drfritznunkie

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by drfritznunkie 1mo ago
Oh great, I look forward to our next Slack renewal when they foist another 125% licensing increase on us for yet another AI add-on we don't want. This year, they decided that our Enterprise plan wasn't paying for another floor on
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by drfritznunkie 3y ago
Certainly there are people locked out of their bikes, but perhaps not for the reason you're thinking about. Just recently, I bought a NIB VanMoof on CL. The owner had never put together and it sat in his basement for 2 years. So the ba
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by drfritznunkie 3y ago
Look up "Earth ships". I have a pretty good book on them, but will have to get back to my library before I could tell you what its title is. I was researching these for awhile and honestly a lot of the reference material is going
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by drfritznunkie 6y ago
I don't think anyone has any idea how disorientating tech can be until they've witness this for themselves. Also how hostile and large a divide tech creates that the industry doesn't give a damn about (I'm looking at you
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by drfritznunkie 6y ago
Yes, but cognito endpoints and pools ids are regional and globally unique, and there is no way that I know of to setup duplicate userpools in multiple regions and have requests served by either region. That means the customer IDP side would
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by drfritznunkie 6y ago
Cognito is one of the most frustrating AWS services I have to work with, it is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike an SP. We're using it to federate customer IDPs through user pools, but this ends up with customer configs being regi
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by drfritznunkie 6y ago
I am not surprised, being that it's one of the oldest AWS services? What I do love about IAM is that with the work that the Automated Reasoning Group is doing with Zelkova, it's really a dream to be able test IAM policies before d
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by drfritznunkie 6y ago
Having spoken with core teams like IAM and Cloudformation teams at length, this appears to an internal AWS organizational issue. Those teams are not responsible for the services integration with them and so they're at the mercy of thos
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by drfritznunkie 7y ago
I think it's a combination of CYA, government regulations, and simplifying operations for AWS. Without an ICP, you're not allowed any web presence in CN, which would require AWSCN to either modify services that are publicly availa
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by drfritznunkie 7y ago
You'll still have to go over the firewall, you'll just be closer to it. It will be nice to see if the new region decreases the latency between the cn-north-1 or cn-northwest-1 regions and AWS global regions over DX connections. Ri
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by drfritznunkie 8y ago
> I'm owning a X1 Carbon Just curious, what generation X1? Gen3s through gen5s in our fleet have been quite robust, but Gen6 have been problematic from the linux support side. We have a couple of problematic individual X1 laptops in
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by drfritznunkie 8y ago
> If it’s DNS, don’t be too clever and name it Route 53. Name it Amazon Cloud DNS. Then anyone knows how to look for it in the console, web search for it, etc. Please no. The unique AWS product names while occasionally inconvenient mean
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by drfritznunkie 10y ago
Coming from a family of people in the medical professions, they've all seen reports of how _everything_ is going change in their fields because some new computer program can do X... To which my father usually mutters something like: &q
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by drfritznunkie 10y ago
Even when you have control over both endpoints, months of uninterrupted service will be punctuated with weeks of playing hide and seek with the Firewall. BTDT. The problem is when you have a global endpoint that Chinese customers want to ac
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by drfritznunkie 10y ago
You're missing the point. Even if you go through the entire process, get all the licenses, find excellent local partners, setup your infrastructure correctly, and only publish what the Party wants, you STILL have to go through the fire
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by drfritznunkie 10y ago
I have friends in Shenzhen who regularly walk across the border to connect to HK LTE just to get important work done. And their office has 4? different ISPs, so I know it's a bad day on the firewall when they're working from HK.
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by drfritznunkie 10y ago
This article also doesn't touch on the simple technical pains of having to work across the Great Firewall and the effects of it their ability to do business outside of China. Even when you have an excellent partner in China (or vice-ve
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
I live a couple of blocks from this boondoggle, but some of the issues aren't strictly the streetcars fault. For instance, this very morning while walking my dogs, a DC tow truck sped past us all code 3. We rounded the corner onto H ST
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
Having just come off a stint with Azure, my experience with generic names (like many you suggested and like most Azure service name) is that they're huge negatives. It makes searching impossible even when you're using the service
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
One can only hope this effort improves the miserable MSBuild documentation. Exposure to the .Net ecosystem and MSBuild are recently events for me, and I can't say I've had a day where I've not cursed out either the documentat
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
How are they poor choices? Methinks you're just looking in wrong places if they're languages you want to continue using at a job. Embedded is hot right now, so sign up for the Jack Ganssle's Embedded Muse Newsletter http:&#x
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
Remember, this is Microsoft we're talking about here, which means we've got about 50/50 chance of only half the company actually following through and implementing this ;) Do not, under any circumstance, underestimate the she
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
I've been spending some time myself designing remote phosphor lighting and I'm wondering if they've really developed a new remote phosphor technology, or if they're sourcing a custom phosphor blend and substrate from som
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
If that were only the case... My parents live in one of these rural Western Massachusetts towns building their own fiber networks, Leverett, Ma. The town, is which directly north of Amherst and the Five College, had ZERO available landbas
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
If anything, riding against traffic in the lane of traffic freaks out drivers and their reactions to it aren't always good (there are bunch of contra flow dedicated bike lanes in DC, so I'm not talking about those). I find the dri
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by drfritznunkie 11y ago
Retro reflectives and their impact on accident rates is still pretty contentious within the bicycle community, and personally, I think it gives people a false and very dangerous sense of security and visibility. As a daily bicycle commuter
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by drfritznunkie 12y ago
I'm right there with you... My Thinkpad fleet is all older models, T42, T60, T61p, X200 and just yesterday, I added a T420. The quality difference between even between my X200 and the T420 is substantial, the T420 has thinner plastics,
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by drfritznunkie 12y ago
As anyone who's done any level of enterprise support knows is that people hate email, but absolutely freak out when there is the smallest problem with it. For awhile I had my staff attempt to work in a lesson on email during tech orien
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by drfritznunkie 12y ago
I regularly tested the "email regex du jour" at my previous job whenever these types of articles came up. IIRC, it was against 15+MM known good email addresses, and probably double that in known bads and nearly every one tested ha
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by drfritznunkie 12y ago
Ditto. Small(er) phones are getting harder and harder to find. If I could find a phone the same size as my Sony Xperia Ray with upgraded guts, I'd be ecstatic. Even so the G has been great for me as well. I hope the new one has a bette

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