mcstafford

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by mcstafford 9mo ago
There may be room to improve in describing the undefinable?
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by mcstafford 1y ago
https://www.iroh.computer/docs works
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by mcstafford 1y ago
I took a peek at the terms of service[1] when considering signing up for an account. It seemed unusual to have them in a separate language from the rest of the site. Presuming the translation was correct I would "agree to comply with C
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by mcstafford 1y ago
The personal plan[1] repeatedly emphasizes the word free and makes no mention of the $30+/year optional fees or what features differentiate the levels of service. [1] https://www.changefly.com/personal
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by mcstafford 1y ago
I prefer heredoc[1] syntax. I find it more readable and portable. [1] https://www.docker.com/blog/introduction-to-heredocs-in-dock...
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by mcstafford 1y ago
Whose popularity do you champion, and what sorts of motive bring deservedness in to the discussion?
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by mcstafford 3y ago
:-) Delicious irony
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by mcstafford 3y ago
I suspect science has had more to do with the reduction than superstitions like jinxes.
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by mcstafford 3y ago
> Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -- Isaac Asimov Useful discussion is an interesting scope for someone with the broad, in-depth knowledge of a vast array of subjects he demonstrat
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by mcstafford 3y ago
You make a decent point. There's a clear limitation... but a clearly worded prompt often produces more valuable content than an SEO optimized guess article.
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by mcstafford 3y ago
The vulnerability sounds like it's inherent to SQL Server, and that cloud providers haven't been successful in blocking the underlying problem due to its proprietary nature. Presenting it as a Cloud SQL problem is disingenuous.
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by mcstafford 3y ago
I'm a little curious, but haven't heard a word of what you're referring to. A quick search for 'atoms stalled' didn't result in anything that felt helpful. Do you have a link that would clarify?
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by mcstafford 3y ago
One thing we seem to have discovered is that absolute randomness is harder than it might first seem. Your idea combines what feels like a significant percentage of randomness while still having enough participation to rationalize buy-in. I
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by mcstafford 4y ago
Apple reminding me why I don't buy their hardware.
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by mcstafford 4y ago
The Cliff comparison is a good one in that it very confident declares its every answer was though it is well-founded fact.
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by mcstafford 4y ago
Hi, I'm Bob... welcome to ideators anonymous. If you can't stop incentivizing perspectives, and monetizing paradigms this may be the place for you.
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by mcstafford 4y ago
TL;DR "Using IP Address Instead of Domain Name" Everything else remains pretty much the same...
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by mcstafford 5y ago
At first glance, the headline sounded likely to be a conspiracy theory from the other side, not something from NPR.
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by mcstafford 5y ago
I'm unable to use mosh after switching VPN clients, though ssh works. What should I discuss and/or request with the security+network folks?
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by mcstafford 5y ago
Lecture notes available: http://timroughgarden.org/notes.html
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by mcstafford 5y ago
> people complained that [my microphone] was taking up all their bandwidth That's not how I expect your choice of mic to affect anyone else's experience. It would surprise me if additional network load is part of what happens.
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by mcstafford 5y ago
Google's pytype seems to be better deployed within the standard PyPi ecosphere. The Microsoft packages you're using aren't.
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by mcstafford 5y ago
I see download options for Mac and Windows. Is Linux support in the works? Slack and Teams have us covered.
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by mcstafford 6y ago
I suppose this could be easily worked around with an alias presuming the most frequent use case names only files. alias scp='rsync'
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by mcstafford 6y ago
The section entitled "So what should you use instead?" doesn't make a suggestion of what to use instead...
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by mcstafford 6y ago
This is like finding a technique that will make it safer for your kids to play with the creepy neighbor. You may be better off not playing with the creepy neighbor.
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by mcstafford 6y ago
> git start master I've been using git for years, and can't find documentation for start. https://gitexercises.fracz.com/exercise/master https://git-scm.com/docs
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by mcstafford 6y ago
Too heavy? The executable I just built is 19K. I like it for localhost. Did you wind up picking something else?
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by mcstafford 6y ago
I've taken to using a fling motion on my Android devices since grabbing the position indicator in a scrollbar is comparatively inconvenient... but performance is fine.
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by mcstafford 6y ago
I'm a bit of a hermit at times, but this smells like "doesn't play well with others": > I no longer contribute to upstream directly, due to upstream's failure to recognize me as a major contributor and uphold my

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