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by fredcy 3y ago
The popular Mandelbrot zoom-in videos all seem to develop rotational symmetry before long, and the order of that symmetry only increases over time. I've assumed that this is artifact of precision errors compounding.
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by fredcy 3y ago
Our PCI-compliance audit dings us for not disabling autocomplete on the login form fields. That's not the same as disabling paste, but heading that direction. For personal use I just abandon any site that won't let me use my passw
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by fredcy 4y ago
This is much like the Elm Architecture [1], a pattern that I enjoy using. That structure gives me problems though when I want to speed things up by caching frequent calculations and lookups in the View functions. In Elm, at least, this is o
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by fredcy 4y ago
Going to the Howard Johnson's (in Oshkosh, Wisconsin) in the late 60's was a big treat for my family. Their fried clams were exotic fare.
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by fredcy 4y ago
Elm, with Typescript and Vite. Working with Elm code is satisfying to me. It's generally easy to revisit code I last worked with months ago and get immediately fluent with it again. The "Elm Architecture" (model / updat
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by fredcy 4y ago
Kind of okay. I came down with COVID on May 10. Took Paxlovid (I'm 64) and felt recovered in a few days (but I continued the 5 days of Paxlovid, of course). Then on May 23 a bad cough started up and it's been bothering me ever sin
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by fredcy 5y ago
His "Behemoth" bike had such low gearing for hill-climbing that, as I recall it, the bike had two retractable small wheels, one on each side, that worked like training-wheels to stabilize the bike at very low speeds.
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by fredcy 5y ago
I have a Herman Miller Aeron that works great, bought at a reasonable price off Craigslist. Along with the Aeron I often use an inflatable cushion, the "Gymnic Disc 'o' Sit". Sitting on it keeps me alert and greatly imp
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by fredcy 6y ago
We ran into this, where the Outlook client would scan one-time login links from SalesForce (iirc). Huge pain to work around.
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by fredcy 6y ago
Don't believe everything you think.
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by fredcy 6y ago
Far too many sites don't allow more than one hardware key for 2FA. I set up 3 yubikeys on those sites that allow it.
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by fredcy 6y ago
Prior to the stay-home order my wife and I would go out line dancing three nights each week. Dancing in unison with dozens of other people is surprisingly invigorating. I miss it deeply.
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by fredcy 7y ago
I save each OTP config on three separate Yubikeys using Yubico Authenticator. I also screen-shot the QR code and save that and any recovery codes to a veracrypt volume. If the site allows for UTF I register each key for that too, but only i
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by fredcy 7y ago
It's the same with the WSJ. Just last week I wanted to cancel the paper delivery and get online access only. Even to do only that required a phone call; not even a chat option was available.
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by fredcy 7y ago
Damn, this is disappointing. I've long preferred hg over git but developer preference has clearly moved to favor git. I like using mercurial queues for managing local config changes but I guess I'll have to get better using `git s
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by fredcy 8y ago
I've been using Riot daily for several years, and this 1.0 version seems to work really well. Like any major UI change it's going to take me a while to get used to the slightly different mechanics. Overall it looks more modern tha
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by fredcy 8y ago
I'm 60 and doing a combination of IT and app development work. I totally agree about the exercise part of this. Not so much to look younger (although it might help), but rather to have the energy and mobility of a younger person.
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by fredcy 8y ago
Matt Levine is a treasure. His Money Stuff column/email has taught me, a programmer not versed in fintech, a lot about the intricacies of the financial world. In particular, his clearheaded view of blockchain tech is useful counterpoin
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by fredcy 8y ago
The Tezos project uses OCaml to build the core network and protocol features (but not the smart contracts). Companies are starting to build products based around Tezos and OCaml knowledge will be valuable for some aspects of that. See htt
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by fredcy 8y ago
I've been playing JQBX over Sonos as Jason described. It works pretty well. It does seem that the app player is needed for this as the web player will play one song over Sonos and then revert to playing on the device where the web app
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by fredcy 8y ago
With Matrix, switching to another server is painful because one's identity is tied to the particular server. I've done such a move and it requires rejoining all rooms and re-establishing any elevated privileges on each. Also, othe
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by fredcy 9y ago
Tezos will use Proof of Stake. They have a development version working now and there is good reason to expect a production version within a year.
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Tim Draper to buy in Tezos blockchain ICO(reuters.com)
4 points by fredcy 9y ago|0 comments
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by fredcy 10y ago
https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/security.html - happy FM subscriber for 3 years
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by fredcy 10y ago
"The importance of data and speed to information can't be understated in the capital markets ..." That says, it's less important than you could possibly state.
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by fredcy 11y ago
Elm has a "time traveling debugger", http://debug.elm-lang.org/ I'm eager to give it a try in a real project.
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by fredcy 11y ago
Just this week I found that Wordpress cannot handle passwords with ' or " because of bogus "escaping" posted data.
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by fredcy 13y ago
I would use this with cookbooks. I like to refer to the printed copy in the kitchen but while shopping I could check ingredient lists from a reader.
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by fredcy 18y ago
I've been experimenting with web2py over the last week and I like it. Simple web apps are easy to create with very little work. I'm not keen on through-the-web code development but that's not essential to web2py -- everything can be edite