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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
> Don’t underestimate the value of digging into history to investigate some bugs I'm one of about 2 people at my company who goes on archaeological expeditions to understand when and why a bug was introduced. A nonzero number of tim
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Yeah, I could never do serious front-end work, I just can't do (and also don't enjoy) making anything graphical. That said I have made a couple web apps for personal & work use (and I have a Neocities) and it is certainly a fr
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I was a kid in the 90s and I have vague memories of various little games and programs on the family Mac (the first one we had was a Mac SE IIRC). When I think about them today, I realize... they were probably HyperCard programs. There was o
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
The thing I hate most about the new version of Teams is that it flashes the taskbar when a new message is received. You can disable the pop-up notifications, but that doesn't affect the flashing taskbar for some (??) reason. The old ve
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I realized too late that apparently the only way to get rid of the OneDrive directory structure is to manage the settings from within OneDrive itself! I'd already uninstalled it and removed, by hand, most of its folders. Now if I try
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Yes! I was a backer for this while it was still running. Really cool series, don't have a physical copy of the book but do intend to get at least a digital copy at some point. Man that hard copy would make a GREAT coffee table book tho
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
The lab course is getting harder to run since the parts in the BOM on the author website are being end-of-life'd. I ran into this when I started trying to run it as a self-study project a while ago. It wasn't always clear what par
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Maybe a bit off-topic, but I sure wish they'd do this for OneDrive! I installed Windows for personal use for the first time recently (although I use it exclusively at work) and it drove me ABSOLUTELY BONKERS that my home drive was mapp
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Whoa! Thanks for the recommendation! This looks like it'll be right up my alley.
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I've started to suspect recently that an important secret of being able to sound natural in conversational Japanese is using a LOT of onomatopoeia words. I've considered mining all of them from jmdict and studying them specificall
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Point and click games (and puzzle-based interactive fiction games while we're at it) tend to lose me right around the halfway point. The puzzles start to get more difficult and I just can't figure out how to solve them. Could just
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
It was such a shame we didn't get the other 2 Loom games that were planned. (and iirc there's an easter egg that you can find, that directly hints at the content for the next game)
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by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I have a Framework 16 pre-ordered and I've been waffling on whether to keep the preorder. My daily driver is a MacBook and honestly... I'm not expecting that to change. So I guess I don't mind if the Framework is a worse expe
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
My company did a hilariously stupid thing where, towards the beginning of the pandemic, corporate decided that hybrid work was the future and ordered everybody to change to open offices. We are a small company and have few enough people tha
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I thought Mode C was just barometric pressure data measured by the aircraft. It's related to altitude, not position, so there's no such thing as Mode C "coverage". e; oh wait you said passive MLAT off Mode C, that makes
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
The fun surprise for me after upgrading to Monterey (which I will never stop bringing up in "Mac OS X bug" threads here in case an Apple employee is lurking) is that in new versions of Mac OS X you can't use both Home Sharing
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
At first I was thinking "huh, I don't think I've ever seen this before..." but come to think of it, there have definitely been a few freak occurrences of the balance suddenly getting out of whack. It throws me for a loop
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
This tripped me up hardcore at work recently, because I was trying to SSH into a VM using a non-standard port, but the port-forwarding went from the non-standard port into the usual 22 on the VM. So when I got "Connection Refused"
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
There's a Japanese ATC sim series called "I Am an Air Traffic Controller" that I like. It's got a couple installments on the Switch and 3DS which is where I played them, but they go back as far as the PS1. Some but not a
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
WOW finally I encounter somebody with the same use case as me in the wild. I thought that would never happen. Except I stream off my 2007 Macbook instead, which is basically just a NAS to me at this point. (I actually do own a Synology NAS
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
FYI -- on my MBP I use a program called Spectacle to snap windows around, and I now have no complaints relative to what you can do on Windows. Development on Spectacle ceased[1] and it looks like the community may have rallied around an ope
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I read the Cuckoo's Egg when I was in like 6th grade, and even though I didn't REALLY understand what was going on at the time, I've always wondered if it subconsciously influenced me towards becoming more computer-savvy, to
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I have a Framework 16 pre-ordered for batch 11 -- is there a rough estimate of when it might ship? Promising I won't send you a nastygram either if that estimate doesn't hold :) I didn't keep track of Framework 13s at all so
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I was thinking about how the future software engineer to move into the house is probably more likely to curse him rather than thank him for making the server MORE vulnerable than it was before, by removing the SSH password.
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
There's also a big difference between being able to just speak English, and being employable in a job that focuses on use of English as a skill... like writing a TV show or a book
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
Uber is an interesting example to me because where I live, it really did revolutionize taxi service. They used to not take credit cards and you used to have to fight for them at the end of the night when bars closed. Plus taxis were usually
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
Non-EE here, but I went through a bit of the lab course as a hobbyist. Unfortunately a lot of the parts on the lab course's list are end of life now, and it's not always clear what you can substitute them with. There aren't a
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
I rebelled. On the console I set the display property of the #glass-container element to "none", hiding the popover window: document.querySelector("#glass-container").style.display = "none"; Then since scrollin
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
JIRA has been annoying the shit out of me with their recent UI updates -- 1. Changing default sorting order to 'most recent first'; I thought I was going insane at first when it happened 2. Making the comment box a floating page e
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by atribecalledqst 3y ago
There are so many highly-publicized failures in military programs (LCS, F-35, Zumwalt, Gerald Ford, JLENS) that I'm legitimately worried if America's military strength is basically just a paper tiger at this point.

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