krallja

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781.
by krallja 7y ago
you’re gonna shoot the fire out? shoot away the flood? or tornado?
782.
by krallja 7y ago
I never got far in China Town Wars. Still have my copy; guess I should start it up next weekend to give it a second chance.
783.
by krallja 7y ago
The golf pro shop near me uses a laser printer and colorful paper. The actual liability is recorded in a ledger. You could do this with email and a spreadsheet.
784.
by krallja 7y ago
if (wages+tips) < minimum_wage then wages = minimum_wages end
785.
by krallja 7y ago
The punched card, for a long time, _was_ the storage.
786.
by krallja 7y ago
> why not store the years since 1900 Most input systems were punch cards, which were designed to be fixed-length textual input directly from a user at a card punch machine. Teaching users how to map from “years since 1900” to the correct
787.
by krallja 7y ago
SNI is part of the HTTPS protocol and is not related to host name resolution. You’re still vulnerable to it even if you are connecting to a host in your HOSTS file.
788.
by krallja 7y ago
ea is short for each
789.
by krallja 7y ago
Dan Castellaneta told Conan that the script is written “d’oh” when anyone other than Homer says it. Homer says “(annoyed grunt).”
790.
by krallja 7y ago
I have formed a pet theory that wheeled luggage was dependent on the invention of roller blades.
791.
by krallja 7y ago
Hardly anybody writes a retraction after three years of “mongodb is great in production” — they silently switch to a new product, and maybe say something positive about it too. These kind of rants are hard-earned battle scars of former zeal
792.
by krallja 7y ago
https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1 ?
793.
by krallja 7y ago
Fourth time this month.
794.
by krallja 7y ago
> that heat is being generated less efficiently than a purpose-built device. “efficiency” is meaningless when heat is desired. if you pump 100W into a device, and it “wastes” all that power, you have successfully generated 100W of heat.
795.
by krallja 7y ago
DataDog also had downtime today
796.
by krallja 7y ago
How did it affect you? I just loaded the page on my three year old smartphone, and didn’t even notice the extra bandwidth or CPU usage.
797.
by krallja 7y ago
It’s called cracktorio for a reason. The factory must grow.
798.
by krallja 7y ago
Do people still do wire-wrap prototyping? Strong enough for (tiny-scale) production, yet no chemicals, soldering, or drilling required.
799.
by krallja 7y ago
Well, now I know what story is going to show up on HN next month “Wolfenstein 3D on my basement CDC 6600”
800.
by krallja 7y ago
The 8-Bit Guy repaired a Commodore calculator that had what appeared to be a hand-drawn circuit board as well: https://youtu.be/Q0rSv8NfQXQ?t=65
801.
by krallja 7y ago
How does copper cladding work? That is, how do the manufacturers get copper onto the FR-4?
802.
by krallja 7y ago
Would Azure AD work?
803.
by krallja 7y ago
Mercurial is also an insult. Both projects were started in response to a mercurial git’s actions.
804.
by krallja 7y ago
All of the other constants are expected. 1, 2, 9, 10 ok those make sense. Where does 38 come from? Ha ha. So random.
805.
by krallja 7y ago
I love that there are people whose hobby is preserving things. SNES was an important part of so many 80s and 90s kids’ childhoods! But how many of them have digital logic experience, especially at the reverse engineering level? And actually
806.
by krallja 7y ago
No, I noticed the error while walking out of the DMV and went back in line to have it corrected. The physical card never left the premises!
807.
by krallja 7y ago
Illinois DMV definitely sells names and addresses. They misspelled my name in a very unique way on my drivers license once, and I’ve received junk mail to that name ever since.
808.
by krallja 7y ago
Google Maps is not just path finding; it also takes real-time traffic info into account.
809.
by krallja 7y ago
A lambda also behaves this way; it’s how it captures the closure scope.
810.
by krallja 7y ago
> The judge ruled that the government is entitled to any proceeds from those public talks, though it’s not clear how that ruling might be enforced.

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