sleepydog

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by sleepydog 5y ago
Absolutely. I support this 100%. But even if everything is in UTC, please, please make sure that it's clear that the time is UTC. That could mean an ISO 8601 timestamp with 'Z' or '+0' at the end, or a 'UTC&#x2
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by sleepydog 5y ago
While we're griping about marketing emails, another pattern I've noticed from some companies are emails with subjects like: > January monthly statement: <some drivel> > February monthly statement: <more drivel> &
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by sleepydog 5y ago
This is not exactly the same thing, but for the love of god, if you have a monitoring or logging product, make the date and time zone visible wherever time is displayed. I cannot tell you how many times I've been sent screenshots of gr
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by sleepydog 5y ago
It told me my site is probably violating GDPR. It's a static blog and doesn't collect any information or use any cookies, but it's hosted in the US. There would be ip addresses in the nginx logs, but those would be the ips of
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by sleepydog 5y ago
You would think there would be more political will for a government to make taxation as smooth and painless as possible for its citizens. I don't hate paying income tax because I "lose" money, I hate it because the process is
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I don’t think employers should adjust for cost of living. But I do think that As long as remote work is not universal, an employer in location X will have to compete with other employers in and around that location, in pay, benefits, or oth
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by sleepydog 5y ago
Routing would be no different. Routers already work with IP address prefixes. In the scheme described, a computer's IP is just a /32 prefix of a 48-bit address, and serves as the router for the 65k addresses.
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by sleepydog 5y ago
TCP is not perfect. There is ambiguity between the acknowledgement of a segment and the retransmission of a segment that we have tried to address with extensions and heuristics. It can introduce latency for upper protocols which are compris
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by sleepydog 5y ago
> The protocol utilizes space congestion control over User Datagram Protocol (UDP). I'm assuming they meant "user space congestion control" ? Even so, there's nothing about the protocol that says congestion control ha
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by sleepydog 5y ago
This has not been my experience, but I'm not a hardware engineer, and haven't tried any of the things you were frustrated with, so we could both be right. I use a linux laptop at home and a linux desktop in the office. For almost
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I dont think it's unreasonable. Like any standard, it's imperfect, and shouldn't be followed mindlessly. But it has some basis in reality, in that most people get better at their job the longer they do it, and few people get
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by sleepydog 5y ago
1500 mtu has been around for a long time. It's less likely their gear is cheap and more likely they're using that overhead for encapsulation.
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by sleepydog 5y ago
Pedestrians in NYC act like royalty. I've never seen pedestrians so fearless as in NYC. They will step out in front of a moving truck if they have the right of way. And sometimes even when they don't, if they sense the driver&#x27
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by sleepydog 5y ago
It's a language and supporting infrastructure for collecting and querying time series data for monitoring. It was replaced a long time ago by a new system called monarch, but a few holdouts will probably continue using borgmon until th
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by sleepydog 5y ago
So like a smaller version of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event e.g, instigate some large bloom of plant matter or algae, and engineer/find the right conditions for the matter to sink to the bottom o
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I think what will happen is that most developers will offer in-app payments with a discount if you don’t pay through Google or Apple, to reflect the lower cut that alternative payment services would take. This should put pressure on Google
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by sleepydog 5y ago
What about thermal solar? Since those are typically heating water into steam, wouldn't a higher ambient temperature be a good thing?
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I do not have coax. Power line ethernet is an option, but I've heard mixed stories about latency/loss.
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I've been considering getting fiber to connect two switches on opposite ends of my apartment. The distance is short enough that I could use a slim Ethernet cable, but even the slim ones are pretty noticeable. Fiber cables can be incred
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by sleepydog 5y ago
Theoretically a service could allow you to convert an externally authenticated account to one protected by a password. In practice, I haven't found any services that allow it. I've found plenty that support conversion in the other
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by sleepydog 5y ago
> I thought it was still considered essential everywhere to at least be able to connect to your personal IP address from the internet for personal usage. Yes! CGN, asymmetric bandwidth plans, dynamic IP addresses, they're all treati
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by sleepydog 5y ago
Still waiting in NYC. Any day now...
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I agree with you. From an ISP's perspective I don't see why IPv6 would be cheaper. Any change at all, even a positive change, is expensive at the scale ISPs operate at. And NAT is cheap. One small thing, though: > My NAT only h
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I have the same symptoms as you; standing still, my lower back starts to ache after 30 minutes or so, but I can walk or run for miles and my back is fine. My hamstrings are very tight from sitting all day, to the point that I cannot even
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by sleepydog 5y ago
> The first thing I find when I google a command are examples, usually covering exactly what I need. I see a lot of people reflexively reaching for Google or Stackoverflow when working with a command (or even a programming language) that
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I fail to see why the author could not add instructions to their project's issue tracker, something to the effect of "If you want to report a bug, please reproduce the issue with the latest pypi package. Reports for any other depl
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I use ZNC to connect to irc and switch between a couple clients, but mainly I use irssi. I keep ZNC always running so I can still see what was said while I was away.
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by sleepydog 5y ago
I think it is very common for code to outlast its authors in academia for non-CS/EE fields, where programming is seen more as a means to an end rather than its own pursuit. For example, my wife in her Psych PhD inherited a giant hairba
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by sleepydog 5y ago
For UDP, Linux supports GSO and GRO, allowing applications to send and receive "super"-packets which are split up and reassembled by the kernel or NIC, depending on what's available. Whether or not QUIC implementations utiliz
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by sleepydog 5y ago
How do you prove immunity? I thought that antibodies didn't tell the whole story, because your immune systems memory lasts even longer than the antibodies do.

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