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by bkdbkd 3mo ago
often my solution. I usually touch 'ForbiddenFolder', then chmod the file a-x. Yes, this does not unclutter the home folder, but it does keep a program from touching places I don't want it to. I don't care to have the m
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by bkdbkd 3mo ago
1. because they know better. You don't have to understand it, for them to be right. This comes from their years of experience. When you also get those years of experience, you may come to similar understanding.
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by bkdbkd 4mo ago
yes. and it's what I use every day. the plan evil though.
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by bkdbkd 4mo ago
Funny how a $20 cert is enough to prove identity and provide security for any domain on the web, but in order to run a calculator Apple hw, Apple HQ is the only entity on the planet capable of such complex security.
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by bkdbkd 4mo ago
Contempt. use any apple device 2 updates back or more. you're screwed. You would accept this in no other place in life, except that apple gives it for free, and puts a 'security' sticker on the box. It's a racket. Pla
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by bkdbkd 4mo ago
All that, and not a single one here is surprised at zero days or trojans or malware that come right out of this process every week. If it works, then why aren't we surprise when it doesn't? Because we know it doesn't work.
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by bkdbkd 6mo ago
It forces a change, where none is called for. Compatibility works both ways. What doesn't matter to me the lib dev, may for matter for someone else. The world is built on portable, flexible code, and pinning to something unnecessarily
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by bkdbkd 6mo ago
Couldn't agree more.
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by bkdbkd 6mo ago
that is not a thing. it's not how compilers work.
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by bkdbkd 7mo ago
really really awesome.
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by bkdbkd 7mo ago
Awesome. Well done.
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by bkdbkd 1y ago
"That 3000 dollar tool you paid us for? It's a brick." -Tim Apple
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by bkdbkd 2y ago
You might find the book: "Conceptual Blockbusting", James L. Adams helpful. It contains thoughts and activities that focus on the 'process of thinking' or problem solving. And how we go about characterizing a problem or
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by bkdbkd 3y ago
former Mac dev here, and completely agreed. Refactoring an app because someone else decided to change the language is a bridge to far. And if they do it this time, they'll do it again. Meanwhile the ObjC compiles. --- Rant - With Swift
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by bkdbkd 3y ago
I'm a sw eng. and sometimes I just need to hear the drums from "In the air tonight". Sharing in case anyone else does.
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I made a thing: A Musical Motivation machine (play's that 1 good break)(motivationmachine.info)
3 points by bkdbkd 3y ago|1 comments
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by bkdbkd 4y ago
Yes, Great analogy. Remember the 2017 "Apple Commits to Pro Users" exercise? They flew reporters out for a boondoggle, gave them a tour of 'secret labs. With fresh competitive hardware coming 'real soon now'. Just s
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by bkdbkd 4y ago
This ^^
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by bkdbkd 4y ago
So my carpenter should be happy to keep paying for his drill or his circular saw? He should be grateful for the subscription to the lathe that he inherited from his grandfather?
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by bkdbkd 4y ago
Andreas Spiess https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu7_D0o48KbfhpEohoP7YSQ Small electronic projects, tutorials, and reviews for sensors, ESP8266, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32 Adafruit - new stuff they sell, and tutor
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by bkdbkd 4y ago
Exactly. It's a reasoning error. They equate "Ensuring any recalled products remains off market" with "keeping formula off the market". As you said, there are many cases in which it is far wiser stop to ensure safet
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by bkdbkd 5y ago
exactly. "its not that the lock is insecure, its just that sometimes thieves figure out how to make keys."
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by bkdbkd 6y ago
Notarization is moving the problem to a different place, but not fixing the problem. Imagine we take our city - Anycity, USA, where only good, trustworthy, and honest folk live, and we simultaneously decide to replace door locks with neighb
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by bkdbkd 6y ago
iirc remote mouse & keyboard control was added recently.
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by bkdbkd 6y ago
In this interview Professor Kim Woo-joo describes a similar incident in Korea, where a choir contracted the virus. He adds that 5um is the min for 'droplet' infection, and that if the droplets remain airborne they can desiccate,
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by bkdbkd 7y ago
Those crashes are like: You tell your machine to open the file with Emacs, but this new distro has unbeknownst to you (and you find out later, undocumented) symlinked the emacs command to a version of vim with a emacs-like overlay, because
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by bkdbkd 7y ago
The turn off the MCAS system button on the 737 Max the pilots were using, does _not_ in fact turn off the MCAS system. It is a "Pause the MCAS system button" Even worse, After a few moments, the MCAS system reactivates and then ad
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by bkdbkd 7y ago
And with the design that both Boeing and the FAA certified to fly, that system would simply fly the vehicle into terrain. In this case it is exactly the automation that is at fault, not a pilot misunderstanding or mistraining. The automatio
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by bkdbkd 7y ago
While true. That disconnect is not related to the automation system consistently doing the wrong thing. The 'thing the pilots didn't know' enough about was how to turn off the automation. Which was what saved the Lion Air fli
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by bkdbkd 7y ago
Ah, an on premise solution is something entirely different. Moving a group of users security problem to a controlled machine could be useful. Setting phasers to laser pointer mode.

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