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by don-code 5y ago
> One thing I didn't see mentioned in TFA was that the 'master' (drive 0) MUST be located at the end of the cable. If that's not proof that Stack Overflow has helped me learn arcana, I don't know what is. In fift
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by don-code 5y ago
It's seemingly becoming harder to have an "experience" on the Web, and I find myself turning away from progressively more sources as a result. In the 2000s, running with an ad blocker was a near surefire way to speed up loadi
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by don-code 5y ago
This could be great for mocks. At one point I was trying to automate against an internal tool that had a (useless, for my purposes) dependency on AWS. Rather than give my pipeline access to AWS, I strapped VCR ( https://github.com
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by don-code 5y ago
My understanding is that this and many other codebases that Sun acquired (Forte/4GL, for instance) ultimately ended up merged into what is today NetBeans - itself a Sun acquisition.
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by don-code 5y ago
I've noticed a bathtub curve in cost of ownership on many things. Typically, I do save a good bit of money up front by buying used, and then try hard to repair rather than replace. Eventually, though, a failure mode of all gadgets seem
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by don-code 5y ago
It's difficult for me to sympathize with coworkers who have trouble making rent, knowing that they make the same amount of money I do, but have wildly different spending patterns. Juxtaposing $200k+ of student debt with $100+ bar tabs,
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by don-code 5y ago
If you're transitioning inside the same company, you have the added benefit of knowing the people you'll be managing ahead of time. This isn't always necessarily a positive thing for the same-company argument. You'll def
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by don-code 5y ago
The article talks about, but seems to conflate, what I see as two different problems. One problem is that retail outlets destroy and throw out unsold inventory; the other is that individuals throw out unwanted, post-used goods. The latter o
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by don-code 5y ago
Common in restaurants as well. It's downright bizarre to think about now, but I remember as a child, at family restaurants like Friendly's and Howard Johnson's (which itself is an anachronism), being asked by a cheery-faced h
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by don-code 5y ago
Much like living outside the Matrix, would you really want to go back, knowing what you know? Yes, you can use a paper atlas. I have an 8-year-old car with GPS, and a 34-year-old car without. I bought a map book for the 34-year-old car, thi
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by don-code 5y ago
This seems prescient. There were cutting-edge products being delivered on non-commercial BSDs well through the 90s - Hotmail, for instance. But most of those solutions were being delivered on commodity off-the-shelf hardware. Linux's &
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by don-code 5y ago
This still seems better than BMW's model - cars were shipping with 3G modems all the way through 2014, and up through 2015, when the whole fleet went 4G. But, since most everything is subscription-based, BMW just stopped renewing subsc
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by don-code 5y ago
Depending on what device you're reverse-engineering, the random integers can be: * Hard-coded encryption keys * Hard-coded IP addresses (remember, IPv4 addresses are 32 bits long, which is convenient for many embedded CPUs and even som
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by don-code 5y ago
I've been learning to recognize when I've been presented with a solution, rather than a need. Often times the solution answers the need, but lacks knowledge of either side effects, implementation time needed, holes in leaky abstra
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by don-code 5y ago
https://www.animalz.co/blog/bottom-line-up-front/ is the blog post that I can most credit with changing my written communication style. Knowing what's expected of me prior to engaging in a full-fledged conver
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by don-code 5y ago
One behavior that I desperately wish had been called out: individuals who, seeing a back-and-forth over Slack, fail to realize that the communication is effective, and post a single message containing a Zoom link. In spite of this sounding
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by don-code 5y ago
Late but, for the record, I did get positive feedback from that interview, and the interviewer admitted his mental model was wrong.
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by don-code 5y ago
This whole class of problems, where there's no general consensus about how to achieve something, makes it incredibly difficult to train juniors who still have a one-correct-answer mindset. It makes me wonder how any of us got past it i
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by don-code 5y ago
Funny.. my least favorite part of floppy installs of Debian is that it had exactly the opposite problem: reading floppies was hit-or-miss until _after_ disk 2 or 3.
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by don-code 5y ago
My experience has been almost the exact opposite - I feel that I _receive_ too many compliments, and as such they always come across as trite, even if genuine, which in turn is discomforting rather than empowering. Who's given the comp
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by don-code 5y ago
Something I learned from floppies is that different drives (or decks, in this case) have different read characteristics, so the "bad" segments of tape are different depending on what you're playing it back with. I once was ab
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by don-code 5y ago
I was once in this position, but decided to continue through with the "right" answer anyway. Even though the interviewer was adamant that he was right (as, of course, was I), we briefly stopped the interview and made some Google s
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by don-code 5y ago
Former (recovering?) Exadata user here. I'll go as far as to say that configuring a best-practices RAC cluster is easier than configuring a best-practices MySQL cluster. RAC solves some additional problems, like discovery and load bala
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by don-code 5y ago
My grandmother speaks fluent English, but also fluent Italian. Problem is, it's what I'll call "pre-radio Italian" - where there was no single Italian language, but rather a great many dialects that sort-of sounded the s
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by don-code 5y ago
I have a number of 1980s-vintage Technics AM/FM radios around the house. All of these use an RCA-style plug labeled "REMOTE", and I believe are intended to be used for hooking a Technics radio up to a Technics stereo amplifie
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by don-code 5y ago
Sad to say, there seems to be little going on with CB these days. Even living inside a major metro area, I got one (and exactly one) call on a radio left tuned to channel 9 for close to six months: sadly, the man was elderly and senile, and
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by don-code 5y ago
It's a neat idea that, thanks to the applications-not-protocols approach taken by many platforms today, probably isn't viable any longer. When the article was written, my workplace communicated over e-mail (IMAP-enabled), our cale
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by don-code 5y ago
It was maintained by the fine folks at https://theworld.com/ up until a few years ago, though I can't speak as to why.
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by don-code 5y ago
Back in 2007 I had a "laptop crisis" in which I went from having a laptop on me at all times, to not having a laptop at all, for about a month. My home situation was pretty good, but my school situation... not so much. I ended up
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by don-code 5y ago
This made my day. I always love finding out about super-useful features I wasn't aware of in software I use every day. Thank you!

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