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by travbrack 5y ago
It helps me to think of my code/systems as livestock, not pets. I don't get emotionally invested in my work, or tie it to my self worth. Highly recommend.
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by travbrack 5y ago
There are countries that don't care about US IP laws. China comes to mind.
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by travbrack 5y ago
Any solutions? Can't really ignore globalization, because you fall behind the rest of the world who's embracing it. The genie is out of the bottle.
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by travbrack 5y ago
Online shopping hadn't hit product market fit in the late 80s even though the Internet had already been around for a few years.
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by travbrack 5y ago
You can do an outbound allow list with apps like Little Snitch.
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by travbrack 5y ago
It'll work with a multi-output device. It may be illegal where you're at to record without consent in case you're not already aware.
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by travbrack 5y ago
My question is whether those long posts people make when they change companies are about ego or if it somehow helps their career to make a big deal out of it publicly.
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by travbrack 5y ago
virtual environments address all these concerns, no?
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by travbrack 5y ago
Pretty sure they're referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest
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by travbrack 5y ago
Because we went from living in a world where information about the world around us was hidden, to suddenly having access to all of it. It's surprising, jarring and overwhelming and it's probably going to take multiple generations
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by travbrack 5y ago
I think Cisco's context-sensitive CLI really nails this problem. If you've never used it before, pressing "?" at any point in your command will show you a big list of all the possible inputs, and a brief description of w
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by travbrack 5y ago
>better than anything today Pretty bold claim. Do you listen to a lot of modern music?
43.
by travbrack 6y ago
Yep, it loops after a couple minutes.
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by travbrack 6y ago
He sounds like a time traveler from the future. He talks like it's a given that the Internet is going to take over the world but back then it really wasn't.
45.
by travbrack 6y ago
Put the kids under a tent (not fully enclosed) with some propane heaters in the parking lot of the school.
46.
by travbrack 6y ago
Don't you think most people who would be interested in buying heroin in the store can already get it?
47.
by travbrack 6y ago
Maybe it wasn't necessary but the author obviously has a personal reason to do so which is completely valid
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by travbrack 6y ago
My favorite thing about bisqwit is that he drives a charter bus for work, despite being an amazing coder. This is his hobby.
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by travbrack 6y ago
I think it works only if everyone is playing the same chord/scale. Kinda like someone playing with a loop pedal. You're right that it definitely wouldn't work with a piece of music.
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by travbrack 6y ago
So everything except the grocery shopping... Except that you still need to go for breakfast, lunch, and the 2-4 dinners per week not provided by the meal kit. What I like to do is grab recipes off meal kit websites and buy the ingredients m
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by travbrack 6y ago
The business case is that you won't be able to retain good engineers if you refuse to rewrite your AS400 COBOL app.
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by travbrack 6y ago
You honestly believe the new generation of tools provides 0 value over their predecessors?
53.
by travbrack 6y ago
Chromatic button accordion layout addresses these concerns
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by travbrack 6y ago
This is true but it also doesn't invalidate the struggles of anyone who's experiencing depression in modern times. Not saying you were trying to do that but I just want to say that for anyone who reads this and feels like their ow
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by travbrack 6y ago
This reminded me of a story I read once upon a time where someone found a game online they wrote 20 years earlier. The thing that was weird about it was that they only shared it with their cousin. I can't find the story now. Anyone kno
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by travbrack 6y ago
I didn't notice this on my recent read. Can you think of an example?
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by travbrack 6y ago
I'm in the other camp on this one. I think the best thing to happen to IRC were the services that let you keep your nick or your channel without needing to maintain an army of bots. Channel takeovers on EFnet were a fact of life and it
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by travbrack 6y ago
I think the parent commenter was making the point that if the person with the keys to the kingdom is compromised, so is the kingdom. I was trying to point out that this is the case with any tool that has access to many systems.
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by travbrack 6y ago
Why wouldn't those companies use contract labor right now? There's nothing stopping them.
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by travbrack 6y ago
By that logic so is a configuration management client like SCCM or even Group Policy.

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