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by tlavoie 7y ago
What about companies where different parts of the company have differing work arrangements? For instance, my telco has some union workers in specific roles, as well as non-union retail staff, and a "management professional" catego
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by tlavoie 7y ago
You can combine approaches of course. My main in-home DNS, per the DHCP settings on the wi-fi, is a Pi-Hole. Secondary DNS is the pfSense firewall, so nothing's dead in the water if the Raspberry Pi falls over for some reason. The fire
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by tlavoie 7y ago
I'm working remotely for a telecom, which has a strong remote-worker culture. Some people do go into the office periodically, often in a "hotel" arrangement where your desk is for the day, but I don't. There is an office
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by tlavoie 7y ago
"Victoria/Vancouver/Seattle, are basically the reason that the Oil Sands exist at all, it's where the vast majority of the product has gone over the last 50 years." Er, what? The tar sands products wouldn't be
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by tlavoie 7y ago
OCaml is pretty sweet too, but I think it strikes a different balance. You end up with something more static of course, but I've found it to be quick to compile, and quick to run. You still can't compare to the SLIME experience f
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by tlavoie 7y ago
I tend to use Common Lisp for some personal projects, or small one-offs for work to make something easier. Libraries are great, and easily managed via Quicklisp (with info in quickdocs, as well as Hyperspec). And SLIME in Emacs is amazing t
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by tlavoie 7y ago
Odd, on my desktop view, there is no option to change the method. It's SMS or nothing.
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by tlavoie 7y ago
I think it's one of those things that can poison livestock, so maybe keep it out of areas with goats, sheep, and some children.
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by tlavoie 7y ago
Very, they're quite delicious! However, the vines themselves are a thorny menace, with a coating of sharp, strong spines that hook backwards towards the root. Catch one of these sometimes slender tendrils around an ankle while walking,
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by tlavoie 7y ago
In Canada, the federal government has released their own weather app (WeatherCAN), including alerts for significant weather in your area. It's basically replaced the commercial weather apps on my phones. I would pay for DarkSky if it w
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by tlavoie 7y ago
I've wondered if a web server or proxy in something like Erlang would be ideal there, where there is little server-side penalty in dragging requests out progressively longer. With the lightweight processes, the cost per should be very,
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by tlavoie 7y ago
Well, it worked for toilet-training our daughter. "Pogs" (colorful cardboard disks) were in at the time, used here as rewards.
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by tlavoie 7y ago
Meh. After one too many failures, my upgrade is a Thinkpad "mobile workstation" running Linux. Awesome keyboard, great battery, and room inside for me (!) to install the SSD from my dead, also-2013 MBP. Came with 16GB, and still h
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by tlavoie 7y ago
Makes me think of Edi Weitz's CL-WHO, which works very nicely if creating web pages from Common Lisp. https://edicl.github.io/cl-who/
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by tlavoie 7y ago
You would think then, that Facebook would make it easier to actually go and delete old data, rather than forcing the most motivated people to go through hoops such as browser plugins and other scripts. If it doesn't matter to the busin
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by tlavoie 7y ago
I don't know that it's cargo-cult behavior, but maybe it's a lack of perspective in general. I work in security, and yes, it's good practice to patch all the things, but only in that it's the easiest default policy
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by tlavoie 7y ago
Sounds sort of like the .mli files in Ocaml. As I understand it, the compiler uses (and enforces) the types found therein, though can infer a lot from the code in .ml files as well.
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by tlavoie 7y ago
Same. I used to frequent the first Chapters store that opened in Winnipeg, and it was basically great. Tons of books, and a massive tech section that carried things like comp sci textbooks. In other words, they carried a breadth of subject
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by tlavoie 8y ago
Nice, look forward to that one too. Also, not being familiar with !!Con, have queued up the videos of the talks.
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by tlavoie 8y ago
Very cool write-up, thanks! I've long appreciated the wizardry that Common Lisp's macros enable, and knew (distantly) that Racket does macros, but was completely unfamiliar with this separate compilation guarantee. If I understand
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by tlavoie 8y ago
Very cool! What gave you the idea to (ab)use a database to generate fractals? ;)
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by tlavoie 8y ago
They are fascinating creatures, and very curious. I don't tend to worry about them much around here (BC coast), because they do at least have a very good idea of where you are. As someone else mentioned, they very rarely hurt people, d
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by tlavoie 8y ago
You know you can just go and download your FB content, right? You follow a couple links, wait a while, and then they let you know when you can download your zip file. I downloaded mine, read some stuff that made me think a bit, and then I f
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by tlavoie 8y ago
StackOverflow? ducks
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by tlavoie 8y ago
I was going to say... I was a reservist in the mid-80s, carrying FN C1s stamped 1959, or sometimes even 1958. They were heavy, but I still quite liked them otherwise.
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by tlavoie 8y ago
And please, skip the shoes. People have been wigged out for years around these parts, since shoes with the foot still inside have kept washing up on shore. I think the consensus was that it was suicides or other drowning victims, not some n
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by tlavoie 8y ago
I live in a place where people think about things like food security. It's an island, where most people are on the next, larger island, which itself gets supplies from the mainland. If you have the room, and time, there's a certai
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by tlavoie 8y ago
If it's about the same as the P50 I picked up, the NVidia card is not the default, so it only factors in if the user selects it. The off-center keyboard is a minor nit, I really wanted the numeric keypad (and love the keyboard in gener
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by tlavoie 8y ago
The solution available on my land line is very simple, and works very well. Any call from an unfamiliar number get an automated prompt to enter a specific digit. The digit changes, and of course relies on the caller being able to follow thi
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by tlavoie 8y ago
Various OSInt (open source intelligence) tools can be handy, just as they are on a pen-test. Besides the usual stuff linked to on the site, you can look for email addresses from their domain(s), Google-dork for file extensions on their site

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