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by warrenm 3y ago
Interesting add-on thought: if you combine "cloud painting" with something like Squid, you could have a single (non-cookied) page 'rendered once', and displayed 'for everyone'
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by warrenm 3y ago
Plan9 from Bell Labs
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by warrenm 3y ago
>I've heard it costs more than buying new laptops to everyone every year. If only "costs more" if you look at a pure dollar cost of the VDI infra vs the pure cost of a laptop - yeah, it might be more than a couple hundre
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by warrenm 3y ago
If you're shortsighted enough to think the only "cost" is the device, yeah - it's a "rounding error" But the TCO of employee connectivity is not merely "the device" It's everything else that go
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Citrix/RDP farm should NEVER be used for cost savings. It is for data control. But bean counters think it saves costs Except ... it does "save costs" Allowing BYOD (or eve just supplying a 'basic' device) and
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by warrenm 3y ago
I haven't touched IRC in close to a decade[0] - but nice to hear it's still alive and kicking :) --------- [0] https://antipaucity.com/2014/04/22/setting-up-an-unreal-irc-...
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by warrenm 3y ago
Honestly ... that's more of a response than most places will give
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by warrenm 3y ago
have a link to any of these openings?
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by warrenm 3y ago
I'd give the advice a couple others have given: use a spreadsheet Doesn't matter if it's Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets, Open Office ... they're ubiquitous and easy :)
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by warrenm 3y ago
I use whatever scientific caluclator it was that I bought for highschool back in the 90s It still works And does more than I've ever needed it to Yes, I also use Excel or Numbers or my phone's calculator or the Calculator app on m
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by warrenm 3y ago
VDI makes far more sense for most people It's [effectively] what a Chromebook is
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Truth Decay and National Security(rand.org)
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by warrenm 3y ago
TIL: IRC is still around
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Getting in Touch with “Your Future Self”(longnow.org)
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Tackling the Existential Threats from Artificial Intelligence(rand.org)
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Workers are less productiv, make more typos in afternoon – especially on Fridays(phys.org)
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by warrenm 3y ago
Wonder how this headline and article jives with Azure achieving FedRAMP statuses, DoD IL5, and other security certifications? If Azure is as bad as this article makes them sound, does that mean most major security certifications are also as
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Presentations: Debugging JavaScript(blog.isquaredsoftware.com)
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A $790k flying car is now cleared for takeoff(freethink.com)
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The RC shell and its excellent handling of whitespace(drewdevault.com)
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by warrenm 3y ago
>The key to rc’s design success in this area is the introduction of a second primitive. The Bourne shell and its derivatives traditionally work with only one primitive: strings. But command lines are made of lists of strings, and so a la
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The 16th-century codebreaker who wrote secret messages on boiled eggs(bigthink.com)
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by warrenm 3y ago
>His first rather startling and brilliant contribution to the art of code-making was the ingenious means by which messages might be smuggled to prisoners via eggs. This might sound whimsical, but this was still the time of the Inquisitio
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Users are already trying to adjust to a now-very-different-looking platform after Elon Musk renamed Twitter X and swapped out the bird logo for the 24th letter of the alphabet. "now-very-different-looking platform"? Because a
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Endor Labs raises $70M to transform application security securing OSS components(siliconangle.com)
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Sex-trafficking survivors suing to hold hotel chains liable for abuse(icij.org)
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New Relic agrees to $6.5B buyout amidst job cuts(ghacks.net)
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by warrenm 3y ago
sure - I've rolled-out stuff in timeframes that made the team look bad ... and then had another project where, had I been working on it, we'd still be working on it doesn't make me a "10x engineer" nor does it mak
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by warrenm 3y ago
>always been well understood that a few good programmers, properly motivated, can potentially outperform a team of 100 But it's NOT because of the mythical "10x programmer" (another Spolskyism) It's because of commu
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What Does It Take for a Lego Car to Roll Downhill Forever?(hackaday.com)
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