mattbee

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by mattbee 2y ago
If you've received the output of an AGPL-3 program after requesting it through a network, you have interacted with that program through a network. Why does it matter that it's gone through several API layers, a queue, an email sys
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by mattbee 2y ago
It feels like fly is trying to repeat a growth model that worked 20 years ago: throw interesting toys at engineers, then wait for engineers to recommend their services as they move on in their careers. Part of that playbook is the old Move
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by mattbee 2y ago
I've definitely been to a LAN party where IP addresses were written on clothes pegs by the entrance. You take a peg on your way in, clip it to your ethernet cable, configure that IP statically!
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by mattbee 2y ago
ReiserFS4 didn't get merged because of his empathy issues, and those issues are also presumably contributors to his murdering his wife. Man, I have worked with some egotistical programmers and given some bad performance reviews. But
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by mattbee 2y ago
This is pleasingly insane, congratulations! Is there a program to test the fairness of a given dice or coin? Is that a program that's even feasible to write?
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by mattbee 2y ago
I can't even follow what's going on here, and I used to be an expert in software licensing drama. All I see is a bunch of unilateral actions driven by Matt Mullenweg that breaks so many implicit promises of how a free software ste
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by mattbee 2y ago
The first page of the wizard says "HMRC will stand by the result you get from this tool." You can reference any check you make with, assuming you answer honestly. I think it's fair to challenge the "tax dodger" bru
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by mattbee 2y ago
It's an anti-avoidance measure from when IT contractors benefited from (historically) lower business taxes while taking no actual business risks. The rules are lengthy because they're trying to be precise. If you read the guidance
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by mattbee 2y ago
I genuinely think that is the best Archimedes-only game, just pure arcade fun with split screen dogfights. Such an amazing technical grounding. In 1990!
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by mattbee 2y ago
I designed a similar system 10 years ago at Bytemark which worked for a few thousand VMs, ran for about 12 years. It called BigV [1]. It might still be running (any customers here still?). I think the new owners tried to shut it down but c
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by mattbee 2y ago
I'd not spend mental energy negotiating hypothetical salaries with a current employer, _especially_ someone you're friendly with. I'd think about "what real offer would I need to up and leave?" and then spend a cert
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Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley (1991)(archive.nytimes.com)
1 points by mattbee 2y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 2y ago
The simplest trick for detecting old ARM emulation - ISTR was used on some Gameboy Advance copy protection: store a booby-trap instruction at PC+4 (i.e. the very next one). A real ARM has a pipeline that reads PC+8, while decoding PC+4 and
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by mattbee 2y ago
I feel what we're all saying is that the security risks of amassing all this data are very unlikely to offset the small benefit of being able to remember something you did last week. Given that the benefits are few, there's no bet
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by mattbee 2y ago
No, not seriously. TFA says it's encrypted at rest, with Bitlocker. When running, the data is accessible only to the SYSTEM user. That's exactly how I'd expect to implement this on Windows, I'm not sure what else you co
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by mattbee 2y ago
Maybe you've also read his self-published autobiography, but his character flaws are front and centre. He's explicit about his vanity and overconfidence, painfully honest about personal snubs from Gates etc. He comes across as a
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by mattbee 2y ago
I must have caught a calmer moment at midnight then! I'm in Murton so there's not a lot of light looking away from town.
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by mattbee 2y ago
Since we're all scientists here, I'll report a negative from central York. My wife and I stood up in the attic looking out of the Velux for 10 minutes. It was dark, clear and we were could see from NE-ish to SE-ish. We couldn&#x2
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by mattbee 2y ago
"Ahoy there, one-armed pirate captain, couldst thou tell me how to implement the sieve of Eratosthenes in Python?"
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by mattbee 2y ago
Yeah it's pretty good! I wrote a few hundred line build script for a Windows project last month. I knew no powershell last month, and now it makes more sense to me than bash which I've used badly for 25 years. Actually on Linux I
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by mattbee 2y ago
Ooof make me feel old why don't you... this isn't Doom, it's Dungeon Master! The grid system, everything moving on a metronome, inventory system etc. I agree this version is shallow but very easy to pick up. Legend Of Grimroc
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by mattbee 2y ago
They were a tyranny in our house too! I bought a Sodastream, HobbyBrew CO₂ cannister and an adapter to join the two together. For the cost of like 30 bottles of Diet Coke I now have cheap fizzy water and the kids can add squash to it.
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by mattbee 2y ago
I know a lot of UK soft drinks changed their recipes in 2018 - I guess I was more surprised that Coca Cola isn't the same thing the world over.
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by mattbee 2y ago
Whoa, in the UK they changed Coca Cola to contain "only" 11.4g carbohydrates. I think that was a response to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy of 2018. To me it tastes the same but without the stickiness that made me want to brush my
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by mattbee 3y ago
My little old hosting business lived and died on this particular hill, I just didn't realise what was happening at the time. When we grew up in the early 2000s, our bigger sales usually featured complicated stacks. They had redundant l
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by mattbee 3y ago
It's definitely nothing new but good advice bears repeating over the decades :) For big picture stuff on writing I also like "On Writing Well" by William Zissner and "First You Write A Sentence" by Joe Moran (which
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by mattbee 3y ago
Hilarious title - 37signals is surely now associated with the opposite of expertise in this area? It'd be like taking advice from "Paul von Hinderberg's Guide To Safe Passenger Aviation" or "Gerald Ratner's S
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by mattbee 3y ago
This is really cool, Michel wrote this for his Apple II emulator, and I've been using it (as a slight troll) to replace the front-end for an Archimedes emulator. It's early days, but if _I_ can understand the API, it must be OK :)
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by mattbee 3y ago
Well for one, the Powershell script I just wrote to build all the 3rd-party library dependencies for a video game. tar.exe was added to Windows this January, sourced from libarchive: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vi
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On Cooling the Mark Out (1952)(sci-hub.ru)
1 points by mattbee 3y ago|2 comments

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