netcoyote

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by netcoyote 2y ago
One of the concerns that many folks in the United States have, including me, is that their future out-of-pocket health care costs are unknowable. I _hope_ no one in my family gets a life-threatening disease that wipes out my savings, but th
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by netcoyote 2y ago
That would make it obscure to just about everyone I know, except perhaps one of my friends who grew up in the Ukraine. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by netcoyote 2y ago
Perhaps there is an opportunity here for the bully’s parents to go after the victim’s parents to dun some money and increase the loot haul. “Okay Brad, now I want you to sure to target little Billy, because it seems like his parents would
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by netcoyote 2y ago
This is just a hypothesis, but I wonder if it’s simply that AMD was willing to accept lower margins to keep their business going, where INTC wasn’t willing to compete because they’re comparing the contract to the higher margin sales they ma
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by netcoyote 2y ago
The Principle of Charity would suggest that the grandparent comment was not trying to control for age differences, but was sharing an anecdote that many folks in the grandparent’s neighborhood were of similar age, leading to a hypothesis, a
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by netcoyote 2y ago
Record levels of solar-related deaths this year spawned calls for increased research of the sun to identify potential solutions, with some groups calling for sun-related regulation to reduce the shockingly high death tolls, including those
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by netcoyote 2y ago
I want to give you props for one of the most Linux guru answers I’ve seen. “Oh yeah, Linux is entirely reliable on suspend/resume if you simply diagnose which of the one-hundred odd system services and drivers is not working, and write
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by netcoyote 2y ago
I expect disposable gloves would have worked, but they weren't provided, and as a naive 17-year old I was way too dumb to ask. For reference on my stupidity, around the same time I mixed chlorine bleach and hydrogen peroxide to make a
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by netcoyote 2y ago
When I worked at Lyon’s Restaurant (a slightly upscale Denny’s, to my mind) as a dishwasher, the heavy-duty rubber gloves they provided were frequently wet enough inside that mold formed rapidly. Only put the awful things on once or twice b
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by netcoyote 2y ago
This is great! I’d encourage you to add buttons for values larger than $1!
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by netcoyote 2y ago
In my company we call these "Show & Fail". They often occur because we'll say "I just want to fix this one thing before we build the demo". We call this type of commit to the source control system a "break-
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by netcoyote 2y ago
Thank you for your informative answer. I’m glad that there are folks like you who help make this internet community a better place.
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by netcoyote 2y ago
At that time, by working ungodly amounts of hours every week. [edit] which is not sustainable and I do not recommend!
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by netcoyote 2y ago
As the person who implemented it originally, it was not a technical limitation but a design choice. In the early implementation of Warcraft 1 (1993-ish) I made it possible to select all the units on-screen at once with drag-select, and even
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by netcoyote 2y ago
As a data point, the Blizzard sales team’s projections were that we would sell 4,000 copies of StarCraft in a year in South Korea, so there was no reason to in localize the game. First year sales were on the order of 100x that amount, quite
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by netcoyote 3y ago
I experienced the decrease in wood quality firsthand when I worked for my dad's business building custom wine cellars. I worked in the factory building wine racks for a couple of years after graduating high school in the 1980's, a
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by netcoyote 3y ago
Lemmings is such a fun game! I played many hours of it trying to perfectly solve its many puzzles. Lemmings inspired Ron Millar, a designer at Silicon & Synapse (later Blizzard Entertainment), to invent The Lost Vikings, our first origi
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by netcoyote 3y ago
I’m an atuin user too, and think it’s great. It’s a significant improvement over the bash history configurations (incantations?) I used previously. Where atuin really shines is in keeping a single unified history across multiple shell windo
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by netcoyote 3y ago
Should use $BASH_SOURCE in place of $0 so it works in files that are sourced. The incantation at the top of all my scripts, that I learned from other HN folks, is: SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )&
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by netcoyote 3y ago
Nix has been a mixed blessing. For background our product is an online game and related services (social, persistence, auth, analytics, etc.) written primarily in C# (some JavaScript and Python), running inside Ubuntu docker containers, usi
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by netcoyote 3y ago
> Specifically, a malicious hypervisor can selectively drop any writes of an AMD SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guest that occurred at an attacker-chosen point This strikes me as the thing that Raymond Chen calls "being on the other side of thi
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by netcoyote 3y ago
Don't all thread implementations leak unfreed memory when a thread exits? I mean, how would the thread know that the memory needs to be freed? It cannot know that the application hasn't ROT13 encoded the pointer, passed it to anot
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by netcoyote 3y ago
If there's a meeting and most, but not all, of the folks read the document, then there's the potential they'll have to wait while the others read the document. To avoid that eventuality, the convention is that no one reads th
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by netcoyote 4y ago
Yeah, what an ass. Oh wait, that's me! I did call it my self-aggrandizing blog at one point. In retrospect I think I mostly wrote it to vent about the pain and awfulness of crunch culture. I'll seek a therapist in future, and hope
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by netcoyote 5y ago
One of the things I'm immensely curious about is how you handle security/networking/firewalls when working with Hetzner or other bare metal providers? It seems they don't provide network gear for firewalls and to protect
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by netcoyote 5y ago
The virus might be discovered after the file it’s contained in is written to disk, which is why you’d need to scan when reading.
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by netcoyote 5y ago
A programmer at Interplay, Rebecca Heineman, ported Out of This World to Super Nintendo around ... 1992 or so? It was an amazing accomplishment because the SNES only had a 3.58 MHz (yes, you read that right) processor, and wasn't affor
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by netcoyote 6y ago
In the old days of 68K Mac, it could be even worse. The spinning hourglass was often animated during a timer interrupt, while the main application might have died altogether.
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by netcoyote 6y ago
Great! When Windows gets awful enough, it will actually be the year of Linux Desktop.
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by netcoyote 7y ago
> criminals breaking into the datacenter, powering servers off and stealing disks? Yes, exactly. A company I worked for had a hard drive pulled from a running server in a (third party) data center that contained their game server binarie

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