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by smush 7y ago
I like optical media for the same reasons you indicate. Write once and have reasonable expectation it will last for a good long time. I do wish Optical media wasn't so stagnated as well. Write speeds could be improved by adding more la
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by smush 7y ago
The M-Disc claim of 1000 years is based on a few estimated tests and while they mostly hold up, we have objective proof that glass left alone over 1000 years does not change to the point that if you wrote something on year x, time-travelled
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by smush 7y ago
Came here to post this. I second this book heartily. If you design your types to be DD with raw, valid, invalid data then by the time you actually get to the database or API, you are sure that your code has passed through however many compi
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by smush 7y ago
I hope to get this someday even at crazy prices. Permanent cold-storage of digital data can 'kinda' be done with M-Disk Blu Rays, but that is estimated good for 1000 years...which probably translates in reality to 100 or less year
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by smush 7y ago
Programming Windows 5th Edition by Charles Petzold, still commands a price on eBay for its Win32-centric program development strategy. IIRC 6th edition used C# .NET and 7th and 8th went all in on UWP.
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by smush 7y ago
So I've avoided UWP like the plague (no newer than WinForms or bust!) because it seems to me that it is merely the current SDK flavor of the week at Microsoft (after Silverlight, Metro apps, WinRT, XNA etc.) that'll be gone in a f
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by smush 7y ago
To save others the same DDG search I did -> Delphi is a Pascal language IDE that compiles to native Windows binaries. Apparently there is this thing called Lazarus that is a free version of it?
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by smush 7y ago
TL;DR: Use Syncthing over this unless you have an iPhone and don't want Resilio Sync for some reason. So I use Syncthing for file sync between devices. Some spelunking in Duple's FAQs shows the following blurb as to why to use Dup
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New Windows 10 Secured-Core PCS Block Firmware-Level Attacks(bleepingcomputer.com)
9 points by smush 7y ago|2 comments
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by smush 7y ago
Private Internet Access. They should rename to Premier VPN since that is what level of service they provide.
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by smush 7y ago
These 4 split ideas are great. I've previously maintained a wiki for our department and the most viewed documents are always shifting from year to year. Until now, I've never been confident enough to act on the bits of information
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by smush 7y ago
Man - DragonFable & MechQuest were great fun. I still think of Sir Valence and the various knights with punny names! I hope between godot, procreate 5, and open source flash runners, long term Flash will be properly succeeded; for now i
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by smush 7y ago
The scrubbing features remind me of Microsoft 3D movie maker which was a Win 95-era product that had the same easy approach, but with 3d characters.
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by smush 7y ago
So Clamshell Android phones are a thing. The Freetel Mushashi is a T9-style Android phone with dual touch screens on either side. Samsung has the Android W series phones which have a similar format. Regarding the sibling comment, after the
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by smush 7y ago
I'd buy a Courier as shown in that video right now, and all it is is a OneNote appliance. I love the idea of being able to write new form-factor-sensitive apps as needed for a tiled window manager that resizes to accomodate a keyboard,
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by smush 7y ago
I agree that is the most significant barrier. There are threads like [1], but like other much-wanted features like Syncthing being able to support untrusted nodes that hold the data, but don't have encryption keys a-la Resilio Sync, pr
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by smush 7y ago
I wonder if this is partly so Apple doesn't have to keep licensing the term "iOS" from Cisco. Now that they have a premium market, it could be cheaper for them to migrate to iPhoneOS/iPadOS and no longer have to pay Cisc
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by smush 7y ago
I agree with the concept, but Question2Answer running on the company intranet or as a subdomain behind a SSO login at questions.<company>.<tld> could serve much of the same purpose without having to pay for yet another SaaS offe
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by smush 7y ago
> Especially, it's very easy to pass the wrong values to functions (functions instead of final values, etc). Debugging this is very time-consuming. I have the opposite anecdote. I use F# specifically for its strong type system and d
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by smush 7y ago
It's so amazing to me how many features from F# or other functional programming languages make their way to C#, and the devs who were otherwise never gonna try those features use them because they are 'normalized'. I do wish
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by smush 7y ago
FFAndroid (Fennec?) does strange things. A few examples: 1. You are on this web page in Fennec[1], and you want to do a web search. Click the address bar, type in your query, hit go. Sometimes, Fennec will start the progress bar and act lik
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by smush 7y ago
Signal is e2ee so Google Cloud Messaging should only get the alert itself, then the encrypted message is downloaded from the server and decoded on device.
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by smush 7y ago
Isn't there some newish varieties of nuclear plant designs that consume nuclear waste from other older designs? I heard about it on the radio, so I may be remembering it wrong, but it was something to the effect of the new nuclear plan
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by smush 7y ago
Not necessarily. I worked at a company where if you missed two days of work without calling in to let them know, you were fired. You could stretch that to about 5 days if you always called in. I'm not making a judgement as to whether t
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by smush 7y ago
I mean, the Nexus 5 and 5X weren't /that/ much larger than the 4.
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by smush 7y ago
> The only way forward is p2p. Then we as the tech community need to figure out tooling so that grandma and grandpa can use p2p / mesh networks. We have several challenges in that way that I'd like to see solved, but don't
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by smush 7y ago
Luxottica can be fought with ZenniOptical and friends. Besides my very first pair of glasses, I've never in my optical-aid-lifetime given money to Luxottica for glasses/frames/contacts. That is not to toot my own horn, but de
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by smush 7y ago
Indeed, I did. Glad you remembered it for me, that is a big one and another example of embrace, extend, extinguish leveraging the power of Google Search. I suppose that's me in the super-privacy-nerd bubble. Having moved to Fastmail fo
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by smush 7y ago
If HN went down tomorrow, I could hop to slashdot to find the old-timers, lobste.rs for the hip, reddit.com/r/sysadmin | r/selfhosted | many, many more tech subreddits, and more tech watering holes. If Google went down tomorr
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by smush 7y ago
I knew I was forgetting a big one but couldn't bring it to mind. I agree with you wholeheartedly. It is rather chilling to see that even though the world-wide web started open, so much centralization can have quite the chilling effect

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