rkagerer

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by rkagerer 1y ago
Don't forget to roll your own crypto libraries.
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by rkagerer 1y ago
I delivered a complex, highly customized enterprise back-office system for a large Fortune 500 some time back. It involved a handful of servers (all as VM's), x3 to accommodate DEV/QA/PROD staging. It worked great in volume
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Dumb question: Is it the smaller one (that moves, along the same axis as the background stars) or the bigger one (that's fairly static). What's the other one?
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by rkagerer 1y ago
I've worked in tech all my life, and long ago learned how important it is to be impeccably diligent in documenting build processes whenever creating, deploying or adjusting new architecture. Now it's simply become part of my engin
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Maybe all errors should be presented with a simple, distinctive and memorable theme - e.g. show a pig photo in that one maybe they'll remember "I got the pig error"
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by rkagerer 1y ago
WTF? On Windows 7 it was 189 KB
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by rkagerer 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250716142457/https://destaatva...
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Heavy timber generally takes longer to ignite, and longer to reach temperatures that can give rise to rapid fire events like flashover. It also tends to be more structurally sound under fire conditions than regular wood construction or pla
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Love to hear ideas on what you'd wire this up to - eg. What kind of device or process do you want to trigger once lightning is detected?
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Sorry to hear about your terrible experience. This is why I wish it were viable to have a second, "hot spare" phone that synced everything (including secure enclave things like 2FA seeds), and to do so without having to rely on yo
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Where can you actually learn the substance of what this conference is about? All I found is a Twitch tagline that reads "Software is getting worse. We're here to make it better."
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by rkagerer 1y ago
I hate how it spurred every website under the sun to ask for cookie consent. My gut says that practice (or at least its breadth) stems from a misunderstanding of the legislated requirements. > you have to consent to something or be den
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by rkagerer 1y ago
It's a fair question. Mainly, they'd have a much harder time basing a defense on having had my consent, should I have cause to sue them down the line. > they didn't sign any of your changes I didn't sign any new agr
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Yep, and it doesn't make it right. I recently told my bank I don't agree to their new privacy terms. I sent them all 26 pages, marked up with various red lines crossing out the objectionable clauses. One was about tracking pixel
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Well IKEA, I'm not going to buy and "smart" products from you.
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Is there a System Requirements page? What's the minimum OS version required?
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by rkagerer 1y ago
I'd revamp the entire computing stack from first principles. Replacing the layers of patchwork technology that have accreted onto each other, with clean, direct architecture (reminiscent of earlier days) and more sensible abstractions.
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Could you share a little more about what makes this different from Google News alerts?
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by rkagerer 1y ago
"The vessel was not carrying drugs" Why wouldn't they track it and wait until it rendezvoused with people they could arrest? Also, today I learned it's illegal to operate a semi-submersible in Colombia.
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Did it for decades before Docker was a thing. Even for projects with lots of complex dependencies, some tied into the OS. Basically you just need a well documented, thorough and up to date set of steps for setting up the environment. This
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by rkagerer 1y ago
My favorite is how Android shuffles buttons around just as I'm about to tap, so I wind up tapping the wrong one. I'm convinced advertisers will find a way to leverage that behavior in some new dark UI pattern.
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by rkagerer 1y ago
And please support PgUp and PgDn while you're at it.
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Not just URL's. Google's AI snippet at the top of a search result page recently fed me the wrong phone number for Starlink support. It connected me to a scam being run at scale out of an overseas call center. After questions like
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Apparently somebody did sue a couple years back. Anyone know what happened with the [plaintiff] vs. nVidia lawsuit? EDIT: Plantiff dismissed it. Guessing they settled. Here are the court documents (alternately, shakna's links below
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by rkagerer 1y ago
I am a volunteer firefighter and hold a degree in electrical engineering. The shenanigans with their shunt resistors, and ensuing melting cables, is in my view criminal. Any engineer worth their salt would recognize pushing 600W through a
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by rkagerer 1y ago
If you're wondering why we can't just accelerate at 1G for half the journey there, then with a brief but fun interlude at 0G, flip around and decelerate at 1G the rest of the way: today's rockets would deplete their fuel too
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by rkagerer 1y ago
I appreciate the humility in your videos, good luck with the launch!
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by rkagerer 1y ago
I missed the (obvious) context and imagined an aircraft engine turbine attached.
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Because they don't care about politics and borders?
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by rkagerer 1y ago
Toward the end, he suggests water dampers serve a dual purpose to meet fire codes (having a reservoir of water atop your building). Does this create additional risk when firefighting operations draw it down? i.e. Do the dampers contribute m

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