chunkyks

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by chunkyks 4mo ago
It would be a better device if I could install cfw and make it somewhat more versatile. But I haven't found anyone doing that, and haven't even found enough specs online to get started.
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by chunkyks 4mo ago
My wife bought one of these: https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler Reviews are wildly polarised. * Some folks find it to be the best thing ever [long battery life, the new patch makes the eink surprising
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by chunkyks 1y ago
Also known as bikeshedding: http://bikeshed.org (if the color scheme is hard to read, hit reload. You'll understand after reading the piece)
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by chunkyks 1y ago
Wake me up when wayland just works for basic things I need and use daily, and I don't have to hear some diatribe about why what I do daily is wrong. (What I do may be "wrong" in some cosmic technological sense, but it's
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by chunkyks 2y ago
If you think about it, a Turing machine is also Turing complete, and also is a zero player game where one only sets initial inputs...
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by chunkyks 2y ago
I got you! https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
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by chunkyks 2y ago
We've been hit by this. When I talked to them four years ago, they agreed we were good to use it for free, no problem. The dollar figure they're asking for would make it the single most expensive software product we would be licen
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by chunkyks 2y ago
I'm not the only person who uses "dc" for throwaway calculations all the time? Woo! The thing that I find has the biggest useful-to-popularly-known ratio is "tee".
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by chunkyks 2y ago
This book was wonderful. I worked through it and it made it super easy to create one. Thank you for writing this! ( https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer was the one I created. Slightly obtuse but I really enjoyed writ
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by chunkyks 2y ago
I work with a lot of economists. As such, I'd argue that people respond to incentives. Famous example being the cobra effect ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive ) The job market is hell to apply in.
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by chunkyks 3y ago
I developed an unhealthy obsession with the RAND book in 2020,which culminated in an article on the front page of the wsj. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rand-million-random-digits-numb... RAND used to cut copies of the
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by chunkyks 3y ago
Are there in person communities for this sort of thing? I've set myself a personal project to reproduce some circuits I have in a 1947 paper. But I'm not a hardware guy, huge tracts of the tooling are opaque, best practices are un
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by chunkyks 3y ago
"malicious compliance". Do exactly what you're told!
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by chunkyks 3y ago
It's easy to imagine that the same person who's willing to ignore explicit instructions and clearly put others at risk, is going to be willing to spend extra time struggling to open a locked container. This isn't going to be
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by chunkyks 3y ago
I have a USG Pro 4. Which is still purchasable from their website, not yet EOL, nominally still supported. The only firmware update in the last two years was to fix a security issue, and didn't include support for updated VPNs. Release
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by chunkyks 3y ago
The hilarity that goes with this is that their VPN has been broken for years - android and iPhone both deprecated protocols that were considered insecure, but ubiquiti hasn't seen fit to add any others. It has been years . Their secur
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by chunkyks 3y ago
But then you lose many of the benefits of a single pane of glass. There's also the trust issue; the VPN problem has been known for years. If they won't maintain a key security component of their key security device, why would I tr
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by chunkyks 3y ago
I bought into their unifi ecosystem years ago. Separate devices, prosumer pricing, features and quality, single pane of glass. ... And I haven't upgraded anything since. Their new products are totally undirected, they aren't makin
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by chunkyks 3y ago
> The research has prompted fears that a lack of major regulation in the data brokerage sector may constitute a national security risk. At least you have to pay now. Historically OPM just gave it away for free. https://en.m.wi
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by chunkyks 3y ago
Or even worse, premiums went up because you could have inherited costly diseases (but didn't), and they have no way to verify it unless you also prostrate yourself on the altar of no privacy.
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by chunkyks 3y ago
My pet silliness in sql from a couple years ago: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer You remind me I need to finish my hunt the wumpus implementation. (sqlite has an easy way to get user input, mid query...)
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by chunkyks 3y ago
I'm brand new to this. I've got a relatively simple schematic from the 1950s I want to reimplement, to have a functioning thing on my desk. As you say, a few parts are missing (particular vacuum tubes). Unfortunately, every time I
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by chunkyks 3y ago
Many years ago, I wrote a tool that logs OBDII and GPS data - it was one of the first around [pre-dates things like bluetooth ODBII devices and github], I never really focused on usability or anything, but what I made was cool: http:/
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by chunkyks 3y ago
FaxMonkey, a well known WoW player and video maker, made a video showing it, at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZ_q4N55T0
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by chunkyks 3y ago
Not in precisely the way you mean, but that can be done: https://www.sqlite.org/expridx.html
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by chunkyks 3y ago
As Yegge said, years ago: "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You" https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
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by chunkyks 3y ago
Time to link grug brain again! https://grugbrain.dev/
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by chunkyks 3y ago
Oh, it's super hard to build good interfaces, I'd never claim otherwise. Everything user facing I build is trash and I know it, so I work with UI people. I would assert that most of what's made under the banner of "UX&qu
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by chunkyks 3y ago
My observation is that once "UI" became "UX", interfaces turned terrible across the board. When I did the human interface course in my comp.sci degree, there was a lot of attention on standardization, making things peopl
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I switched to feedly. No biggie, in retrospect. But, that was the first Google product where it really hit home, to me, how even if a product is fantastic and useful, Google will kill it without a second thought. It fundamentally changed my

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