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by halfcat 2y ago
It gets even worse. In Texas, I35 runs north and south. But it also splits at one point, creating I35 east, and I35 west, so if you’re going from Austin to Dallas you take I35 east northbound.
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by halfcat 2y ago
Having run this kind of thing for customers over the years, my takeaway is that every place that wanted this was a completely toxic and paranoid work environment. Except for one. This place that seemed to have a reasonable use case. They de
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by halfcat 2y ago
Generally you won’t, but some vendors documentation lists folder paths you can check, like if this folder exists in your computer it’s running Teramind [1]: C:\ProgramData\{4CEC2908-5CE4-48F0-A717-8FC833D8017A} [1] https://kb.ter
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by halfcat 2y ago
We are looking at moving our Power BI stuff to Apache Superset [1]. How does this compare to Superset? [1] https://superset.apache.org/
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by halfcat 2y ago
On the author’s circular specification problem , there’s an aspect of this that happens in physical disciplines also. We build houses and conduct surgeries, and planning helps the doing, but doing also helps the planning. One difference is
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by halfcat 2y ago
The analogy seems more clear to me in IT operations. Let’s say we have one server running our stuff, and it’s too slow. One option is, upgrade the CPUs or add more RAM. This seems analogous to “build a bigger engine” in your example. There’
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by halfcat 2y ago
What do people mean when they refer to ads on Windows? I’ve used Windows from 3.1 to 11 on PC, and NT 4 to 2022 on server, and I’ve never seen an ad. Granted I’ve only ever used local logins or locally hosted Active Directory, so is this a
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by halfcat 2y ago
There are unpatched remote code execution vulnerabilities on basically every version of Windows that is out of support. If you plugged it into the internet with a public IP, someone would likely gain full remote control of the machine in a
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by halfcat 2y ago
Oh wow. You’re the guy who knows Adam right? His Laravel video was so inspiring.
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by halfcat 2y ago
QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop? Can’t tell from the docs.
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by halfcat 2y ago
Bitcoin is not privacy-protecting, per se. It’s public, but anonymous. And people often confuse anonymity with privacy.
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by halfcat 2y ago
At this point, market cap, i.e. the cost to execute an attack against it.
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by halfcat 2y ago
> they speculate that someone will pay more for it further down the line The greater fool is not required when one asset is inflationary and the other is deflationary. A falling denominator is all you need. > There is no reason for bi
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by halfcat 2y ago
You’re right. But I think we’d need a world where we don’t have people who would pollute a lake to pocket a million dollars. At some point you’re fighting human nature.
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by halfcat 2y ago
By moving the goal posts of how CPI is calculated, the government can take in more, or pay out less. Social security, Medicare, etc are indexed to inflation. Tax brackets are indexed to inflation. So when the government needs more money, it
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by halfcat 2y ago
Fiat doesn’t hold value because it has fundamentals or inherent utility either. Fiat currency holds value because it is backed by a sufficiently large group with guns. Crypto currency holds value because it is backed by a sufficiently large
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by halfcat 2y ago
Unless you are a person capable of bringing about systemic change, thinking small is the limit of what most individuals can contribute. Instead, people typically dismiss the small change they could bring into reality, and take the easier ro
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by halfcat 2y ago
Reminds me of the quote: The enemy of art is the absence of limitations I’ve found many times in life that limitations and obsessing over quality lead to more growth than obsessing over productivity. I remember asking a guy who worked at
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by halfcat 2y ago
Not required, but a deflationary asset used as currency discourages borrowing, and companies and governments love borrowing. If you knew that inflation was going to rapidly increase, the smartest thing you could do would be to take out as m
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by halfcat 2y ago
Do you have any criticism to offer as to why BTC isn’t viable? I’d love to be convinced. If I hear a single convincing argument I’ll beat that drum all day alongside you. But all you’ve given is: - gambling exists - “musical chairs” - cults
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by halfcat 2y ago
Always strikes me as a weird take. There’s nothing anyone can do about it. As long as someone somewhere in the world keeps mining it will continue to exist. It would take the equivalent of a world war effort to, maybe, get enough people to
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by halfcat 3y ago
Not sure if this is what you mean, but most HDD vendors publish reliability data like “Non-recoverable read errors per bits read”: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
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by halfcat 3y ago
Darknet Diaries has a couple episodes about this. Two I remember are: * The Pizza Problem * Tennessee
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by halfcat 3y ago
You’re right. It can be done with React, if your team knows React. State was just an illustrative example that “writing a thin HTMX layer” is not necessarily a bigger lift than “just use a framework”. There’s a big gap between “write some s
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by halfcat 3y ago
If you assume the people building the backend are incompetent, then I guess you have a point? We don’t write 95% of the endpoints. They’re auto generated. And this may be a shocking idea to you, but when we do need to build a custom endpoin
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by halfcat 3y ago
How is this different from React? Every page in the app is made up of components from numerous other files. Do you think we have a bunch of HTML files spread out everywhere, and that we aren’t generating all of those endpoints automatically
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by halfcat 3y ago
Yes. Writing a thin layer is a minor task, compared to say, introducing a client-side store and trying to manage all of the complexity of state synchronization. If I need to add one boolean variable to a page, in React/Vue land I need
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by halfcat 3y ago
It’s unmaintainable when you don’t organize your endpoints well. Which is no different with React, or anything else. It’s a non-point.
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by halfcat 3y ago
> Is a debit not negative? Indeed this is confusing to most people (myself included the first time I dealt with it), since if your phone company says they’re giving you a credit, you're getting money.
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by halfcat 3y ago
”democratic governments collapsing back into autocracies” I feel this statement in my bones. We have one side making all the laws, the other side doing away with laws, both of them acting solely for political points. No one in the middle

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