eichin

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by eichin 3y ago
yeah, as a developer I've yet to see any development tasks that an LLM would be useful for, and it's wasting resources that could be going into abstract reasoning about software, or really doing anything correctly/accuratel
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by eichin 3y ago
We actually ship a bunch of vetted pubkeys in our developer tools package (in ssh_known_hosts2) . We tried to get a little bit out of the loop and tell our devs that they could use the instructions at https://bitbucket.org/
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by eichin 3y ago
Heh, I went a step further and thought "ooh, a novice EE project, but titling it like that everyone's going to be confused about it involving machine learning" until I realized I was the one that got it backwards...
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by eichin 3y ago
Reminds me of https://this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/ - which is more about using old technology (art rather than preservation, but also more of an emphasis on being able to see the step-by-step relays operate while you&
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by eichin 3y ago
(scrolls down further in the socat manpage) Ohhh, under "EXAMPLES": you can combine a crlf option to TCP-LISTEN, SYSTEM instead of EXEC, and "echo -e", and there's actually a slightly useful http server already do
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by eichin 3y ago
True, but you can go the other way and do it with only socat: socat -v tcp-listen:8888,reuseaddr,fork exec:'cat RESPONSE' is a (Very Static) entire web server, if RESPONSE has 2 header lines, a blank, and an html body. (A little
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by eichin 3y ago
Love it, but ctl-\ in particular ("send sigquit", ie. core-dump the app) will make me twitch every time :-)
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by eichin 3y ago
Also turns out to be a different skill. (My old school printing is fine, my old school cursive was pretty much gone by day one of college, chalkboards are almost always slow block-printing - so when I started using whiteboards, it was all
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by eichin 3y ago
a decade or so ago, I ran into a problem where "yes" was already too fast, feeding it to apt-get install or something (in a context where we knew what the prompts were doing and if anything unusual happened we'd fail other
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by eichin 3y ago
We looked at FogBugz as a replacement for RT, but it had some severely opinionated limitation on release flow/version numbers that meant it didn't fit our existing product releases, let alone our future plans. (I think we were
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by eichin 3y ago
"sponsor my channel and get 3 species named after you!"
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by eichin 3y ago
https://icecube.wisc.edu/jobs/ doesn't have anything right now but they used to have a bunch of sysadmin/sre positions ("do you know ethernet cabling and python" kind of thing - they used to recru
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by eichin 3y ago
And at least back in the day, the pistol/rifle range wasn't very large either (and had a variety of competing users.)
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by eichin 3y ago
how about: it's a 2d simulation, not a slice through a 3d one, so you should probably not expect any intuition to apply? (Fun to watch, though!)
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by eichin 3y ago
Actually the Demo Center in E40 (I was working for Janet Murray on the Writing Project at the time.) I did eventually end up joining SIPB though. (And then years later wrote enough of an XOpenDisplay in elisp - by porting the codegen for th
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by eichin 3y ago
Around the same decade I did a similar thing with an athena vaxstation under X; I noticed recently I still had the same hacks in my emacs startup to keep M-x shell from starting another emacs (I didn't use the trampoline trick, just li
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by eichin 3y ago
The magic words being "Secure Attention Key" (on multics in particular, it was specifically caught by the Front End Processor, so nothing in the OS could interfere by (for example) catching the signal and printing a fake login pro
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by eichin 3y ago
A coworker of mine spent a lot of time maintaining computers in warehouses in the US South and picked up a jacket with basically PC-fans built in, it had sleeves and some of the airflow was down the sleeves. We mostly joked about needing t
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by eichin 3y ago
What's the snap equivalent of "apt-get source"? Failing to find that meant for me, it was time to start purging snapd from new installs entirely (and to start fretting about ubuntu starting to be philosophically incompatible
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by eichin 3y ago
To get retro, "whiptail" has been around forever (newt, or dialog) but that ends up with more horrible incantations like "whiptail --menu $(seq 1 10 | while read x; do echo $x $x; done)" - though whiptail does get you mo
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by eichin 3y ago
http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/iselect/ (already packaged in debian and ubuntu)
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by eichin 3y ago
Probably (not me, I don't have downvote bits) because it turns out there's a lot of "game of telephone"/"folk etymology" about this legend which apparently started in the 1800s in english; it's not ac
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by eichin 3y ago
I swear I should just have an RSS feed of the changelogs for my various blogging engines and not pretend I'm actually going to do any writing with them :-)
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by eichin 3y ago
Was apple silicon the thing that brought "caring about cross compilation" back from the dead in general? small-scale embedded use never really went away, but it was always a distinct niche...
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by eichin 3y ago
There are lots of early-investor-to-later-investor exit paths; it would just cut down on the "built-to-flip" model, which is a distraction anyway.
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by eichin 3y ago
Or worse, Bradford Pears - popular ornamental trees with pretty flowers for public roads, and they smell offensive
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by eichin 3y ago
Is this the organic/classy version of amazon yankee candle reviews?
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by eichin 3y ago
> looks like its gonna have a big impact on how websites move. Is it going to help make them stop ? do browsers that support this all support the "don't make me nauseous" settings, or are we going to need to start populat
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by eichin 3y ago
Yeah, I did a 4-way search like this on gcc back in the Cygnus days - way before git, and the build step involved "me setting up 4 checkouts to build at once and coming back in a few hours" so it was more about giving the human mo
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by eichin 3y ago
Nikon and Canon both have "image authentication system" features; unfortunately the easiest to find articles are about them being broken... back in 2011.

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