway, I do a lot of hosting in VPSes, but these clients have contracts stip
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I have some clients who host at Rackspace. They have old-school monolithic web-app architectures (single web server that also runs the application code, and a database server). They're never going to rebuild these legacy application --
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
A lot of folks don't appreciate how quickly normal can turn into dangerous in the wilderness. Because most of the time, it's all so tame. With our specialized gear and tech, there's not much threat ... most of the time. I&#x2
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
You can make the the code read-only (from the web-server's perspective) and have auto update if you use a tool like WP-CLI and a cron job. I've had a few customer's sites on WP for decades without any hacks. But I also carefu
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
The actual performance of the cells increases as they get colder. The attenuation due to ice or snow will, of course, reduce power generated.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
There's a quotation, which I think may have been Monk, which I've been trying to track down the exact source. It's along the lines of "All I want is a simple melody, and I gotta go through all the bullshit again." R
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
80-100 miles from Port of Long Beach being 2-3 hours? Have you ever driven on the 110, 405, 105, or 605?
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I don't think Le Carré was trying to write high art either, but I think they were interested in different things. Fleming wanted a fast-paced popular thriller, while Le Carré wanted a realistic depiction of spycraft.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Interesting contrasting Fleming's work to that of Le Carré. A lot of Le Carré's work contains the kinds of details Fleming talks about, but the plots are more complex and the pace is slower. I also personally find that there'
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Based on my experiences in the iOS app store, Apple desperately needs search tuning. Searching for a specific product sometimes yields 3rd party tutorial apps for the product but not the product itself. Following a link from the developer&#
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Yeah, and in gas/oil-fired electric turbines you typically inject a whole lot of water to create more mass going through. A power plant I worked at in the 90s tried to keep a 4:1 ratio of water to fuel oil. It was always amusing to exp
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I just spent half a year in Canada, and my T-Mobile bill was no different. I was limited to 5GB/data/month, but other than that it was just like being in the US.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I'm not at liberty to give specifics right now.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I believe in making things accessible, and strive to do that on all my projects. I object to abuse of the ADA. Businesses / organizations should be given an opportunity to remediate their web sites before an automated script files an e
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I'm afraid I don't have that information. I believe they did their scan last July.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
There's a firm in Southern California that's suing restaurants / small theaters / community organizations / etc after bulk-scanning web sites for embedded video that lack links to caption files. It's all ADA ab
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
RBC allows use of their mobile app as 2FA. I don't believe it uses SMS under the hood. I'm not arguing it's necessarily more secure. I haven't audited it or looked into how it works.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
Surprised the tabby mutation is so recent. I could have sworn I'd seen older depictions in Buddhist art from India, but I'm probably confusing images representing tigers.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
The kinds of comments that are useful are less about what the code already tells you is happening, and more things like: /* we don't use the actual price but the discounted price, as per email from Manager Bob on 2022-09-16 *&#x
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I think Naomi Wu's Big Red Switch Box is better. With a seemingly dead drive, an adversary may still try to rubber-hose an access method out of you on the assumption that there's some special sequence to required to gain access. A
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I have a carefully curated list of people I follow and who follow me. I get a lot of value from one-on-one communication with tech expert, artists, authors, and musicians. It takes some work to keep the lists clean, and you have to access T
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I took a language class with a large number of immigrants. Over the course of the semester, I'd ask each student about their favorite music from their home country. It's been fantastic. I've learned about whole genres of musi
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I use C for embedded devices too, although I didn't end up learning C until '88 or '89. At that point, it was on IBM PCs and VAXen instead of my trusty TRS-80.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
There was a lot of BASIC, but at least on microcomputers, there was a lot of assembly (if you needed any performance). I was writing games, and there could be a bit of BASIC wrapper, but the rest was assembler.
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by angst_ridden 4y ago
I was programming in Z-80 assembler in that timeframe, and was pretty excited by the idea of C. I had previously thought to myself that it would be possible to create a language that simplified the tedious, repetitive tasks in assembler but

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