rbobby

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by rbobby 2mo ago
I feel like I've seen this comment before...
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by rbobby 4mo ago
> best thing to do is segregate and control damage I first encountered that concept with a client that put every webapp in it's own virtual server and expected the vm to get compromised at some point. Seemed like a very sensible ide
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by rbobby 4mo ago
And uses SOAP for identity and authorization.
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by rbobby 4mo ago
The Apple ][ basic interpreter placed its "get next token" routine down in the first 255 bytes of the computer's memory. Being there allowed for the machine instructions to be fetched twice as fast as "high memory".
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by rbobby 4mo ago
The economy is so bad even the Director of the FBI has a side gig.
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by rbobby 4mo ago
Now do ASPX? Pleeeeeeaaasse?
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by rbobby 3y ago
I've learned to accept getting a bit of raw cold egg white on my fingers.
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by rbobby 3y ago
John Oliver did an eye opening bit on homeschooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI&pp=ygUVam9uIG9sa... The lack of regulation is concerning. What's truly disturbing is how easily it is for children to
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by rbobby 4y ago
If I recall correctly the read/write head of a floppy drive rested directly on the media. This meant the disks wore out faster the more you used them.
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by rbobby 4y ago
Can you plug in a gogoro to a regular wall socket? Better a slow charge than to be stuck.
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by rbobby 4y ago
> Nobody can build something with squirrel levels of manipulation and agility, even in simulation. While not squirrel level, this impressed the heck out of me: https://ashish-kmr.github.io/rma-legged-robots/
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by rbobby 5y ago
Maybe it's a quantum observer effect and the galaxies only exist because there's an observer. Dark matter/energy is need to make things balance only because we haven't been looking in all the right places. The universe w
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by rbobby 5y ago
> Why can't the US government mandate hospitals need to purchase a percentage of their supplies from US manufacturers in order to receive medicaid/Medicare. Trade agreements most likely. I would not be surprised if that sort of
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by rbobby 5y ago
12 matches, 10 seconds per shape.
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by rbobby 5y ago
As a Torontonian... the Sun isn't much of a paper. Good for sports and fish wrap. Breathless crime reporting too. City politics. That's about it.
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by rbobby 5y ago
> Arguably the more important outcome than monetary damages Every single consumer that bought a product from one of these third party sellers, or a matching product from Amazon, has been cheated out of several dollars. For each product,
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by rbobby 5y ago
Hmm... maybe the magic in magic quadrants is in how they attract the sorts of people that will act on the information conveyed by the grid. Way better than an Ouija board for IT recommendations. Ouija is very hit and miss, really depends on
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by rbobby 5y ago
I would think basic income would only cover the basic necessities, plus some extra. Not enough for one person to live without a roomate, or have the latest and greatest technology. So... to pay for a private apartment maybe that crap retail
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by rbobby 5y ago
> AMD supports ECC on their consumer chips And now the next desktop consumer upgrade I purchase will be AMD and will have ECC (well... unless it's way more expensive).
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by rbobby 5y ago
Shhhhhh! You'll disturb the market!
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by rbobby 5y ago
YYMMDD + 4 digits of versions. At a glance, even a bit more than a glance, that seems fine for a long. And if 2020 worked and 2021 worked... why would 2022 break? Lol. I'd bet the conversation about this way back when it was being deci
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by rbobby 5y ago
Disney will be suing. I'm sure they already have worked out an overall litigation strategy. But... with 2 years left there's plenty of time for legislation to be updated.
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by rbobby 5y ago
Sounds like a plan... until you realize why your label printer keeps restarting.
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by rbobby 5y ago
With a bit of string you'd have a game. Doesn't really account for the varying sizes of holes.
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by rbobby 5y ago
Gemprint... the OG NFT.
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by rbobby 5y ago
And the cause
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by rbobby 5y ago
If you shine a laser into diamond centered and perpendicular to the table face, the beam will be split and returned out of the table to show a pattern of dots (some bright, some dim). The pattern is unique to each diamond. Gemprint.com uses
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by rbobby 5y ago
Polaroids (self developing color pictures) are a good example of everyday magic. Sure it's chemistry and not magic, but how sure are you? If magic was real, wouldn't those who knew how to use it figure out how to profit off it on
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by rbobby 5y ago
> A modern beer bottle looks paper thin compared to one a century old. I wonder if that is due to how much smoother transportation is now.
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by rbobby 5y ago
I wish there was a higher contrast ratio between text and the tan background.

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