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by owenmarshall 3y ago
windows to lisp machine/emacs/Unix keyboard decoder chart: Control = control Alt = meta Windows flag key = super
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Another cliched^Wcommon joke relates to the werase ("word erase") character in TTYs. As you'd guess, it kills the previous word, and is typically bound to ctrl-W.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> The problem isn't going to be solved because doctors are not the primary customer for these systems Agreed! > the procurement department is. But I disagree here. From what I’ve seen in ambulatory EHRs, they are finely tuned for
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
I’m very curious if exit bans are typically targeted towards Chinese nationals, dual-nationals, or foreigners.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
This is 2023’s version of saying “no, actually, it’s safer to be thrown clear if you’re in a wreck so you don’t end up trapped in a burning car.”
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
I was once late for a meeting because my coworker needed to prepone it and I just assumed I’d misheard.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
“Walled garden” is orthogonal to “open source” A walled garden is a site that degrades significantly or is unavailable without an account, like Twitter. Anyone can view all of HN modulo dead comments without an account. You can have a fully
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
This question feels like it belongs to another comment: where does GP talk about “developing ones own LDAP server”?
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> I guess as long as it's not Americans in body bags, we're in the clear? More American private military contractors died in Afghanistan than American military. I don't think anyone noticed. So I'd amend that to &quo
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
I think that would be very surprising to the fine people of Montenegro. Check your local DNS configuration and your spelling, something is likely hijacking NXDOMAINs.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> FWIW, but now I use `at` to schedule "up" 1 min in future Any time I’m ever doing a pfctl to change my router’s firewall rules I schedule a “revert to the n-1 rule set” job two minutes from now to avoid the trip to the basem
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Huh, that’s surprising - when I traveled for bigcorps and littlecorps “internet access” always had its own category in whatever process we had, be it Concur or someone’s hand rolled Excel sheet. I haven’t travelled in years, but just chec
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> That seems obvious. You would assume, but when the Riseup canary expired plenty of people seemed willing to believe that a procedural issue or carelessness was to blame.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
In what state other than possibly Oregon could you say opioids are "completely decriminalized"?! The Virginia general assembly[0] just classified illegally produced fentanyl as a weapon of terrorism, and the attorneys general of
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Is it better than sliced bread, no. But it does some things better than other systems. First, it feels small enough that I understand what’s going on while still providing valuable services out of the box - a web server, load balancer&#x2F
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> I would put Wireguard/Tailscale in the same category as well. Sometimes the hype exists for a good reason - as a paying enterprise Tailscale customer, I’ll fight you if you ever suggest I have to staff people to admin an IPsec o
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Ageism aside, you are describing a system where an unrelated third party who has experience validating state/federal identity documents validated yours, visually compared the person presenting the documents to the picture on the ID, th
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Same here – if you like doing your taxes on paper, AND you post on this site, you'll love it & it'll save you some cash over Turbotax/friends. I will say it isn't the most user friendly application, as evidenced by
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Surely the intersection between "person who shops for groceries without any mobile device or even wallet " and "person willing to send their palmprint to Amazon" is nonexistent. I wonder how much they'll need to
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Is there any evidence that low-level people have been targeted, or is this just speculation around what could happen? Yes, "evidence for a secret program" is a bit tricky to produce, but the one I know of - Doe v. Ashcroft - the
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
As someone too young to have a credit card in 1995, I’m curious: was its theft more of a “big deal” back then? My Amex account number was stolen a month ago. It took me three minutes on the call with a rep to get it locked + a new card iss
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
“OpenBSD’s man pages are good” is a meme for a reason: https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf.5 That + https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html were more than enough to get me going.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
As mentioned the apu2s were great but EOL now. They also didn’t push line rate when I upgraded to gigabit Ethernet. I just went to a local computer shop and picked up a HP desktop which was likely off a business lease, then tossed another N
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
One of my biggest knowledge gaps was networking, so many years ago I bought a little single board computer and committed to learn OpenBSD & roll my own router. I learned a ton , and definitely recommend this as the next step for someon
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Speaking as someone who has seen the inside of an EHR system, their data models, and what data actually ends up stored there: lmao
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
FWIW, I agree with you. But I think there is an argument to be made: the OpenBSD team has indicated that cross-architecture ports help them find bugs that otherwise might not be noticed if they were just targeting the usual suspects.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
I feel like “written in a memory-safe language” is a fair selling point, especially when we are talking about a tool designed to accept completely untrusted data from the network and keep you safe from attackers with significant resources
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
The ferret pulled the string. Technicians pulled the then ferretless string to move the cleaning plug.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
I could go into consulting or start my own business – the highs would be way higher, but the risk of lower lows even worse. On the other end of the spectrum, I could accept a 50%+ wage cut in exchange for an exceptionally stable job &
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> I don't need to have a confidence in a counterparty in a trade - on the contrary, I'd prefer them to be a gullible fool. Gullible fools may pay you over the odds once or twice, but won’t survive in a competitive market. They’

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