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by smitelli 2y ago
Reminds me of the networked vending machines in Computer Science House at RIT [0]. [0]: https://csh.rit.edu/about/projects.html Full disclosure: I was involved in a hardware overhaul on all those machines, about 15-20
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by smitelli 2y ago
Microsoft Word's "Save as Web Page" or GTFO.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Wikipedia seldom disappoints on this kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_th...
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by smitelli 2y ago
Anecdote time! Some years ago I had a password on an account that contained a space character. One day, out of the blue, couldn’t log in. Went through the reset flow, picked another password that also happened to contain a space, still coul
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The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach(scottsmitelli.com)
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by smitelli 2y ago
That was only for drives with servo-actuated head arms. Think like what the old black-and-white Macs came with. You could tell one of those drives because it sounded like somebody revving a cordless screwdriver when it was being accessed. T
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by smitelli 2y ago
If you’ve got bored hams around, they’ll catch you.
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by smitelli 2y ago
A healthy disc shouldn’t wobble enough to push much of anything. We’re talking like 1/20th of a millimeter.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I liken it to furniture making. Used to be every piece was made by hand. That was the only way it could be done at all. It took however long it took, it cost however much it cost, and you could (slightly) tweak those knobs to control the ov
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by smitelli 2y ago
Some cars, when I see photos of them smashed up, I get very sad. NA Miata, Corvette C4, etc. A totaled Cybertruck, honestly, good riddance. It is an extraordinarily difficult vehicle to love. Very glad to hear no pedestrians got hit. Really
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by smitelli 2y ago
The AI that replaced the people, however, is in stitches.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I've come to believe it really is this. Everybody got used to the way things worked when interest rates were near zero. Money was basically free, hiring was on a rampage, and everybody was willing to try reckless moonshots with slim ch
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by smitelli 2y ago
Not a real island, but named like one anyway: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
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by smitelli 2y ago
I like sshfs for that. It preserves the “do one thing, do it well” idea that so many IDEs seem to have forgotten.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I started by reading disassembled real-mode x86 code. Not bad, not great. The thing that took me the longest to “get” was how much was implicitly coded into each instruction. Once I figured out how the accumulator worked, plus the way the f
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by smitelli 2y ago
It's vogons dot org; it's a pretty wide range of folks with varied interest in obsolete hardware. Some of the louder voices there are absolutely insufferable. There is genuine knowledge in the forum pages though, and if you'r
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by smitelli 2y ago
Twitter/X -- the site -- is essentially fine. Twitter -- the community -- is dead and rotting.
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by smitelli 2y ago
> I don't want my career and life to evolve by happenstance. and > I'm not willing to leave the company because its stock 6x'ed last year. Those two things, right there, are at complete odds with each other. You're
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by smitelli 2y ago
Having recently cancelled AT&T fiber service, their router (Arris BGW210-700) was definitely still AT&T property and they seemed to have every intention of collecting it from me. They had been charging $10/mo "equipment
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by smitelli 2y ago
I remember the last release cycle, all the marketing taglines were “the new iPhone with titanium” and I remember thinking “this means nothing to me.” Now it’s “the new iPhone with Apple Intelligence” and I’m thinking “this still means noth
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by smitelli 2y ago
My Roku remote still has an Rdio button. Makes me sad each time I notice it.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Question for the group here: Has anyone ever flatly said “no” to their manager re: an RTO mandate? Did it work?
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by smitelli 2y ago
That works if your key is long as heck, or the message is short as heck. Still, a useful way to quietly entertain (some) kids for a little while.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Always be suspicious of any acronym with a ‘K’ in it, just on general principle.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I've been getting a couple generic Cloudflare 521 responses across a weird mix of big and not-big sites this morning. Things have felt a little off.
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by smitelli 2y ago
There seems to be some kind of profound irony in having ChatGPT do that.
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by smitelli 2y ago
The thing that always bugged me about OCSP stapling is how poorly nginx handled it. I don't remember the specifics at the moment, but when the server would start up cold it would not have some necessary information cached, which result
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by smitelli 2y ago
> training off of data generated by another AI is generally a bad idea Ah. So if I understand this... once the internet becomes completely overrun with AI-generated articles of no particular substance or importance, we should not bulk-sc
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by smitelli 2y ago
I consider myself principally a software engineer, and like you I have avoided using AI aside from a few "haha look at that" images produced with DALL-E. Very rarely the forced AI content at the top of a search results page has he
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by smitelli 2y ago
Isn't that kind of where macOS features like Exposé and Mission Control come in handy?

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