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by korethr 6y ago
Not as feasible as it sounds initially. I don't know if you've ever looked inside a cat-5/6/whatever networking cable[1], but if you do, you'll see that it is actually a bundle of 8 individual wires, in 4 twisted-to
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by korethr 6y ago
I like to joke that the North-American Fiber-Seeking-Backhoe is not, and will never be an endangered species.
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by korethr 6y ago
And when it's a large bundle cut, it's going to take a bit before service is restored. I have been told that a highly skilled tech can splice a single strand in a matter of minutes. Looking it up, I find figures of an average of 3
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by korethr 6y ago
I had to look it up again to check, but does this not fall under the dictionary definition of sophistry[1]? It seems especially appropriate to call it that given the 2nd definition of sophisticated[2] as something at a high degree of comple
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by korethr 6y ago
Upon reading the title, I was not enthusiastic. Yet another way to format strings? What's wrong with String.format()? Get off my lawn! However upon reading the article, it does feel more ergonomic to prepend your string literal with an
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by korethr 6y ago
I can't help but wonder if such an attempt would even work. Unless I am misunderstanding the culture that makes an open source ecosystem work, a free and open exchange of information and ideas is one of those fundamental things. When a
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by korethr 6y ago
Of course there's a This Meme Does Not Exist on that list. And already it has generated something that amuses me[1]. I dare say that site is a mild threat to my productivity. 1. https://imgflip.com/i/4ufa1r
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Pets vs. Cattle (2016)(cloudscaling.com)
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by korethr 6y ago
Interesting. I'd love to see this broken down further, all the way down to the municipal level in the US. My last governmental interactions were at the county and municipal level, involving permits and reporting a car accident, respect
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by korethr 6y ago
Well, they're mostly back up now. I'm curious to see what will come of the postmortem, and if that report will be made public, even if only in part.
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by korethr 6y ago
Somewhat. There's multiple types of foam board used for insulation in buildings. The most common types are EPS, XPS, and polyisocyanurate. EPS and XPS are Expanded and eXtruded PolyStyrene, respectively. Both are closed-cell foams. EPS
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by korethr 6y ago
This happened to a coworker of mine, only it wasn't a prod accounting system, it was a prod customer facing system. We got the crontab restored, I though I forget from where. I think we ended up doing a blend of common stuff copied fro
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by korethr 6y ago
Maybe I am misunderstanding your post, but I get the impression you consider APT == script kiddie. I was of the opposite understanding, that Advanced Persistent Threat != script kiddie. It seems right there in the name, an entity that'
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by korethr 6y ago
I haven't done any kernel programming yet, but the curiosity has been there. What has been your main difficulty in finding the right APIs? Lack of documentation? Poor or unclear documentation? Something else?
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by korethr 6y ago
Whatever the stock configuration on their stock combo modem/router/AP device is. So, probably, yes, some kind of "enhanced" DNS. I know, I know, friends don't let friends use stock firmware or stock ISP gear. But wh
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by korethr 6y ago
Not quite related, but Century Link's internet filtering on their residential fiber service flags this page as dangerous. I had to click through a cert warning then a Scary Warning Page to reach the actual site. Said filtering is Power
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by korethr 6y ago
> There's never any consequences and leaves people (me at least) increasingly frustrated, angry, and feeling a complete lack of faith in our politicians. And this why I consider displays of hypocrisy like these to be so dangerous. I
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by korethr 6y ago
The hypocrisy displayed in this incident is especially teeth grinding. It's maddening enough to see a leader flouting their own rules. But then to add people representing a medical organization just makes it that much worse. As you say
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by korethr 6y ago
I think I spent more time watching video snippets and reading portions of other articles to give myself a lightning course on weaving jargon, just so I could understand what was being talked about in the OP. And suddenly, why looms look as
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by korethr 6y ago
Adams himself has denied this, stating that he does not make jokes in base 13[1]. 1. https://h2g2.com/entry/A4288584
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by korethr 6y ago
So, now that the repo is back up, how many of you have pulled a fresh clone of it?
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by korethr 6y ago
So the block works for now, but what happens when a) macOS is changed such that Little Snitch doesn't work anymore, whether it is because the architecture changes in some critical way, or Little Snitch iself is blocked by trustd? b) fa
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by korethr 6y ago
I am wondering if the audio issues could have been fixed if the deck could have exported a timecode stream during capture. Have VITC[1] on line 20 of each frame, and the corresponding timecode as an LTC audio stream recorded alongside the a
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by korethr 6y ago
This is the first time reading those threads for me, being the young'un that I am. That said, the some of the posts in the thread you linked seem prescient. Supercomputers these days are a pile of commodity microprocessors clustered
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by korethr 6y ago
You are correct. I also seem to recall recently reading news that someone had started fabbing 68020s again, but can't find the source at the moment.
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by korethr 6y ago
Which is a shame. Just from high level descriptions of the 68k architecture, compared to my own (albeit very limited) experience with x86 assembly, the 68k seems a much more elegant and easier to program architecture.
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by korethr 6y ago
> but it supports ancient K&R C syntax, without such goodies like subscript operator or character literals. Still I prefer ancient C than ancient assembly language A thought occurs to me: would it be possible to use that compiler to
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by korethr 6y ago
I seem to recall the OpenBSD folks deliberately keeping around uncommon and old architectures in part because compiling and running on those old architectures flushes out bugs. So, from that perspective, your regression tests failing on leg
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by korethr 6y ago
It would be cool if 68k support landed in LLVM. I've been wanting to do a 68k-based retrocomputer project for a while. If I ever get started on such a project, being able to use a modern compiler would be nice.
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by korethr 6y ago
> Newly hired by a federal employer who considered morse code an asset, I practiced in my hotel room. Bored, I decided to go live with a small tune-able antenna inside my hotel room, ground to a sink pipe. Yes, I was an idiot, and still

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