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by beaugunderson 1y ago
the new windows 11 setup experience is so abysmal, I just went through it yesterday... so many upsells and opt-outs. OneDrive is especially annoying. to save someone else the trouble: 1. in OneDrive settings under Account, click "unlin
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
you can, though you must provide a reason compelling enough to the person maintaining access (I provided a few sentences and was approved for most but maybe 20% of registrars declined my request): https://czds.icann.org/home
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
OK, so why in this specific case is it a bad idea, other than you being personally offended by the number of languages used in the project's history? You keep saying your opinion should be uncontroversial but you've offered no evi
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
"Rewrites should always be avoided" is not a core principle of software engineering. History has shown that rewriting large, monolithic applications often fails, and so rewrites of large applications often require extra effort to
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
I have a red tint that turns on only when I'm in sleep mode--it's like an added layer of dark mode. That's about the only use I've found for it!
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
> When a project has thousands of users it's irresponsible to use it as a testing playground. Well, what about motivation? If the author has left behind the original language and rewriting it provides them with motivation to continu
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
many people use the prettier plugin for eslint, for example, so in that case they're one and the same!
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
doesn't really match what I'm seeing in Chelan County, WA... the county is now in a fight with the port because the port wants to create a Tax Increment Area to capture the taxes from the two data center buildouts... ~$100m over 2
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
in Chelan County where I live they came up with a Large Load policy specifically to protect the rates of other local users... the large load customer gets short-term access to power and then has to source it elsewhere (with the PUD in the m
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
this is a persistent myth about eMTBs... they are still great for exercise! here's a study showing you get 94% of the heart rate on an eMTB compared to the same route on a non-eMTB: https://www.americantrails.org/resour
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
it's even worse if you are an individual developer who wants to sign the products you're releasing on Windows. Azure had an "individual developer" beta that lasted less than a year and is now closed... so you have to be
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
your doc is buying into a very pervasive myth, see e.g. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/070674370200601S07
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
and luckily due to Washington state's consumer protection laws ( https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=19.240&full=tru... ) they can't add an expiration or a monthly fee to draw those balances down t
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
> However, a common experience for me is that I own something of good quality from 5/10/15 years ago and now buy the successor model from the same brand, but the product has gotten worse, being cheaper made. My most recent expe
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
I've had a full Kiwix Wikipedia export on my phone for the last ~5 years... I have used it many times when I didn't have service and needed to answer a question or needed something to read (I travel a lot).
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
someone could synthesize your DNA and leave it a crime scene, to use an example popularized by the consent form of the Harvard Personal Genome Project.
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
back in the day at when I worked at a Seattle company there was a contest where a vase with an oblate spheroid shape was filled with M&Ms was left in the kitchen with some instructions for submitting guesses as to the total. I created a
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
the site i maintain is a bit out of date, but i accept PRs if you have time to add the broad clinical labs data! https://whichgenome.com/
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
this is less about competence and more about update schedules... we happen to feel like it's worth incorporating guidance that's newer than what HITRUST or our customers require us to (though the guidance in question was updated b
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
in this case I'd be more worried about being in court trying to explain why we knowingly used an inferior approach (forced password changes) when we knew the newer approach resulted in higher security... that is a vastly different anal
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
> Point being the people implementing it usually know it’s a bad idea and so do the people asking for it. But politics and incentives are aligned with it being safer for the individuals to go along with it. we've gone through HITRUS
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
and you can find the latest ID incredibly quickly using binary search! (I used to track a bunch of websites' growth this way)
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
thanks for linking, I'm very excited for this--it's always saddened me that the public Merlin models are limited to the ones they've released for competitions that are now many years out of date. my use case is adding tags to
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
> I’ve been around long enough to see resistance to things like the Internet, version control, bug tracking systems, ORMs, automated tests, etc. Not every advancement is welcomed by everybody Version control is vegetables. You often have
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
Certainly, the bulk of the functionality is provided by URLDispatcher: https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/URLDispatcher.html Here's a cleaned up version of my config... I also mapped global cmd-shift-1/2&#x2F
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
> Using AI to assist in locating the right library function Works mildly OK until it invents new functions or libraries for you and wastes your time or worse, you find the library exists but it only exists because of slopsquatting (enter
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
I use Hammerspoon for this and it's super configurable via Lua--open some URLs with Chrome profile 1, some with profile 2, some in incognito, open normal Spotify links with the Spotify app, normal Zoom links with Zoom (skip opening a t
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by beaugunderson 1y ago
> While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed. isn't it public already? they basically made tumblr but everything is AI: https:&#
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by beaugunderson 2y ago
you wanted to know how people are bypassing the need for a certificate with eBPF, that is how
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by beaugunderson 2y ago
here is one example: https://github.com/gojue/ecapture in short, you can hook calls within SSL libraries (like OpenSSL)

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