dcminter

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by dcminter 10mo ago
Point of sale terminals also do this when travelling - it wasn't especially surprising, just one straw too many. Of course foreign exchange offices have been doing this scam since forever ("no fees!")... --- Edit - note that
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by dcminter 10mo ago
"O’Leary accused the travel agent industry of scamming and ripping off unsuspecting consumers by charging extra fees and markups on ticket prices." That is ... pretty rich. A couple of years ago I was going to go see my brother
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by dcminter 10mo ago
I'm no chemist, but I was under the impression that high pressure might allow for the creations of fullerenes even at these kinds of temperatures. I didn't think they would float (but I can see how "hanging out" could be
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by dcminter 10mo ago
This is the result of the tape from 1973 found at the University of Utah being sent over to the Computer History Museum for retrieval by bitsavers.org Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840321
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UNIX Fourth Edition(squoze.net)
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by dcminter 10mo ago
It could in principle be legit. But there's a trail of previous bad faith behaviour around the same windfarms.
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by dcminter 10mo ago
It depends a lot on the domain. I've mostly worked in high compliance/regulation worlds. It can be kind of stifling, honestly, but "oops maybe we had the feature flag turned on" is not going to cut the mustard. Most star
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by dcminter 10mo ago
I wonder if there are bucky balls full of helium hanging out under pressure in there?
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Conversely, feature flags can create annoying issues due to compliance requirements. I worked on an underwriting system where we had to be able to explain the reason for a decision. This meant that you needed to have on file both the state
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Terrific, thank you.
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Oh, excellent, these slipped under my radar. Sounds extremely promising and I do mostly work in Java!
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Could you drop a few specific posts here that you think are good for someone (me) who hasn't read her stuff before? Looks like there's a decade of stuff on her blog and I'm not sure I want to start at the very beginning...
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by dcminter 10mo ago
FreeCAD is open source and has parametric capabilities. Personally I find it unusably buggy, but apparently there are lots who don't - ymmv. SolveSpace is open source and has parametric capabilities. It's much more limited in scop
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by dcminter 10mo ago
I've generally found that structured logs that include a correlation ID make it quite easy to narrow down the general area or exact cause of problems. Usually (in enterprise orgs) via Splunk or Datadog. Where I've had problems it&
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by dcminter 10mo ago
I wonder if he's using TinkerCAD or something similar? I often use that, 'cos it's quick for simple things that are one-offs, but it has exactly this issue as it's not at all parametric, just primitives and booleans (tho
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by dcminter 10mo ago
This clarifies it I hope? It has audio & proper phonetic alphabet spelling for US vs UK. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/yacht
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Heh, very different to me then, thanks!
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Aside from your conundrum I'm wondering what "ah as in yacht" could even mean; to this puzzled Brit there is no "ah" sound in "yacht". I'd spell it phonetically "yot" - do others pronounce i
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Amos is horrifyingly productive!
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by dcminter 10mo ago
These all seem reasonable. On the topic of "Put less text on your slides" it always amazes me in a bad way how common it is for internal presentations to consist of reading the slides to the audience. Personally I like to start wi
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by dcminter 10mo ago
The New Yorker house style. https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-... Seems weird to me, I'd just use a hyphen, but that's how they roll.
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Hallelujah! But I have to say, big regulated orgs are often not competent to do things this (the right) way but don't have the option of not doing it at all.
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by dcminter 10mo ago
> I can't fathom why anyone competent would want to implement this Compliance. Big financial orgs. and the like must show that they are doing something about "data loss" and this, sadly, is the easiest way to do that.
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Yeah, and Java has its nice cacerts file so that should have been easy, but then we were using Bazel which does the "hermetic builds" thing so that had to be told about it separately, and on and on with all the other special-snowf
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Netskope and the other DLP tools at my last gig would completely lock up my network connection for around 30 seconds every hour or two while maxing out 100% of a core. Fun times. The issue was still there a year after I first encountered it
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Respectfully you seem to be making up a definition to suit your argument, so I'll leave you there. Mine's from the OED fwiw.
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by dcminter 10mo ago
Look, like Humpty Dumpty you can mean whatever you want with the word, but the unless you're talking about football or something the dictionary meaning is: "The object of one's ambition; a desired end or result." You can
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by dcminter 11mo ago
Meetings didn't generally require computers back then. We're talking about The Overhead Projector transparencies era.
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by dcminter 11mo ago
> So biology becomes incredibly fine tuned for one goal: survival Again, this is a category error. It works well as a metaphor, but evolution has no goal. Evolution is a description of a simple fact of the universe: things that are goo
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by dcminter 11mo ago
The what is evolution and again, it is a category error to assume it has a goal. Why do you presume a goal is necessary?

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