irontoby

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by irontoby 5y ago
Really wishing I would have realized that before buying my Sony Bravia TV a few years ago. It's basically just an output device for my Roku, I don't want/need any of the built-in smart TV junk but a recent update now causes i
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by irontoby 6y ago
Just read the original Ars Technica article he "borrowed" all the images from. It's a great article I've referred back to many times; it's better-written and still easy to understand for those not familiar w/ t
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by irontoby 7y ago
Could someone explain the difference between SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19? Is the former the virus and the latter the infection?
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by irontoby 8y ago
I wouldn't count out a company based solely on a poorly-written job description. Those are often put together by less-technical recruiters or the HR department. And yeah, maybe the team that's hiring should be more involved in the
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by irontoby 8y ago
I was curious as to why neither C# nor .NET appeared on the "Top Technologies" graph. Then I realized it apparently combines C, C++, and C# into a single bucket, given that the same tag [1] also shows jobs for all three. [1] http
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by irontoby 8y ago
> Awesome. Now what does all that mean in English? Well, simply put: [ccebb 677ce 28f77 86558 2d7cc d67b4 e8f31 8c393 ae867 13593 aa869 3c265], [c0021 72510 cee7a 31580 554d3 d49a6 306b9 c1f2c 60c1a 1157c f44c8 31273], [682f2 6a4
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by irontoby 9y ago
Short story: he was a big deal back in the day, has had a couple pretty big stories but these days he's much less influential. Now he blogs very infrequently, largely concentrating on his slightly-creepy obsession with IBM. The fact th
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by irontoby 9y ago
Fairly certain that's his wife. He's made a couple mentions of her as "the young and lovely" Mary Alyce and I vaguely recall once that he specifically discussed shooting the photo for that banner and mentioned her.
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by irontoby 9y ago
> I’m not married to an editor so much as my bindings. Agreed, and it's extremely annoying that VS Code has different default bindings on different platforms. I switch between Windows and Linux a lot and there's no simple way t
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by irontoby 9y ago
Yes, agreed. In general I guess my point is, I'm not willing to spend several more years of my life while they continually rearrange things that don't matter. I just want a stable, well-supported distro that gets out of my way. Th
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by irontoby 9y ago
> we'call it ip for ... "internet protocol"? Why is this ip tool managing my ethernet network card? For CLI tools I use every day, their etymology is far less important to me than their brevity. "ip" suits the bi
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by irontoby 9y ago
In other words, they've made a lot of big changes right before an LTS version so that they can get wider usage with those who don't mind being on the bleeding edge. Sounds like they're doing it right :) I'm putting a lot
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by irontoby 9y ago
I've been using Stackpoint for a while and they do a great job, but be aware that they'll soon start charging $50/mo, which will remove them as a tool for hobbyists. https://stackpoint.io/#/pricing They
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by irontoby 9y ago
Because Kubernetes is a complex beast with many moving parts, and learning about all those moving parts becomes more and more important as your usage grows. Personally I've used Stackpoint.io to provision some small clusters but I was
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by irontoby 10y ago
Games updating DLC is nothing new and is not what this is about. Google did recently change the Android permission model; previously, apps had to request all their permissions at install time and it was all-or-nothing (and frankly, hardly a
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by irontoby 10y ago
Neither Google nor Apple nor any other game platform is going to stop games from downloading new content. That's just how games work these days. The reason this type of "hot code push" is more attractive on iOS is because the
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by irontoby 10y ago
This sounds a whole lot like the Keybase filesystem (in intent, if not implementation): https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs
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by irontoby 10y ago
Heh, I thought maybe they were sample collection pouches...
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by irontoby 10y ago
> I don't use it often anymore as I am on a Linux machine at home - though I did try running it with Mono some years ago. I'm on Linux at home also, and am loving the combination of .NET Core and VS Code. I recently coded up a
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by irontoby 10y ago
>I've been using .NET professionally and for hobby projects since version 1.1. While initially sceptical of this new MS platform, I was quickly sold on C# compared to Java And I'm sure your early inclinations were then confirme
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by irontoby 10y ago
Haha, since Subversion was born in the height of XML frenzy, they figured it was a good idea for the built-in web interface to just output XML and a default XSLT. That way if anyone wanted to customize it, they could do so to their heart&#x
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by irontoby 10y ago
Yes, yes, yes. For example I am perfectly okay with Google slurping up every bit of data they can about me, tracking my every move etc. because the benefit I receive (i.e. really spooky-accurate suggestions & info in Google Now) is wort
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by irontoby 10y ago
Couldn't agree more. If .NET Core had been around 5 years ago, I never would have bothered to learn Rails. That's not a knock against Rails (ASP.NET still can't touch their "it just works" asset pipeline), but I&#x2
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by irontoby 10y ago
How else would you propose they give any level assurance that it's real users signing them?
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by irontoby 10y ago
Thanks for this! What a gorgeous photo. Still looks very surreal.
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by irontoby 10y ago
Thanks, I'm obviously letting my video game colored view of the world get the better of me :)
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by irontoby 10y ago
Are those bullet holes to the right of the door? This looks like something straight out of a video game. Note to Wired: "Enlarge Photo" doesn't mean what you apparently think it means.
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by irontoby 10y ago
But that's part of the promise of USB-C / Thunderbolt 3... interchangeable, standards-based docks that work with a single connection. I'm currently using my Dell XPS 15 (9550) with the Plugable USB-C Docking Station which use
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by irontoby 10y ago
It's apparently not meant to be live yet; if you go to "XPS Laptops" from the main product page you're still taken to the 9550.
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by irontoby 10y ago
I sure as hell hope so. Typing this on a 2015 XPS 15 as we speak, and the incessant "chirp chirp chirp" any time it's in a non-horizontal position (such as when docked) drives me insane. Finally convinced support to take it i

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