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by gnat 4y ago
I've been looking for a set of instructions about how to set up an ssh app that doesn't open my computer to pwnage. Do you know of such a set of instructions?
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by gnat 5y ago
We call that a Murder Board in my office. Here's a TV Tropes article on the cliche: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StringTheory
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by gnat 5y ago
You're right, it's a meta-bug. It's a bug in your debugging process. You think you have a problem. You change the wrong file to find out. Now you have two problems. And if you're lucky, it won't take you fifteen min
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by gnat 5y ago
When I was a larval programmer, I collected the different types of bugs I found as I debugged my code. This category was my favourite. I once progressively commented out more and more of a file, trying to find the bit with a bug, until the
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by gnat 5y ago
Well called, Wellington. I lived there for five university years, but home is up north in Leigh. I grew up barefoot. Went to university in Wellington and in my first year, had to go see the doctor. "I have weird things on my feet.&quot
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by gnat 5y ago
Depends where you are in NZ, of course. Some places it only rains for much of the year. I grew up in NZ, moved to Colorado for ten years and whined about the snow, then came home and realised how good I'd had it in CO. I hadn't no
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by gnat 5y ago
*seize
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by gnat 5y ago
https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1016/s0016-3287(70)80003-9 is a Sci Hub link.
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by gnat 5y ago
Can confirm. All the complaints people have here are about experiences I've seen myself: images not loading, resource-hungry to the point where anyone who needs to run Teams with another app (eg to screenshare) needs a non-Microsoft la
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by gnat 5y ago
Re: the story at the start about watching a movie with a director and seeing them look at the movie different than the author did: I heard a great workshop by Chris Thile, MacArthur genius grant recipient and mandolin player. He said "
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by gnat 5y ago
You're right. I said "for any interest" but obviously, like all things attention there's a power law distribution. Many Windows programmers, or anything else that had massive interest. But if you were a Unix kernel nerd,
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by gnat 5y ago
Things were different. I had a similar experience with Michael Hart from Project Gutenberg. I stayed in his house! He was ridiculously warm and welcoming. You can't imagine what scarcity of nerds there was back then. These days, every
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by gnat 5y ago
https://archive.fo/05xst So many moments in this prose. Here are the last three paras, for example: >A 1978 article in the industry publication National Hog Farmer suggested producers consider the sow “a valuable piece o
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by gnat 5y ago
Hm, government commissioned research says this isn't happening. I may be forced to eat my words. https://www.motu.nz/assets/Documents/our-work/population-and... That said: "Larger rent increases wer
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Learning What You Don't Know by Virtual Outlier Synthesis (VOS)(arxiv.org)
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by gnat 5y ago
That's exactly what happened with student housing subsidies in NZ. Labour were elected and fulfilled a campaign promise by raising the housing allowance by $150 pw. Rents in Wellington rose $150 pw at the same time.
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by gnat 5y ago
https://archive.fo/nravV
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by gnat 5y ago
https://archive.fo/328OQ
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by gnat 5y ago
Relevant part: As early output devices (Teleprinters, CRTs and line printers) could not produce more than one character at a location, it was not possible to underscore text, so early encodings such as ITA2 and the first versions of ASCII h
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by gnat 5y ago
From what I've seen, there are three big schools with technical debt (past choices that now make changes difficult): 1) Ignore it and gradually ossify as the code congeals and it becomes harder and harder to make any change at all. 2)
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by gnat 5y ago
Kathy's famous not just for the harassment she received. She was one of (if not the) first to bring the user into Internet product design. Her point was that users want to feel good about themselves ("kick ass") and then get
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by gnat 5y ago
Previously on HN < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27808653 >.
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by gnat 5y ago
Kathy Sierra's "Creating Passionate Users" blog really launched that idea that people want to be the hero of their story, at least for product design. The idea that users want to feel good about themselves, and the job of you
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by gnat 5y ago
I think because Maneesh Agrawala, who created LineDrive, was at Microsoft after completing his PhD thesis (which was basically LineDrive). He's done huge amounts of really interesting work -- one of my absolute favourite CS researchers
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by gnat 5y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72798-7 "Here, we measured outward emissions of micron-scale aerosol particles by healthy humans performing various expiratory activities while wearing different types of
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by gnat 5y ago
Their data: From 1 October through 6 December 2021, 161,328 COVID-19 cases were reported nationally; 38,282 were tested using TaqPath PCR and 29,721 SGTF infections were identified. Conclusion: Early analyses suggest a reduced risk of hospi
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by gnat 5y ago
Mutating to lower virulence isn't a law of nature. https://medium.com/a-microbiome-scientist-at-large/do-viruse... Crichton wrote interesting books but not all his science was robust.
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by gnat 5y ago
Ah, whew. That's what I thought. Thanks! I asked because we make warehouse and retail management systems and every vendor or customer seems to give every word their own meanings (e.g., we use "bin" in our discounts engine to
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by gnat 5y ago
Not the only good feature, though. I've been doing Advent of Code in C# this year to get my head around it. The standard library and language features seem to be sane and nicely-designed and I am having fun with it. As an aside, it&#x2
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by gnat 5y ago
What's a "bin" in this context?

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