aristus

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by aristus 2y ago
They literally didn't have a Lunh check digit? Like, 1960s math? My gobs are smacked.
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by aristus 2y ago
Mocking the signs at Facebook started literally the day after they appeared suddenly in the 1601 building. "Break fast and eat things", and so on. There was a very fancy print shop on site and we would work up spoofs on the same e
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by aristus 2y ago
In the early 2000s, back at the beginning of the world, Yahoo's web code used ^A and ^B for field and record separators to avoid having to escape commas and quotes and newlines. That was probably the last time I ever saw ASCII control
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by aristus 2y ago
Yes, literally. Same argument applies to limited copyright terms. Though I'd say it would be with less concern, not completely without it.
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by aristus 2y ago
You can like the work but hate the jerk. The real question comes when you decide whether to financially support a jerk's work.
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by aristus 2y ago
Another n=1, but it depends. Outside interruptions when I'm on a tear are horrible. I don't often distract myself with a full-featured computer. In fact I often spin off into "research" or fiddling with fonts as a way to
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by aristus 2y ago
Browser DOM Security Mechanism.
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by aristus 2y ago
A SIM card is an often-overlooked "what you have" second factor, yes leaving aside phone company social engineering hacks. I made the mistake of buying an iphone on a trip to US, which is eSIM only. The tech works fine --Google Fi
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by aristus 2y ago
There was no pipe, as such. Just a wide deep long trench full of rocks.
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by aristus 2y ago
100 years on, everyone involved was dead. Happens a lot in old neighborhoods.
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by aristus 2y ago
Oh, yes. No lawns in that neighborhood but I thought hard about what might be going into the fruits. Years on, no ill effects.
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by aristus 2y ago
I discovered French drains while trying to dig a hole for a fruit tree a while back. The land was on a hill and about 30cm down I hit this huge pile of dirty gravel. Ok, so maybe someone filled that spot with gravel. Sunk another hole a bit
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by aristus 2y ago
You mean, Yet Another Human-Organized Ontology?
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by aristus 2y ago
About ten years ago I got my hands on some of the last production FusionIO SLC cards for benchmarking. The software was an in-memory database that a customer wanted to use with expanded capacity. I literally just used the fusion cards as sw
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by aristus 2y ago
Try "the music of the spheres". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
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by aristus 2y ago
30 years is a lot of time. I agree with GP. Starting back then would have been best; starting now would be second. I live in a country that has twice the number of medical school graduates per 100k population than the US, and unsurprisingly
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by aristus 3y ago
Ah, you're right. They announced they would but Congress didn't act. https://catalog.usmint.gov/proof-set-2024-24RG.html?cgid=ann...
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by aristus 3y ago
The US stopped minting pennies last year.
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by aristus 3y ago
Note: This applies only to traditional "harvest" surgery and not the new aphereisis method used today. The surgery itself wasn't great but I was at 80% after a month and 100% after three. No long term effects. Here's the
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by aristus 3y ago
I was part of a study of bone marrow donors. Basically a short phone call every year. The questions were solely about physical effects, but each time I tried to explain psychological effects similar to PTSD. I have heard similar stories fro
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by aristus 3y ago
Something that's kinda funny but baffling to me is the unspoken assumption that a UI with voice input should also default to voice output. That's not how two humans work on command / response tasks, say, hanging pictures. You
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by aristus 3y ago
You might be surprised. I spent a long time carefully and politely explaining to an immigration case officer that "Firstname NMN Lastname" meant, in fact, that there was No Middle Name and not that there was a middle name cryptica
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by aristus 3y ago
Yes. Thank you for reading. :) It's aged a bit but I am working on an update for the cloud era: https://carlos.bueno.org/2023/03/aws-dismal-guide.html
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by aristus 3y ago
In my profile, but https://carlos.bueno.org . I also write kids books on computer science and that seems to hook some parents. ;)
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by aristus 3y ago
I made a hobby of writing intro posts on deep technical topics, from DNS to concurrency to cutting cloud cost. From 2009 ish onwards all my gigs have been at least helped if not initiated by someone reading a post and saying "we should
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by aristus 3y ago
As I understand it, it was not literally the last thing holding back. But NASA worries about everything and we have centuries of examples of remote missions failing because of medical problems that could not be solved in the field. Billio
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by aristus 3y ago
Congrats! How old is your kid? ;)
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by aristus 3y ago
The main sticking point why trad cashflow factors don't do this is probably a lack of a good company credit score system + mechanisms for enforcement. I've had clients ask whether they can pay large (7 figure!) invoices on credit
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by aristus 3y ago
Don't forget the copper refinery next door. :/
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by aristus 3y ago
IIRC this started in the Mac finder with OSX 10.2. It bled onto the web a few years later with the advent of UI frameworks and blog feeds.

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