myu701

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by myu701 7y ago
Does anyone know of public ISP dashboards that show used/total capacity on their network in terms of customer usage? I'm sure its trivial for an internal employee to pull up solarwinds or whatever, but I'd be curious to see i
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The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community(anthonydgreen.net)
118 points by myu701 7y ago|95 comments
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by myu701 7y ago
AutoCAD over local NFS chokes, I can't imagine trying to run it over VDI. Some things are just IO and processor intensive, and for those, having the data be local is a much more efficient process overall.
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by myu701 7y ago
Thanks for sending this my way, I hadn't seen this before. This program appears to support some of the ephemera for tabletop game worlds, which is quite useful, but not directly what I'm after (creating the maps themselves). This
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Ask HN: Best free / paid cartography program for tabletop gaming?
3 points by myu701 7y ago|2 comments
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by myu701 7y ago
Just set this up. Thanks!
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by myu701 7y ago
Yeah I've been consulting this a lot lately. Been writing a data-dense desktop application and trying to make it as good to use on keyboard-only users as it is for mouse-using users. I figure the closer I get to that, the easier the po
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by myu701 7y ago
I'll throw one I am DEFINITELY guilty of. No offline? No onboard
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by myu701 7y ago
Does F# offer this 'type hole' thing? I admit I still like to let a type instance and then fill in its members with calculated values, database reads etc. but since I'm nice and C#rrupted I don't do it the idiomatic&#x2F
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by myu701 7y ago
In times when I'm in evil-overlord mode, I want to remove all lever-sets and replace them with doorknobs covered in toddler-spinny-thingies. Doorknobs are not ADA compliant any longer, but if you are on a private island with utah-rapto
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by myu701 7y ago
My business class just-retired-to-k3s-duty laptop was manufactured in 2014 and has a LCD. That was only 5 years ago. Fixed backlight, no light ambience sensor. Cheap laptops today like the HP Pavilions of the world still use fixed-backlight
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by myu701 7y ago
I'm not surprised at this. $450 used to get you a device running current Android, current SoC, 1080p screen, headphone jack, removable battery, SD card slot, and IR blaster. ( https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note
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Only 10% of Americans spend $1000 on a smartphone(9to5google.com)
3 points by myu701 7y ago|2 comments
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by myu701 7y ago
If you are on an Android device you can export an encrypted backup and scan a QR code / type in the password to the encrypted archive to transfer messages / group memberships with only a safety number change in most cases. https:
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by myu701 7y ago
> I'd be surprised if companies have a CS degree requirement for that job. I wouldn't be as there are not a lot of 'technical support' degrees. Someone once told me something to the effect of "the two people grou
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by myu701 7y ago
The confluence of lots of degree-holders looking for work and the decline in companies investing in internal training programs has (IMO) rendered the 'firm handshake and a job for 40 years working your way up the ladder' boomer st
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by myu701 7y ago
Paywall bypass -> http://archive.ph/cRZSn
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by myu701 7y ago
While we need more context as to where this handwritten SQL is going (into a codebase [with parameterization ] to get code reviewed / PRed / compiled , vs. being typed in by a user to some textbox etc. ) to more specifically comme
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by myu701 7y ago
I'll bite. Why should that user feel obligated to have children? There are other users on this site (I'm not one of them) that argue that the world is suffering from overpopulation. I'm interested to hear your perspective as
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by myu701 7y ago
RE: storing user data in a central server or on device, this feeling is what it must be like to feel old. I remember developing applications for the pocket PC in the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 era. The advice from the Larry Roofs and Dan Fe
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by myu701 7y ago
I love Signal, and upsell it whenever I can. Signal has its ideosyncratic parts, some of which are being worked on, others not so much. Some of the more visible ones are IMO: Signal forces users to use phone numbers; some people don't
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by myu701 7y ago
I plan to do this as I was going to use Mullvad; now I can help Firefox reduce the Google reliance at the same time? Sign me up
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by myu701 7y ago
Do they though? I've had several family members buy Windows 10 PCs and they specifically requested I 'install Windows XP on it' (install Classic shell + a few other utilities to make the shell look more like Luna or Aero depe
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by myu701 7y ago
It sounds like in this early milestone they will NOT fallback to unencrypted DNS to do a sort of 'scream test'. > We can start seeing the challenges in enforcing the line on preferring resolution failure to unencrypted fallback
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by myu701 7y ago
Syncthing is equivalent to the file-sync portion of Nextcloud and really is p2p FWIW. Been happy enough to replace my Onedrive subscription and once set up, just works.
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by myu701 7y ago
Can you give a little more detail about what wartime technology fueled boomer wealth and the economy in general? My limited understanding from HS was that the boom in the 1950s/60s was due to other nations rebuilding from WWII and need
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by myu701 7y ago
I can't speak to Google's, but Dragon Professional supports legal and medical jargon out of the box. Pricey, but for powerful offline speech recognition, that's understandable.
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by myu701 7y ago
Windows POS Ready 2009 is the Windows-7 based product that we still use here. Supported until 2023 by contractual obligations. No wonder they are offering ESUs to businesses and maybe even consumers - gotta write the updates anyways, might
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by myu701 7y ago
TL;DR -> www.example.net/2019/10/03/article.html 'decays' much more gracefully than www.example.net/articles/author/published/some-article-title-that-might-be-changed#section-2?action=cli
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by myu701 7y ago
I rolled into Burger King and bought a normal whopper and a Impossible whopper for the express stated purpose of being able to say the thing I was pooh-poohing (meatless burger!? let's be serious, I said to myself) was something I had

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