commandlinefan

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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
I'm worried about my kids, but don't forget to worry about yourself, too! I've got just enough saved up for retirement by current retirement calculator standards (if I keep working and contributing until I'm 67), but in
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
My son graduates college next month. Although he has an ok job lined up, he and most of his cohorts are incredibly pessimistic about the future and I'm not sure I can say that I blame them.
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
A good NNTP server is one of the few services I'd be willing to pay for on the modern internet, though. (Emphasis on good)
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
comp.lang.java seems to go all the way back to 1995. Maybe depends on the group?
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
> it seems greatly improved With 1990's style age "verification" to boot.
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
> stock options did become nearly universal in tech compensation Although I've noticed that options have been replaced more and more these days with RSU's (plain old grants) because options have a tendency to go "underwate
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
I still think it's useful - you can do your base case testing against ministack and only start incurring AWS charges to finalize your load testing.
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
Thanks - I was thinking, "this is cute, but I'm not sure I get it". Now it makes sense.
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
The core problem is the quixotic quest for efficiency. Right now I'll blame JIRA because that's the latest incarnation of this beast, but it's the mindset behind thinking that's a good idea in the first place. As long
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
As somebody else pointed out, I read the entire article and still can't figure out what the author is actually talking about. That said, this sounds an awful lot like the reddit moderator problem: when you rely on unpaid volunteers, t
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
> "standards" needed in x509 That's actually not really crypto, though - that's writing a parser (for a container that includes a lot of crypto-related data). And again... if you import a 3rd-party x.509 parser and y
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
Are you not entertained?!
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
> the "roll your own crypto vibe", which I disagree with Again, you run into the attack surface area here. Think about the Heartbleed vulnerability. It was a vulnerability in the DTLS implementation of OpenSSL, but it affecte
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
> "Batteries included" ecosystems are the only persistent solution Or write your own stuff. Yes, that's right, I said it. Even HTTP. Even cryptography. Just because somebody else messed it up once doesn't mean nob
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
I wrote a standalone gzip decompressor in about 500 lines of code (including comments, with braces on the next line), with no dependencies at all: https://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?artic...
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by commandlinefan 6mo ago
When I started programming in the early 80's, personal computing had just recently become a thing. Before that, if you wanted to learn to program, you first needed access to a very rare piece of hardware that only a select few were gr
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
I've never understood why emacs mode became the default. "set -o vi" is the _first_ command I type in a new shell.
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
It's always been this way - the people that rise to the top are the people who never had to deeply understand something, so they can't even comprehend what that would look like or why it should be important. They're trying t
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
IIRC, the US debt is at 39 trillion right now, with no plan to pay it back. Which is logical, because it's unpayable. There's no way in the world that will ever be paid back. I still haven't seen anybody properly analyze h
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
I didn't read the article (paywalled), but did the headline is "young graduates face the grimmest job market in years". Did they address how many years? I've seen now compared to 2000 & 2008, which were bad, but th
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
When I was 8 or so (early 80's), I read a news article that said something like "in the near future, robots will do all work and humans won't have to work at all". The news article made it sound like it would happen bef
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
Well, it's a _controversial_ claim, anyway.
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
I grew up in the 80's programming my C64, assuming that this would be more or less the sort of thing I'd be doing for a living. The reality is actually pretty disappointing. I _wish_ anybody still did this stuff.
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
Maybe I'm just Stockholm syndrome-d into the C programming language, but none of the examples here are terribly compelling to me - I love articles about C's weirdness, but I don't really think his before and after comparisons
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
What I see - and have seen since I started doing this 30+ years ago - is that the date is _always_ more important than the actual deliverable. Always. Meeting "the date" is the only thing that's tracked (but it also never h
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
> avoid giving money You're paying for any of these?
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
> a very first-world problem Actually I really wish this had existed while my father was still alive! Toward the end of his life, he had developed pretty debilitating Alzheimers, but he still liked to watch TV. The problem was, modern
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
Does this mean that Greece will join the US/Israeli side in this increasingly global conflict?
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
That's technically true right now, but I keep holding out hope that these sorts of draconian restrictions will drive even harder to stamp out privacy-preserving solutions. I'm old enough to remember the days before the internet w
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by commandlinefan 7mo ago
You're assuming that anonymous age verification is or ever was actually the end goal here.

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