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by rietta 2y ago
Yes, and I have been surprised by at least one who told me that I needed to blog more often. We have very little interaction since graduate school. I have been running the same website, which has undergone several redesigns, for 25 years an
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by rietta 2y ago
I use dockerized mailcatcher for this. Used it for years with ruby on rails and now use it for everything.
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by rietta 2y ago
Indeed and insurance too. For our business, our professional errors and omissions coverage for years had the ability to cover cyber issues. No more. That requires cybersecurity insurance and the underwriters will not entertain underwriting
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by rietta 2y ago
I can answer this. For the same reason I have run ClamAV on Linux development workstations. Because without it, we cannot attest that we have satisfied all requirements of the contract from the client's security organization. Also if y
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by rietta 2y ago
Love this! What a wonderful idea. I hope to encourage my daughters to do similarly as they learn about computers.
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by rietta 2y ago
Really? How much lower? I have had my own modem so long I never knew this. Not that I would switch to theirs.
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by rietta 2y ago
Was this ever actually used in real life or was it an experiment only?
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The UniSuper/Google Lesson: Cloud Is Not a Backup(rietta.com)
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by rietta 2y ago
Fascinating! What a fortuitous mistake for historical preservation purposes. Also a good lesson in why media overwrites are important.
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by rietta 2y ago
Thanks! Makes sense. The irony is in 2024, I have spent more time in Windows 3.1 in a QEMU virtual machine lovingly restoring retro games than I have in any modern Windows. I think I will soon have one of the few copy tower capable of readi
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by rietta 2y ago
Serious question. I thought Windows 10 was supposed to be the last Windows? What happened that they are EOLing it and replacing it with Windows 11 and breaking processor compatibility on very capable processors?
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by rietta 2y ago
Yes. I prefer PostgreSQL but more than a few clients who were already built on MySQL are still using it or MariaDB. As for managed provider, typically AWS RDS, or a few are still directly hosted. MariaDB is easy to run natively for a small
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by rietta 2y ago
I know from experience that plugging an old school digital alarm clock into a UPS does not work. The clock drifts badly. Turns out those use the AC cycle rate as their clock.
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by rietta 2y ago
Great question! I am not an ancient greek scholar, but it could be a way to add emphasis. Like how “Truly, truly” was used to emphasize.
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by rietta 2y ago
We are always serving someone or something. For many, money is their master. Or prestige is their master. Or self image is their master. Or personal desires are their master. Since this thread quoted bible, I will point out Jesus said (it i
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by rietta 2y ago
I appreciate the author's perspective, but my approach in life has been based largely on two biblical verses that I memorized in childhood. Those are 1) "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, no
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by rietta 3y ago
I am not sure. I do have mine pair with my iPhone using the picture on the label of the bridge. The bridge itself communicates with the dimmers via the same wireless protocol the pico remotes use. The bridge has all the smarts in it for wor
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by rietta 3y ago
I am slower at typing on my iPhone than I was at using a Handspring Visor with Grafiti. I miss the old days.
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by rietta 3y ago
Lutron is a good demonstration of a company going about it reasonably. The smarts are in the bridge not the switches and not the bulbs. For context, Lutron is a client. Though I am just a happy user of the Caseta product at home. I don&#x27
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by rietta 3y ago
Y'all caught me being less than rigorous in my language while posting from my phone while in the middle of making breakfast for the kids and the wife to get out the door. To the "not well defined" aspect, I disagree in part.
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by rietta 3y ago
Localization is a thing. None of this is a show stopper. Subclasses and configuration screen for import and export.
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by rietta 3y ago
The deliminator is a setting that can be changed. I never said hard code. This is an interesting exercise to give students, but I am struggling to look back in my mind through the last 25 years of line of business application development wh
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by rietta 3y ago
Or export to CSV correctly and test with Excel and/or LibreOffice. Honestly CSV is a very simple, well defined format, that is decades old and is “obvious”. I’ve had far more trouble with various export to excel functions over the year
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by rietta 3y ago
Neat. I have to admit I about had a heart attack reading "Superset" as "Sunset" at first. I've become too jaded about stuff being shut down and announced on HN. Very pleasantly surprised when I read correctly and cl
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by rietta 3y ago
So like keeping a Dougie Howzer-style journal on the computer?
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by rietta 3y ago
Extremely interesting and thank you for doing this. I feel strongly that this goes to show just how important preserving historical software and emulation is. I have dabbled myself with old Windows 3.1 software for this very reason. We real
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by rietta 3y ago
@omjakubowski I am not an attorney, as I stated in the post, just a hobbyist playing with this software. I have a passing understanding of many legal issues just based on life experience and reading case law for understanding and advocacy p
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by rietta 3y ago
Well bummer, in the latest update Bard "Unfortunately, I cannot provide legal advice or draft legal documents due to ethical and liability concerns. However, I can offer some general information and resources that may be helpful for yo
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by rietta 3y ago
Whatever the free one last year was. I have not played with it too much lately. Probably 3.5?
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by rietta 3y ago
In these cases, yes they are very real and what was claimed in summary seemed to pass the smell test. I actually read the cases.

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