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by tracker1 2mo ago
So be it, they can send me back.
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by tracker1 2mo ago
True enough... but even then, you can download and review the script before running. Usually it just detects your OS/Distro and then downloads and runs the appropriate installer. You can also do this by hand. For that matter, there
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I make it a rule never to give confidential information to an incoming call. I had a primary doctor whose office would send notification calls immediately asking for part of my social security number, I always hung up.... I figured out it
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I'm mixed... if they really thought there was evidence on the phone, they should have seized the phone and acquired a warrant IMO to compel the valid, non-destructive PIN be given over. As I mentioned earlier, this is part of why my ow
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by tracker1 2mo ago
And this is why part of my plans for any international travel are to simply have a physical notebook with phone numbers to trusted friends/family and to buy throwaway devices on the other side (phone and chromebook or similar). TBF, si
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I'm more fond of just number+label files and a simple log as deployed to prevent re-run scenarios... Grate/Roundhouse does that for me... I don't use all the features, just separate each sproc/view and the up directory o
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by tracker1 2mo ago
yeah, 1-2 across an index is fine... but I've seen live websites with very normalized structures where it took no less than 30 joins to get a flat view of a single resource. I could do the same with about 4 secondary queries (each wit
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I appreciate the pedantry, but in this case it's pretty immaterial to what specifically it refers to, and yeah, I'm pretty boring like that. I made me smile.
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I used to use a shell replacement in the Win2K era that I could do very similar.. I don't even recall what it was called, but you could completely customize pretty much everything. On win2k in particular (vs 9x/me) you could use
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by tracker1 2mo ago
That's one that really gets me... if I'm buying a classic work or reprint, I'd really like a decent copy that can be handed down generationally... no such thing gets published today. I can understand a technical manual or pr
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by tracker1 2mo ago
Reminds me a bit more of Amiga... that said, I just don't like the "handle" on the windows, and the launcher is a bit odd imo.
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by tracker1 2mo ago
Nifty to see... I always liked BeOS/Haiku from a tech perspective, but really don't care nearly as much for the UX or ergonomics... I really like a lot of the Windows 10 start menu and taskbar, but I do hate the MS search results&
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by tracker1 2mo ago
Which doubly sucks in terms of assigning a DNS name to an IP/PC... and/or opening the assignment to less restricted access... feels just problematic to me. Again, I don't know any of IPv6 enough to use it really right or wron
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by tracker1 2mo ago
In retrospect, I think IBM would have been much better off if it had done two things differently... Made the deal with MS such that any external sales had a minimal price with a kickback to IBM, and that IBM would license its BIOS directly
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by tracker1 2mo ago
MS-Word will replace " - " inside a paragraph with an em dash, fwiw. I don't know for sure about other word processors, I don't use them much tbf.
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I just know that MS-Word will replace a hyphen with an em dash in practical use, which is a big part of why I didn't really pick it out as an AI thing in general. Though AI, in particular Chat GPT, does tend to use a lot of them.
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I'm largely with you... I would think they'd take the IPv4 block and have a direct/virtual block that just extends it to more addresses... so it could be an IPv4 NAT or IPv6 direct. like 1.1.1.1/192.168.45.4 ... for a r
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by tracker1 2mo ago
One thing I don't appreciate... Is the nature of NAT protected my internal/home network before... now, I have to actually configure firewall settings etc. to protect IPv6 issued addresses internally. I know you can just block inb
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I know that on my hosted server, I never bothered to set it up, because I didn't know how to properly configure or sub-net it. I know it's skill issue, but really feels significantly more complicated and even harder to understand
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by tracker1 2mo ago
I got a "home" Verizon box, and the first thing I did was change the DNS setting... 1.1.1.1 wasn't working, and I wanted to change it back to default. Verizon's tech support are idiots... they literally wouldn't gi
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by tracker1 2mo ago
LOL, they should have just used a 10.x space instead if they wanted slightly simpler numbers. On the shotgun, or adjacent, I do tend to prefer ammo classes for my nets... 10.22.x.y, where x may be 1, 38, 45, etc. Allows for site to site v
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by tracker1 2mo ago
lol, meant 1980....
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by tracker1 2mo ago
Would be kind of a cool experiment for a mud-style interface, where each npc/avatar was backed by a lower-cost LLM... similar rules for the npcs in the game, but a background feed, and history of interactions with other players as back
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by tracker1 2mo ago
Not to mention, physical limits to lithography are slowing down significantly... so tech will continue to evolve more slowly... it'll never be the jump from 1080-1990 again, for example, even though 1990-2000 was pretty close, 2000-201
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by tracker1 2mo ago
That's the split between skilled and unskilled labor... I'm talking about trades for skilled labor. And no, it's not for everyone... But using your own example, how many people with bachelor's degrees are asking if &quo
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by tracker1 2mo ago
How do you handle schema changes after your project is in production? I mean, sure start with a unified schema file until you have a production release... deploy, populate with placeholder data, etc... but once released, having a file for
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by tracker1 2mo ago
Yeah, I don't mean maintenance staff for like a rental company, but just running your own repair business, or working with a more established one. Just being able to do basic drywall and paint along with simple wiring for electronics (
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by tracker1 2mo ago
On migrations, there's a .Net tool called Grate that I tend to use for schema migrations... I don't use all the features, but it works well... using a migration stack in a repository for deployments and a similar tool is IMO more
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by tracker1 2mo ago
Kind of cool to see.. that said, there's more to a tooling experience than benchmarks and specific models. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc. add to the mix. Things like Open-Router and backend options make it easy enough to test. The
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by tracker1 2mo ago
That would be kinda sweet.

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