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by don-code 4y ago
As a Bostonian myself, I'm getting used to the idea that we're the exception, rather than the rule. I typically _do_ see these things when I travel within the country. But I'm increasingly seeing it as a "Boston success&
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by don-code 4y ago
I recently had an opportunity to build an application on top of Lambda@Edge (AWS's equivalent of Cloudflare workers). The prevailing wisdom there was to make use of regional services, like S3 and DynamoDB, from the edge. That, of cours
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by don-code 4y ago
I'm curious if you've ultimately found your mentor's behavior to be a net positive, or net negative, in your career. One of the engineers under me often expresses his discontent that I won't give him answers, either. I t
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by don-code 4y ago
The hedonic treadmill is at work here. I recently cut caffeine entirely, and while the initial few weeks were awful, I don't feel now that I'm at any significant disadvantage with regards to where I started. I also worked for a co
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by don-code 4y ago
I had an experience a few years ago, retrieving old data from SyQuest drives. I was unsuccessful getting even a single bit recovered: several drives and several disks ultimately produced zero overlap in readability.
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by don-code 4y ago
I'm impressed - but not necessarily surprised - by the amount of inline guidance that the system gave. These systems must have been cumbersome to wrap one's head around, more so when there was little precedent for using them. The
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by don-code 4y ago
Mail self-hoster here. There's an additional wrinkle, which luckily you may never encounter in the public cloud space: in addition to typically being unable to _send_ mail from residential Internet connections, it's many times als
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by don-code 4y ago
I was convinced that I was looking at a legitimate error message from IIS until I read it.
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by don-code 4y ago
There's a running joke about the Indy that it's the Indigo (its much-more-expensive brother) without the "go".
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by don-code 4y ago
Minimodem is a similar piece of software, but much more flexible. Depending on the quality of your link, you can adjust the symbol rate, as well as the frequencies to signal 1's and 0's. Still (as said before) not more useful to m
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by don-code 4y ago
I am not a parent, but this seems like a good practice to get a child in the habit of, anyway: separating out your devices for work and school. Much like I wouldn't log into personal Slack groups on my work laptop (I learned that lesso
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by don-code 4y ago
Basic debugging knowledge is helpful, but I've found the ability to think about distributed, networked systems all the way down at the system level to be extremely helpful. We all encounter systems that are ill-documented, or complete
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by don-code 5y ago
While I've successfully used this method for public APIs, I ran into an interesting one not long ago: where authentication is performed _by IP address_. I have a switch (I think a TP-Link TL-SG1016PE) with PoE - and a finnicky PoE devi
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by don-code 5y ago
I have a "neat trick" of putting a blanket over myself such that my hands and laptop keyboard are both underneath, but the screen is sticking out. Then I run a cryptominer to generate some heat. Inside of five minutes, I'm pr
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by don-code 5y ago
We've definitely found use cases for higher-width buses, but seemingly less so for operating on 128-bit integers and pointers, like this article is describing. Take for instance VLIW architectures (Itanium used 64-bit registers but 128
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by don-code 5y ago
I have a hard time calling these "upgrades". I had a TI-83 (not Plus) in high school - the Plus gave us ROM, the TI-84 gave us USB, and the TI-84 CE gave us a color screen, which are all creature comforts at best. It's on par
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by don-code 5y ago
> or if you `unset HIST_FILE` I figured I'd learn something by putting in the "I'd love to know others" bit, but this is something I didn't know I could do, and is genuinely useful to know!
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by don-code 5y ago
I had a similar chance meeting on Craigslist in 2012 - I bought an SSD off someone who I'd been contemporary with on some Netscape/Mozilla forums in the early 2000s. This was before Craigslist implemented e-mail address obfuscatio
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by don-code 5y ago
For reasons like this, I almost wish software came with a "list of unexpected side-effects of using this software". Take bash, for instance - each time you run a command (this list is nonexhaustive; I'd love to know others):
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by don-code 5y ago
While I get and agree with the spirit of the answer, there's one major piece I take issue with: > Well, what kinds of people work for 1% of a post-A startup? Average people (and below). The people hired in the A round have no doubt
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by don-code 5y ago
Having tried Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi's once (my homelab is all SBCs, not all Pis but all ARM), there are two major pitfalls: 1. K3s may not be too heavy, but basically anything that runs on it is. For all but the most basic jobs, I
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by don-code 5y ago
One of the benefits of CI is that I don't need to make assumptions about the environment I'm operating in - that is, I don't need to worry about a tool like `jq` being installed, whether I have GNU or BSD `date`, or the bigge
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by don-code 5y ago
I still have a tablet PC from 2005 in rotation, and the lack of 32-bit apps is definitely a killer, but not terrible. My original reason for reviving it was for use as a whiteboard in Zoom calls, but there's no 32-bit Zoom app - and I&
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by don-code 5y ago
It is indeed DevOpsDays, and likewise, our move there from the Park Plaza was the first I'd heard of the term either.
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by don-code 5y ago
I help organize a yearly event at the Boston Cyclorama building. The building itself hosts about 700 guests, and is designed for art exhibits to be shown on the inner side of its perimeter (the building is a huge ring, with a domed ceiling)
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by don-code 5y ago
While I understand and empathize with many of the concerns here in the comments (especially given John Deere's track record in being practically hostile to end users), the promise of farming equipment that can run overnight, in the abs
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by don-code 5y ago
In general I have a lot of respect for pre-WWW, special-purpose protocol design. I don't see it as short-sighted, so much as the world wide web having been _that_ big a paradigm shift. That said, the date on this one is from 1997. Amaz
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by don-code 5y ago
I find _myself_ confused by Windows, when I have to support it - I'm surprised Microsoft expects anyone without support chops to understand some of the questions they're asking. Several of my family members are in the same boat as
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by don-code 5y ago
It's also interesting to step through the history on this line - it's undergone several revisions and, of course, also seen some reverts of well-intentioned features.
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by don-code 5y ago
I am not a parent, but the criticism of the article appears to be around a misunderstanding of statistics, or at least how to apply them. While I agree that criticism is completely correct, it overlooks the human nature of the people receiv

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