mherdeg

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by mherdeg 3y ago
It's fascinating to me that we went from "embedding important information in QR codes is silly because they look ridiculous and no one will ever use them" ( https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Was this the premise of the pilot episode of 30 Rock? The trivection oven?
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Yeah. It's baffling to me that Private Eye covered this in explicit, specific detail a decade ago and there were essentially no consequences for many years after. (I have the same feelings as mhh__ in https://news.ycombinato
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" posits a network of very fast, very long moving walkways which could be used for mass transit (you'd ramp up speed on slower ones then hop over to a fast one). Wikipedia says that moving
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Would you accept weaponized trademark infringement as a sibling to patent law? The behavior described here seems odd -- I wouldn't call it "good" or "bad" in a moral sense just technically impressive: https:/&
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Gosh I think I'll be a little sad about that future? I'm reminded of how we used to know really fun tricks for squeezing another bit of performance out of our assembly code -- "The Story of Mel" -- and then compilers sta
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by mherdeg 3y ago
> nothing about computers is magic In this vein I think about nelhage's "Computers Can Be Understood" from time to time - https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/ .
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by mherdeg 3y ago
I would play a 2023 entry in the Enchanter/Sorcerer/Spellbreaker series where you have to learn and use phrases like "Here is the most relevant sentence in the context:" or "Take it step by step."
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Boston definitely makes it hard to love. Some of the best ambassadors for Brutalist architecture I've experienced are the Barbican in London and the Bonaventure in Los Angeles. They make good spaces for people.
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Huh. What happened with the lot of 2000 seized OnePlus Buds? ( https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436760/us-customs-state... ) Did the company just write off that shipment and keep selling them?
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Gosh. I just emailed myself a .png of the barcode containing my library card number and open it in, like, the Photos or Gmail app when I'm at the kiosk.
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by mherdeg 3y ago
I *swear* that a year or two into this whole thing there were a wave of articles about how individual state marketplaces were having insurers exit the state marketplace. The story which I am *sure* I read more than once said that an insurer
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Wow, the last time I read about this, I had not seen * the 2019 update that someone re-evaluated the risks and thinks the retrofit might not have been necessary after all ( https://www.nist.gov/publications/wind-effects
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Reading this writeup, the procedure takes up to two minutes: * each person in the room pulls up the stem when their individual second hand is pointing at 0, and also sets the time to the prearranged hour/minute, * then everyone waits a
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by mherdeg 3y ago
(I realize that there are a few details that you can use to tell these apart, but,) Who gets to register the copyright on the image?
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by mherdeg 3y ago
So the house pays $10,000 to everyone who hasn't folded yet?
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Thanks for this link -- really interesting. I like the suggestion to rethink whether you actually need to be doing asynchronous computing with a message broker/queue/stream or whether you can represent your work another way.
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by mherdeg 3y ago
A little over ten years ago I worked in the Excel Services team that makes the consumer-visible Excel Web App and also the SharePoint-integrated Excel Services product (server side processing accessible via API or web UI). I loved seeing th
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by mherdeg 3y ago
If the Earth's rotation speeds up or slows down, would you like the "6pm local time" to be 6pm plus the leap seconds that come in between now and 2030? (We don't know how many there will be yet.)
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Whenever I want to think about "what does it mean to prove something?" I dig into my copy of Imre Lakatos's "Proofs and Refutations", a Socratic dialogue-style story where a bunch of aspiring theorem-provers try to
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by mherdeg 3y ago
I hate to dunk on this type of art while it's down but > Impact Theory agreed to destroy all Founder’s Keys in its possession or control What does this mean practically -- like they delete the files that would allow them to transfer
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Knowyourmeme is very late to the meme game. Entire civilizations of memes flourished and decayed on 4chan, fark, Slashdot, YTMND, and the bare metal internet long ago. Bonsai Kitten is lost to the ravages of time.
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by mherdeg 3y ago
One of the special treats of operating a large distributed system is getting to watch the graph of requests-versus-time as you do stuff, like enabling http flow-control headers or tweaking load-balancing algorithms or whatever else. (1) You
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by mherdeg 3y ago
This version of the story implies that the outcome is a bad thing people have been tricked into doing. As far as I can tell from TikTok people want to be part of a brand experience, they want to show their friends they live a luxury lif
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Nicely spotted. Did the domain lapse and was it re-registered and rehosted for promotional purposes?
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Has Ajit Pai commented on this?
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by mherdeg 3y ago
This is really special - glad to hear it went well.
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Best of luck to the author on their tiered monolith journey! Some things to think about: (1) How many distinct total binary versions of your monolith will you permit to run in production? Some options might include At most two globally (&qu
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Used to take family vacations to a little cottage where the only entertainment was the Mad Magazine Board Game. Great material, loved the tone, just really fine work.
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by mherdeg 3y ago
Every few months I check out the library's audiobook copy of Gravity's Rainbow and listen to the first chapter or so while running errands, then give up. I've heard a lot of the banana breakfast :) I read the first few chapte

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