danjc

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by danjc 5y ago
“necessity-induced focus”?
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by danjc 5y ago
Ok I’ll take the contrarian view. Why is it a big deal that a specialized url scheme is specifically intended to launch a Microsoft browser? Only apps built by Microsoft will use that scheme.
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by danjc 5y ago
Curious to know whether anyone here can speak to how much safer Hyper V isolation[1] is than process isolation and whether it negates some of the concerns in the article. 1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualizati
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by danjc 5y ago
Yeah, I have a close family member who was a manager. Got called in to a meeting expecting to present a monthly report and basically got fired. Traumatised to this day.
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by danjc 5y ago
I have Adie’s pupil where one pupil is abnormally dilated (mostly in indoor light for me). A little disconcerting that one of the signs of brain damage is different dilation of your pupils so if I’m ever in an accident or something I hope t
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by danjc 5y ago
For more about the game and its contribution to computer games, I highly recommend Jimmy Maher’s excellent blog: https://www.filfre.net/2011/03/on-the-trail-of-the-oregon-tr...
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by danjc 6y ago
I wonder whether across spans of decades you should be more trusting of governments or companies to preserve the environment.
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by danjc 6y ago
Ah, the ToS I’ve never read. So you mean, basically all of them ;)
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by danjc 6y ago
I’d have expected that a catch block with nothing in it would have warranted some investigation
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by danjc 6y ago
Haven’t seen any other mention of this in comments but the sound of CRT’s used to drive me mad, particularly CRT TV’s. If I walked in to a house where the TV was on, I could often hear it from the entrance!
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by danjc 6y ago
I get that this product is about super low cost but seems to me that with a custom firmware, the AirPods Pro could do a brilliant job of noise cancellation and amplification of specific frequency bands. Ostensibly, you could even employ som
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by danjc 6y ago
The choice of name is interesting. Is this a throwback to the space race as in, “we got there first”?
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by danjc 6y ago
I got excited when I saw this - I don't game much but my son is obsessed with samurai and would love this. However, I think it's a bit violent for him - anything similar you could recommend for a 13y/o?
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by danjc 6y ago
Fellow devs, I have to take the minority view here. How is $99/yr a number that any business should even care about? Even for OSS. The reality is that the HN audience are complete outliers. Just look at the junk your friends and family
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by danjc 6y ago
I've just about finished writing a VM for the ZMachine (the VM that Zork was written for to make it portable). It's been tremendously enjoyable and I've learnt a lot. I'm planning a series of how-to videos out of the pro
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by danjc 6y ago
Except for dishwasher factory workers. Progress is inevitable, I'm questioning whether progress actually increases happiness.
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by danjc 6y ago
Are convenience and efficiency the ultimate goals to optimise for? Were our ancestors less happy because they had to wash dishes by hand?
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by danjc 6y ago
I actually don't mind this for the gen pop. For them, showing the URL is a bit like showing the path to the current process in the title bar. As a dev, hiding the HTTPS prefix is already irritating especially when copying the URL. If y
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by danjc 6y ago
This. We used Rabbit in our platform for a few years and it was an absolute disaster. Network partitions mainly. In retrospect I'm sure we were doing it wrong but that really wasn't obvious at the time.
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by danjc 6y ago
Somewhat relatedly, my kids had their guitar lessons over Zoom this week and I found Zoom has an “original audio” option that bypasses noise cancellation, etc. Makes a huge difference for music - before I enabled it, the guitar sound was fa
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by danjc 7y ago
If you have a USB cable for your DSLR/mirrorless, try SparkoCam - lets you stream your camera to your pc with no additional hardware
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by danjc 7y ago
Relatedly, I'm a strong proponent of debugging with "break on all exceptions" enabled. It's very easy to miss bugs if you're not aware of exceptions being thrown but for this to be practical the code must only throw
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by danjc 7y ago
There's a massive middle-class emigration going on in South Africa. Roughly sorted by volume descending: * UK - many families have ancestry that enables them to easily get UK/EU Visa's * Australia - most common Visa is points
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by danjc 7y ago
In B2B, we’ve found that friction in the form of additional signup questions for a trial account helps filter out poor quality prospects. For reference most of our subscriptions are > $1000/mo - different demographic to what this ar
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by danjc 7y ago
I've been conflicted about RPA because my view is that if there's an API, you should use that rather than comparatively brittle screen-based "integration". What's extremely compelling about this approach though is t
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by danjc 7y ago
Given the sentiment expressed in the comments here, I'd be interested to hear what technique others would propose to prevent access to porn by minors.
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by danjc 7y ago
Forensic linguistics? This technique was invented during the manhunt for the Unabomber. Features in the Netflix series of the same name.
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by danjc 7y ago
I've thought it would be neat to put it on GitHub by executing a series of commits that have the dates faked according to the original file creation dates. Probably the most complete project I did was a resource manager for Quake - it
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by danjc 7y ago
Somehow I managed to keep most of the code I wrote in TP7 as a kid (mid-nineties - I wasn't very up to date). It's stored safely in Cloud backup today having survived on a single 3.5" disk for many years prior to that. Someti
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by danjc 7y ago
This history including the inflatable tanks was referenced in the series World War II in Color, watched it on Netflix a few months back. Many might find it dry but I thought I found it riveting.

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