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by buserror 2mo ago
There was a well known Firstclass server in France in the 90s called Ellis, dedicated to everything Apple/Macintosh. I still have real-life friends I made back then on that server.
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by buserror 5mo ago
Damn, just when we of the emulator and vintage stuff scene thought we were safe using the old colors as they hadn't any relevance anymore, booom, it suddenly becomes trendy again.
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by buserror 5mo ago
Modern transceivers can do 10G on absolutely garbage twisted pair. My house was wired with absolutely dire cat5 cabling. Zero shielding and barely any copper in the pairs. I thought I'd barely be able to do 1G on them, but modern tra
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by buserror 5mo ago
I got fired off pair.com because I had a wildcard email, and was receiving (and to my credit, discarding) millions of emails... a day... on my personal domain. Whoops. I still use my super optimized c++ email filter to this day, 25 years
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by buserror 9mo ago
Thank you for not calling film photography "analog" -- I've been at it for 25 years and I'm also an engineer, and I cringe still everytime I hear/read "analog" photography, while there are plenty of accu
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by buserror 9mo ago
At last, something that isn't about python! :>
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by buserror 10mo ago
Thats why they've been increasing the service interval to silly numbers. 3 years ago, 10k miles, now... 18k miles for the same model of car for the first service! Absolutely insane.
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by buserror 11mo ago
Another thing if you are recovering and have limited dexterity in your hands, after trying pretty much ALL the voice recognition I could find, the VScode/copilot assistant is the best by far! I've now recovered enough that I can t
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by buserror 11mo ago
Had a stroke 2 months ago at 55, after an entire life (professionally since I'm 16) as a dev. I mostly followed these rules apart from when I got dragged into a project that was sufficiently interesting that I started overworking. 1
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by buserror 11mo ago
Pro tip: Do not use on your internet router if it is ALSO the DHCP server, as the JetKVM is by default DHCP (with no backup fallback to a LL address) so if your server somehow needs serious attention... Well yes, your JetKVM no longer has a
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by buserror 1y ago
No they won't. I've seen them coming a looooong way. I even re-baptised arduidiots [0] quite a while ago. Since the "branding" fiasco I've stayed well clear of them. [0]: https://github.com/buserror&
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by buserror 1y ago
I use NFS as a keystone of a pretty large multi-million data center application. I run it on a dedicated 100Gb network with 9k frames and it works fantastic. I'm pretty sure it is still use in many, many places because... it works! I d
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by buserror 1y ago
I'm amazed to see kids and adult wearing shorts going out for forest walks. We are in an area of dense woods filled with deer, and even the fields are full of sheep that also carry ticks... There is zero awareness in the general popula
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by buserror 1y ago
Same here, nnn feels so much lighter too. It also works out of the box, no need to carry around "your" .rc file on dozens of systems as you work
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by buserror 1y ago
I have a debian box I installed in 2002. Trust me, it works :-)
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by buserror 1y ago
Interesting, I actually do have a coding-guidelines.md file for that purpose, but I hadn't thought of having the LLM either generate it, or maintain it; good idea! :-)
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by buserror 1y ago
In my experience, this is a problem without LLM anyway; many times you cannot just tell coworkers (junior, or not) to completely trash their patch and do it again (even using nicer words). Very often it comes down to HR issues in the end, s
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by buserror 1y ago
Ahaha you likely haven't seen as many Junior Programmer as I have then! </jk> But I agree completely some juniors are a pleasure to see bloom, it's nice when one day you see their eye shine and "wow this is so co
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by buserror 1y ago
I personally treat the LLM as a very junior programmer. He's willing to work, will take instructions, but his knowledge of the codebase, and patterns we use is lacking strongly. So it needs a LOT of handholding, very clear instructions
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by buserror 1y ago
Also, make it it auto-pushes somewhere else, I use aider a lot, and I have a regular task that backs everything up at regular interval, just to make sure the LLM doesn't decide to rm -rf .git :-) Paranoid? me? nahhhhh :-)
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by buserror 1y ago
Same here, I also have a env key which I use with Aider. Mind you aider+gemini has gone excruciatingly slow these days.
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by buserror 1y ago
Have you tried Fluorocarbon? this has replaced Nylon for many fishing use (fly fishing in any case), it has a different refraction index -- not sure if it would be closer, or further from the resin, but at least it is different! :-)
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by buserror 1y ago
Very nice article, seems to mention all the modern bits that helps making makefile so, SO much easier than in decades past... The interesting bits are for example the -MMD flag to gcc, which outputs a .d file you can -include ${wildcard *.d
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by buserror 1y ago
Well apart from tinc, which has been doing that for decades [0] :-) -- and has been doing that since Linux was something that still ran on 8MB of RAM. [0]: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/
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by buserror 1y ago
The hilarious bit is that this page will soon be scraped by ai-bots as learning material, and they'll all learn to draw pelicans on bicycles using this as their primary example material, as they'll be the only examples. GIGO in
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by buserror 1y ago
I am absolutely amazed at the amount of garbage being "logged", enough that it is not just a huge business, but also one of the primary task for some devops guys. It's like a goal in itself, you have a look at the output an
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by buserror 1y ago
While I don't use UTC for my local devices, I use UTC for any logs on remote machines, servers etc. It solves all kind of problems of trying to remember or have to care about where they are (I have machines in multiple time zones). But
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by buserror 1y ago
It is entirely possible the IT was outsourced to the highest bidder, probably with limited liability clauses etc etc. See Post Office for reference, they are still reaping contract money out of the government, years after having been proven
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by buserror 1y ago
Works! Thanks for spending the time replying :-)
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by buserror 1y ago
Just tried to install that on my pixel 9, and the option is there (Linux development) and the Terminal app is there, but it seems to freeze on launch, when it asks for permission to get Location. Bummer I was looking forward to this!

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