epochwolf

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by epochwolf 1y ago
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JRuby, Postgres, Linux sysadmin, AWS Fargate, iText (PDF Processing), Rules-based processing systems (expert systems), Nginx. Résumé/CV: https
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by epochwolf 3y ago
I also think it's a great place to work. The company has been around for a while and stayed committed to the principals they started with. We’re a small team, all fully-remote, optimizing for sustainability. We get a lot done without p
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by epochwolf 3y ago
FCPEuro.com | Connecticut | Remote, US only | Full-time We sell European auto parts to customers in the United States. Looking for a QA engineer with Ruby on Rails experience. A well-qualified candidate will have a working knowledge of auto
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by epochwolf 7y ago
I find it amusing that someone would be closer to the CEO through six degrees of separation than through the levels of management.
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by epochwolf 7y ago
Isn’t it on the people administering those systems to disable autofill on their side?
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by epochwolf 7y ago
Given how often I remote into my iMac over a vpn that has both cellular and WiFi networks to deal with, none of these bothered me.
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by epochwolf 8y ago
One of the Kroger stores near me has meal kits next to the salad bar.
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by epochwolf 8y ago
Burnside’s Zeroth Law of space combat: Science fiction fans relate more to human beings than to silicon chips. http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crew.php#id--Yo...
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by epochwolf 8y ago
I’m pretty sure banning autonomous defensive weapons won’t happen because we already have them deployed. The Phalanx CIWS mounted on US Warships has a fully autonomous mode where it will fire on targets automatically.
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by epochwolf 8y ago
If you count ICBMs, we’ve had them at least since the 1960s. For more targeted strikes with conventional explosives, we started using Tomahawk Cruise Missiles in 1991 during the Gulf War.
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by epochwolf 8y ago
My iPhone did this to me. I’m sure people get suggested to share memories of their abusive ex all the time. :(
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by epochwolf 8y ago
HIPAA requires any email with patient data be encrypted. That kills any attempt to receive email on a smart phone.
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by epochwolf 9y ago
Please don’t do that. People make that joke all the time. It’s not funny and we have to pretend to find it amusing or we get written up.
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by epochwolf 9y ago
Good sleep hygiene, work, and having a social life aren't always compatible.
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by epochwolf 9y ago
This happens if you have full disk encryption enabled. If the laptop goes into hibernation, the disk is no longer mounted. So you need to enter your password to mount the drive which then drops you into the lock screen to enter your passwor
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by epochwolf 10y ago
That's what the Apple Watch is for: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204691
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by epochwolf 11y ago
By default, Rails only does lazy loading in development mode.
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by epochwolf 11y ago
I never go to Walmart because of this. I most of my shopping at Kroger and if I need something they don't have, I go to Target or Amazon.
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by epochwolf 11y ago
> Just look on what people are doing and find a way to do some parts of the process faster and better. This requires buy-in from different parts of the company that are going to have their own opinions about how to do things. They can be
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by epochwolf 11y ago
> Similarly is there a term for mutually interbreedable but distinct `species'? It's species or subspecies. Animal classification has always been a little bit fuzzy and has some legacy cruft laying around. Like wolves, coyotes,
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by epochwolf 11y ago
Let me point out that Excel has had data validation in spreadsheets for years. It is trivial to enforce basic data validation without writing any code.
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by epochwolf 11y ago
The Kindle Voyage brought the buttons back.
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by epochwolf 11y ago
> A simple dot tattooed somewhere inconspicuous on the hand (make it look like a liver spot) would be enough to solve the problem. I have the same issue as the doctor and this wouldn't help me. I know which hand I write with. (My ri
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by epochwolf 11y ago
There are people denying the holocaust. An event for which plenty of historical evidence exists. People will believe what they want to believe.
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by epochwolf 11y ago
There's plenty of safe ways to accomplish this kind of demonstration. The fact they choose to do so in a way that endangered the public is in fact criminal. Being a security researcher or journalist doesn't give you a license to p
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by epochwolf 11y ago
> I am in a little traffic so I'm running late, but should be there at 5:20 I would phrase this as "Running late due to traffic, ETA 5:20" and this usually works. Siri seems to trip up on articles especially if you don&#x2
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by epochwolf 11y ago
This is going to sound a bit horrible... Fixing the space issue will help more people than it hurts. People that have spaces at the beginning or end of their password can simply reset their password or call customer support. Users forget or
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by epochwolf 11y ago
Salesforce is extremely complicated and requires an expert to configure it properly. Even then, it may not be able to do everything they say it can do in a performant manner.
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by epochwolf 11y ago
By controlling the hardware, they need fewer drivers and they can skip one of the abstraction layers.
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by epochwolf 11y ago
I'm willing to give the author a pass on the white-light issue since it is a legitimate problem for some people. But I don't expect amazon to ever address that problem. There's always a group of people that can't use a g

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