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by ndespres 6y ago
One idea mentioned in the article that I've seen elsewhere is this: "The gist, then, is that someone is “himself” because countless mental artifacts stay firm from one day to the next, anchoring that person's character over t
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by ndespres 7y ago
This isn't a news site. There's no guarantee of timeliness on any of the links submitted here. This old article could be of interest again as all schooling and most work takes place at home, over computer. A reminder of what some
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by ndespres 7y ago
The 51 days in the headline popped out to me because I have a Sonicwall brand firewall I help manage which requires a reboot every 51 days or it starts dropping packets. Yesterday was day 51 and like clockwork, it started failing.
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by ndespres 7y ago
One thing I think we'll definitely see is a reduction in the amount of apartments available for rent on AirBnB. I've seen reports that after lockdowns went into place in Portland OR and SF, that there were thousands of new units l
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by ndespres 7y ago
Certainly there is. In 2008 there was a fire that destroyed many of the master tapes for old recordings, this will no doubt prevent new releases or remasters of many old albums. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11&#
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by ndespres 7y ago
At each of my last 3 jobs I've been a strong advocate for tracking knowledge in a Wiki. We've used MediaWiki and Confluence, and both worked well. It helps if everyone does their part to contribute, which doesn't always mean
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by ndespres 7y ago
I met with someone recently who offered 4-day workweek as a benefit, but it wasn't a 32-hour week over 4 days, it was just 4 longer days with the same number of total hours. It would be great to have 1 less commute, a 3 day weekend etc
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by ndespres 7y ago
If your computer sends a larger MTU than the next device upstream can handle, the packets will be fragmented leading to increased CPU usage, increased work by the driver, higher I/O on the network interface, higher CPU load on your rou
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by ndespres 7y ago
I don't believe that tcrowe is the person who put this repo up. I do think tcrowe is posting in this thread as 1000units but that's just speculation.
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by ndespres 7y ago
Alright. Look at the reaction you're getting here, and the reaction you get to your attitude over on the Github thread, and consider that maybe your approach to getting your point across isn't working in your favor.
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by ndespres 7y ago
I also flagged this submission. The title of the submission makes it clear that it was posted to gawk/make fun of the person posting it. They state in their manifesto that they are living in a shelter, so presumably they are already in
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by ndespres 7y ago
DSL, at least ADSL commonly found in homes, is designed that way as a good way to split the frequency available on the line to match what people need. It also shares a good portion of the frequency with POTS telephone service. There are SDS
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by ndespres 7y ago
"A view of what Accenture, CapGemini, and Deloitte keep building over and over for large enterprises. Undoubtedly a subset of these custom consulting projects can be turned into SaaS software." I love the idea of figuring out how
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by ndespres 7y ago
I guess it's just part of why something as seemingly simple as a street corner trash can is such a challenging problem to solve. I wish I didn't need 500 lbs of safety features in my car but you need to account for bad actors, idi
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by ndespres 7y ago
Spectrum/Charter and Verizon have finally started allocating a single IP out of a /24 instead of giving me a whole /30 when all I need is one routable address. Too little too late though.
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by ndespres 7y ago
I like these analogies a lot. I regularly have to explain to my clients the difference between the backup system, the disaster recovery system, and the file server replication system. None of them is the same as any other, and each componen
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by ndespres 7y ago
Your examples aren't Powershell commands, they are Windows command line utilities and could be run from command prompt. Real Powershell commands are quite intuitive, support pipelines and are object driven. Give it some credit! For exa
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by ndespres 7y ago
Are you thinking of the story of Ms Pac Man, which reverse engineered and patched the original Pac Man cabinet? I think it was Atari flying out to meet the developers. Great story either way: https://www.fastcompany.com/3067
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by ndespres 7y ago
This style of image gallery was common for the era (1995) since each image could take a minute or more to download over dialup internet connection. At those speeds even a contact sheet of thumbnails was somewhat of a luxury. I don't th
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by ndespres 7y ago
How about if there was a Jeep Wrangler that's actually a motorcycle but still referred to as a Wrangler, and the 4-wheeled Jeep Wrangler gets rebadged as the WranglerQuadro but only for 2 years, then they have a ATV just called "Q
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by ndespres 7y ago
Apple's strategy is great for consumers, IT departments, and (I assume) developers in that way. I can use the same device management tools to control a corporate Macbook, Apple TV, or iPad. The differences in their product line (iPad v
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by ndespres 7y ago
These guys just can not figure out a branding/marketing scheme that won't require overexplaining each time to figure out, and confusion by the consumer. What is a "Surface" if it's really 2 different things, with ve
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by ndespres 7y ago
I make soap and as far as the occupational hazards go, I rank the chemical burns further down the scale from the endless Fight Club references.
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by ndespres 7y ago
A reference to the Good Friday Agreement, a pivotal development in the UK/Republic of Ireland peace talks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement
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by ndespres 7y ago
Proxy war? I can use my wallet, my voice, and my labor power as I please including strikes and boycotts. Isn't that how the "free market" is supposed to work? This is the 2nd time in 24 hrs that someone has made your argument
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by ndespres 7y ago
Ok, but sometimes our moral compass points away from these things and we need to make hard decisions to do the right thing.
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by ndespres 7y ago
In NYC, those piles of garbage bags also have the effect of being seen as de facto garbage bins, so people will throw their litter on top of the piles as if they are some type of container to hold their trash.
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by ndespres 7y ago
Sure seems like a coup if you look at the behavior of prosecutors colluding to jail their opposition's leaders on trumped up charges.
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by ndespres 7y ago
On the other side of the coin, I'm in an area with NO zoning restrictions at all (other than a homophobic county-wide prohibition on pornographic bookstores). The town planning board has no power to disallow any type of building or bus
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by ndespres 7y ago
If you're interested in how gauge blocks fit into the history of precision engineering, a new book called "The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" puts them into context, and presents a very inte

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