mikestew

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by mikestew 2mo ago
You're replying to the same person that thinks they can dress for -40C with some layers that will easily fit in a carry-on.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
Sometimes there isn’t a steelman argument for outright corruption, especially when the argument is, “meh, could be worse.”
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by mikestew 2mo ago
What complexity do you imagine here? Put it behind ACLs or some other permissions scheme. I could almost believe you’re being sarcastic or trolling.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
The translation feature of Safari on macOS worked well enough for me. I would assume that functionality exists on another browser/OS, maybe yours has it?
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by mikestew 2mo ago
That's not what TFA is on about at all, it's about the monopoly Sony has on selling digital games exclusively through their store. Physical discs don't enter into it.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
Read the article again, then. Anyone that has could get the list with a trivial amount of work. Security through obscurity isn’t going to hide that client list. And who knows? Maybe someone competent whose company is a client will see that
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by mikestew 2mo ago
Hey, hey, a little trigger warning over here? My last job before retirement was in that world. If it had been my first software job, it would have been my last.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
Certainly, this isn't going to be career-ending, as it should. No, someone with just as few morals as OP will say to themselves, "just the kind of person I was looking for!", and the failing up begins.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
Full of sage advice, decent rss ideas, the astronomy page and the website, the options, colors all look fantastic. And how much of that is original with the blog author? Previously, one might have just given them the benefit of the doubt,
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by mikestew 2mo ago
The only houses I see are across a busy highway (101). The location is in an industrial park with nothing behind it. You’re not wrong, for large values of “near”, but not making a great case.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
The whoopsie is implying that what was on paper and legal… Where in the U. S. is it legal to irrigate crops with gray water? Nowhere I’m aware of, except a few places where subsurface drip irrigation is allowed.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
Musk screws Memphis and this the result. Is your data center quiet and doesn’t use water? Doesn’t matter, it’s now known that data center builders argue in bad faith, and we aren’t having that in our town. No one wants to be the next Memp
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by mikestew 2mo ago
Gray water doesn’t have poop in it, and I’d be shocked if it were legal to dump black water (raw sewage) on fields.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
… or play any part in making the internet suck. Right, it’s the ad-blocking that’s making the internet suck. You’re going to hurt your lower back carrying that much water.
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by mikestew 2mo ago
Most interesting is that interviewers were still asking such questions some fifteen years after Microsoft interviewers were told by HR to quit asking such questions (because the answer might rely on cultural knowledge, etc.) Source: as an i
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by mikestew 2mo ago
It’s not a bad premise. We are both retired tech workers who are doing alright, and a few low-dollar subs won’t having us in the bread line. But where I might let a sub slide because we might use it occasionally, now you have to earn your k
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by mikestew 2mo ago
I suggest going for the most charitable interpretation of OPs writing. This is isn’t it.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I meant when I wrote. I just might not have meant it as seriously as you seem to think.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Despite TFA coming from Visa, of all places, I found it to be a read worthy of my time. Basically, inheritances might not be as large as one might suspect, and the all that "inheritance spending lift" might already be happening (m
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Sibling comment says "diversify", and I tend to agree. I've seen some shit, man. 2000 dot bomb, 2008, bumps along the way. 2000, I was in tech stocks like everyone else, lost a bunch. 2008, learned my lesson and was much more
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Believe it or not, you are legally bound to act in the interests of shareholders. Though a common Internet trope, this is incorrect. However, “legally” or not, you might find yourself unemployed should you ignore the shareholders.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
RunGap will export a FIT file (w/o looking, I think it’s FIT) to iCloud and Dropbox. So it’s technically possible to glue some pieces together. Practically? Dunno, but it might worth a look at RunGap’s web page to see where they’ll exp
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by mikestew 3mo ago
I’m sure you could. At what point do you just rip out the thing that is trying so hard to work around your control of your network? An Apple TV doesn’t cost that much.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
There have been articles lately about the residential proxies loaded in apps for LG TVs. My LG has never seen a network connection, so I’m fuzzy on details.
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Upon connecting it to the internet… I hesitate to blame the victim here, but why on earth would you do that? “$40 Chinese-made” didn’t give you pause?
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Seeing bubbles is reasonably easy. Forecasting when they pop and when to get out is very hard. Amen, $SIBLING. Even an idiot like me could see it coming in 2007, triggered by a young coworker asking me about interest-only housing loans. B
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by mikestew 3mo ago
You would have liked the last place I worked before retirement. Full-on software test team and everything. Private offices, too. Don't get me wrong, there were warts (oh, were there warts), but overall it was a good time. It wasn'
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Testing is not "Quality Assurance". If I got nothing else out of TFA, at least I could raise my hands and shout an "amen!".
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by mikestew 3mo ago
We were talking about the Una watch, and you were, too. Your Epix still twice the price, so the comparison is invalid. As for the "iWatch"<sic>, well, if you haven't researched enough to get the product names right, may
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by mikestew 3mo ago
Very low frequency radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines

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