rswail

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by rswail 2y ago
I hate the Verbing of Nouns. There's a perfectly cromulent word for things people have learned, they're called "lessons".
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by rswail 2y ago
The main reason is that SVN's model of branching/tagging is based on directories in the working directory , whereas git's model (and to a certain extent, commercial SVNs like Clearcase and Perforce) is that branching/ta
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by rswail 2y ago
The term has been "repurposed" by gen z/alpha to mean having an experience in real life without filters.
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by rswail 2y ago
The USPS is a constitutional creation. That's why it can't be privatized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause
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by rswail 2y ago
See UPI, FedNow, PromptPay, Osko/PayID/PayTo, iDeal etc etc.
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by rswail 2y ago
Bonza went under because Qantas/Virgin maintain a lock on airport "slots" in the primary markets of Melbourne and Sydney. That's why every day, there are flights from both airlines that are "cancelled" and ever
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by rswail 2y ago
> wait I go to Hacker News to waste time but this is quite exactly what I've been wanting in so many ways. This has happened so many times for me that I don't consider the time "wasted". I try to make sure I separate
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by rswail 2y ago
Return meaning Carriage Return only made sense with electric typewriters, not manual typewriters.
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by rswail 2y ago
Teletypes are the original use of "Carriage Return" and "Line Feed". Manual typewriters had an arm that did both as you dragged it. IBM 3270 terminals were screen/form based, not line based. So the "Enter"
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by rswail 2y ago
Recently, I flew with gf on Etihad from MEL to CDG, via Abu Dhabi. We weren't allowed into the Etihad lounge in Abu Dhabi because even though our flight from there to CDG was an Etihad code, it was codeshare with Air France. Believe me
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by rswail 2y ago
AWS CodeCommit (just been deprecated btw), has a credential helper that allows you to use IAM role/policies instead of SSH keys.
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by rswail 2y ago
The long term thinking is how to get into their longer term lobbying career. Term limits make sense for POTUS. There should be regular changes in Executive management of any organization. But not the Legislative or Judicial branch. Age limi
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by rswail 2y ago
Term limits are a dumb way to enforce change where there are definite benefits to institutional knowledge by the members, otherwise they are targets for capture by staffers and lobbyists. Have a minimum (25 for House, 35 for Senate, POTUS,
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by rswail 2y ago
In his final 6 months, set up a plan for a Constitutional amendment that puts an upper age limit of 75 at the start of a term of office for Members of Congress, Senators, POTUS, VPOTUS, Executive appointments requiring Senate consent, Judge
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by rswail 2y ago
tripwire(1) has been part of systems for decades. Bullshit about "they had already looked at the modification which was benign". So your "security" is to totally expose every operation of your software to an external par
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by rswail 2y ago
That's just marketing bullshit. "We have magic code that watches everyone's computer and sends it all back to our system, where we apply magic to detect malware and then send the code back to all of your systems and until we
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by rswail 2y ago
I own a copy of K&R that is signed by Dr Kernighan from an Australian Unix conference back in the 80s. One of my prized possessions. That book, along with The Practice of Programming by Kernighan/Pike and Byte magazine etc were my
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by rswail 2y ago
Maybe it's another example of the benefits of Brexit to Northern Ireland when they start trading "EU Coke" into the UK.
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by rswail 2y ago
DNS is a tree. The root of the tree is a "." (mostly left off). So for example "google.com" is actually "google.com.". So who looks after "."? Those are the "root servers" that are basically
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by rswail 2y ago
I mean, of course it's a joke, and yet...
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by rswail 2y ago
https://git-fork.com/
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by rswail 2y ago
Imagine what a Dyson sphere is going to do to the lunar orbit around Earth.
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by rswail 2y ago
Or we could adopt the "smearing" technique in either direction and we could do it hourly or daily or weekly or monthly or half-yearly or whatever interval as agreed. Maybe we should do it every 6 months no matter what. That way,
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by rswail 2y ago
So if I have a recursive nameserver then it will just get the correct answers from the TLD nameservers. Unless the courts start legislating what people can run in their homes that will ignore any of these rulings.
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by rswail 2y ago
Not "taken". It was inherently granted by Congress on the joint understanding that the intent was that agencies would engage in rule making to decide areas left undefined within the scope of the law as written. Regulatory agen
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by rswail 2y ago
I'm impressed that they can so easily dispose of 40 years of law making by Congress that assumed that agencies would interpret the statutes and make rules for regulating their area of authority. Now Congress is going to have to specify
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by rswail 2y ago
Not relevant. The maximum specified by contract is usually 450-500ms. The barriers at rail stations have to have a defined maximum throughput of passengers, because it affects safety during emergencies etc. Most barriers are required to m
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by rswail 2y ago
NFC tickets have "antipassback" features, eg, stores the last tap so you can't "toss your ticket to your friend behind you".
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by rswail 2y ago
The time to process a payment at a retail outlet is ~1s+, the time required for public transport is usually <0.5s including mechanical release of barriers etc. QRs are dramatically slower than NFC.
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by rswail 2y ago
The point of the disposables is that they use the same technology (NFC/RFID) as the more robust long term multi-use NFC cards. So if you're replacing an existing magnetic system, you can reuse the magnetic transports (belts/m

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