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by piffey 5mo ago
For me seems to be. I keep it in my front shirt pocket, pull it out to read all the time. I've gone through 8 books on it so far this year. That's 7 more books than I read on my Kobo by this time last year given how convenient it
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by piffey 7mo ago
First time hearing about ifMud despite being someone who spent a lot of time on MUDs and MUSHs in the past, hacking on various ones. Seems like a neat community and would love to hear more about it.
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by piffey 8mo ago
I've been really curious about pi and have been following it but haven't seen a reason to switch yet outside anecdotes. What makes it a better daily driver out of the box compared to Claude or Codex? What did you end up needing to
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by piffey 8mo ago
Just setup my personal blog again after a four years hiatus using Astro (loved the good docs). Kind of disappointed, but given how simple static site generators are, probably something Claude could crank out easily with parity of features I
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by piffey 8mo ago
https://piffey.net - Only content from 2020, has been down the last ~4 years due to job, but redesigned and got it up again in the last month and have lots of writing planned.
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by piffey 8mo ago
Outside of what has been mentioned here (thanks folks for some new brands) I've found clusters in Canada and Portugal of great clothing brands making quality products with good materials: Canada - Anian ( https://anianmfg.com
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by piffey 8mo ago
Take a look at the REMNux reverse engineering page for PDF documents ( https://docs.remnux.org/discover-the-tools/analyze+documents... ). Lots of tools here for looking at malicious PDFs that can be used to inspect/
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by piffey 9mo ago
Love this. Can't tell you how many times I've screenshotted maps then drawn on directions for family/friends. Great idea.
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by piffey 10mo ago
Doesn't always work. I've got old Agfa negatives I developed from my grandpa in Korea in the 50s. Developed them after finding them in his attic maybe 10 years ago now. They sat between two panes of glass for 5 years with volumes
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by piffey 1y ago
I'll give this a go. My second TL is Lithuanian which is very difficult to find content in outside of state TV stuff.
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by piffey 1y ago
Just kicked off my third language after reaching B2/C1ish in my second (~5 years in), we'll see what the C1 test determines this fall, and Anki has been the consistent thing that stayed through all the other learning experiments.
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by piffey 1y ago
Scarecrow Video does this in Seattle. Their library is amazing. https://scarecrowvideo.org/rent-by-mail
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by piffey 3y ago
Seems easy to defeat. I shake your car to make the alarm go off, hide, wait for you to pick up your keys to disable the alarm when you see no one there, use RF extender while your keys are active to unlock and steal the car.
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by piffey 3y ago
Succeeding as a bad manager maybe. I’ve had the pleasure of working for three fantastic managers, one being now, over my career. The second I began asking for leadership advice as I was contemplating making the transition at the time. He ga
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by piffey 3y ago
Don’t see this as any different than amateur programmers releasing another framework. Already established norms, will very likely never take off, but a great way for a person to learn a hobby with real world experience —- in this case radio
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by piffey 3y ago
Few people do drive to the island. Over 60% of workers in Manhattan take mass transit to work versus 21% driving. https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-le... And mass transit adoption
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by piffey 3y ago
There are over 30 US cities with trains to the airport. Another half dozen on the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airport_rail_link_syst... US also has almost 350 miles of high speed rail, not 0. The Northea
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by piffey 3y ago
Honestly with Curb in NYC have been more than happy with taxis. Wish it would be adopted in more cities.
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by piffey 3y ago
Proprietary tools means passive DNS.
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by piffey 3y ago
Electricity moving between boxes is not equivalent to physical spaces in reality.
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by piffey 3y ago
Cities need to be enacting high tax rates on non-primary residences, luxury residences, and investment properties. If I remember right, Italy does this well with little to no tax on your primary residence, then if you choose to purchase a v
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by piffey 3y ago
Easy: drop the public commentary portion of development. Random old people with nothing to do all day shouldn't be allowed to delay a project by months because they want to complain about the orientation of a window on a project. If yo
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by piffey 3y ago
Go do a year in IR if you want some inside perspective -- and to shave a few years off your existence. Sounds about normal for a large telecommunications firm. These large firms don't have 30+ person IR teams on round the clock shifts
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by piffey 3y ago
Sorry didn't see this reply or would've commented sooner. So you certainly would need some sort of structured instructions. And there are specific methods for teaching specific languages to people from certain languages. Where the
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by piffey 3y ago
What I learned in a year on Duolingo I picked up in a month of in-person non-native tutor sessions. What I learned in a year of non-native tutor sessions I picked up in a month of conversations with natives through apps like preply/ita
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by piffey 3y ago
I am pretty sure apps can do this as well. Have noticed hotel apps doing it in Las Vegas and elsewhere. Adding in a Wi-Fi network that is to aid in connecting. Threw me for a loop when I was there last.
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by piffey 4y ago
I adore that book. I finally got to read it in Italian this year and was so happy to find that the English translation I'd initially read so well conveyed Calvino's playfulness in that book.
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by piffey 4y ago
Italo Calvino was a part of Oulipo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo ), a group of French and Italian writers and mathematicians who would purposefully invent constrained writing techniques for fun. One was that you
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by piffey 4y ago
Actually yes it does. 3rd party app stores is where the majority of Android malware comes from. The vast majority of mobile malware is all Android for this reason. Whenever I need low hanging fruit for mobile malware analysis it’s always st
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by piffey 4y ago
Golang binaries are had to analyze (or rather were, new tooling, etc). Assume vendors and automation are 5 years behind everyone else actually doing malware analysis by hand. Most of this blocking is probably running off of signatures and n

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