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by pjsg 29d ago
When I was a consultant, the saying was: A consultant is someone who borrows your watch, tells you the time, and keeps the watch.
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by pjsg 2mo ago
For me, it is "how many passkeys can I have for the same site?", and "how do I revoke them?" Worse, I'm still using LastPass -- but migrating over to Chrome password storage as it syncs between phone and laptop. Las
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by pjsg 2mo ago
This is amazing -- but there is something wrong with (maybe) the WebGL or color rendering. If you go to https://pskreporter.info/pskmap then the ocean should be blue (and it is blue in a native firefox). However it is a sho
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by pjsg 4mo ago
How will the shipping forecast be distributed?
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by pjsg 7mo ago
What is the data supposed to represent? Given an IP, I get back some indication of location. Is this (a) The location of the user who uses this IP at the moment? (b) The location of the device that is assigned this global IP? (c) The locati
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by pjsg 7mo ago
Many companies have internal directories which can be downloaded and (say) committed into git on a daily basis. This could be automated in a cron job. This then gives an immediate view into what is going on. I believe that the Slack API (if
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by pjsg 8mo ago
Hence IEFBR14A
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by pjsg 8mo ago
That is odd. When I searched for Vitamin D, it showed me a list (which I could sort by $/mg). That list included Vitamin D, Vitamin D2 and Vitamin D3. I assumed (incorrectly it seems) that this meant that it was doing some sort of pref
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by pjsg 8mo ago
I picked Vitamin D as it was an option on the main page. The cheapest offered was $1.1/mg. Costco ( https://www.costco.com/p/-/kirkland-signature-extra-strength... ) sells Vitamin D at less than half that price
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by pjsg 9mo ago
I suspect that my Tesla adjusts its location based on dead reckoning after losing GPS lock except that it assumes that I'm driving forwards. I.e. If I reverse out of my garage, then the map ends up in the wrong place and now I'm
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by pjsg 10mo ago
I'm not convinced that the units conversion is right. The example of 2 Cups of greek yoghurt being 391.32 g. 1 US cup is 240 ml (or 236.5 ml depending on which type of cup you are using). The density of greek yoghurt is somewhere betwe
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by pjsg 10mo ago
I had a problem with Comcast that was that native IPv6 traffic was slower than IPv6 over my Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel. Support was no use (no surprise). But I happened to meet someone who worked in Comcast's backbone network. He f
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by pjsg 10mo ago
The article seems to think that a word is untranslateable if there is no single word in the target language. If I'm not misreading the article, then this is completely obvious -- just consider the number of words in English and the num
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by pjsg 11mo ago
I wept when the author mentioned implementing SHA256 in macros.
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by pjsg 1y ago
I suspect that this unaligned read apporach doesn't work for a bit length of 59, 61, 62 and 63. In the case of 63, reading out value at offset 1, requires two reads as it need 1 bit from the first byte, then 56 bits from the next 7 byt
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by pjsg 1y ago
That leads to a page saying "Cannot locate dashboard account" I did find an email from Cloudflare in April 2011 (seven months after CF started to offer services) which was a response to a support request. I guess that things have
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by pjsg 1y ago
I got this notification (email subject "[ACTION REQUIRED] Third-Party Compromise Impacting Cloudflare Salesforce Cases"), but, as I'm a free user, I don't even have a 'Technical Support' option under the '
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by pjsg 1y ago
I note that the times for future stations are in UTC and not BST. Also, when you zoom in to only a couple of stations, the trains seem to vanish occasionally -- maybe when part of the train reaches the edge of the display. I also find it ja
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by pjsg 1y ago
I attended a lecture from Conway where he described this approach -- but I don't recall him calling it FRACTRAN. I don't even recall what the particular example computed, but the program was around a dozen fractions. This was prob
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by pjsg 1y ago
Does this api allow me to enumerate the users (by phone number) using the service? That would seem to be bad as well. I. guess that it depends on what their fix was. If this really was the first api request made by the app, and it has a ser
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by pjsg 2y ago
MY first job (in the last 70s) was working in a TV rental store doing small item repair. In particular, repairing toasters was probably my #1 activity. Essentially the failure was nearly always the same -- one of the three toasting elements
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by pjsg 2y ago
There are easier solutions that involve fewer parts. In particular there is the VID27-05 ( https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803510816905.html ) which is a dual stepper motor, driven off 5 volts which is designed for (c
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by pjsg 2y ago
traceroute is a useful tool for (amongst other things) determining where a system is physically. It doesn't always give you enough information. Traceroute to news.ycombinator.com: 3 96.108.68.141 (po-200-xar01.maynard.ma.boston.c
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by pjsg 2y ago
My guess is that they scan the letters that are returned by the post office and hence they don't want anybody writing below the line. I guess that they used to have a problem with squirrels opening up the letters and scribbling below
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by pjsg 2y ago
In my case, they block me on IPv6 since I use a Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel. It certainly used to be the case that my IPv6 connectivity was better and more performant down the tunnel than using my ISPs native IPv6. I have no idea what th
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by pjsg 2y ago
It is a pity that the website does not collect information about whether the participant is color-blind or not.
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by pjsg 2y ago
Along with this, take time and listen to the BBC Series "13 minutes to the moon" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083t547 which goes into detail behind everything that happened during those 13 minutes. I was
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by pjsg 2y ago
I felt this way as well, but I was fortunate enough to be working in a large company that had a senior engineer track leading to Distinguished Engineer (DE) and then Fellow. I knew that I wasn't Fellow material, but being a DE meant th
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by pjsg 2y ago
I think it is worse than that. When I make a change to some code or config, I'll run it locally to make sure that the change has the effect that I want. I know that we are human and that bugs occasionally appear in code. But what I can
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by pjsg 2y ago
I tried entering "Marty Feldman" as a search query. Unfortunately, the responses don't show movie titles, but I couldn't spot him in the few that I tried. "The Sting" was one movie that I could identify. Needs

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