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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I wrote a web app that launched from inetd to control my cd player. It worked great but wasn't super practical since I tended to use it from the same computer that it ran from. Everything web was fun in the 90s though.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Never sure who the real winner is. https://youtu.be/JRWlnv0_svU
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
The only people who are pure of heart live in a tribe that has never interacted with outsiders. Everyone else is tainted.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
My racist view is that Chinese people are smarter than western people. Do you have a problem with that type of racism? What if it is true? If it is just my personal observation but don't make decisions based on race, am I still a bad p
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I had a pentium 66 with just a huge heat sink. My pentium 133 had a fan but when I upgraded to a k6-2 I under clocked it so I could just use a heatsink. It was 2015 before I finally got another fanless computer.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I have a friend that I have been migrating his XP VM to new laptops for the last 13 years. XP was the last version of windows that would run his invoicing software and launching a VM is less painful for him than purchasing/learning&#x2
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I don't think I have ever looked at the Verge until this comment so I decided to take check it out. The first article that I clicked on was about how it is OK to Schwarzkopf my watches. Not exactly hard hitting tech there so doubt I wi
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I am not sure why you are being downvoted. There is plenty of artistic expression in programming. Maybe we need to make more distinctions in the types of work that we do because I would love to see programming become a true engineering pro
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
So in fairness, I am in no way anti-vax but I am not vaccinated and intend to ride out this whole unvaxed thing until either my risk levels become higher or some new bad ass strain comes along like the fourth horseman. So as I understand yo
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Guido Van Rossum must have watched this before deciding on using indention as a block structure in Python.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
The best part about being a conspiracy theorist is not having myocarditis.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
We are much more liberal here in Maine. You can basically go anywhere you want on unimproved land so long as it is not posted no trespass.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
In Maine, great ponds are considered public and you must allow public access even if your land surrounds the water. This does not mean that you have the right to trample their farms or ride your dirt bike, but you must allow access at least
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I think if it had been any other part of the finger it would have been real bad. I was working and typing with it until getting the call from the PA mid-morning the next day. Really it came at the perfect time with my Christmas break giving
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I will not say that there is no possibility that I misunderstood him but if I understood him correctly the act of taking the antibiotic will make it less likely to work for me personally in the future. In hindsight I wish I had ask him to c
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Yeah it went through the joint and I got a call the next day telling me it was broken. The PA told me to get splint and to give it a rest for a week.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Not much of a secret but eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Last Wednesday night, I drove a torx bit right through the first knuckle on my left index finger. Since I type all day this seemed serious enough to go to the emergency room. When I see the doctor, I am sure I sounded like a fiend looking f
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
At this point in my life I have almost lost all faith in people sharing an honest assessment of anything. The Linux is hard trope is really starting to bore me. I get it things may be different on Linux/Mac/Windows but most UI thi
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I agree, this is the type of bug where the test would not have been written until after the bug was found. When the bug gets found, the test will be written, the code will be updated and no one will touch it unless another bug gets found; r
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Not sure this is exactly prior art but clipperz password manager has an offline mode where it generates a web page with your data encrypted.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Fair enough. Sometimes I am blindly emotional when I feel like my right to do stuff to my own things on my own property is questioned.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
So your argument is that we should enact laws that ban all automotive work at home because some people do not follow the existing laws around dumping motor oil. Do you really not see the flaw in this argument?
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I was thinking stick in a gsm module with $7/month airvoice sim. https://www.airvoicewireless.com/plan/monthy-plan
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I came in looking for awk in the list to upvote. By far awk has saved me the most time. I have used it for everything from parsing EDI documents to making simple shells for managing processes. I just used it to create a bit over 2000 data t
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
That is what they should have called key signing for PGP. Short snorter parties would sound a lot more fun than key signing parties.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
A long time because the old TLS does not let you connect to modern servers.
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
Block all of the prefixes that their AS announces too: https://bgp.tools/as/35913#prefixes
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
My own experience with a few low/no code tools: Power Apps: A raw app is easy to get running but a nice app that does what I want is hacky. Pentaho Data Integration: Super easy to use and maintain. MS Access: Fast development and you c
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by mmcgaha 4y ago
I have been noticing this style for almost 10 years. The recent uptick in cars with this style paint surely indicates that it will not be around much longer.

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