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by krallja 3y ago
I actually picked SHA256 for the path-prefix feature in https://jacob.jkrall.net/benfords-law for “NIST compliance.” That is, I didn’t ever want to answer “yes” to a potential customer’s CISO security surveys question like
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by krallja 3y ago
You should start with the blinds that are the most obviously broken.
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by krallja 3y ago
Only if you’re a Muggle.
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by krallja 3y ago
Yes, and the expenses get much worse if you’re traveling in a group. I certainly took the Tube, with my family of four, to Heathrow last spring. It was hundreds of pounds for us to take the Express, or <£30 for the Tube.
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by krallja 3y ago
Then I just go to Reddit or StackExchange Hot Network Questions…
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by krallja 3y ago
How do you delete “the internet?” Here I am life-wasting on HN.
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by krallja 3y ago
Wow, almost all of my SBCs are 8-bitters. uKenbak, Digirule 2U, PAL-1, 6502 Membership Card, dozens of ATMega boards. Plus the VIP2K, Altaid 8800, and 1802 Membership Card are all technically 2-board computers, but that’s only so they can f
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by krallja 3y ago
Technology Connections - https://youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections
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by krallja 3y ago
I haaaaaaated the smell of diesel fumes when riding the school bus as a kid. And I still hate smelling it when dropping the kid off at the bus stop in the morning. Fleet vehicles like school busses are great candidates for electrification b
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by krallja 3y ago
The professional version is to hire an independent mechanic to do the soldering and wire protection.
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by krallja 3y ago
catalogued the issues in my collection elsethread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778825
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by krallja 3y ago
All journals were postmarked after the season they are labeled with. e.g. “Fall 2023” was signed by Tim on December 2, 2023, “December 2023” was from March 6, 2023. ———— Fall 2023 - Plastics Business Summer 2023 - randomly, either Trenchles
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by krallja 3y ago
I don’t remember the exact journals, but I remember these trades being covered: Semiconductors Tractor-trailer maintenance Wedding venues Private investigators
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by krallja 3y ago
No. I am a subscriber to the Coop, and I am not ewilderj. There’s not much else to say about it. It’s like $15, and you get a stamped manila envelope filled with a cover letter explaining the choice of the quarter and a magazine.
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by krallja 3y ago
https://ksp-kos.github.io/KOS/ Kerbal Space Program might not simulate aerodynamics quite to the realism level you prefer, but a lot of people seem to enjoy writing GNC software for it.
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by krallja 3y ago
Shoutout to Trade Journal Cooperative, which curates and delivers a trade journal to their subscribers every quarter. I stopped reading the journals as closely, but I still read the cover letter every quarter, since 2020. https:/&#x2F
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by krallja 3y ago
> how many people can you play with IRL? …one?
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by krallja 3y ago
Our ElasticSearch cluster was running out of RAM. We were doing everything in 32-bit mode, for performance (we couldn’t do Compressed OOPs for some reason) so each node could handle, effectively, 4GiB of data. And we didn’t have the budget
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by krallja 3y ago
Of course, there’s a package for that https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy/blob/master/README.md
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by krallja 3y ago
Did you ever figure out what was causing the sound?
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by krallja 3y ago
Microsoft BASIC for the Macintosh was quite nice, actually!
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by krallja 3y ago
`Win+X I` brings up a PowerShell window. It’s supremely integrated - it can do ANYTHING a compiled .NET language can do, including calling into unmanaged COM, etc.. And it’s super simple - you can get started with simple string processing a
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by krallja 3y ago
By coincidence, I found out about him through the “Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth” on Youtube just today.
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by krallja 3y ago
Yeah, how dare Netflix provide entertainment on-demand and for cheaper than the other entertainment companies?
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by krallja 3y ago
I like how you think. Could tie into VR/metaverse hype by naming it after the Meta key, though.
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by krallja 3y ago
They would take the Scottish coast with them.
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by krallja 3y ago
Slack, Glitch
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by krallja 3y ago
Uptime-related crashes seem fairly common. Here’s one of my stories, from Thanksgiving 2012: https://jacob.jkrall.net/turkey-day-down-time I’ve seen a couple others since, but they had the same general shape so didn’t bothe
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by krallja 3y ago
How do you program the 6850? I thought that was the UART peripheral chip.
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by krallja 3y ago
> 350,000 units was more than any other video game console before it sold lol!

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