markdoubleyou

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by markdoubleyou 6mo ago
Agreed, roommates were huge for me before I started a family. I have a strong tendency to become a hermit, and having another human in the vicinity is just enough healthy social pressure to snap me out of it. Forces me to wash the dishes an
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by markdoubleyou 1y ago
Surprised this article didn't mention his antics in Hawaii, where he tried using lawsuits to secure all of the parcels in his 700-acre Kauai property from native Hawaiians. (He dropped the lawsuits after the optics became terrible, bu
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by markdoubleyou 1y ago
Zyruh, your individual comments & submissions are friendly, appreciative, and inquisitive... but they're a little uncanny when viewed as a whole. Are you a real person?
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by markdoubleyou 2y ago
I'm the Mark who's referenced there. When I did that original benchmark I discovered that the underlying mutex used by MSVCRT did change between versions. For example, in Visual C++ 2013, they used the Windows Concurrency Runtime,
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by markdoubleyou 2y ago
It looks like RDMA is kind of like IP4, in the sense that it wasn't originally designed with security in mind. Was this vulnerability a big deal when the paper was submitted in 2022, or more a case of doing cool research on a protocol
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Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism(racket.news)
39 points by markdoubleyou 2y ago|10 comments
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Author and former Navy SEAL David Goggins sues Amazon over bootleg books(geekwire.com)
27 points by markdoubleyou 3y ago|4 comments
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
This was my first mechanical keyboard, and I had the same reaction. My fingers would feel fatigued after an hour of heavy use.
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
I can kind of understand being temporarily distracted when a message comes in and your phone chirps, but wow... watching a video while you operate a 3000 pound machine is next-level idiocy. I haven't been driving as much in recent year
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
You're getting close to making your own CHM format, which Sphinx could make for you. I always thought CHM files were a nice self-contained option for multi-page HTML docs. (Though they'd happily execute whatever JavaScript the aut
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
There's also the Audi RS6 Avant, a good option for anyone interested in spending $160K on a station wagon with 621 horsepower.
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
Looks great! Did you use QT Quick or the Widgets?
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
I "upgraded" from a Samsung Galaxy S9 to a Pixel 7 this year, only because Samsung stopped doing security updates. Big disappointment for me, too. The fingerprint scanner from that 2018 phone was 10x more reliable than the in-scre
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
My local coffee shop gave up and closed after the 4th hour of this outage. They tried accepting cash for a while, but apparently nobody in Seattle carries cash anymore.
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
My Pro-Trek syncs most nights in Seattle, but only if I leave it on a window sill with 12 o'clock facing southeast.
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
Gmail supports IMAP, right? Would changing to a different desktop/mobile client make the ads go away?
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by markdoubleyou 3y ago
My last car, a 2007 Acura TSX, had the same problem--it wouldn't start after 4 or 5 days (maybe 2 or 3 during the winter). This model was from the first wave of touchscreens and bluetooth. Mechanics shrugged, pointed to the tiny, under
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by markdoubleyou 4y ago
Fair enough, it's filed.
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by markdoubleyou 4y ago
The problem is that they don't blatantly violate any of the policy bullets in that FTC press release... all the terms are spelled out in the interstitial. The issue is that the design goes out of its way to give it a very mandatory v
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by markdoubleyou 4y ago
I have a free Experian account that I look at every few months. Every time I log in, a big, disorienting interstitial appears and pitches me on Experian CreditWorks Premium ($25/month), with fields asking for my credit card info. It&#x
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by markdoubleyou 4y ago
This describes me. Every couple of years I read an article like this, download a handful of monospaced fonts, and try to use each one for at least an hour. Inevitably, every one of them has some little problem that rubs me the wrong way, an
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by markdoubleyou 4y ago
Many years ago my father-in-law gave us a commercial vacuum (Windsor Sensor) that's typically used in hotels and hospitals. The thing's built like a tank and is easily serviced. It's a good choice if you don't mind a hea
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by markdoubleyou 4y ago
COBOL is used in industries that view IT and software development as cost centers. As such, these departments have been subject to decades of ruthless cuts and offshoring. So now the chickens have come home to roost, and there's a skil
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by markdoubleyou 4y ago
Same here! Hard to match WinForms productivity for small apps, especially if you cut your teeth in the 90's VB era. And you can push WinForms really far with the fancy controls in the Syncfusion Community License.
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by markdoubleyou 4y ago
You can get a little smaller. Asus Zenfone 8 has a 5.9" screen.
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by markdoubleyou 5y ago
Fair. Just realize that it'll happen to you (in 15 years you'll be raging, "goddammit, why does every UI require a 2 GB Roblox runtime") and go easy on the poor boomers. Circle of life.
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by markdoubleyou 5y ago
Australia has "Men's Sheds" that (try to) address this problem. The idea is slowly making its way into other countries but probably won't take off until there's better funding. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by markdoubleyou 5y ago
Freespace 2 (available on gog) has a big community behind it that's rewritten the engine, modernized assets, and created new missions/campaigns.
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by markdoubleyou 6y ago
The Arch Linux philosophy summarizes this concisely: "If you try to hide the complexity of the system, you'll end up with a more complex system"
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by markdoubleyou 6y ago
For Microsoft it depends on when the docs were written. The MS docs from the late '90s through about 2015 were stellar. For example, look at the Windows Sockets docs[1], which came out of that era. Here you see information architects w

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