iefbr14

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by iefbr14 1y ago
It is probably just a rise in the number of automated scrapers/bots that use a windows 7-like user agent.
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by iefbr14 1y ago
Why don't they just release them into the ocean?
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by iefbr14 1y ago
cat <whatever> | highlight --force -O xterm256 | less -SRNI works fine for me.
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by iefbr14 1y ago
On my system I use a little script coupled to a key that lets you select a graphical area with text in it and it converts it into real text that is placed in the clipboard: #!/usr/bin/bash maim -us | tesseract --dpi 145 -l en
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by iefbr14 1y ago
I've been a consultant for a long time and in that role you were hired only to fix old systems that the resident staff refused to maintain, because not sexy. I didn't mind, it paid good money and I have seen a lot of companies fro
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by iefbr14 1y ago
> It found that 50% of banks admitted to relying on software that only one or two staff members, who are at or near retirement age, understand. This is an organizational problem or just plain neglect. I learned cobol back in the seventie
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by iefbr14 1y ago
If you like to pay $100 for a t-shirt that looks the same as a $10 one from the Aldi, this is a video for you :)
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by iefbr14 1y ago
It will pass at 2.2 times the lunar distance, no worries. Source: https://www.spaceweather.com/
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by iefbr14 1y ago
Without any exploitation costs, mining bitcoins would be my first choice.
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by iefbr14 1y ago
The magic smoke has escaped :)
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by iefbr14 1y ago
In 1976 when I started, I was threatened that if I caused an 0C7 abend I would have to sit on a chair in a corner of the office for 15 minutes with a pointy hat on that had '0c7 fool' written on it. BTW, I had lots of them and nev
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by iefbr14 1y ago
Naming it "The Oak Software Foundation" would have been more consistent. Only getting rid of the feather feels like half work to me.
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by iefbr14 1y ago
Warning, this video has huge irritating karaoki subtitles.
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by iefbr14 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if just delaying the server response by some 3 seconds will have the same effect on those scrapers as Anubis claims.
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by iefbr14 1y ago
I wonder how many people are still actively using dialup and why. Frankly I cannot think of a single usecase.
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by iefbr14 1y ago
Somehow I am starting to wonder if I'm in a simulation or in a simulation of a simulation..
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by iefbr14 1y ago
Is there also one to increase the memory?
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by iefbr14 1y ago
I have an even better idea, give the thing a steering wheel and rubber tires and then you can do away with the rails!
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by iefbr14 1y ago
I do not think it is very healthy to sit close to a 10-20 (maybe even more) watt rf antenna for a substantial amount of time.
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by iefbr14 1y ago
So "/etc/h*sts" is not stopped by the filters? Nice to know for the hackers :)
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by iefbr14 2y ago
I would like to see a followup on that graph in a few days :)
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by iefbr14 2y ago
There once was a train that made clever use of that effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
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by iefbr14 2y ago
I read this article about the recent landing of a private contraption on the moon. According to the article it carries a vacuum to be able to suck up moon dust. How do you do that in the moons vacuum? Anybody knows more about this?
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by iefbr14 2y ago
It would be nice if it had a graph with some arrows in it.
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by iefbr14 2y ago
I didn't notice. Maybe because I have a long list of facebook domains in my hosts.deny.
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by iefbr14 2y ago
Just give the data item a status field, don't fix it by medling with a designated (non)value. And while you are at it you can add some valid-from and valid-to fields for the item. That's how you do it proper.
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by iefbr14 2y ago
When the null concept was introduced to me in the seventies, the only thing I could say was that it would be causing a lot of unnecessary confusion in the future. If you have missing values in your datarecord then that datarecord belongs in
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by iefbr14 2y ago
Here is a nice one of the Netherlands. https://www.topotijdreis.nl
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by iefbr14 2y ago
Don't worry, they will stick a label on it and it will go back to the shops. It's a good lesson for the supplier making the mistake. And besides, one might think it ís a harmless milk substitute..
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by iefbr14 2y ago
That was my conclusion too after reading it. I was always wondering how the brain could send all needed info to the muscles fast enough when someone is playing piano or typing 120 characters a minute.

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