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by spc476 8y ago
I wonder if we could get Kibo to show up.
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We still "dial" a phone number even though it's been (for me) over 30 years since I've seen a phone with a rotary dial (at my grandparent's house).
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I tend to take pictures that tend towards the surreal, such as a life sized plastic cow as a lawn ornament [1] or a bear dressed as Goldilocks serving a human skull [2]. Or a human sized teddy bear just chilling out on a park bench [3]. [1
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by spc476 8y ago
He wrote the hardware column in Byte magazine for years . He wrote articles about making just about anything hardware related, from video cards, to printer spoolers (dedicated computer to accept a print job from a general purpose computer
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by spc476 8y ago
For an end user, a resolver only DNS server is probably one of the easiest services to run as there's really nothing to configure. I run my own resolver only DNS server at home. The configuration is minimal and I haven't had to
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by spc476 8y ago
Sure. http://boston.conman.org/index.atom http://boston.conman.org/index.json http://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss Each one contains the full text of the past 15 entries.
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Of the three formats I support, RSS, Atom, and JSON, the RSS feed is the smallest. RSS: 33,228 Atom: 43,433 JSON: 36,137
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So my blog [1] generates an RSS feed (early 2000s), an Atom feed (2009), a JSON feed (2017) and a Gopher [2] feed (2018). None of these formats were hard to add, and of all four formats, the JSON feed has the least use. Yes, the Gopher
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by spc476 8y ago
This past week I sat in a class at work about the newer features of Java 8-10, mainly lambdas and streams. I was like "oh, Java is catching up I see" while another developer was like "What? I don't understand? How wou
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by spc476 8y ago
In POSIX, there are two sets of functions related to directories. The first set, `opendir()` (open a directory for reading), `readdir()` (return next filename upon each call) and `closedir()` (close the directory). `readdir()` does not g
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by spc476 8y ago
Usually using C's `setjmp()` and `longjmp()` functions (but I consider that an ugly hack). I did an implementation for both x86-32 and x86-64 [1] that works for Linux and Mac OS-X that's for C (written in assembly). I doubt it w
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by spc476 8y ago
I'm looking at some folders right now. Physical manila folders, three of them in fact. I have one labeled "Bank Statements", another one "Health Care" and a third one "Car file". When I receive a bank s
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by spc476 8y ago
It was a state university. Their stand out program was in ocean engineering ( much better than MIT's program), and the computer science department was new when I attended.
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by spc476 8y ago
Oh, practical skills, eh? Debugging? Nope. Version control? Nope. Testing? Nope (at least, no class directly about testing---you were on your own to get your programs working). Multithreading? Nope. ML? Okay, an introductory course
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by spc476 8y ago
It surprised me when I heard about it too. I had an opportunity to ride in a private rail car for a few hours [1] ( http://boston.conman.org/2015/08/05.4 ) and that spoiled me for life. Alas, I can't afford t
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by spc476 8y ago
But that was a live video feed in a known country where they could cross reference weather conditions with commercial flight information (and rumors about LeBouf sightings). This is just a static picture that was taken somewhere on planet
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by spc476 8y ago
The 10th President of the United States, John Tyler, has two grandsons still alive today [1]. And the last witness to Lincoln's assassination appeared on TV [2]. So someone receiving a pension from the Civil War doesn't seem
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by spc476 8y ago
You can always tie it to the organization who is running it, by the simple fact of looking at the IP address that is "acting slow". Years ago when I was playing network admin for a company, I set up a tarpit system which ran for a
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by spc476 8y ago
Having used Unix since 1989 and basically, everything related to Unix admin changes every 10 years. I'm tired of it. And I relish the fact that in twenty years, this year's set of hipster devop admins calling me a neckbeard will
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by spc476 8y ago
I sometimes thing that's the case now.
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I don't view there being much of a difference. I wrote about this a few months ago ( http://boston.conman.org/2018/11/21.1 ) but the idea of it came years before.
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I did that for e [1] and the program was no better than 50% correct. [1] I have a program that calculates e to some arbitrary number of digits.
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When I got my first computer in 1984, I hooked it up to the TV, turned it on, and was dumped immediately into BASIC. The computer also came with a thick manual that not only described how to set up the computer, but how to program in BASIC
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by spc476 8y ago
The company I work for has a similar feature. We have a tap on the actual phone network (for some carriers) and can track in real time. If we notice that (407)-555-1212 has placed 100 outbound calls in the past 10 seconds, that's pro
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by spc476 8y ago
> What do you do with maps with non-text keys when you're deserializing in JS or Perl? Um, use another language? I use Lua, which can deal with non-text keys. As for decoding dates (if they're semantically tagged, which you c
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by spc476 8y ago
And the processor that matters the most after the x86 is the ARM, which uses `PC`. I suppose all ARM documentation is incorrect then. Also, in electrical engineering, the direction of electricity is taught backwards from what it really doe
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by spc476 8y ago
Are you talking about the interview script, or the programming script? And what if the interviewee brings out Lua and LPEG [1]: local lpeg = require "lpeg" local balance = lpeg.Cmt( lpeg.P { ( (
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by spc476 8y ago
There's a lot of literature that states otherwise. Of the assembly languages I've studied (and within reach of me I have references to the Motorola 6809, 680x0, VAX, MIPS, Z80, 6502, and x86) it's only the x86 line that used
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There are a few more advantages to CBOR: 1) there's a distinction between integers and floating point values; 2) you can semantically tag values (yes, this is a text string, but treat it as a date; this is a binary string, but treat it
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by spc476 8y ago
It's a mixture of programming, travel, observations, and other miscellaneous topics for the past twenty years using a home grown blogging engine: http://boston.conman.org

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