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by stblack 7y ago
It's interesting, and telling, that Windows/IIS doesn't appear at all. Or did I miss something?
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by stblack 7y ago
I'm wondering if something like this exists, at a larger scale. For example, say five or six neighboring households decide to distribute the shopping chore. One person goes to the grocery store, or COSTCO, returning with staples for m
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by stblack 7y ago
This is only the first part of the problem. The second part is, optimized supply chains that are effectively as empty as possible, all the time. Here in Canada an 18-day rail blockade by native bands was enough to cause serious concerns in
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by stblack 7y ago
Excellent article, and reader comments in the article’s GitHub issue are good, too. This post should have [2017] in its HN title.
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by stblack 7y ago
Sabotage should never be discounted. Great point!
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by stblack 7y ago
Plaintext version: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual Quick link to the longest and most interesting and practical section: SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR SIMPLE SABOTAGE https://en.wikis
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by stblack 7y ago
I wonder how different this story would be if the “manager” wasn’t ensconced in the office? The mechanism works something like this: * The “manager”, mostly not giving a shit. * Employees, under no meaningful oversight, goof-off. * Problem
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by stblack 7y ago
I would love to see a diff between this version and the prior version (Version 4, Sep. 30, 2017) which I've consulted extensively. I wish this book was in a public git, TBH.
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by stblack 7y ago
According to this post, dated August 8, 2019 and titled "Streaks", Seth has been blogging for 11-years straight without missing a day. His posts appear hours before I awake every day, despite us being in the same time zone. So you
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by stblack 7y ago
A good hosts file will help, a lot. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Disclosure: there are many like it, but this one's mine.
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by stblack 7y ago
The question is, will CSS and any other present-day tech be around in the medium-future? We know plain text will be around. I was surprised to find the website promoting this is tricked-out, which isn't consistent with very long-term v
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by stblack 7y ago
At the risk of "OK Boomer" replies... Chris Pedrick's Web Developer Toolbar, an extension that was once the greatest thing, does this and many other useful and insightful things. My fave, I think, is Information -> View Do
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by stblack 7y ago
Conceptually what, beyond plain text, is guaranteed to function in the far future? You can count on 2019-vintage CSS and JS to be completely unusable. So the acid test is, have the people implementing this really thought this through? Base
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by stblack 7y ago
Conceptual acid test: Go to https://archiveprogram.github.com , then disable all CSS. Observe: resultant web page is unusable.
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by stblack 7y ago
Quick Github search for ‘cdnjs’ returns 22M code hits.
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by stblack 7y ago
This is so true.
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by stblack 7y ago
In my experience, the size of the hosts file matters on some devices, and some os. On older versions of Windows, for example, networking and browsing slows noticeably as the size of the host file increases. The same can be said for rootable
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by stblack 7y ago
This is anecdotal, to be sure: I'm a Plus plan subscriber and Proton VPN seems very fast for me. No complaints. Typically I'm using proximate nodes, and not routing through "Secure Core" routes, knowing the extra hops t
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by stblack 7y ago
6. AND... just a 6' power cord, and the presumption that you'll plug that brick into that so-nearby power outlet.
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by stblack 7y ago
These sessions are streamed live on Twitch, too. These sessions are vastly interesting. I think many commenters here should listen-in sometime. The Wolfram Language is hard because mapping knowledge is hard. What many people here call &quo
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by stblack 8y ago
There are some companies I will NEVER voluntarily do business with. Goldman Sachs is among them.
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by stblack 8y ago
Unmentioned in comments so far: Waffle had the ability to consolidate issues from several Github repos at once. We used one view that made issues from four repos appear as one. This is a feature I'll really miss. What other product doe
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by stblack 8y ago
Always deliver superlative value, and your customers take care of you.
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by stblack 8y ago
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business https://www.amazon.ca/Riding-Waves-Culture-Understanding-Div... Literally rethought everything following this read.
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by stblack 8y ago
Thank goodness for reader view.
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by stblack 8y ago
/etc/hosts is indeed used by all versions of MacOS. On MacOS, try this in a terminal window to flush your cache. sudo dscacheutil -flushcache;sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
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by stblack 8y ago
I selected "Canada" in the initial overlay, which redirects to .edu. Regardless, both are slow, both are http-only.
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by stblack 8y ago
The UK OpenU website, http://www.openuniversity.edu , is very slow and unusable right now. This is likely due to the HN effect It's notable that it's insecure, http-only...
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by stblack 8y ago
In the same vein, git-extras ( https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md ) has many similar metrics within a wider git enhancement suite.
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by stblack 8y ago
Tornado Notes. A TSR program that I once used to organize my life. It got me through university and the first few years of my career.

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