teh_klev

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by teh_klev 3y ago
> working on tickets while they are on-call That's why they call it "on-call", you only work if you get the call. If you're on-call and being expected to work on unrelated tickets then you're now adding many ho
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> I think it’s different if someone is waiting on the immediate output of your work. I partially agree, something needs to be on fire or a complete showstopper for that to happen. My only other reason would be helping out a colleague who
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> getting started is the HARDEST part of the day for me. For you, yes. But remember not everyone is a night owl, nor is everyone an early bird. I start work at 930am, we have our stand up, then I warm up with 30-45 mins of coffee, readin
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> as a blogger you should probably always own or create your own tools. That's all fine and dandy if you're a developer (or have some developer skills). But my mate who wants to blog about wood working isn't a developer an
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by teh_klev 3y ago
The thing you're thinking about is http.sys and it was introduced in Windows 2008/IIS7 to support the new "Integrated Mode" request pipeline. WinHTTP doesn't have anything to do with http.sys it just listens for HTT
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by teh_klev 3y ago
This might be useful to review: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc "Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)"
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by teh_klev 3y ago
From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence,
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by teh_klev 3y ago
But no-one is shipping content with these long gone formats any more. My almost 20 year old receiver supports formats that have long since fallen by the wayside as well, why put any effort into them for test and diagnostics?
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by teh_klev 3y ago
If you're alluding to COPY.TXT meaning COPYRIGHT.TXT and therefore it would/should contain a license then I hate to disappoint you. Copyrights and Licenses are different things. So maybe put a dampener on your expressions of incre
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by teh_klev 3y ago
To add to the sibling comments. My first hint at getting COVID was that my local takeaway curry didn't taste of anything, but the usual fiery heat was still there. I almost phoned up the shop to have a moan about them sending out this
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> where a bearded man both poured water from one jug to another and taught me how to code. Thank you for this image :D
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Apologies. I also meant to say that the BBC was just as approachable as the Spectrum then lost my train of thought after the phone rang :) I found the Spectrum super frustrating to use, especially with that dead-flesh membrane keyboard.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
I wasn't permitted to have a computer until I'd passed my 'O' levels, so instead typed out my code on a clonky 1960's office typewriter in the evenings and weekends. I did have rudimentary syntax highlighting becaus
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> The simpler hardware of the Spectrum was much more approachable. I'd contest that assertion. I was 15 when when my folks bought my BBC Model B. It was a far more interesting machine to hack around on than the Spectrum. The BBC was
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by teh_klev 3y ago
I'm genuinely not seeing any latency. It feels pretty snappy to me. This is Chrome 116 on Windows 10 Pro.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Seem to work for me. What's broken for you and how can I reproduce?
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by teh_klev 3y ago
It's an inside joke. Byte at its peak had some issues that were nearly an inch thick and could easily be used as a murder weapon.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
The new King has no powers to do anything like that. It'd be up to the British government to stick their noses in, if at all possible.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> Interesting, you can purchase support for 1.1.1x between 15,000 -- 50,000 USD per year. Nitpick, from the announcement, only the Premium contract ($50K per year) provides for extended 1.1.1 support: Another option is to purchase a p
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Look up "hot tenting" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hot+tent+winter...
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by teh_klev 3y ago
One of the co-producers of Theaters of War, Tom Secker, has a podcast called ClandesTime where he explores FOIA'd documents from the various entertainment liasion offices run by the DoD, FBI etc. Well worth a follow and listen if this
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by teh_klev 3y ago
I watched these a few years back and agree they're a really interesting set of talks.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Your comment about your pal just reminded me of " The Integral Principles of the Structural Dynamics of Flow ", an fictional technical book used as a plot device in the Patriot TV series. https://www.imdb.com/title
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by teh_klev 3y ago
I'm of that vintage of credit card user that remembers this. I used to keep my counterfoils (I think that's what they were called) to reconcile what was remaining on my available credit. I seem to remember there was a printed list
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by teh_klev 3y ago
How odd, my first attempt with archive.org didn't work (I got a blank page). Seems to work now, thank you.
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by teh_klev 3y ago
I think you got the wrong end of the stick with that guideline. It's intended for folks who accuse others of not having read the article, not for self admission that one didn't read the article. Also the article is behind a payw
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Kodak are still in business making photographic film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak The Smarter Every Day YouTuber did a three part series about their factory in Rochester, NY: https://www.youtube.com&
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Sizable discussions from the last time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35856820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459997
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by teh_klev 3y ago
Back in the day (the 80's) when I was a young broth-of-a-boy junior engineer we used both Kermit and BLAST[0] to move files between Data General mini's and a bunch of destinations running CP/M, PC/MS-DOS, CP/N, BBC
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by teh_klev 3y ago
> To fix a quarter-century-old monitor that was nothing special when it was new. > Why? I mean, I wouldn't bother fixing the thing anyway, but hiring somebody is going to cost you more than a much better brand new monitor. There

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