tlavoie

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by tlavoie 4y ago
My usual preferences are digital-first; I'm quicker at it, and my writing is abysmal. I have started carrying a notebook in my backpack, because sometimes typing is just not convenient. I don't want to sit in some settings, poking
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by tlavoie 4y ago
"Hmm, cool project idea but if the subject doesn't know you're doing this, it is a bit weird to stalk their online footprint." Wait, which one is the real cyberlurker? ;)
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by tlavoie 4y ago
How about https://ulisp.com/ ? It's a subset of common lisp, and seems to be able to do a fair bit. The Python interpreters probably have a lot more community traction though.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Regarding anxiety vs anger vs hurt response, why pick just one? Indeed, our son's expectations are sometimes pretty unidirectional. (Mental health stuff, depends how he's doing at the time.) With some effort though, this gradual t
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I'm curious, it seems to me like the stated objections to CouchDB's approach aren't that bad, at least for quite a few use cases: - Client optimistically goes to POST a JSON document. If new, there is no _id field included. -
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Better yet, for some people, the expectation of this mostly-async communication is that you will respond as quickly as they type. My adult son deals with anxiety, and when he's stressed, I'll get multiple texts in a row. If I&#x27
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Linked from elsewhere, the original Financial Post story that triggered this specific investigation is quite the eye-opener. The reporter filed a PIPEDA request to get a copy of their own data, and then goes on to describe the findings in q
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Along with blocking commercial creepy behavior, I would love to see similar restrictions applied to governments that use commercial access to simply vacuum up large quantities of this information without warrants. (IIRC, ICE in the US is on
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by tlavoie 4y ago
One of my earliest computing-adjacent exposures was going into my dad's office as a kid. Besides getting to type random things on punch-cards, we'd typically bring home these line-printer calendars with a Snoopy (or whatever) ASCI
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by tlavoie 4y ago
The ones I come across likely had no human in the process but the one signing up for whatever service. The one that signed up for hydro at least I could "creep" using Street View, see where he lives. ;)
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I've occasionally let my curiosity take me down the rabbit hole, to see if I can figure what it's all about. In one case, the email reminder about an upcoming job interview gave me enough to call the recruiter, and ask if they hav
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I get those quite often. As far as I've been able to tell, they're typically someone else sharing my first and last name, and they're using a Gmail address without the '.' in my usual first.last@gmail.com address. G
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by tlavoie 4y ago
On the aspect of being small, small spiders' brains actually spread out a bit into the legs, due to lack of space in their heads. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/111219-sp...
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by tlavoie 4y ago
OK, so this seemed like something plausible to do, thought I'd take a look. - Looked at "popular" bookmarks, e.g. https://pinboard.in/popular/ - At the far right end of each page title, there's a li
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Pinboard ( https://pinboard.in/ ) is still a thing, and the developer bought the deli.icio.us domain too I think. In any case, it has at least replicated the del.icio.us functionality, and then added more, such as archiving p
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Still, blurring just the non-HTTPS traffic is also a useful hint that things could be better.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Indeed, you can use other characters as well. I've got the underscore '_' on mine, and use it for all my random-signup emails. It's great, once in a blue moon you find one that leaks your ID or spams you, and I can then
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Cloudy season, more like it, BC coast. ;) Really, if I do it every couple weeks or so, it isn't a big deal. I charge the inside one periodically as well, as I don't leave it plugged in. For that one though, I added a last-update
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Good to know, thanks! It does seem to have more packages and such for sure, and more traction among Haskell crowd I think from the bit I've seen. Either way, I am more inclined currently to use packages on top of a base Linux distro, s
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Any thoughts on Guix as compared with Nix? I've tinkered a bit with Nix, including running NixOS for a bit on my laptop, but quite like the lispy languages in comparison.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Yes, I have a 2200 mAh 18650 cell in there too, which the panel will mostly keep charged. In the darker, cloudier winter, I swap in a battery and recharge manually if it's not keeping up. Running on an Adafruit ESP32 Feather board, it
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by tlavoie 4y ago
On that note, one that could open in one direction only would let the pet out, but not open inwards. To the extent that this helps though, I'd wonder more about other things that are risky, like flammable furniture foam/curtains.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Is there anything like birdnetpi, but with an ultrasound transducer for bats? I know I have them zooming around, but rarely see them, and would love to know more what their activity is like here. Oh, checking out the AudioMoth linked elsewh
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Yeah, mine's under a deck, in a travel soap dish with holes drilled in it. Works great! Power for that one is one of those little solar panels with a micro-USB port on it, used for battery-powered security cameras.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Speaking of progress... Progress 4GL was the main tool used by the small company I first worked for after university. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEdge_Advanced_Business_Lan... ) It worked in the context of the co
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by tlavoie 4y ago
When the organization itself takes security seriously, it can be so much better. I'm at a telecom, where we have multiple security teams. Ours is all about security testing, and we're regularly meeting with dev teams to discuss fi
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by tlavoie 5y ago
Indeed, that's a good sign. I had a client much like your former employer, when my father was terminally ill. That engagement got completed, but there would not be another with them.
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by tlavoie 5y ago
I dunno, you probably get some sort of bereavement time off. Also, personal death care involving families seems to be creeping back somewhat.
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by tlavoie 5y ago
When I was a kid, my dad loved his dad jokes, especially terrible (great) puns. My mother attempted to enforce a, "puns only on Fridays" rule, that of course was never followed. Instead, every other day became an honorary Friday.
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by tlavoie 5y ago
Nice. I suspect I'll mostly stick to taking inspiration, rather than code. I am looking for a solution for an eventual replacement for our team's reporting tool, but would be more likely to simply buy something since writing a rep

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