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by alexfoo 12d ago
2700 core years
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by alexfoo 16d ago
I sat a similar test at the start of my ADHD diagnosis (in the UK for reference). The one I did (QbCheck) was a similar setup but you were presented with shapes on the screen, either a square or a circle, and either blue or red. All you had
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by alexfoo 16d ago
> ... my understanding is that in Europe it's virtually unheard of to have an adult diagnosis. Can't speak for the whole of the continent but UK here and I got my ADHD diagnosis a few years shy of 50 years old. Wasn't tric
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by alexfoo 19d ago
It works both ways though. The traffic was separated so that anything on the public hotspot was not attributed to the private subscriber network. Secondly for years I lived somewhere very remote so that meant that hardly anyone ever got to
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by alexfoo 19d ago
A bit into tinfoilhat territory but just because they don't advertise that they have an 802.11 radio doesn't mean the devices can't have one. Or an LTE/4G/5G radio. If the user data is worth that much then I wouldn&
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by alexfoo 3mo ago
They didn't. Sounds like they gave the robot an AWS key from an account that was already linked to a credit card. The robot decided to spin up an expensive setup prior to getting access, so the setup was sitting there costing money whi
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by alexfoo 3mo ago
It all comes down to where the boundary for data access is implemented, and how strictly. If your webapp has unfettered database access then don't be surprised if it is hacked and someone can do `select * from users` and then posts tha
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by alexfoo 3mo ago
Plus addressing (or movable periods in gmail addresses, etc) is increasingly pointless for a whole host of reasons. It may keep out the bottom x% of spammers/hackers but it doesn't do much for the increasingly sophisticated scams
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by alexfoo 3mo ago
Can confirm it's free. I tried it based on the GP comment. There are various ways to prove it is your domain: token sent to one of a small number of email addresses like {admin,security,webmaster}@, DNS TXT record, place a small file i
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by alexfoo 3mo ago
Someone in the house pressed the button to update the printer (Brother DCP-L3550CDW) firmware and the CSV page that was the basis for an existing Prometheus exporter (drum/toner lifespan, page counts, etc) stopped being a thing. Instea
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
Dave Eggers' novel _The Circle_ (2013) is looking more and more prophetic every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
For my own 10G homelab network I jumped the gun and got a couple of Intel X540-T1 cards for my two servers and balked at the cost of the RJ45-SFP+ transceivers (Unifi's version is ~USD60). (I'm sure there are cheaper options for t
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
Indeed, however: 10 x 0.1 = 1
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
Some companies are purposely obtuse about it. My wife is trying to sort something with a famous Irish airline who are well known for messing people around. She has LPA/POA for her mother but rather than the airline accepting the VCode
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
https://communityfibre.co.uk/fibre-deals for reference [EDIT] The asymmetric supplier is BT via Openreach. Google something like "BT Fibre 500".
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
> Going for a cup of coffee means physical walk. Detaching from focussed mode means your mind gets in diffused mode. This is where/when creativity ensues. Sure, but I want to choose when I do it, not have it forced upon me. > 75
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
The "Sasha" section brought back a load of memories from my childhood. As an Alex growing up in Western Europe with no connections to anything East it was just my Russophile father that used to call me Sandy or Sasha some of the t
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
Edwardian houses in the UK rarely have that level of access. No basement at all and I can't lift the carpets and floorboards to get to where I might be able to pass things through/around. No AC ducts. No coax to be able to use MoC
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
I had a big debate with myself whether to go Mikrotik or Unifi. Being EU based I really wanted to go Mikrotik but ended up with Unifi as I'd had more experience of it when helping out friends/neighbours. Maybe my "last house&
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
The limiting factor for me is that I'm renting so I can't put my own cabling in to the property. And with the new place there's no existing cabling, nor any conduits to run anything in, and chasing things into the walls/
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
True, I don't really feel limited by my existing 500Mbps down, but knowing I'll be having 2500Mbps up/down soon means I want to have the infra to handle it. Basing things on 2.5GbE would certainly have been cheaper but some t
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
Ha. I meant the rest of the equipment (USW-Aggregation, Unifi Pro Max 16, UNAS Pro, Unifi Express 7) was somewhere around half retail price. I think I paid ~$15 for each X520-DA2 including postage.
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
I'm only planning on using one of the SFP+ ports on each of the cards, the dual port cards were just more common and cheaper on eBay. The specs say they require PCIe v2.1 x8 lane. My Proxmox server is quite old and has a Gigabyte GA-X7
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
I'm waiting for 3 DACs and a few other bits to arrive today to move closer to 10G networking at home. Moving house soon and the new place will have 2.5Gbps FTTP (both up and down) so I wanted to be prepared for that. Given my existing
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
This is almost as good as the classic HN "Putnam" comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 (Hint: No, he's not replying with AI. Two hyphens are not an em dash. Even then there's no hint of it
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
Some companies pay more if people are paged. It can create a perverse incentive not to fix problems or, in extreme cases, to watch things going wrong, waiting for the page, and then being ready to fix it straight away.
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
One team can't troubleshoot AND FIX every possible subsystem, so you just end up with lots (growing to hundreds) of people "on-call" anyway. As others have said, follow-the-sun type models do exist, usually staffed by people
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
Github measures/reports the SLA of the individual services. The external page linked above goes the other extreme and considers it a bad status whenever any individual service is degraded. In reality the majority of people only use 3 o
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
> But many years ago I gave up Scrum completely in my teams. What’s more, over time I almost stopped coming across startups where Scrum is used in its classic form at all. Many distributed teams are gradually moving toward an async appro
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by alexfoo 4mo ago
I think most people constantly try to adapt their setups based on every changing work/life requirements, plus also phases/trends of "lots of monitors" <-> "single big monitor", etc. There are random attem

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