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by simmons 2y ago
I personally think that I only get worse at programming when I drink even a little, and quickly stop caring. On an unrelated note, some folks started a distillery in Lakewood, Colorado, and they named it Ballmer Peak after the XKCD. :)
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by simmons 3y ago
Weird! The decrementing TTLs almost sounds like the sender is trying to perform some strange variation on a traceroute. With the long interval, maybe they are sending such packets to many destinations, and trying to build an evolving pictur
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by simmons 3y ago
I'm curious how much time a solo dev spends on support for a project like this. I can imagine some companies asking for a tremendous amount of support, or even trying to somehow get free consultation on adjacent concerns that aren&#x27
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by simmons 3y ago
A niche mainframe game from 1971, and its successors like BSD Trek, were flying way below the radar of any lawyers back then. Even through the early/mid-80's, developers took great liberties with IP and largely got away with it. (
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by simmons 3y ago
I've self-hosted email for decades, but when I had to migrate recently to a big VPS provider, I started having issues sending to most Outlook customers. (I actually expected more problems, although delivery to GMail seems to work great
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by simmons 3y ago
Any VoIP provider, I suppose. I have a few phone numbers at voip.ms, have a VoIP phone on my desk, and selectively forward the numbers to my cell phone. Outbound calls from a cellphone using such a number is a bit more awkward, requiring ei
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by simmons 3y ago
Oh, I'm sorry to hear this. :( I've bought many NUCs over the years. I'm literally sitting in my office right now with 8 NUCs set up -- 1 as a workstation, and 7 as servers performing various tasks. I know people have always
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by simmons 3y ago
There are probably many valid answers to this, but my concern would be about bugs or other security failings allowing an attacker to alter one's registration details (e.g. nameservers). This could be catastrophic, since everyone seems
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by simmons 3y ago
Android doesn't appear to be involved. I sent an SMS to someone's AT&T iPhone yesterday using a VoIP service, and this exact thing happened.
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by simmons 3y ago
Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder, CO USA https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
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by simmons 3y ago
I hope markets don't panic and I think the chances of an actual default are extremely low. However, I don't think the chances of a default are zero. Everyone I talk to seems to be saying "A devastating default [i.e. not like
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by simmons 3y ago
Great work! I've been playing a little with an older version of this (from ~ March 29th, when it was called `llama-rs`) just to get a taste of the LLM world, and it's super convenient. (I haven't tried llama.cpp to compare.)
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by simmons 4y ago
From the alt text: > 'Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?' is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium. I sometimes wonder, if all cars were equipped with
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by simmons 4y ago
While we're plugging computer museums, I'll add the Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder, on the campus of the University of Colorado. It's no doubt a far smaller operation than most of the others mentioned here, but it has a lot
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by simmons 4y ago
> I remember accessing the web at a pretty early stage by telnet to info.cern.ch which presented a text client pretty much like an old version of lynx, but double clicking on that would get you nowhere. You had to press Enter, iirc. I re
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by simmons 4y ago
In second grade, I and several other kids were given a demo of a TRS-80 computer running a tutorial of how to write a program in BASIC. The tutorial was about developing a program to calculate baseball batting averages, I believe. It asked
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by simmons 4y ago
I've been eagerly awaiting this article since your teaser comment a couple of years ago [1], and really look forward to reading it! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094024
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by simmons 4y ago
My situation is very similar to yours. For annual filings, I just use TurboTax Self-Employed (online). I'm not necessarily endorsing it. I haven't tried other solutions out of a fear that I would miss out on potential reduction of
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by simmons 4y ago
That's great, and it's not all CS quotes. It reminds me of the quotes from the old UNIX fortune program [1] that many systems or accounts would be configured to use to show a quote on each login. [1] https://en.wikipedi
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by simmons 4y ago
For Linode Ubuntu 22.04 installations, at least, the default seems to be DHCP, even if the IP address is fixed. And I certainly wouldn't have thought anything about this, since even when using fixed IP addresses, I'm in the habit
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by simmons 4y ago
For whatever it's worth, since it was a DHCP problem, I was able to manually configure the static IPs and get the hosts back up. The last incoming connections logged before the outage were around ~ 6:24:00 am MDT (about one hour ago).
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by simmons 4y ago
Arrgh! :( Just this week I needed to do some emergency rearranging of personal infrastructure, and moved one nameserver to Linode Fremont, while the other nameserver is in Linode Dallas. I was fully aware that I needed a more diverse long-t
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by simmons 4y ago
Word Writer 4 and an Okidata Okimate 20 printer, here. Some years ago I wrote a quick-and-dirty program to convert the files to HTML [1]... only to be absolutely horrified at how awful my writing was as a teenager. ;) [1] https:/&#x2F
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by simmons 4y ago
I'm not the grandparent poster, but I'm not sure if this is what they had in mind by "filtering rules". When I read the comment, I immediately thought of how I use procmail for live sorting of incoming mail, but I also o
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by simmons 4y ago
Yes, and don't forget the great schematic diagram in the back! It definitely didn't come in the box with the C64; I had to save up as well. I still have my copy, tattered though it is, sitting here on my office bookshelf. That, an
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by simmons 4y ago
For streaming, I have a few pi's (and cameras) running v4l2rtspserver, and it seems to work pretty well. It appears to be using the Broadcom hardware support for H.264 encoding, so it's pretty light on the CPU. I'm currently
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by simmons 4y ago
I haven't looked at Glassdoor in several years, but if I recall correctly, back then they wanted you to supply information about your employment -- including salary -- in exchange for being able to see information from others. It may b
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by simmons 4y ago
Very neat! It's easy to be discouraged seeing how much my investments have fallen in recent months. But this graph makes it seem like the stock market could still be on track, producing slow and steady gains in the long term, when we c
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by simmons 4y ago
Indeed! I'm familiar with Contiki, and have even done a bit of Contiki programming for fun. :) Sadly, it wasn't around back then, but it's fascinating to see how more value can be squeezed out of old systems. These particular
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by simmons 4y ago
Regarding the PS/2 Model 30 using an 8086, it's important to remember that average consumers didn't quickly adopt the latest microprocessors like they do today, and it was very common for manufacturers to use much older chips

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