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An Interesting Bug(chatwithsysop.com)
2 points by masto 2y ago|1 comments
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by masto 2y ago
Interesting is subjective, but I timed out my brain trying to think of a title. I've been trying to get into blogging more about technical stuff, and I've always enjoyed other people's writeups of troubleshooting sessions. So
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by masto 2y ago
I encountered this a while back and it led me to dig into the ESP-IDF documentation to try to understand the behavior of a device I did not write the code for. Yes, it's software, but it's a footgun from the manufacturer. This in
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by masto 2y ago
The same author just put this out: https://youtu.be/F5m2JxplnXk
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by masto 2y ago
I love the tech. I hate that it gets used to fill YouTube with zero-effort slop. I don't have a solution.
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by masto 2y ago
I tried this with a random commit from one of my projects: https://github.com/masto/LED-Marquee/commit/775d48fc0dd969de... . You can read my human-crafted message there. By comparison, what follows is the one
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by masto 2y ago
This pops up at an interesting time. I'm thinking about starting a business that will require me to sell services to enterprise customers, and I feel much the same way about phone calls. I thought I would just have to get good at it, b
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by masto 2y ago
I was working at a dead-end IT job that was eating away at me because the company was a terrible fit, and I couldn't help but wonder if I could put my skills to better use than clearing paper jams and running mail merge reports. But th
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by masto 2y ago
Translation: it wasn't meeting the daily active users engagement targets, so we need to artificially juice them by forcing it on.
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by masto 2y ago
If I did a service here by pulling a few cockroaches out into the open, the comment was worth it.
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by masto 2y ago
I'm fortunate enough to have worked for Google during a period of time when Big Tech started to gain at least a modicum of self-awareness of its toxic culture and history of excesses and indiscretions. I arrived on the scene slightly l
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by masto 2y ago
It has done wonders for my mental health to simply walk away from them. I don’t mind being in a “bubble” of nice people.
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by masto 2y ago
I can appreciate these instruments now, especially in their historical context, legacy in music, and from a technical perspective. But I still carry a 30 year old dislike of "that FM sound", for the dumbest of reasons: I was in co
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by masto 2y ago
Videos embedded in other pages don't show up in my https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
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by masto 2y ago
The part I found strangest about the house-buying process (in 2015) was that the real estate agents, mortgage brokers, etc., had a fundamentally different conceptual framework than we did. I thought we were looking for a place to put our st
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by masto 2y ago
One of the things it took a little time to wrap my head around when I started working at Google was trading off reliability or correctness for scaling. I had previously built things like billing systems and small-scale OLTP web applications
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by masto 2y ago
[Spoiler ahead, slightly different take] There are plenty of direct cheats already posted, but I thought this was interesting. It "slipped up" and told me both who did it and what the evidence is, in response to an attempt not to
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by masto 2y ago
The first thing I did was take 5 seconds for an image search to confirm that the cows in the paintings look like.. actual cows. Then I read the article, and remain perplexed about art and those who write about art.
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by masto 2y ago
The Google you remember from 2003 was murdered and its corpse is being worn by an entirely unrecognizable company.
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by masto 2y ago
My ability to think of examples obviously isn't that great. I still don't see where it fits into the lineup. If there's still a PixelMator Pro in 6 months, I'll be surprised, but it won't be the first time I'm
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by masto 2y ago
Much, much more likely. The only acquisition I can think of that Apple has allowed to continue to exist is Shazam.
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by masto 2y ago
Me too! I even repaired it when the speaker failed. The creator was very helpful in telling me the model of speaker and giving me some tips for opening the thing.
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by masto 2y ago
"We have taken immediate steps to mitigate this risk and have put measures in place to prevent a similar occurrence." Somehow I doubt that.
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by masto 2y ago
I have such a love-hate relationship with this thing. I don't think Tesla's approach will ever be truly autonomous, and they do a lot of things to push it into unsafe territory (thanks to you know who at the helm). I am a tech ent
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by masto 2y ago
My first "job" was at a place that did a lot of crunching on big data (or what counted for big at the time). I'd go there after school and do things like rotate the backup tapes. Until they found out I could, and then it got
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by masto 2y ago
> Pre-Arduino, learning electronics wasn't more profound. It was just less accessible. This absolutely matches my experience. I was very interested in electronics growing up in the 80s. I took everything apart (occasionally without
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by masto 2y ago
I was just looking at motion graphics (I guess it's called motion design now) tools yesterday. I have a small YouTube channel and I was noodling around with the idea of making a little intro screen that just does some kind of swishy fl
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by masto 2y ago
Back in 2013ish, I installed an industrial stack light at my desk ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/masto/54069311973/ ) and informed my coworkers that it would save them the trouble of walking all the way across
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by masto 2y ago
1. It’s a bizarre, over the top dissection of a person and their resume. Funny because the style doesn’t match the content. 2. To me personally, it’s extra funny because it’s two people breathlessly discussing.. me. 3. The strange turns of
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by masto 2y ago
I fed my resume into this thing and I can't stop laughing. https://masto.xyz/tmp/podcast.mp3

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