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by catiopatio 3y ago
Your length-prefixed message frames represent a distinct serialization scheme that provides external framing for embedded messages; it’s a standalone format, and you can use whatever frame header you want without worrying about collision. T
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by catiopatio 3y ago
That was definitely true for a big complicated network setup like ours, but at the same time, I ran an AppleTalk network at home with a few computers and two shared printers, and it all really did “just work”. We connected the two different
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by catiopatio 3y ago
I can only hope so. Apple’s spell checker is terrible. My word is “bureaucrat”. No matter how many times I look it up, I can never remember how to spell it. I always try some variation of “beurocrat”, find that spell-check is of no use what
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by catiopatio 3y ago
We ran an entire distributed multi-building school campus on AppleTalk, with multiple labs, shared printers in every building, and at least one networked staff computer in every classroom. We absolutely handled more than two workstations us
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by catiopatio 3y ago
If you dishonestly expand the definition of a word, you can create any statistic you want. Meanwhile, roughly as many people are killed in automobile accidents as there are gun deaths (of any kind, including suicide) every year. Statistical
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by catiopatio 3y ago
That’s not true for firearms. More people die from falling off ladders than die in mass shootings.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Your advice is to mislead and obfuscate to maintain a lie.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Unethical people commit fraud in the real world. Ethical people don’t. The original advice was that such “embellishment” was normal. My response is that it’s only normal to unethical people.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Refusing to commit fraud is, in general, not legal cause for termination. He likely would have a wrongful termination case, depending on state whistleblower statutes.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
You’re attempting to justify lying on the basis of “I can decide whether the customer actually cares about the truth” In the process, you're reinforcing all my negative perceptions about the (non-existent) ethics of sales staff.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Your advice is to lie by omission after lying by commission? That’s blatantly unethical, if not illegal.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
You could, but that would cost several orders of magnitude more than a patch of asphalt for parking. Why is it surprising that there’s more cheap-to-build car parking than there is expensive-to-build housing?
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by catiopatio 3y ago
pf’s `divert-to` can be used to divert packets to a local port; `getsockname()` will return the original destination address, so you can either close the connection, or proxy it in userspace. Alternatively, you could possibly use a divert(4
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by catiopatio 3y ago
The App Store literally just places an application bundle in /Applications. Homebrew and MacPorts are used for Unix software that requires a Unix-style package management.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
It only works because packages are distributed via a carefully curated, centrally-managed repository with socially-enforced norms.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
There are two junior developers in your anecdote. That’s not a test. It’s not even comparable to unit tests, much less a replacement for them.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
I read the ruling myself, and the NYT accurately summarized it. Your summary, by contrast, is deeply, patently, and obviously wrong to such a degree that I must assume bad faith.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
It’s not my opinion — it’s the appeals court’s opinion and the New York Times’ reporting of that opinion. They couldn’t have been more plain, and that’s entirely sufficient basis for my accusation. Upholding the position that the plaintiffs
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by catiopatio 3y ago
There’s an entire article, with a plain headline, backing up what I stated. The degree of motivating reasoning involved here is astonishing.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
An appeals court overturning portions of a preliminary injunction does not indicate that “the government largely acted correctly” — the appeals court itself says the exact opposite. You stated that “The appeals ruling, therefore, is being
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by catiopatio 3y ago
It’s a reasonable question when the comment contradicts the headline, the article, and the decision. It’s not some minor detail in the article.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
It’s frustrating when nearly every discussion of hard math in an open forum devolves (in part or whole) into endless, pointless, off-topic epistemological navel gazing.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
I am such a free speech advocate. Why is a belief in the common carrier model ridiculous?
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Asking salaried employees to spend three days in the office isn’t exploitative, and it’s certainly not equivalent to mass layoffs or termination without cause.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
> This comes far too close, in my opinion, to the view that men just can't help themselves and therefore don't really deserved to be blamed. A very small percentage of people will not behave unless they’re forced to behave, and
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by catiopatio 3y ago
I strongly agree and actually thought about mentioning the same, but I worried it might come across as my implying that single professionals are unsuitable for such roles.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
This is a leadership failure. Without proper leadership, it only takes a few bad apples to spoil the bunch.
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Hypothesis: Isolated, mixed-sex social groups of unpaired individuals are inherently unstable. We can improve stability by decreasing isolation — via external accountability and communication, surfacing problems to external authority with t
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by catiopatio 3y ago
Microseconds matter to them; even with a satellite in low-earth orbit (~342 mile), you’re looking at a round-trip time of 3.68ms, on top of any packet latency introduced by the satellite itself. It’s always going to be faster to go point-to
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by catiopatio 3y ago
I understand the arguments for unified RAM on a SoC, but it’s still a shame; even the new Mac Pro doesn’t have RAM slots.

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