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by xnorswap 2y ago
Archive tape existed well before and well after optical discs. These days, you can fit up to 18TB on a tape. OK, so some smartass will pop up and say that doesn't even fit a RAM dump from some machines, but for most archiving purposes,
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It's not explicitly stated, but in this article "CD-ROM" means, "Multimedia CD-ROM" that you'd buy for the sake of the multimedia content on it. For applications and games, CD-ROMs would dominate the whole deca
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by xnorswap 2y ago
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/observatory/design/o...
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by xnorswap 2y ago
My friend had a 486 (We only had a 386), but it would play doom really well. However, the first step of any gaming session was to reboot the machine with the boot floppy in, which had the right boot settings for gaming performance.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Access was kind of amazing, but it had a critical "flaw" for getting really accepted back in the late nineties: Changes were instant. In the current world of autosave-everything, that wouldn't be a problem, but against a back
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I always thought it was bad practice to use the same domain for API and non-API traffic. In the browser there'll be a ton of wasted context (cookies) attached to the API request that isn't needed. So it's better to have &quot
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by xnorswap 2y ago
When it comes to C# REPLs I absolutely adore LinqPad, although recently it's felt like I've had to buy licenses for it increasingly often which I've found annoying. If any other REPL can get to a point where it can rival Linq
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by xnorswap 2y ago
The amount of prize money shocked me too, I put it down to a culture I don't understand. See also $50,000 prize money for what's called a "Spelling Bee": Asking children to spell words correctly. I feel so far removed fr
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Yes, that's what I meant by "A handful of academics had a chance". I'd disagree about "Times weren't better". The internet of even just 25 years ago was vastly better for many use cases, if your interests
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I miss the days when we had enough trust, and even more naivety, to have the finger protocol. For those who didn't know or don't remember what the finger protocol was: > The program would supply information such as whether a us
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Yes, but the point I'm trying to make is that I think "isolation" is the wrong approach for data quality issues. That's like fishing out a turd. You need to quarantine the lot until you fix the upstream. Automating that
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by xnorswap 2y ago
What kind of cursed date is 32/1/2017? If you're starting with that kind of data-quality, what confidence can you have in the rest of it, even if the rest "appears" more normal? To expand my thoughts further: Data q
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It comes with an inability to do lots of things for 6 (I think?) years, including things like not having an overdraft and more importantly to this conversation, prevents being a director of a company.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It's worth noting that's Data Protection Act (2018), there was also Data Protection Act (1998) which predates GDPR and had many of the same laws. People outside of the UK only started caring when a regulator with enough teeth (and
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Does better fidelity need a use case?
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Myst was a big enough hit it was the reason (or perhaps excuse is a better word) for some of my friends getting a CD-ROM drive. ( While I was "stuck" on an old 386 with only a floppy drive for what felt like an eternity. )
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by xnorswap 2y ago
People in the USA need to lobby for better and modern banking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit#United_Kingdom Not only does it not cost anything to the payer, the "Direct Debit Guarantee" also prote
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I've worked at a place addicted to giving away software / credits to land deals. It was incredibly damaging and would now be a red flag for me when looking at future workplaces. It was a viscous cycle where the sales team promised
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by xnorswap 2y ago
My hunch is that either: Somewhere an "up to 50 hours" has become "over 50 hours". If written as "up to 50 hours" it would be much less surprising. Or It should read "Over 5 hours". A million spending
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I look forward to the inevitable JSON path injection attacks given how widespread XPATH injection used to be. ( See https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/XPATH_Injection for more info. )
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by xnorswap 2y ago
You inspired me to look up if there were many still going and I was saddened to discover there are no longer any operational ones left in the UK.
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I agree preventing DELETE and UPDATE without predicates would be a useful server configuration. And you don't even need special syntax, it just forces someone to write DELETE * FROM [customers] WHERE 1=1 to satisfy the need for a predi
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by xnorswap 3y ago
That sounds like nonsense. The idea that a stable API provides no value is contrary to all the evidence. Look at graphics APIs like DirectX and look at what happened when jQuery was released for more evidence that having a stable API that c
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by xnorswap 3y ago
You can get part way there with a sabbatical. I recently took a 2 month break from work, and coming back I had plenty of these moments too. Things that previously I thought were smooth weren't. Processes that I thought worked fine seem
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by xnorswap 3y ago
It would be weighted by bid size. If there's $10m of bids one side and $5m of offers on the other, you match up the $5m on that side and every bid gets 50% settled. I'm not sure I understand the problem with "waiting" fo
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by xnorswap 3y ago
The same way you would without a clock I guess? You could match what you can distributed equally and leave the rest unsettled. You could let people decide whether to roll-over the partial bid into a new bid on the next clock or to cancel un
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by xnorswap 3y ago
MY weird monitor bug: Sometimes a vertical strip of ~3-5mm that ought to be in the middle is actually displayed on the far right. The solution? Wiggle the Displayport cable. I've replaced the cable entirely so it's not actually th
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by xnorswap 3y ago
That's the chance of one specific person being hit. But I think you'd want to calculate the chance of any one person being "hit", which is roughly ten billion times higher than that, and uncomfortably likely (if people w
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by xnorswap 3y ago
I was taught the juggling notation site-swap around 25 years ago, and it's one of those things that sticks with you despite the fact that I don't have the coordination to juggle. What really impressed me at the time was the abilit
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by xnorswap 3y ago
That they can put English mustard side by side with Dijon mustard suggests so.

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