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811.
by gregmac 7y ago
> Barnett's description of the safety issues is terrifying. For example, the process of tightening the titanium nuts on the floorboard-bolts caused 3"-long, razor sharp titanium slivers to cascade into the compartment where all
812.
by gregmac 7y ago
It's an interesting idea, but you still wouldn't be able to encode the byte sequence for "end of blob" as part of the blob data... without escaping it.
813.
by gregmac 7y ago
I was just looking across the various editors/languages I use and though I have some variations, my main environments both have comments as green (on a dark background), and -- I suspect this is key -- nothing else uses green. The cont
814.
by gregmac 7y ago
> I'm really interested in the why. Most people don't seem to care. My in-laws have CFLs in their living room that just feel horrible to me, but they're none the wiser. My first suspicion would be the spectrum of light emi
815.
by gregmac 7y ago
If you haven't tried this, you should. The type of feedback you get is proportional to the fidelity of your mock up. Do a high-fidelity, fully realized html mockup, and you're more likely to get feedback about the little details
816.
by gregmac 7y ago
> NAT itself does not provide any security This is just arguing semantics. It's not "NAT itself", but a side effect of using it is that it requires deliberate effort to allow inbound connections to get to devices behind th
817.
by gregmac 7y ago
> Islands already exist, with national firewalls, corporate networks, dark nets And you don't see companies posting their addresses on those things. They still advertise "example.org" not "if you're in {county} u
818.
by gregmac 7y ago
If you decentralize, you don't end up with something equivalent to "the internet" anymore -- you end up with several islands of things that (to varying degrees) resemble "the internet", and run on the same layer 4 f
819.
by gregmac 7y ago
What can I say but... THANK YOU! I definitely don't remember ever seeing or changing that setting, but it is 1000 times better with it off. Guess it's worth looking through an app's settings every once in a while, no matter
820.
by gregmac 7y ago
The changing behaviour of enter/shift+enter in code block drives me absolutely crazy. Normally, shift+enter is newline, enter is send. However, inside a code block, it's the opposite. I constantly forget this and press shift+ent
821.
by gregmac 7y ago
Oh no, it sounds like "cryptolocking" has the potential to be yet another term subsumed into meaning the wrong thing, much like "hacker", "drone", and "bot" have been. This pattern and cryptolocking b
822.
by gregmac 7y ago
Are you using Ansible to orchestrate the setup of a particular EC2 instance, or to actually provision AWS resources, or both? If you're doing AWS resources, where is ansible running from? I have a few deployments using CloudFormation,
823.
by gregmac 7y ago
> The information collected includes categorized web browsing history that shows how long and how often you visited specific categories of sites (i.e. social media, personal finance, or news). All site visits are classified into one of 3
824.
by gregmac 7y ago
There's a world of difference between "clean up" and "refactored the codebase in the middle of the night ... [and] other team members were all forced to work around his refactor and waste time updating their PRs to match
825.
by gregmac 7y ago
> I don't want to trust random people on a forum to provide a build of an OS without including malware Why is it some communities still work like this? With Android dev, sometimes there's even some source on GitHub, but still a
826.
by gregmac 7y ago
It's a good opportunity to teach them. You could ask questions that lead them to the same conclusion (with the benefit of hindsight from your experience): "What happens if this system is terminated before the final write call comp
827.
by gregmac 7y ago
> "This concurrency model appears to be adding complexity to the system without any visible performance benefit." just screams "I think this is shit but I'm not gonna tell you more directly because we have a policy no
828.
by gregmac 7y ago
You're kind of conflating several different points. The ability for an application (eg, Office) to install side-by-side with other versions of itself is entirely different than its Backwards Compatibility (eg: ability for current versi
829.
Microsoft is replacing MSDN and TechNet forums with Microsoft Q&A(zdnet.com)
1 points by gregmac 7y ago|0 comments
830.
by gregmac 7y ago
One of the problems with this is the same as any other bad behaviours companies often do that are indistinguishable from an attack, such as asking for your PIN on the phone, or sending account-related e-mails with links: They condition th
831.
by gregmac 7y ago
This is really not a big deal to the point "you should worry." The binaries Microsoft distributes are under a different license than the source (which is MIT). The binaries contain telemetry, and it's definitely a bit suspici
832.
by gregmac 7y ago
I happened to just finish watching the HBO Miniseries From The Earth To the Moon [1] last night. The last episode features a side-plot about the french film Le Voyage dans la Lune by Georges Méliès, which had an interesting tie to Ediso
833.
by gregmac 7y ago
Once you've hired a hitman, the outcome is basically out of your control. Is there an argument where someone had hired a hitman with the intent they're unsuccessful? That seems far fetched to me. I can buy your argument if they ha
834.
by gregmac 7y ago
Yeah, unless I'm missing something, "automation" seems to be a misnomer. I was looking at it thinking along the lines of something like Autoit, Puppet or Ansible, which just made me confused reading the docs. Calling it a &qu
835.
Open Source from Stack Overflow(stackexchange.github.io)
2 points by gregmac 7y ago|0 comments
836.
by gregmac 7y ago
In Canada, we get mailed a Voter Information Card [1] a month or two before the election. This basically just has your name and your polling and advanced polling location(s). It of course goes to your registered address. If you don't g
837.
by gregmac 7y ago
This would (maybe) help with a common thing my wife does when taking videos: Start recording in portrait mode, then realize you did that, and rotate the phone 90 degrees to get widescreen video (but without restarting the recording). When y
838.
by gregmac 7y ago
Totally agree with everything on this list, with two exceptions: * I almost always just do a regular merge to master (rather than squash). * I use GitKraken which (in the pro version) has a great merge tool. A lot of people seem to want &qu
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Microservice Observability, Part 1: Disambiguating Observability and Monitoring(bravenewgeek.com)
3 points by gregmac 7y ago|0 comments
840.
by gregmac 7y ago
I use a catch-all subdomain (like *@something.mydomain.com) that simply forwards to my main account. I then sign up on sites using something like news.ycombinator.com@something.mydomain.com or hackernews@something.mydomain.com. I've be

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