bombcar

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by bombcar 6mo ago
GitHub is to git like Reddit was to forums. Centralized usernames and such were very nice, but it also has downsides that we’re now living with. GitHub is still really, really nice in that it’s five seconds to throw up a repo that’s accessi
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by bombcar 6mo ago
You're getting at the difference between job and work . It's a deep philosophical question.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
John T Reed is another author who found a formula that worked for him - "area of expertise" books, self published. https://johntreed.com/products/how-to-write-publish-and-sell... You're not going to be a
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by bombcar 6mo ago
If it makes you feel any better/worse, a publisher is also likely to leave the marketing up to you, beyond making it available to purchasers and one or two half-hearted "marketing" actions that basically consist of sending
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by bombcar 6mo ago
DNSSEC is more likely to self-DoS yourself than protect against an attack, unfortunately.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
> 3.000 governmental sites use tracking cookies illegally In the USA the government often excludes itself from privacy and other similar laws, did the EU fail to make that distinction?
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by bombcar 6mo ago
More powerful than a Sun sparkstation 5!
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Biggest use case is needing to send a work email but only having the photo on your phone (and you don't have work email on your phone).
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Atlassian of all people did this right - you can upload a support zip and it warns if it’s large (do you want to try?) and gives you the option of (basically) the last 10/20 MB of logs to send instead.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
It’s not - but voluntary separation with severance often leads to those with the best prospects moving on; which are often the best employees-but not always.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
I’d love to use those keyboards that can light keys to flash the key combo for the menu items. It seems now it’s not worth learning the keystrokes because everything is a website or changes randomly. Ah, for the days when Excel supported Lo
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by bombcar 6mo ago
I’m always reminded of the old text UIs at Fry’s Electronics - a salesman could slam in all the keystrokes necessary to print your pick slip before the screen had even finished loading the first inventory. It was pretty impressive. Meanwhil
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by bombcar 6mo ago
You can also have the "excessive force" doctrine, where holding someone or something for ransom results in your entire country being a smoldering crater. But just like fail2ban, this gives someone else decision-making control ov
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by bombcar 6mo ago
If we assume a world where ransomware is continually existent and all your data is ransomed at anytime, we'd have a world designed to work around that. We'd either end up with a Discworld "Ransomware Guild" that you pay
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Speaking of HN-land assumptions lol - if you think a median family making $80k is paying $30k in taxes you got another think on backorder. In fact, at $80k in some areas you'll qualify for medicaid for the family (or at least the kid
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by bombcar 6mo ago
It's not just what we've lost, it's an incredible disservice to "non-nerds" - old DOS programs may have been annoying and cluttered, but everything was right there and more importantly, it didn't change so yo
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Microsoft is really good at supporting the old libraries and GUIs etc (is the Windows 3.11 font picker still there?) - the problem is that modern programs aren't built to the W2K paradigm so even if you force W11 to "look" li
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by bombcar 6mo ago
The entire existence of docker is basically because Linux is impossibly bad at maintaining old software while Windows will still run some terribly old things (though the loss of Win16 is a big one).
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Even with screen sharing, I've said "click the three dots" and then "no, not those, not that one, wait there's another one, no that's the wrong one ..."
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by bombcar 6mo ago
The transaction costs of selling the median home is like $40k. Buys a lot of gas.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
The average family spends something like $5,000 on gas a year, maybe $10k. Gas could double and it’d be felt, but it’s still just a portion of total spend. We’ve had $4 gas before (20 years ago?!) and it was annoying but it didn’t end the
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by bombcar 6mo ago
APL would seem to be perfect!
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by bombcar 6mo ago
And you also get compile times so long you’ll never run out of tokens! I kid, I kid, but seriously …
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by bombcar 6mo ago
I suspect there’s downweights the system can apply - and if five people voted it up, the -5 downweight was applied, and then four of the upvotes were removed, you’d end up at -4.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Many original “libraries” ran on the idea that a book is valuable and rarely new - you’d buy your used copy of Plato, read it, and sell it back for almost what you paid for it. This is infinitesimally different from just renting.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Because an enterprise customer might decide it’s a needed fix tomorrow. I’ve seen it happen - 20 year old bug on the backlog and suddenly it jumps to the front of the line.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
How would you describe “our best employees can take a severance package”?
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by bombcar 6mo ago
If the only metric for your initiative is disastrous; you WILL work toward that metric and ensure disaster.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
Jira bugs celebrate being old enough to drink.
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by bombcar 6mo ago
People don’t realize that there’s no such thing as an “unedited photo” because either you’re making decisions in the darkroom or the software/firmware is making decisions in the camera.

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