marwatk

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by marwatk 2y ago
> although I wonder if a FOIA request would actually compel them to give it to you I believe most of it is open source: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp
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by marwatk 3y ago
Such frequent interventions means you need very reliable cell service. In times of heavy congestion (concerts, etc) that doesn't seem feasible.
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by marwatk 3y ago
Hardware tokens (Yubikeys, etc) are signed by their vendor. They support attestation which allows q site to disallow vendors not in a white list. Some banks (Vanguard was/is one) actually enforce this preventing all but a handful of ha
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by marwatk 3y ago
> Regardless, the fact that companies raise their prices in response to shortages is not only defensible but desirable. Gouging is good. I'm sure they'll be lowered again when supply stabilizes. Any time now.
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by marwatk 3y ago
RedHat spends a lot of time back-porting security updates to older software (e.g. RHEL7). Stream is always only the latest RHEL version, I believe. The whole point of RHEL is the long term support (the back-porting), which is what they&#x27
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by marwatk 3y ago
I love these things: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804116114245.html There are a few suppliers, but the 4x Intel NICs open up lots of possibilities. They're very lower power, but still fast enough to handle a
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by marwatk 3y ago
Even if we fixed all of the above, changing jobs would still require uprooting your family. In an era where you worked for one company for life it made sense. Today I don't think it's feasible.
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by marwatk 4y ago
Yep, this is why LIDAR is so helpful. It takes the guess out of "is the surface in front of me flat?" in a way vision can't without AGI. Is that a painting of a box on the ground or an actual box?
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by marwatk 4y ago
I've read the assertions section a few times and I still don't understand the argument. How is: if got == nil { t.Errorf("blog post was nil, want not-nil") } Better than assert.NotNil(t, got, "blog
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by marwatk 4y ago
I don't think they were able to "become HBO faster than HBO can become us"[1] and now they're paying the price. They have effectively zero moat with their own IP and now they're competing with everyone else for the
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by marwatk 4y ago
The bigger issue is that returning the error without wrapping provides zero context and after a crash you're stuck trying to figure out which of a hundred calls to Write was responsible for "write error" or some other equally
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by marwatk 4y ago
In things like rest APIs you need them quite a bit to distinguish between a value being the zero value and not present at all. Most libraries I've seen have an IntPointer or similar function exposed globally.
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by marwatk 4y ago
This prevents me (a Tello user) from getting the new phone. There are only like 3 US MVNOs that support eSIM. I wonder how long that will remain the case now that the writing is on the wall. I tried Google Fi eSIM a while back prior to trav
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by marwatk 4y ago
This is addressed in the article: > A critical limitation in the IRS’s ability to audit millionaires is the availability of IRS revenue agents. Only this class of auditors, given sufficient training and experience, are qualified to exami
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by marwatk 4y ago
> IRS accomplished over 650 thousand audits last year by jacking up its already high reliance on so called “correspondence audits” – essentially a letter from the IRS asking for documentation on a specific line item on a return. I can&#x
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by marwatk 4y ago
For anyone looking for an open source web-based TI emulator I just ported wxWabbitEmu (which I believe supports the TI-84) [1]. I only skinned the TI-85 since it's the calc I use, but the skins are just CSS. I'm curious what the p
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by marwatk 4y ago
Tangentially related, I just finished porting wxWabbitemu (TI calculator emulator) to WASM last week [1]. I recently switched to iOS from Android and sorely missed the TI emulator app. I use my TI-85 from high school as my desk calculator a
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by marwatk 4y ago
Isn't this the plot of a Black Mirror episode? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
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by marwatk 4y ago
I haven't messed with them yet but 1.18 add workspaces [1] This is definitely a pain point I've had with golang and the 'accepted' process has changed 3 or 4 times in the last 2 years. 1: https://go.dev/d
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by marwatk 4y ago
> What, exactly, are you saying that Go can't do that Java can? Runtime library addition (plugins) and dependency injection are two big ones. (We can argue the merit separately, but they're not possible in Go) I think if Java h
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by marwatk 5y ago
I have an irrational dislike of go because for every X it's missing the community's answer is "you don't need X" (until they decide you do). Package management, generics, sum types, decent error handling, etc. It&#x
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by marwatk 5y ago
I've been working on this but my family is pretty hung up on Google Photos so we're migrating most things there trying to preserve as much as possible. We're doing Google One family. As much as Google has annoyed me with the
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by marwatk 5y ago
You can transfer your Google Voice account to a regular GMail account despite their documentation claiming otherwise. See: https://github.com/marwatk/gsuite-to-gmail/#google-voice
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by marwatk 5y ago
We drop a statically compiled BusyBox binary on images like that as "sh". If we need more we can symlink to it in /tmp at debug time (or just call it directly). It strikes a good balance between slim and debuggable.
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by marwatk 5y ago
Isn't Delta vs Alpha a pretty convincing counter argument? It was more transmissible, more severe and better at avoiding acquired immunity.
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by marwatk 5y ago
And payroll taxes, everyone always forgets payroll taxes.
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by marwatk 5y ago
I've never understood this argument. If I buy a can of soda with 'already taxed' money for $.50 and sell it for $1, is that not $.50 of income that hasn't been taxed? What makes stock special?
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by marwatk 5y ago
What are the hacks? I use a Pi-KVM and the latency is painful.
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by marwatk 5y ago
I suspect it will know where the lane markings are better than human drivers. They are mapped ahead of time and the car can likely localize itself via other landmarks to determine where they are without being able to see them. The harder pa
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by marwatk 5y ago
I'm not sure that follows. That would imply that every kid has already had/been exposed to COVID and that's resulted in those per 100k numbers. It's definitely not exact to use the infection as the denominator, but I&#x2

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