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by coldcode 3y ago
FYI, that API requires entitlements to be used, which are only available if you request them from Apple and justify their use. It's not a general-purpose API any app can use.
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by coldcode 3y ago
And Florida did not have a major hurricane this year, so it will likely be worse next year.
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by coldcode 3y ago
I assume they kept these in a database, which was sent or exported in some way to use Move-IT to transfer somewhere else. The hack was at Move-IT's servers I think, which allowed people to read the contents. The question I have is was
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by coldcode 3y ago
There is no article yet, it hasn't been posted.
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by coldcode 3y ago
My programming blog ( https://thecodist.com ) sees Chrome 52%, Safari 27%, Firefox 9%, over six months covering a fair amount of the world. I use Plausible. I never found GA to be very reliable.
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by coldcode 3y ago
I bought a copy of Turbo Pascal at the 10x10 booth they had at the West Coast Computer Faire in SF when it first released in 1983? or 1984. I used it to build a TSR app on DOS 2.2 in my first job. Still the fastest dev environment I have ev
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by coldcode 3y ago
Assumes an artist has existing success, so they only want people who already don't need them much, unlike YC which often takes on people with no existing business.
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by coldcode 3y ago
I wonder if we can afford the energy cost of the ever-increasing need to compile more and more information into ever larger AI baskets. Is there a point when the cost exceeds even what a Zuckerberg can pay?
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by coldcode 3y ago
It brings back memories of when I spent six months fighting a company (one person doing the work) writing a cheat package for our game by trying to make his life hell in our binary. Both obfuscation and the opposite are amazingly fun to wor
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by coldcode 3y ago
Why does Python use an un-comparable version number scheme? Not being a Python programmer, comparing version 3.9 to 3.13 seemed bizarre until I caught on.
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by coldcode 3y ago
That's the point. Politicians get paid (donated, contributed, whatever) to vote businesses' laws to benefit the business, not you. Toothless laws make a good sound bite but do nothing to help you.
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by coldcode 3y ago
Great analysis. I wonder if Spanish town planners have different powers than we do in the US. Town layouts are generally historical, you get to today by the sum of decisions potentially made decades or centuries or even millennia ago. It&#x
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by coldcode 3y ago
Any time you try to do something complex you have to start with the state of the art at the beginning of development time; like in this case, you might have to use something not quite ready for prime time, hoping it will improve enough duri
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by coldcode 3y ago
I wish I had saved something from my 40 years of programming, but I alwayds left everything behind when I moved to a new job. I did manage to keep my commercial memory allocator from the late 90's (single threaded, only supported Metro
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by coldcode 3y ago
Okta is promoting Rightway as a benefit of Okta: https://rewards.okta.com/us/healthcare/medical/rightway-heal...
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by coldcode 3y ago
https://www.rightwayhealthcare.com is the company mentioned in the article. Okta is shown as a customer on the website, and the company's marketing says "Our members love using Rightway". There is zero mention of
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by coldcode 3y ago
Yes, every single spreadsheet was killed by Excel being in Office. There were a lot of attempts to do something new, all failed.
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by coldcode 3y ago
At one point I found it, but since its gotten lost in various Mac transfers so I am not sure it still exists. I do remember it was uncompilable (ThinkC I believe from 1988). If I find it I will put it somewhere and mention it on my blog ( h
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by coldcode 3y ago
Fortune tellers and stock gurus make lots of predictions, and randomly one will be right; they then promote how smart they were, and all the others are forgotten. Why would this be any different?
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by coldcode 3y ago
I built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapeze_(spreadsheet_program) in 1987 which is the spritual ancestor to a lot of alternative spreadsheets. We were killed by having to compete with Excel with something not a row a
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by coldcode 3y ago
I'm an artist and I've never heard of him until now, but then again I am not into TikTok. Drawing people in public is pretty basic stuff for people who get a degree in art; it's not anything new or original. He is clearly ver
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by coldcode 3y ago
The security folks I dealt with in London recently laughed at the TSA because of this.
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by coldcode 3y ago
I don't think you can have a mortgage without insurance to at least cover the bank's portion. If you own the house with cash then possibly.
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by coldcode 3y ago
I really admire the creative bullshit these execs come up with, AI can't compete: "This means adapting our organizational structures to improve agility and accountability, establishing unambiguous ownership and driving improved ef
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by coldcode 3y ago
Would be fun to read an article about how websites abuse browsers. I keep getting frustrated with https://www.macrumors.com and its insane amount of network calls, ads, bits of javascript, and other endless connections. Browser
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by coldcode 3y ago
Someone years ago gave a random number (which was mine) to some telemarketer, and now I get many many calls and texts every day from people who think I am her. Impossible to block since they come from everywhere. https://thecodis
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by coldcode 3y ago
I haven't been a chemist in more than 40 years, but even I know that pyrolysis of plastics makes a horrible toxic soup. There is no way to recycle many plastics in this way, the chemistry to reuse this resultant material doesn't e
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by coldcode 3y ago
If you don't pay your rent and other obligations, profit is easy. Of course it might eventually catch up to you...
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by coldcode 3y ago
I could never get this sample trace despite many attempts. Clearly there is a feature that triggers this behavior, or it has been fixed in the latest OS update. Given the enormity of an operating system and its many moving parts, things wil
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by coldcode 3y ago
I wanted to go on a trans-atlantic cruise but the one way return flight (Premium economy, I am too tall for regular 30" seat pitch) was $2000. Regular economy was closer to $600-$800. Not even round trip.

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