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by dcminter 1y ago
Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcminter/ Email: dave@paperst
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by dcminter 1y ago
That's obnoxious. Do you only promote the interests of your employer? Do you expect people to assume that? It's not even as if Canonical has a particularly bad reputation for that kind of thing.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I guess FTP was the extinction event for Kermit ... and didn't Kermit itself kill off the various [XYZ]Modem protocols? I too recall the reversed addresses. The transition from X29 to Internet fell in the middle of my university¹ educa
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by dcminter 1y ago
Growing up my home phone number was 4 digits for a local call, or at least so I was required to memorise it as a small child. In the very late 90s I briefly had a rotary dial phone - very anachronistic even then - and discovered that dialli
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by dcminter 1y ago
I took it as being a tongue-in-cheek way of saying "mathematicians."
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by dcminter 1y ago
I guess the interesting question to me is: how often does this matter? How many successful mitm attacks on ssh connections are there and in what sort of circumstances do they occur? It seems like it ought to matter, but if roughly nobody
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by dcminter 1y ago
Uh. I seem to be suffering from the Mandela effect; it is not in the site guidelines. It's definitely the overall policy officially or otherwise though (one which I'm entirely happy with despite having a juvenile sense of humour
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by dcminter 1y ago
Low effort humour is discouraged, it's in the site guidelines and since it wasn't amusing, just confusing, perhaps you should skip the humour and consult them.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Unless you mean that a physically moving part caused the banks to switch then "mechanically" is the wrong word here. If that is how the bank switching was done then that's fascinating and very very surprising and I woul
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by dcminter 1y ago
Inevitably there's a reddit sub for it (I adore the name of it): https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/
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by dcminter 1y ago
A bit late back to the party, but checking today I can curl archive.org from an AWS Cloud Shell in eu-west-2 no problem.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I was going to throw in a rather glib "and the other side was styled by Hugo Boss" but I figured I'd check if that was actually true first and... only kinda: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/co
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by dcminter 1y ago
Ant had the ability to write build scripts. It's part of what made Ant such a terrible build tool and IMO it's what makes Gradle such a terrible build tool. Maven's requirement that you write plugins meant that you had to hav
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by dcminter 1y ago
It requires that it offer the opportunity for an interesting discussion in the view of those checking the /new page at the time that it's posted. This ticks several boxes - the desire to archive technical literature, sympathy for
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by dcminter 1y ago
> you can sign up same day for a card Do you know if there are any hoops to jump through these days? My understanding was that a reader card used to require an academic referral or at least a write-up of the research you planned to condu
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by dcminter 1y ago
Random Sweden-based person here. I was using it fine yesterday & it's up and available today as well. Are you perhaps using some DNS provider that's blocking it? Or a VPN or something that's blocked from the other directi
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by dcminter 1y ago
I was a devotee of PC Plus back in the early 90s with my first XT compatible. I have exceedingly fond memories of the 5¼" cover disks and discovering a variety of shareware, freeware, nagware, commercial-but-lightly-maimed-ware and so
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by dcminter 1y ago
Incidentally I did find this previous cry from the heart, but it's complaining about a different aspect of LinkedIn's terribleness (keyword search failures): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30159705
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Ask HN: Why is LinkedIn's job search so bad?
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by dcminter 1y ago
The paper is very approachable too: https://academic.oup.com/res/article/76/326/339/8198901 Includes mention of M.R.James whom I know mostly as an author of ghost stories!
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by dcminter 1y ago
It's a treasure. I feel for those expressing their loss - and at the same time am slightly in awe that IANA used to be "just some guy" - this plus the April Fool tradition gives the RFC series a very approachable human feelin
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by dcminter 1y ago
Not forgotten, but this article did not mention my favourite and the most moving RFC: 2468 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468 There's quiet genius in that choice of number by the way. 2, 4, 6, 8, w
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by dcminter 1y ago
I meant the full angry diatribe, not just "stop" Seems to me the evangelist is just being rude here, there are times and places where evangelism is fine, no?
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by dcminter 1y ago
Did you tell the guy that annoyed you that? Why tell us? You'll probably enjoy this ancient one though; it makes good points: https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html/
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by dcminter 1y ago
People were using Amazon every day. But people were also using Pets.com every day. A bubble bursting doesn't make everything disappear. Just some things.
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by dcminter 1y ago
The only rationale for that billion dollar purchase of MySQL that has ever made sense to me was that they wanted it to attract the attention of Oracle and IBM for acquisition purposes.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Not an action movie, but I enjoyed The Pod Generation sci fi flick a lot a year or two back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pod_Generation
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by dcminter 1y ago
On every occasion you could have made exactly the same point.
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Perhaps, but why are you so convinced we're so close when we weren't all the other times?
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by dcminter 1y ago
It would be rather glorious if the company that ate Sun Microsystems in the aftermath of the dot com crash were itself to be vanquished by a bubble pop.

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