fukawi2

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by fukawi2 19d ago
PICK D3 has been doing similar since... well, a very long time. It uses chr(254), chr(253) and chr(252) for the varying depths of records. I always rather enjoyed working with it in the 2000s. Elegant in its simplicity, functionally practic
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by fukawi2 7mo ago
Even as an Australian, I'm aware of the scope and context of the First Amendment (as you highlight). How are so many Americans so mistaken about their own constitution?
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by fukawi2 8mo ago
That's not how TTL works. Or do you mean propagation after changing an existing RR? It's "common" to lower a TTL in preparation for a change to an existing RR, but you need to make sure you lower it at least as long as t
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by fukawi2 8mo ago
This is what the NETMAP target in iptables is for - map an entire subnet to another subnet, including the reverse. We were doing this 20 years ago for clients trying to on-board other companies that they'd bought. It's horrible, b
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by fukawi2 11mo ago
I do not understand this rhetoric of Apple hardware being so amazing. The only moderately impressive thing they've done for years is the M chips. Beyond that, it's just crippled, overpriced, and unrepairable. They have shiny cases
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by fukawi2 1y ago
Finally, a comment that understands the concepts instead of insolently ranting about how useless it is.
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by fukawi2 2y ago
Social media ban for under 16s is the latest half witted idea enacted by the government here.
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by fukawi2 2y ago
We just got a whole bunch of new radios for fire brigade in our state. Every radio has a SIM and fails over to the public cell network if the primary (licensed) network is unavailable. Which ironically is one of the first networks to fail w
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by fukawi2 2y ago
Visual distraction in IDEs is amazing. I see my co-workers using Visual Studio or something, and I can't even identify the code they're working on among the mess of the screen. There's so much going on. The clean and pure dis
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by fukawi2 2y ago
While you're technically correct, what I gathered from their experience is the consistency of usage, between not only their own projects but third-party projects too. They could make technical improvements to their own Makefiles, sure.
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by fukawi2 2y ago
Which is ironic since a lot of people probably only deployed crowdstrike to satisfy their insurers' requirements. It's the only reason we have it deployed.
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by fukawi2 2y ago
I recall working on a PICK D3 system, which was a "multivalue" database. Each field could have multiple values, those values could have sub values, and a third level beyond that. Values were separated with char(254), subvalues wer
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by fukawi2 2y ago
This is the original reason for having /bin vs /sbin The sbin directories are supposed to contain "system" (or superuser) commands, and regular users should NOT have those directories in their PATH. This has been broken
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by fukawi2 2y ago
I remember as a kid loading up the Encarta95 CD on the family 486, and the anticipation of what I could discover in the seemingly endless world of information that little spinning silver disc held within. There is no contemporaneous equival
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by fukawi2 2y ago
Lulu is a good free alternative for Little Snitch
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by fukawi2 3y ago
Rundeck fits this space.
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by fukawi2 3y ago
The very first HTTP based application I inherited was an internal system served by Apache on a Windows "server" using CGI to a "backend" written in VB6... We would write the code in VB, compile the exe file (files? I for
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by fukawi2 3y ago
The Australian government funds childcare. Every time they increase funding, the rates charged to parents increase by the same amount. Total conscience I'm sure. My wife just stayed working full time because we need the money to afford
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by fukawi2 3y ago
We still use pagers for emergency response alerting (Victoria, Australia). It's a dedicated, reliable alerting system that ensures the alert goes out between the emergency call takers and first responders. It's reliable partly bec
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by fukawi2 3y ago
he.net do free DNS, including secondary slaving. I've used them in a hidden master setup for a few years now for some domains, no complaints.
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by fukawi2 3y ago
We had a bug recently where one of our internal bots didn't correctly parse usernames with hyphens in them, so instead of tagging @tom-jones, it would tag @tom Sorry everyone randomly pinged by our bot.
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by fukawi2 3y ago
My first job was supporting and developing order related systems for retail and wholesale (separate systems, but we operated both the wholesale and retail operations). Wait until you start having to deal with Forward Orders, Back Orders, Sp
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by fukawi2 3y ago
You're probably right, but back then it was assumed you knew what you were doing I guess. The old idiom of "Linux won't stop you shooting yourself in the foot" was even more true of this system.
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by fukawi2 3y ago
I can't remember the specific details now (almost 20 years have passed!), but the STKM table was effectively a performance/convenience data store. Every bit of information was available from other transactional data, but in order
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by fukawi2 3y ago
No, I did the entire table. That helped me find corner cases and errors in my logic having such a bigger range of source data.
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by fukawi2 3y ago
Yep, the entire table. I figured since I had to write it to do the day at a minimum, doing the whole table would help me find corner cases and errors since it was a much larger range of data
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by fukawi2 3y ago
I was working on an old old old "ERP" system written in D3 PICK. It's a database, programming language and OS all in one with roots in tracking military helicopter parts in the 1960's. I was working on it in the mid-2000
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by fukawi2 3y ago
Agree. Emergency vehicles don't automatically get a "free pass", there are separate rules that apply an exemption. So the question and rule, as written, says that the emergency vehicles do violate the rule IMO. In the real wo
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by fukawi2 3y ago
I'm doing the same right now. The incoming messages are coming from a radio network at 1200 baud, so I don't foresee capacity problems :D
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by fukawi2 3y ago
This is great to escape untrusted/unknown local networks like a dodgy coffee shop or something. But definitely no protection against state level threats, etc.

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