freefriedrice

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by freefriedrice 6y ago
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Holy hell. How do you have a life-threatening disease that puts at you risk of germ infection, costs $250,000 a year to treat AND manage to survive homelessness? Tragic. I'm sorry you don't live in a country with real health care.
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Responding to customer sales inquiries. I'm a hacker, not a salesperson, but working for startup means I have to switch hats and give a pitch 30% of my week. Why is it a waste? Because I suck at it. My company doesn't have real sa
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
I remember being exposed to LISP in the late 80's after coming from Pascal and COBOL in my CS101 (C was a 200-level class.) It was such a complete mindf*ck. After learning procedural language patterns, switching to LISP uprooted everyt
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
> What else are you supposed to do with the money? Keep it in cash? Yes. That's where my RIA has 33% of my assets now, we moved them in 2019. We will be "piecing back into" the market over the next 12 months. I'm 50 a
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Why exclude the biggest websites? The problem I see on DDG & Google is having to scroll 5-10 pages of utter SEO nonsense. "Do you have a question about ____? Many ask about _______. ____ is a common question, here the are we some a
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Academia? Shoot... senior hiring in the tech world is the same thing. If you don't have buddies, gooooood luuuuck.
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
After working int he world of CAD tools for decades, I cannot tell you the number of times I've seen a younger engineer try to write a CSV parser only to fall into a circular hacking deathspiral. You can't just use regex/spli
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
EDIT: Sure wish I could delete this post. Wait, this isn't TCP, this is protocol level above TCP, right? TCP doesn't shape traffic by itself through rate limiting and congestion analysis, does it? I thought the layer above it used
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
That is really smart. Will you be summarizing some of the best debubbles? The reminds me of that subreddit ... changemyview?
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Cool! I convinced a bunch of friends to use WL a few years ago and now they're mad at ME for the acquisition! Not really mad, but despondent and looking for alternatives. I migrated to Apple's todo list app (which has +ves and -ve
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
I would easily pay US$30 for that.
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
You're referring to "term overloading". This is pervasive throughout all domains of engineering, but more so in software because there are so many conflicting standards, definitions and citations. It's really hard to get
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Ask HN: Should package managers include a reminder field?
2 points by freefriedrice 6y ago|1 comments
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Yeah, the latter: keychain certificate (under "Certificates").
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Preview can't digitally sign PDFs. I have to do this on a near daily basis. EDIT: I mean sign with a certificate, not add an image. Personally I would prefer to not have any adobe software on my mac.
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Narrative? Yes yes, because 99.9% of white christian american terrorists are women. /s Were you born today?
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
What was that about exponential growth and nature? I'm sure the 0.1% can rest on their billion-dollar laurels for the next decade, but at some point the next batch of $100-millionaires will become restless and steer they system toward
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
TL;DR: Load Balancers and a clear policy means the cloud works as advertised. Seven years ago I was at a medical conference in Portland, Oregon with a panel of "experts" discussing the security and accessibility of medical record
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Wow, that's really cool. Googling around it appears that Mountain Lion wasn't upgraded to TLSv1.2 so any website that upgraded to TLSv1.1 broke on pre-Yosemite. I didn't realize this. Very interesting.
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
> the modern iteration of HTTPS required by DarkSky. I don't follow. The TLS handshake negotiates the appropriate ciphersuite. With the exception of dropping SHA1 in TLSv1.3, how was the macOS SSL module not able to negotiate a hand
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
I remember reading this in Parade Magazine when Marilyn Vos Savant published her column. And then was completely blown away by the landslide of scathing letters written by adult professors at colleges belittling her for being so dumb. And t
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Java? STMicroelectronics uses it for almost all of their applications, which ship in one zip file with binaries for Win/Mac/Linux. It ticks #1 and #2, but I don't know about #3. Of course, I'm not sure if having web-like
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
This bugs me to no end about Electron. The one module that existed to implement cross window / process communication is deprecated with no alternative. I haven't found a solution for multithreading in electron without killing the
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
This is a very enlightening post, thank you. I don't often develop cross platform to this depth, and I think it is a wise reminder that Microsoft actually knows a thing or two about operating systems, contrary to popular opinion. It&#x
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
It hasn't changed! Except for PowerShell, but that's... oy. I have PowerShell, Git Shell and Cygwin running on my windows Dev box and all three make me cry on a weekly basis because I have to switch between them to do different th
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
When I worked for a large semiconductor company from late 1980's till early 2000's, I saw IT move from a ghastly mix of AIX, HPUX and SunOS terminals & distributed computing to 100% Linux ... in under 2 years!! It was like som
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
I've wrestled with this for DECADES! I've built software with a configuration database (Windows registry) and with flat configuration file-folders (*nix). I feel like I'm running in a circle because the trade-offs are so equa
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
Yes, that is an important distinction I glossed over. Thanks for adding that.
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by freefriedrice 6y ago
On the one hand I like seeing behavioral trends feed back into the software. On the other hand, there needs to be tighter acceptance standards, and more effort to minimize the disruption to established rules. That's probably much harde

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