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by sk5t 3y ago
There's a build plugin for this for Java/Maven: https://github.com/salesforce/proto-backwards-compat-maven-p...
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by sk5t 3y ago
Google’s quarterly net income is in the $10 to $20Bn range. Take another whack at that math?
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by sk5t 3y ago
Jack Handey “Lowering my Standards” vibes (a very amusing short essay).
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by sk5t 3y ago
14 minutes for an entire diskette’s content was magically fast, for the brief window of 14.4’s relevance.
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by sk5t 3y ago
I think the quick & easy presumption is that lightly poisoned humans tend to keep on less weight, in addition to some appetite-suppressive effect of tobacco.
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by sk5t 3y ago
Alpine DNS is so insanely weird. I had an immutable task that, after a year of smooth operation, would fail one particular DNS lookup in the JRE in one specific AWS AZ, and did fine in other AZs in the region, or if you seeded whatever host
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by sk5t 3y ago
I wouldn’t point the finger at the ctor; making a defensive deep copy of mutable parameters is not in the contract.
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by sk5t 3y ago
Engineering at a much more mature company. It won’t make me rich (especially considering the stock’s dreary trajectory since 2021) but it’s a lot less depressing nevertheless.
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by sk5t 3y ago
Yep. I did seven years of Slog, and quitting was very freeing, after years of angst and disappointment.
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by sk5t 3y ago
Lotus Notes/Domino supported it for IPC and it worked pretty well, e.g. from .NET which did not have a vendor language binding.
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by sk5t 3y ago
It means to extemporize / ramble.
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by sk5t 3y ago
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse Amanda.
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by sk5t 4y ago
Anything other than operations per second raises my suspicions--a minute is a huge duration for most computing, the speaker is just angling to multiply the measure by 60 for whatever reason.
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by sk5t 4y ago
> If you're concerned about CPC propaganda, the answer is in parenting and education. Isn't this like saying the solution to greenhouse gases is personally to drive less, while sparing any broader regulation, i.e. a ridiculous
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by sk5t 4y ago
Those times were all about XML and application servers like ATG Dynamo, Coldfusion, BEA, JBoss, and WebSphere, with very delicate installation procedures that probably also involved XML.
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by sk5t 4y ago
See also: WS-Deathstar
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by sk5t 4y ago
Caligula is a fantastic album! And for something entirely different than that, check out Hildegard von Blingin'.
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by sk5t 4y ago
This is called a latch or countdown latch in the languages I use most often.
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by sk5t 4y ago
I once lost a Surface 2 Pro to self-cookery--took it out of my bag at the airport departures lounge, the thing had to be 140F on the outside and it was bricked. On the plus side, Microsoft later replaced it gratis with a like model.
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by sk5t 4y ago
This is generally considered a bad thing.
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by sk5t 4y ago
Don't need internet access to read a cached record from a DNS service on localhost, on the LAN, etc.
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by sk5t 4y ago
> stock options that were never above water That'd be most stock options in private companies, though.
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by sk5t 4y ago
> Oracle or IBM What? These are public companies; short-dated OTM options have > $0 value only in volatile markets. But these companies don't pay employees in options.
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by sk5t 4y ago
That's regular luck, or at least not bad. Options worth > $0 is an occasion of very, very good luck.
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by sk5t 4y ago
If you think of house centipedes as a sort of "insect cat" and that they are hunting even more disagreeable creatures for food, it becomes kind of easy to let them go about their business.
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by sk5t 4y ago
I guess it depends which era/album you happen to catch; Long Stories (2019) is pretty chilled out, and the Chaos Theory soundtrack is somewhere in the middle.
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by sk5t 4y ago
> It's obvious that no court can order you to buy something. A court can compel "specific performance" if the contract's terms require it.
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by sk5t 4y ago
Oklou's album "Galore" might also appeal to an Imogen Heap fan, with interesting self-made layering of vocals, electronica, some cathartic moments, and the videos are pretty darn good too.
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by sk5t 4y ago
For a journey into amazing music assembled from samples, have a listen to Amon Tobin.
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by sk5t 4y ago
I used to play MUDs with one of EQ’s leads, and while I didn’t play EQ due to having come to terms with the life-ruining risks of such games, it’s amusing to read here about EQ mechanics that were pretty much ported from Sojourn / Tori

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