keitmo

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by keitmo 1mo ago
"SQUID Sandwich" would be a great band name.
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by keitmo 1mo ago
“eat-sleep-run-repeat" -- relatable.
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by keitmo 3mo ago
NT performed unnatural acts to implement fork semantics for the POSIX subsystem.
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by keitmo 4mo ago
I'm right-handed, but I snowboard goofy. Coincidence (or not?) my left leg is dominant. I can kick a ball just fine with my left foot, but when I try to kick with my right foot I feel like I'm going to capsize. When I'm ridin
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by keitmo 5mo ago
It seems to me that Backblaze does NOT exclude ".git". It's not shown by default in the restore UI -- you must enable "show hidden files" to see it -- but it's there. I just did a test restore of my top-level P
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by keitmo 9mo ago
> Touching the circuit board on the back of the CRT tube by mistake trying to troubleshoot image issues, “fortunately” it was a “low” voltage as it was a B&W monitor…. My father ran his own TV repair shop for many years. When I was a
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by keitmo 10mo ago
On systems with a single floppy, drives A: and B: were two logical drives mapped to the same physical drive. This enabled you to (tediously) copy files from one diskette to another.
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by keitmo 10mo ago
> but it's an example of why it's a bad idea to "cleanup" a system from a virus without a full reinstall This x1000.
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by keitmo 11mo ago
I've always thought of him as Nibble. 2 bits = a quarter (25 cents), 4 bits = 50 cents 8 bits = byte, 4 bits = nibble Therefore 50 Cent = Nibble.
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by keitmo 11mo ago
It's also known as JSONL (JSON Lines).
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by keitmo 1y ago
"Remind me to make you an honorary blind person."
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by keitmo 1y ago
As a former boss used to say: "Unlimited is a bad idea."
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by keitmo 2y ago
I went through the LFS process back in 2003 or 2004. I didn't have a Linux system handy, so I built it with Fedora 3 running under VMWare on a Windows XP laptop. It was not speedy. I tried to automate the process as much as possible. T
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by keitmo 2y ago
That was breathtaking.
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by keitmo 2y ago
Back in the day (1991 or so) during my brief time as a UI person we called the first mode "H for Hawaii" and the second "HAW for Hawaii". We never attempted the "why not both" option.
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by keitmo 3y ago
I'd like to see a fully distributed version. All you need is 4B hosts (IPV6 FTW) named N.domain.com (where N varies from 0 to 4B-1). The driver app sends N to the first host (0.domain.com). Each host compares the incoming N with their
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by keitmo 3y ago
I read an article many years ago on programing Othello. I think it was BYTE Magazine, circa early 1980s. It mentioned pitting an app using a simple heuristic technique similar to the one you describe against an app using an equally simple (
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by keitmo 3y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... "Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: 'Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.&#x2
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by keitmo 3y ago
Here's one that bit us a few years ago: SEQUENCEs, used to implement SERIAL and BIGSERIAL primary keys, are not transacted. "BEGIN; {insert 1,000,000 rows}; ROLLBACK" always adds 1,000,000 to the table's primary key SEQU
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by keitmo 4y ago
For years I've said "any clothing manufacturer that promises something is both 'waterproof' and 'breathable' is lying to you". Shakedry actually delivers on this promise. FWIW I do endurance cycling in the
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by keitmo 4y ago
"A KMC chain will work with a Shimano derailleur. Shimano should have no problem with that." IMO if Shimano could DRM their chains and other consumables they would.
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by keitmo 4y ago
Neigh.
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by keitmo 5y ago
Cory Doctorow's take: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not-an-ad/#shakedowns
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by keitmo 5y ago
My mom was an OB/GYN nurse for several decades. She worked in Active Labor for many years with a nurse named Alice Stork. This Stork did indeed deliver thousands of babies.
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by keitmo 5y ago
My mom was an OB/GYN nurse for many years. She worked in Active Labor with a nurse with the last name "Stork".
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by keitmo 5y ago
The 11th round involves identifying a correct Nigel Tufnel quote from "This Is Spinal Tap".
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by keitmo 5y ago
The reminds me of Rocky's Boots( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots ) taken up a few levels.
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by keitmo 6y ago
The outage took out at least some of their aviation services. If they are unable to update routes and IFR approach procedures then lives could indeed be at risk.
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by keitmo 6y ago
"The determined Real Programmer™ can write FORTRAN in any language."
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by keitmo 6y ago
I often tell people to assume the TCP stack's buffering is arbitrary & capricious and will do the most inconvenient thing for your code. That can mean ether a) dribbling data in one byte at a time per recv() call, or b) buffering m

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