autocracy

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by autocracy 7y ago
MUNI's shortcomings are visible during rush hour due to system collapse, and off-hours / on secondary routes due to missing runs or too-infrequent scheduling. Moving around the most urban cores outside of rush hour, you typically
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by autocracy 8y ago
Yup, also Twin Peaks near Sutro Tower. "Dead battery," mode doesn't work for me either. So much fun.
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by autocracy 8y ago
"It was better next year" has been my running line. I rather like this one too.
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by autocracy 8y ago
Yeah, you have to remember that in pulse dial days a central office station had a reach of roughly 3 miles. The longer you go, the more you're paying for cable, repeaters, or just losing quality. 90 volt AC for ringing has a limited ra
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by autocracy 8y ago
Buuuuut.... not if you hijack the destination route. It helps if the DNS servers are hijacked, but if you also snag the destination route's IP then you can still get the certificate and serve traffic. Sneaky sneaky.
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by autocracy 8y ago
If you are using DNSSEC, hopefully the issuers are validating it.
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by autocracy 9y ago
I believe we called that, "2003 engineering decisions."
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by autocracy 10y ago
Removal performance of large directories is very bad. Reading large directories can result in lots of seeks. Directories are not suited to this at scale, and symlink directories definitely aren't portable.
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by autocracy 10y ago
A side note: at least in python, I benchmarked MsgPack as 3 times faster than JSON, and a whopping 850 times faster to read than YAML. It seems unlikely that people will ever be editing this file by hand, so for unstructured data, especiall
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by autocracy 10y ago
It depends on which 2FA method you use, and there's an associated time window. The TOTP method (Google Authenticator App) of a rotating number must be used within a window of at most a few minutes -- new numbers are generated every 30
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by autocracy 14y ago
If it's all about sharing, why do we attribute anything here? Might as well make the submission and all the comments anonymous here as well. Reputation is mark of making _good_ contributions, and is something that every site has utility for