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by snuxoll 2y ago
> Apple/Cloudflare don't sell/support iCloud Relay as a service that is guaranteed to get you treated nicely by the parties on the other end, so they're not being deceptive with that part either. They really do, actua
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by snuxoll 2y ago
iCloud Keychain escrow data is encrypted by HSM clusters that have administrator keys destroyed; if Apple tried to compromise a keychain by installing malicious HSMs users would first get notified that their data had been lost due to failed
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by snuxoll 2y ago
Implicit `it` shadows in other languages like Kotlin just like any other variable scope, and I really can’t say I’ve ever had it be a problem (implicit receivers, on the other hand, can be a right pain in the ass in poorly designed librarie
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by snuxoll 2y ago
> People talk about their ADHD diagnosis as if it were a fact as permanent about them as their eye color Because it is, that's a fact. The defining characteristic of ADHD is a lack of dopamine, a physical variation in the brain itse
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by snuxoll 2y ago
The .net implementation is about as clean as it can get, but a lot of that has to do with Microsoft caring very deeply about this kind of performance data for a very long time (thus having the entire System.Diagnostics namespace). There’s c
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by snuxoll 2y ago
> Games can probably get away by listening for the scan codes of the keys in the position commonly used by WASD, but it's a bit fragile, and they can't actually tell you what's printed on the keys they're listening to
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by snuxoll 2y ago
.Net Core on Windows has support for loading assemblies that reference COM interfaces and the win32 API, along with other things that aren’t supported elsewhere like C++/CLI. That’s why loading System.Windows.Forms still works, it’s no
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by snuxoll 2y ago
I lost my dad last year, Saturday was officially the anniversary of his passing actually, from small cell lung cancer. Three weeks from diagnosis to his death, and I’m re-living it all in my head reading this. There’s so many places I could
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by snuxoll 3y ago
I can lose fingers with my recip saw, circular saw, oscillating multi-tool, or angle grinder; scalp myself with my dremel (long hair); put a nail through myself with one of my many nailguns; the list of potential risks associated with power
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by snuxoll 3y ago
I live in an area of the PNW where it snows and rains a lot during the winter, and rains more during the summer. Mud loves to stick to everything, and the Magnesium Chloride they use to de-ice roads loves to oxidize the frame of vehicles. I
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by snuxoll 3y ago
In my state (Idaho), and many others, simply using a camera drone to spot game is illegal (even using it to locate wounded/downed game, because it provides an easy excuse). Drone with a gun is an entirely different level and to my kn
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by snuxoll 3y ago
Autoland is regularly used in CATIIIa/b ILS approaches when weather does not allow for the pilots to transition between instruments and visual flight (otherwise a requirement for the last phase of the approach and the actual touchdown)
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by snuxoll 3y ago
For what it's worth, I've built an entire data ingest pipeline with PostgreSQL that stores tens of millions of PDFs in a giant database table and...it works fine. Now we are working on scooping up a bunch of small (1-2KB) files we
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by snuxoll 3y ago
I have written just in the last month cmdlets that have SupportsShouldProcess, and it does not pass on as it should. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn... and https://
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by snuxoll 3y ago
Notable major player here was IBM on the AS/400, you had libraries containing objects of various types (such as PGM/Program, FILE/'file', *DTAQ/Data Queue, etc). 'file' objects were effectively data
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by snuxoll 3y ago
WhatIf in Powershell also remains completely broken; not that it doesn't work, but it is not properly passed down the call stack like it's supposed to from cmdlets or functions written in PowerShell (as opposed to those loaded fro
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by snuxoll 3y ago
Denying "local network" permissions is hilariously worthless. On both Android and iOS all it does is prevent software from sending out multicast packets (for things like device discovery, Chromecast, etc. that don't use DNS-S
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by snuxoll 3y ago
It's okay, we did the same thing for warranty claims when I worked CS and Tech Support for one of the major phone carriers a decade ago. If the LDI was tripped we wouldn't replace it under warranty, and I'm sure there was mor
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by snuxoll 3y ago
Shockingly, it was as far back as 2008 that AMD released the Radeon HD 4800 series that first broke the tflop barrier for GPUs. As far as our individual perceptions of time though, I agree, it still doesn't feel like that long; but mos
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by snuxoll 3y ago
I must say, going from a 2019 16" MBP to a 2022 14" MBP for work I'm enjoying the thicker chassis, it doesn't thermal throttle all the time (and that has just as much to do with the improved thermal design as it does the
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by snuxoll 3y ago
That would be rather defeating their purpose. We put golden records on the Voyager probes, which included instructions for reading them, so that should another intelligent civilization be in their flight path they can learn of our existence
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by snuxoll 3y ago
It's a reference to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, nothing to do with physics.
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by snuxoll 3y ago
Mikrotik has had WinBox for as long as they've been around and there's a lot of inertia around using it, but WebFig and the CLI are the only things I use (though I do have The Dude running through Crossover because it's usefu
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by snuxoll 3y ago
Outside of truly rural areas the question with fiber is how long is the payback period, not "will it be profitable". Especially if deployment is integrated with routine highway re-pavement projects (roads need torn up and redone r
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by snuxoll 3y ago
Wait, it's 2023 and there are still builders that don't run structured cabling through conduit? Given what they charge to do this as part of a build, putting smurf tube in should be a requirement, not a luxury.
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by snuxoll 3y ago
The problem isn't using Cat5E, specifically - as long as they run conduit pulling new cable isn't a big deal. It's the complete lack of planning and design around home networking, which is just as important to our daily lives
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by snuxoll 3y ago
RouterOS really isn't any more difficult to learn than competing NOS like JunOS or IOS-XR, both of which also suffer from much in the way of easy-to-use Getting Started kind of docs for newcomers to high-end networking gear. Having use
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by snuxoll 3y ago
> with basically no change to the routing, DNS, NAT, etc. Except you're wrong on all of the above. We'd still need a completely different "v4.1" routing layer, because a /32 could never be a subnet while also be
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by snuxoll 3y ago
> Making sure I understand, you mean an attacker sends dst=192.168.1.2 directly to your router without any extra hops, which the router forwards to your PC. I don't know if that's what happens in practice (there's no legit
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by snuxoll 3y ago
> Furthermore, the longer addresses would be routed similarly to the 32-bit ones: dst=1.1.1.1.2 would go to the 1.1.1.1/32 router the same exact way dst=1.1.1.1 does. Only difference is what that router does with the packet. IPv4 pa

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