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by orev 2y ago
It’s not usually the PM that has to deal with the unmanageable mess, it’s the engineer who’s still expected to deliver and gets it held against them when they can’t because of the mess.
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by orev 2y ago
Being tired or exhausted from daily/weekly chores is definitely a thing people deal with, but let’s not start calling that “burnout”. Burnout is a much different thing that’s a profound sense of exhaustion that can take years to recove
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by orev 2y ago
Search has already been litigated, and is allowed because it brings benefits to the original sites through links back to the original sources. AI does no such thing, and therefore is not covered under any rulings that allow search indexes.
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by orev 2y ago
I personally prefer the warmer tinted screens in the evening, and go so far as a completely red color tint at night, so I’m glad this caught on simply because the option is available on most devices. However, as it specifically relates to s
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by orev 2y ago
This does work, however it’s really not ideal for Windows machines using a dock (which is usually the power connection) and external monitors. If you unplug first, all your windows get moved to the single laptop display, but if you close th
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by orev 2y ago
Some tools like ssh and gpg go out of their way to prevent easy use via command line flags. They often have a good reason for doing this, but there are also sometimes good reasons where this type of protection causes problems. Since the imp
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by orev 2y ago
Not much more than just clicking an update button once in a while. But that’s a standard workflow most people are used to. Updating the clock on the standalone timers has to be done using a tiny LCD screen with an esoteric menu system while
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by orev 2y ago
Serial is slow but typically very reliable. If you’re seeing random dropped bytes, I’d take a look at your wiring and PC interface UART which might be low quality. FTDI UARTs in particular are often counterfeit (the real ones are good).
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by orev 2y ago
I did this for a long time with timer switches that could be programmed similarly, and switching to HA wasn’t some huge change, it was just nicer. I had to periodically make sure the clock was correct on them, as they would drift a few minu
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by orev 2y ago
Can you expand on why you think it’s performative?
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by orev 2y ago
Security is built in layers. Is it theoretically possible for someone on the network to observe the knock sequence? Yes. Is it likely to happen in any but the most adversarial of conditions? No. And if it’s implemented in a cryptographicall
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by orev 2y ago
Because drivers and other hardware related software have the ability to add things like tab pages to the Control Panel dialogs. All of those would need to be rewritten to work with the new Settings interface, and with over 30 years of drive
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by orev 2y ago
While I wish that fwknop would have displaced the whole idea of port knocking by now, this adds the element of triggering command execution based on the packet, instead of the single fixed action of just opening a port.
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by orev 2y ago
This is a terrible way to evaluate companies/people, and it comes off as a “Linux person” who refuses to understand why companies use Windows. The fact is that Windows has leagues more control features (Group Policy, etc.) than Linux d
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by orev 2y ago
The Microsoft forum has been so bad for so long that all IT people know to stay away from it. If I happened to be in an elevator with Satya Nadella for 20 seconds, the main thing I’d tell him is that site needs to be deleted due to the amou
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by orev 2y ago
Thanks for recognizing what SRE/SysAdmins have to deal with all the time. I think in general that type of experience would help Developers be more empathetic to the operations side of things. Those fires often come from trade-offs made
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by orev 2y ago
Yes, and that was litigated and ruled in favor of Google, because search engines provide links back to the original content, so there’s a mutual benefit. Using copyrighted material for AI does not provide links back to the original sources,
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by orev 2y ago
Your intuition on what’s legal is miscalibrated. Clickwrap licenses have been found valid and have been upheld by courts in many legal rulings. You maybe could have made that argument 15 years ago, but not now. Some are getting to the point
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by orev 2y ago
Local storage can go bad, and it also adds cost to the camera. But the most important reason you need streaming to a DVR is that the criminal could steal the camera and if it’s only using local storage, now your evidence is gone. I do get t
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by orev 2y ago
The purpose of this type of action is not to stop the carbon emissions at that moment , but to get people’s attention to hope something is done in the future. The main discussion is whether this kind of action will create the intended
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by orev 2y ago
I meant a network level firewall at the perimeter, but this is good information to know you can’t rely on the Windows firewall.
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by orev 2y ago
That’s definitely not the norm. IPv6 is enabled by default and it’s not recommended to disable it. Only really locked down places that are ignoring recommendations would have it disabled. Whether it’s exposed to the Internet is another ques
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by orev 2y ago
Batch files have been used forever (since mainframes), and I get suspicious when someone implies that APIs are the “normal” way to do things. It makes me think they don’t have enough experience outside of the app development bubble. Files d
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by orev 2y ago
A single stock is high risk, an index fund is very diversified, and while it does fluctuate with the market, overall the risk is very low on a long timeline.
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by orev 2y ago
> worst thing I have ever seen happen in any major language Survivorship bias. Python just barely survived the transition, and you only still use it now because it did make it. Take a look at Perl 6 to see a major language that failed.
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by orev 2y ago
I use my own Excel sheet that calculates project risk from each task using a formula based on: Estimated hours, in whole hour increments (i.e. 1 hour is the minimum allowed estimate). Usually you’d then multiply the engineering estimate by
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by orev 2y ago
To be sure, there is no *need* for smart lights, just like there’s no need for air conditioning, refrigerator water dispensers, and wireless headphones. But they are nice to have. As someone who recently moved, they were pretty low on the p
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by orev 2y ago
Scanning the card would allow them to monitor the frequency that any particular member goes to the store, and with data analysis they would be able to detect unusual patterns, such as the same member going in multiple times per day/wee
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by orev 2y ago
It would have been, if all the major trading platforms weren’t having technical issues and nobody could login. They’re starting to get resolved now, but people missed out on a 3% increase by the time they did.
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by orev 2y ago
You’re talking about issues with alignment when data is displayed on a terminal or text editor, which is not at all related to data exchange. In data exchange nobody ever allows multiple tabs between columns. If there are multiple tabs with

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