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by hughrr 5y ago
Depends how much legacy .Net classic stuff you have that is in no way portable to .Net core.
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by hughrr 5y ago
It's really not. It's a hellscape of insanely rapid platform churn, abandonware, payware and half-assed bug-ridden copy implementations of libraries from other ecosystems all stuck together with marketing crowed from a bunch of pe
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by hughrr 5y ago
This is microsoft not .net's fault. .Net was just jam to spread over the turds. Microsoft tried to jump on every fad that came along and proceeded to burn all the old ones yet still keep the customers limping on them. Lets not forget s
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by hughrr 5y ago
Same here. I'm sitting here debugging some 15 year old c# at the moment in the middle of a mega shit show. I got paid. That's all the good stuff I can say about it.
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by hughrr 5y ago
This was after weeks of problems and disturbed sleep for a family of 4 and multiple neighbours. And she eventually got a written warning from the local council noise control officer. The immediate thing that follows that is an antisocial be
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by hughrr 5y ago
it's about -8dBm into the feed, which is quite lossy so basically nothing and the antenna is a yagi so directional with little gain as it's receive optimised. It mostly just overloads the AGC and preamp on the front end of the oth
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by hughrr 5y ago
For reference, the local council noise control officer eventually gave her a written warning. She's the asshole for knowingly not being respectful of multiple neighbours' basic requirements for sleep. Even when I approached her ni
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by hughrr 5y ago
We have Ofcom here. I have dealt with them before on behalf of someone else. They didn’t even do anything to someone we located and identified and collected evidence for who was jamming amateur radio repeaters.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I try and commit at least one every day :)
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by hughrr 5y ago
It’s utterly depressing watching people fish out cash for an MFJ tuner these days. They still sell the things and they still command a stupid price for a thoroughly inferior device. The two guys I know who still own them only do so because
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by hughrr 5y ago
Make sure you read the "beware of clones" section carefully. There are some real shysters out there. Even the official UK reseller of the "lesser" sub 1GHz NanoVNA has been caught shipping cloned crap that doesn't e
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by hughrr 5y ago
They wouldn't be used for animals because there is no return of investment on that. Ethics don't by nature stop suffering of the many. What they do is protect the few from being defined as arbitrarily less valuable than the many a
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by hughrr 5y ago
Every time I read that word I die a bit inside. One word purposed to discourage and disempower positive social change.
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by hughrr 5y ago
I think that's inverted. We don't have to elevate any other form of life or ecosystem to develop a social conscience or ethics. I don't see myself as lesser or greater, just part of it all. As for things changing over time, t
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by hughrr 5y ago
Narcissistic egomania?
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by hughrr 5y ago
But are you comfortable torturing other entities for your personal gain? That’s pretty much what this comes down to.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Challenge accepted!
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by hughrr 5y ago
Well fuck that’s a huge pile of corpses.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Was not intended like that. Reverse the argument: it’s really hard to vandalise it due to the relatively low attention span of vandals and the throttling.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Someone will always pull the plug when you hit the undocumented limit.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Actually now you mention that I’m going to see if I can set a trap for our pen testers :)
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by hughrr 5y ago
It’s almost worth burning my terabyte quota on Linode to try this out :)
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by hughrr 5y ago
I made my robots.txt 2Gb of garbage from dev random to see how many spiders I could break. At least three Chinese ones downloaded the whole file.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Thats going to take me at least half a day to draw a penis on.
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by hughrr 5y ago
One size doesn’t fit all. Wait until you’re bought by another multi billion dollar employer and expected to scale out to their workload…
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by hughrr 5y ago
Actually 20 years of shitty code built on assumptions like this can break an AWS 96 core instance running SQL server. That’s my life. It does however shift 10k shitty queries per second which is impressive.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Been there done that. That gave us two years and cost a year of developer time.
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by hughrr 5y ago
That’s ok until you reach the logical IO and compute capacity of off the shelf PC hardware. Also 20 years of insane coupling and complexity makes it pretty difficult to move away from that architecture which is where most companies seem to
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by hughrr 5y ago
I was a contractor once and was basically used as a scapegoat after being asked to move some UI bits for the sake of consistency. This was moving the OK and Cancel buttons on every single dialog window so they were in the same consistent pl
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by hughrr 5y ago
My father had a TRS-80. All I remember was lots of swearing as he was learning to write software on it. He succeeded in the end and ran a software business for over a decade; mostly off clone PCs by then.

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