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by don-code 1y ago
I also "boycott" many such systems, and I completely empathize with the author on not really being sure why I'm doing it. It's, sadly, more for myself than it is in belief that anything will change, because many of these
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by don-code 1y ago
My "stack" for watching TV consists of: * A Hauppage WinTV HVR-950 tuner, connected to a Kubernetes cluster in the basement. * NextPVR, scheduled on the appropriate node in the cluster (yes, it's non-redundant, even though I
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by don-code 1y ago
I love the first issue and went to follow the site's RSS feed, but the four posts on the feed seem like spam? They each start with "Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis..."
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by don-code 1y ago
By 2040, I suspect not much will have changed. In the US, most engines that required leaded gasoline rolled off the assembly lines in the 1960s, with the legal phase-out beginning in the 1970s, and finally ending in the 1990s. As I have a c
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by don-code 1y ago
I was literally just there an hour ago, buying $800 worth of gear for a Wi-Fi mesh buildout. Could I have gotten it cheaper online? Probably. But when you have 36 hours notice that you need to build out Wi-Fi, you can't beat Micro Cent
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by don-code 1y ago
There were several years (late 2015 to mid 2017) where I did a much less extreme version of this. I stopped because, as many commenters have noted, I was (to quote this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44077097 ) &q
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by don-code 1y ago
A few years ago, I had a three-day power outage. Unfortunately, at the time I worked for an e-commerce company, and Black Friday was in two weeks - not the time for me to be off work. (Mind you, this was 2021, and temporarily returning to t
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by don-code 1y ago
I challenge anyone to find another place on the Internet where one person's joke is another person's kernel module.
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by don-code 1y ago
I can't be sure about the latest models, but my two iRobot products - a Roomba 650 and a Braava 380t - don't have Wi-Fi connectivity to begin with. The Roomba has physical buttons on it, which allow you to set a cleaning schedule
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by don-code 1y ago
Chef did not make a clean transition into the immutable world. Chef Client was great for persistent infrastructure, but the options got dicier once we started talking about pre-provisioned infrastructure like image building: 1. Chef Solo (h
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by don-code 1y ago
This is, in some way, endemic to all branches of software. Every group of practitioners has a shared vocabulary - as the article says, it's exploiting an efficiency. If we all have a common language, we can speak more efficiently about
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by don-code 1y ago
Yes! This is actually where I learned about the patched "_0024" images for IDE drives. Unfortunately, at boot, the drive is recognized but can't be mounted. I suspect it has something to do with the LBA card (Promise EIDEMax)
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by don-code 1y ago
I can point to my phone as being one of those devices that's _lost_ functionality over the past ten years. Losing functionality is not bad in and of itself, if I stand to gain something in excess of what I lost, but that hasn't ha
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by don-code 1y ago
I'm thankful for folks who write articles like this. Even if the goal wasn't reached (getting the AlphaStation to boot), having something to show for a negative result still helps if someone else needs to go down a similar road -
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by don-code 1y ago
I have a coworker who _excels_ at writing code - one of those engineers who can metabolize caffeine directly into code. They write code to implement the all-important features. They write code to work around lack of process. They write code
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by don-code 1y ago
We had a similar setup at my university - printing to a lab printer was disallowed from a machine that wasn't physically in the lab. The printers had routeable IPs, so I'm guessing they did some kind of whitelisting at the printer
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by don-code 1y ago
I agree this seems overly principled to me. I recall a DSP class where there was an exam with a question like (not exactly this): > What does the following code print? > `printf("Hello, world!");` If you responded with: >
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by don-code 1y ago
If after eight weeks a junior engineer is still toiling on their story, I'd ask why someone more senior didn't get involved. There are lots of reasons - maybe the senior engineers are overburdened with other work (or don't ca
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by don-code 1y ago
Just out of curiosity, were you up-front after the fact that this was part of the exercise? We had a first-semester freshman year course that all incoming students were required to take. The first assignment in that class was an essay, pret
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by don-code 1y ago
Sometimes it's not even rare that documentation is wrong. The documentation for a vendor who I won't name - but might be at Series J and worth north or $50 billion - seems to be wrong more often than it's right. We frequently
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by don-code 1y ago
Indeed it could have. I was on a fairly prestigious scholarship; luckily, my marks were good enough that this was a low-risk decision. That said... I graduated with a 3.2 GPA, after being the stereotypical "gifted" student up thro
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by don-code 1y ago
It's a good question! I didn't think to check the markings on the chip. The lab tech was convinced I was doing something wrong with my setup, and likewise he had me convinced it must be something wrong with my setup. Coincidentall
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by don-code 1y ago
This is, more or less, exactly what happened when I took Electronics I in college. The course was structured in such a way that you could not move on to the next lab assignment until you completed the one before it. You could complete the l
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by don-code 1y ago
While I doubt they'd find it - the SOP for issues with these modems must just be to replace them with a new one - something tells me Comcast wouldn't look kindly on physically modifying rental equipment.
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by don-code 2y ago
I've run into this (it's in Librewolf, but is more obnoxious in Mull/IronFox on Android where I actually use this), where the privacy protections prevent the Jackbox games like Drawful from sending the contents of a drawing t
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by don-code 2y ago
While admittedly not at all the same, there was a certain romance shared by all listeners of a Boston-local FM radio station, WFNX. Whereas many commercial radio stations broadcast with tens of thousands of watts, FNX made do with a Class A
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by don-code 2y ago
1987 E30 owner - even after getting the mold out during a restore, and in spite of a crack in the bolstering, the E30 sport seats are the _second_ most comfortable I've had the pleasure of owning. The seats in these old cars definitely
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by don-code 2y ago
I'm shocked that there's no mention of the E30 3-series in the coupe body style. This is the archetypal 80s BMW that everyone from collectors, to racers (especially, it seems, Lemons racers), to Top Gear (this car had its own Chea
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by don-code 2y ago
I did the same, except with Netscape Composer. That was a time where the output of the WYSIWYG editor - really, the source of any page - was pretty digestible, even to me as a middle school student. I've noticed recently that the JavaS
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by don-code 2y ago
Some time ago, after going through about five years of terminal connectivity to my job via Slack, I got a new phone and just... didn't reinstall Slack. You are probably expecting me to start listing off all the benefits, how my life is

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