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by don-code 1mo ago
As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. The ideal case is that a website gracefully degrades with JS disabled. That's largely a pipe dream with React usage being what it is, but some sites manage
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by don-code 2mo ago
I was briefly involved with WITR during my undergrad. Loved what they were doing, but at that time the station definitely bought into the hipster attitude, music you've never heard of and will never hear again. The only band I can reme
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by don-code 2mo ago
Well, sort of. My radio presets back in the 2000s were 101.7 WFNX, 104.1 WBCN, 107.3 WAAF, 100.7 WZLX, and 92.9 WBOS. Of those stations, only WZLX remains. The greats - in my opinion, WBCN and WFNX - are long off the air. They were powerhou
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by don-code 2mo ago
Let's hypothesize this is true. I worked at a startup that had _money_ - a lot of it - flowing in. Stakeholders wanted to see growth, which meant features. They did not want to see us making platform improvements; those didn't sho
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by don-code 2mo ago
Morse code has some interesting properties that make it an ideal way to communicate when all else fails: 1. It can be transmitted by simple means through many mediums - radio waves (amateur radio, as in the article), light (turning a light
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by don-code 3mo ago
I agree with you in regard to paying attention while driving, but the perception issue was actually around "you can't be bothered to be at your desk for meetings, so we perceive you as lazy", not "you're a risk to t
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by don-code 3mo ago
I find driving to be one of the most useless ways of spending my time, and if it's for more than half an hour, I do try to figure out some way to increase the value of that time. I have a weekly commitment that leaves me driving home (
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by don-code 4mo ago
I agree with the author's premise - that one feedback loop optimizes for speed, and the other for scale - but I don't think the market is bearing the conclusion - that AI should be utilized to enable more rapid experimentation, wh
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by don-code 4mo ago
There was a point where two friends and I each lived alone in an apartment, and I was the only one who had a (2-door) car. We still occasionally did Costco runs. We'd go in and walk the store - the whole store - aisle by aisle. If I sa
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by don-code 5mo ago
My experience has been that it's easy to say, "oh, it's just me", but much harder to subject someone you care about to the same standard that you would yourself. I'm in a similar position with the thermostat, even t
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by don-code 7mo ago
I had the Treo until 2012; the Android headwinds were blowing full speed at that point. Before the Treo, I had a VisorPhone. Wonderful device, and fit a specific need (no phones allowed in school - great, I can slide the phone out of the ba
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by don-code 7mo ago
I'm sort of curious where the law stands on this (I am not a lawyer). Since it has a license plate on it, it in theory displays some ownership info. Is that enough for me to say, "it's clearly not mine now"? If it didn&#
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by don-code 7mo ago
This is one of the reasons I hung onto my Treo for so long. It was so much faster to do... well, basically anything that the device was capable of. With the physical keyboard, you actually didn't need to take the stylus out very often,
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by don-code 7mo ago
There was an article a few years ago here on HN about "can't be evil" business models, which used Costco as an example. As soon as Costco turns evil, it stops working. https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/
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by don-code 8mo ago
Has the site actually been running all this time? I notice that the generator tag says "FrontPage 12" (post-2003), and site has a TLS certificate, which in 1996 it most certainly would not have had.
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by don-code 8mo ago
> Why don't cloud providers have a nice way for tools like TF to query the current state of the infra? Maybe they do and I'm doing IaC wrong? This is technically how Ansible works. Here's an extensive list of modules that
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by don-code 8mo ago
Being familiar with the hijinks that Steve Wozniak pulled with the switched mode power supply in the Apple II (1977), I was curious about how the author solved for this piece: > It also needed three supply voltages; +5v, +12v, and -5v. T
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by don-code 8mo ago
https://hardwarehacks.org
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by don-code 8mo ago
A few months ago I spoke with the frontman of a local Boston band from the 1980s, who recently re-released a single with the help of AI. The source material was a compact cassette tape from a demo, found in a drawer. He used AI to isolate w
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by don-code 8mo ago
One of the neater aspects of HP-UX is that, given the breadth of pre-2000s HP, HP-UX ran on a number of different devices. You can almost (_almost_ - it's a stretch) think of it as a precursor to how Linux proliferated on routers and s
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by don-code 9mo ago
Doing connected work from the subway has gotten much, much easier in the last few years. I attribute that to three things: 1. Cell service has become low-latency. This is very different from "fast", which it has also become! When
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by don-code 9mo ago
Sadly, you don't even need to engage directly with these companies to be affected. Case in point: e-mail. I host my own e-mail. Valid SPF, not on any spam blacklists, good reputation score on my static IP. At the beginning of November,
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by don-code 9mo ago
> All if, else if constructs will contain either a final else clause or a comment indicating why a final else clause is not necessary. I actually do this as well, but in addition I log out a message like, "value was neither found no
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by don-code 10mo ago
I likewise have a circa 1997 LaserJet that I refuse to give up. Both the printer and scanner still function flawlessly, every time I need them to - something that few printers today seem capable of. I switched to 64-bit Windows in 2006. The
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by don-code 10mo ago
Much like the author, I consider myself to not use my phone too much. That said, it's probably just as far from the truth for me as it is for him. Microsoft Authenticator is the biggest offender that comes to mind - without it, I canno
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by don-code 10mo ago
This seems to be how a lot of modern history is found. I recently got to talk to a big-ish name in the Boston music scene, who republished one of his band's original 1985 demos after cleaning the signal up with AI. He told me that he
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by don-code 1y ago
There's a certain meaningfulness ascribed to deliberately taking time for something. I actively listen to a vinyl record when I cue it up. I let the radio sputter in the background while I work. I actively read a book when I have a nig
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by don-code 1y ago
I wrote a web application in an internship, circa 2011. I had no existing platform/framework to work with, no mentorship (the team wasn't really prepared to support an intern), and most importantly, an Apache web server running in
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by don-code 1y ago
I don't think such usage is malicious, so much as ignorant - it's sometimes hard to know that a behavior _isn't_ part of the API, especially if the API is poorly documented to begin with. I maintain a number of such poorly-do
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by don-code 1y ago
This strategy was actually used during World War II, to ensure pilots could come home safely. Weather forecasting not being what it is today, meteorologists determined what conditions would result in the _most_ lives being lost, then togeth

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