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by gregmac 5y ago
I accidentally discovered a cheat code a few years ago, interacting with one of those IVR voice systems, as I was getting frustrated with it and eventually exclaimed "fuck!" -- its response was brilliant: "Alright.. ok.. it l
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by gregmac 5y ago
I don't think shift duration changes the headcount, it really depends on the total hours per week each person is working. There's 168 hours in a week. If people work for 40 hours a week, to cover the 168 hours you need to employ 4
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by gregmac 5y ago
This sounds like something is broken in your client (or maybe server config)? I use Let's Encrypt wildcard certs quite extensively, both in production use at $dayjob and on my home network, and have never encountered anything like this
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by gregmac 5y ago
I agree. This type of bug seems like it should have been thought of when it was first written, or at least caught during a code review. However, it's very possible that this was written a decade ago, and even if someone did the example
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by gregmac 5y ago
These kinds of things are always tricky, and always easier to see in hindsight. Everything is a trade-off. I can easily picture a scenario where there is pressure to reduce time to release signature updates, and someone looked at a process
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by gregmac 5y ago
Yes, I guess I just meant "squareish". That's embarrassing. I'll try to edit my post to reflect that.
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by gregmac 5y ago
I run two 2560 × 1440 monitors, which are 16:9, but each nicely splits into two square-ish (1280 × 1440) displays. While not quite 4:3, it's close in the experience. I tile using FancyZones and run most applications in this setup. Thou
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by gregmac 5y ago
Can someone with insight into radio technology explain this? > The 5G network deployment in the U.S. starting on December 5 is in the 3700 to 3800-MHz bands then later in the 3700 to 3980-MHz bands. Radio altimeters use the 4200 to 4400-
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by gregmac 5y ago
Yes. I use ligatures on my system (Windows) and this is true in all IDEs, editors and terminal Windows, including when I SSH to a Linux system and use vim. It really becomes seamless, and you get used to it in a similar way to syntax highli
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by gregmac 5y ago
Isn't a sub-CA just another "intermediate", basically in the same way the actually CA certificate Let's Encrypt uses to sign is an intermediate? In that case, I'd have expected the failure mode of something not sup
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by gregmac 5y ago
I've worked with lots of variants, and by far I find using both works best: feature/PROJ-124-user-edit or bug/PROJ-234-startup-crash This unambiguously lets you trace back to the ticket (as either the author or owner), but k
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by gregmac 5y ago
> they just cost money - some businesses choose not to spend that money, some weight cost-benefit and go for AWS, some weigh cost benefit and decide to go for in house, some go for hosted Virtual Servers, some go for Serverless. I'd
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by gregmac 5y ago
I'm helping introduce some DevOps concepts to an ops team that has been doing things in the "traditional" way for a very long time. They've been building scripts in the past couple years to replace what had always been m
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by gregmac 5y ago
PHP has done pretty big breaking changes in the past, the thing that immediately comes to mind is register_globals (there are probably others, but my PHP experience is mainly from a decade ago). Originally GET/POST, cookie and environm
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by gregmac 5y ago
I've asked IT people that set these policies to tell me their previous password -- after all, they changed it to something completely different, as per policy, right?? No one has ever agreed to this.
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by gregmac 5y ago
I usually generate passwords in the ~32 character range, using A-Za-z0-9, specifically to catch sites with dumb security policies (maximum number of characters, or considering `aceg1234!` a stronger password than `MgHm7MC8kEuXWKEzD7CvDgxCtW
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by gregmac 5y ago
On the topic, another neat video covering several "impossible mirror" shots in movies (including Contact): https://youtu.be/VASwKZAUVSo
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by gregmac 5y ago
I didn't see this as an issue about climate change, but as providing a place for innovation and experience which can later be applied to larger aircraft. If absolutely nothing else, it helps spark more interest in the technology by mak
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by gregmac 5y ago
Even worse: the existence of this feature (now merged) can be used to justify writing crappy code, because this is the "security" mechanism (as opposed to the proper way: not sending the answers to the client). The existence of
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by gregmac 5y ago
This seems like the wrong target to me. Why not go after the user? If there's a user that is going around disliking a ton of videos, especially on a single channel, and/or without watching some minimum time or % of that video, it
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by gregmac 5y ago
I got a crash course in running proxy servers and various VPNs when I was in school, due to the school blocking stuff. I don't recall what sites I was even trying to get to (pre-facebook) nor do I remember really caring about them, but
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by gregmac 5y ago
This is one of the main reasons why I use credit cards over debit. If there's a dispute over a charge, I believe with debit cards the money is still out of your account until it gets sorted out -- this could be days or weeks. With cred
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by gregmac 5y ago
I definitely remember redialing multiple times to try to get both a modem from the 56k bank (my ISP had a mix while switching over), and a connection going as fast as possible. I don't remember whether the max speeds I got were, but wh
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by gregmac 5y ago
When I was first using the web, it was largely via Yahoo! directory [1] results. Most of the interesting sites were people's personal sites (with lots of URLs like something.edu/~user), and most people maintained a list of links t
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My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”(martinfowler.com)
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by gregmac 5y ago
I've been very conservative in uses of automations like that. A couple ancedotes: The outside lights on the front of my house have a motion sensor. Alone, they turn on to about 50% at dusk, and off at 11:30. If there's any motion
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by gregmac 5y ago
I have to say, I don't understand what you mean by this. When I view https://thehtime.com/location?name=Canada+-+St.+John%27s currently I see: Time Locally: 14:52 Time worldwide: R:52 The actual local t
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by gregmac 5y ago
One way could be to tax based on recyclability. There's a lot of ways to implement this, but packaging that's 100% plain cardboard should be cheaper than something made of plastics, and anything where two different materials are g
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by gregmac 5y ago
Ugh, the third party seller marketplace! I loathe sites that do this: Walmart, Bestbuy, and NewEgg come to mind. They seem to all be trying to half copy Amazon? The ironic thing is this is now one of the worst features since they started
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by gregmac 5y ago
I use Calls Blacklist [1] to block calls from unrecognized numbers -- just checked, it supports blocking numbers based on "Starts with" so that would probably work, if you're on Android. [1] https://play.google.com

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