ralferoo

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by ralferoo 10mo ago
There's lots of questionable stuff on this page. I particularly objected to this which clearly isn't true in most English speech: "Word spacing is crucial for the written form because it illustrates the sound of speech where
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by ralferoo 10mo ago
It was relatively OK to deal with when the pages were created by coders themselves. But then DreamWeaver came out, where you basically drew the entire page in 2D and it spat out some HTML tables that stitched it all back together again, and
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
I'm not surprised this is happening in a massive group of companies. I once worked for a smallish company with 400 staff, with basically one product, but different teams - backend, frontend, database, QA, sales, etc... If you were ever
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Your argument seems to be that those in public service should only survive on their salaries, because "doing it for the people" is enough of a reward that they don't need to worry about such trivialities as money. There'
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Yeah, I have all my _acme_challenge as their own zone so that BIND can auto increment the serial number without going through the pain of locking/unlocking the entire domain and hoping you don't end up with stale data that stops s
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
To be honest, those are the rooms that I hope would have a bathroom door so that you don't end up with water everywhere outside the bathroom.
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
I've only really encountered glass walls for the shower room in Asia, and in almost every case there's been a curtain that could be drawn across the glass if required.
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Personally, I prefer the word "bytes", but "octets" is technically more accurate as there are systems that use differently sized bytes. A lot of these are obsolete but there are also current examples, for example in most
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
> Ads are passing session data on the URLs instead At which point it also counts as PII and is subject to the GDPR rules.
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
The real problem is just that patents are way too long for software. Long patents make sense for things in a slow changing industry. If it takes 10 years in pharma for research and another 5 years to pass trials, then 20 years of protection
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Haven't all these issues been related to use as a resolver rather than running as an authoritative server? Personally, I'd also expect that just by virtue that the majority of the internet's DNS is running on BIND that it&#x2
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
One thing I'd never really considered before is how frequently bodies get ejected at high speed from the simulation, especially as the number of initial bodies is increased. Suddenly made me realise that the "big bang" which
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Not familiar with knot-dns. Any compelling reasons to choose it over something like BIND? BIND has been around basically forever and the configuration files, apart from having lots of curly braces, aren't any more complicated than the
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Interesting, I didn't realise blackholes were special-cased to allow BGP announcements of /32 instead of the usual /24 or larger. I'd just assumed (like the GP) that the traffic ended up on the target's closest netw
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
"... surely it can just ..." Congratulations, you've successfully completed Management Training 101.
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
From Google (AI slop at top of search results): "Chunnel" is not a real movie but a fictional film from the TV show Seinfeld. It is depicted as a disaster movie about an explosion in the Channel Tunnel... Weird hearing that name n
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Or he could have just googled "scott corley melissa". Using archive.is just because the article is region locked to US-only: https://archive.is/SeCmf
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
In Hong Kong, it's very common now to see prices with just a single digit after the decimal point. That said, they haven't had a 5c coin since 1989 and HK$0.1 isn't worth much more than US$0.01. For me, one of the nicest curr
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Haha, as a Brit, I have quite a few eurocent coins in my foreign loose change drawer. Also, as a Brit, if I bought something for £9.99 and gave them a £10, I'd expect change. If they said they didn't have any 1p or 2p coins, I&#x2
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
IIRC the average seek time across optical media is around 120ms, so ideally you want all reads to be linear. I remember one game I worked on, I spent months optimising loading, especially boot flow, to ensure that every file the game was go
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
There's one aspect that I think the article starts to hint at, but doesn't quite make the jump to is that words in a language just map to a subset of concepts that don't necessarily have the same subset boundaries in other la
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Another great example is https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/mots01-unpetit.htm Getting a native French speaker to recite these to native English speakers is hilarious! Especially when the French speaker is trying t
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Not really. The biggest drain on resources historically has come from things like routers that have fixed NTP servers hardcoded in the firmware and every customer ends up using just that one without even knowing they're contributing to
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Seems weird. The fact it talks about rolls of film and reading DX codes suggests that it's able to scan undeveloped film. Maybe that's possible, but I've never heard of that before. If it only scans developed film, then it&#x
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
> Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. It looks like they got someone from Apple to write their press release.
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by ralferoo 11mo ago
Interesting reading, especially as I didn't realise how far ahead of the times they were. The other thing that strikes me is that they'd churn out all sorts of watches - from incredibly beautiful things, to absolutely hideous (fro
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by ralferoo 1y ago
It does seem to be the inevitable consequence, but often privatisation is required too. Publicly run services and utilities often suffer from inefficiencies because there's no incentive to change the processes and lots of government fu
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by ralferoo 1y ago
First impression - seemingly random jumble of jobs, none of which are interesting to me, but clicking on any of them requires sign in to read. Click "I'm an engineer" to try to search for jobs to see if there's anything
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by ralferoo 1y ago
I first started maintaining a nail server in 1997. Most of the stuff in the article is newer than that. For 1984, I'd have expected UUCP and bang paths to peer mail hosts. Instead the article starts off by setting up DKIM, from over 2
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by ralferoo 1y ago
Hopefully nobody uses this "standard" that bakes in an off-by-one error into the human readable form. IMHO if code is doing extra parsing to handle -ve years, they should have enough logic to know to how to skip the zeroth year wh

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