jeffrallen

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by jeffrallen 7d ago
I can confirm that these people are silly.
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by jeffrallen 7d ago
There are a whole series of blog posts from the Fishworks guys explaining why it could possibly be so hard to turn on one LED. But Oracle probably deleted then so you'll have to find them on archive.org.
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by jeffrallen 8d ago
I don't even know what this is but it makes me feel good.
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by jeffrallen 9d ago
Cisco sells IP connected high def cameras. I was happy to stop working on that project, because it was clear that the target market was public facial recognition (targeted advertisement in malls, and other useless/creepy things).
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by jeffrallen 9d ago
I work on the same kind of thing, and while we think hard about bootstrap problems, we always find new surprising ones. The problem is you never know until you do it, and creating a faithful test of restarting giant systems is economically
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by jeffrallen 10d ago
I work this way, and apart from being well liked because people know I bring well thought out requests (and sometimes, code) to them, I haven't seen much reward. The reward has to be intrinsic. You have to actually like helping other p
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by jeffrallen 11d ago
Otoh, good luck bringing a CoW filesystem back from 100%. Delete a file? Sure, let me just make a copy of all the metadata that was pointing at it using... the zero blocks I have left. Tradeoffs are a bitch, bitch.
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by jeffrallen 11d ago
Yes, this. My sister took me to the employee store, and even at 50% off the price/quality is a rip off.
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by jeffrallen 13d ago
The attitudes and behaviors at my son's U9 matches in Switzerland are so distasteful I started inventing excuses to not go until eventually my wife went to a tournament. She came home and said, "so that's why you don't w
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by jeffrallen 14d ago
This is interesting because where he says "I take no pleasure in the results", I'm split. Sometimes I make something of no lasting value and feel no pleasure. Sometimes I use my context and creativity to ask for a result, and
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by jeffrallen 15d ago
Nice guys finish last. Welcome to the back of the line. We have cookies, at least. :)
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by jeffrallen 16d ago
Too late. My kids called the app Stop-ify because it was so unreliable. Switched to Apple music and won't go back. On Android!
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by jeffrallen 16d ago
To those who answer "my spouse", please think carefully about building an alternative support system if/when it happens that the mental health situation you are dealing with comes from a breakdown in ability to communicate wi
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by jeffrallen 18d ago
Pangram says the first 100 words are 100% AI slop. (Don't shoot the messenger, just trying out Tangram for the first time.)
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by jeffrallen 24d ago
You're absolutely right! This is a load-bearing article.
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by jeffrallen 24d ago
It is now: I know a guy who says he's supposed to handle traffic for a guy who's NIC signed a message saying he owns a whole /19. I've got receipts (RPKI). So, umm ok, I'm going to need you to just give me all his t
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by jeffrallen 27d ago
It's premature optimization, according to the video description.
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by jeffrallen 1mo ago
I saw the same thing happen in Leeds. A friend came back to her public health program after Christmas in Zimbabwe. The NHS was dragging their feet, like, "oh, we need to get a specialists opinion before we can even draw blood, then it
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by jeffrallen 1mo ago
Make time to listen to Dolly Parton's America podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america
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by jeffrallen 1mo ago
The O in "occupy mars" is actually a coconut.
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by jeffrallen 1mo ago
Top comment is a chemist explaining aromatics and seal compatibility. Fourth comment starts with "part time coconut farmer here". I <3 you HN, never change.
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by jeffrallen 1mo ago
Fine article, though it ended on a low note with the comment about cryptography engineers gatekeeping the technology. I have worked on high stakes crypto code. Getting it right requires a level of knowledge, care and engineering conservativ
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by jeffrallen 1mo ago
Sigh. The error was made by the humans. Full stop.
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by jeffrallen 1mo ago
"Showstopper" is the book that explains this time in Microsoft's history. An excellent read.
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by jeffrallen 1mo ago
So broken. Sorry for you. MeteoSwiss has an app, which sends geo-specific weather alerts, using the normal handheld notification system. You opt-in by installing it. Simple. No nonsense. I'm so lucky to have competent bureaucrats.
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
Indeed. An excellent sailor, an excellent prof, and an excellent woman.
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
As long as they are owned by a 5-eyes nation, there's no alternative they can offer. Instead, look to Exoscale, Proton, Infomaniak, or Scaleway. Disclaimer: I work for one of 'em.
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
You know, we don't actually have to do this. The people could block the gates and prevent the delivery of the turbines. The local fire department could fail their inspection and prevent the gas from being turned on. The UPS could &quot
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
...or "the UPS batteries caught on fire", or "the first unit failed and the contractor who was supposed to replace it replaced the second one instead, resulting in an outage". Or something as stupid as, "vendor requ
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by jeffrallen 2mo ago
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