tech2

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by tech2 17d ago
Anemoia is the term, I believe, and an almost perfect fit (nostalgia for a time you have never experienced)
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by tech2 23d ago
Historically that was always part of the bragging rights. The harder to reach, or more risky location, the higher the cred for having achieved it.
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by tech2 1mo ago
All that's old is new again. In the late 90s there were a number of companies (eMachines, for example) which heavily discounted their machines by having integral advertising, and in some cases through internet service provision. This s
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by tech2 6mo ago
Two major issues in my experience seem to occur. The first is that you had a system with a given set of ownership and now lines need to be drawn between groups to grant each sub-team their own piece of the larger pie. This is where Conway&#
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by tech2 7mo ago
It's not entirely fair. Prior to 2.3 Python didn't have booleans, just "truthiness". In 2.3 they added the Boolean class as a subclass of int (because of patterns of development it was a pragmatic choice). True and False
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by tech2 7mo ago
I have to ask, because wow that's a lot of buckets, but what kind of activity requires breaching even a 1,000 bucket limit per account?
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by tech2 7mo ago
For python maybe pip-audit, and perhaps bandit for a little extra? It doesn't have the code tracing ability that my sibling is referring to, but it's better than nothing.
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by tech2 9mo ago
I tried to do that, really did, but my TV was circa 2006 and I needed a replacement. None of the options in my region are good, there's no Scepter equivalent unless you pay 3x as much for something akin to a commercial display. So, air
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by tech2 10mo ago
The one that should probably really freak you out was/is the Soviet "Dead Hand" system. Who needs people deciding whether to launch?
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by tech2 10mo ago
I had wrap from my exhaust system start to unravel at one point during a long journey far from home. I had to unwrap it by hand on the roadside sans-gloves to prevent it from ending up under a wheel and tearing components apart. The end res
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by tech2 10mo ago
Right, but that's a follow on to regulations about increased rear and side still heights for occupant protection, and that's a follow on from increased vehicle sizes, and that's a follow on from commercial vehicles being sold
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by tech2 10mo ago
One of my favourites that starts out difficult but you become fluent in by the end is Banks' "Feersum Endjinn". I love seeing people's facial expressions on first attempting to understand Bascule, or read it "normal
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by tech2 1y ago
The earlier model that the 25 replaced was all mechanically interlocked. The belief was that software provided that same level of assurance. They performed manual testing but what they weren't able to do was reach a level of speed and
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by tech2 1y ago
They may not be against content restriction, instead they may be against removal of user privacy or anonymity. If the proof of age thing was some kind of zero knowledge proof such that the age verifying group has no knowledge of what you&#x
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by tech2 1y ago
The issue with the lack of intermediates in the cert isn't browsers (they'll just deal with it). Sure, if they aren't already in the cache then there's a small hit first time. The problem is that if your SSL endpoint is
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by tech2 1y ago
Please though, for the love of dog, have your site serve a complete chain and don't have the browser or software stack do AIA chasing.
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by tech2 1y ago
Maybe we're missing one another here but it appears you're arguing for me. Khomeini is in place _because_ of western influence/involvement, if it weren't for operation Ajax/Boot (depending on whether we're talk
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by tech2 1y ago
Are we forgetting the pushback against nationalisation of their oil industry, operations involving both CIA and MI6, the propaganda campaign to get rid of their elected president, and other such fun? It's not like the west didn't
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by tech2 1y ago
Weka can be a lot of fun too, I saw a pack of them opening someone's backpack zipper to find out what's inside.
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by tech2 2y ago
Athens being its own special hell, looking across the city from Lykovounia and seeing everything in the city at the same ~5 storey level of dark concrete.
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by tech2 2y ago
Except, a diabetic's immune system already wants to kill those too...
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by tech2 2y ago
I don't recall the last time I lost all my tabs. The only big annoyance I've had in recent years is when something caused my tab tree to flatten so all my arranged nesting was gone. I'm more curious how you end up with a syst
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by tech2 2y ago
Tree style tabs extension, nesting in a manner that makes sense to them, probably other extensions too. I only have about 600 tabs at the moment and am impressed by someone managing more than an order of magnitude more than I.
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by tech2 2y ago
Historically a number of people started as single small developers with tools like FoxPro, Delphi, and (even earlier) Clipper/dBase. These allowed easy creation of some kind of UI. All of these have a database under the hood. The combi
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by tech2 2y ago
You could probably achieve the same outcome by combining two approaches though. Use traditional timing and phase management that existing noise cancelling headphones do. Then, using the data from that same set of microphones use AI to extra
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by tech2 2y ago
Sorry, I appreciate the joke (really :) ) but I also worry that people keep trying to add the concept of "users" or an existing role or permissions model into capability-based systems when they're unnecessary. You could maybe
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by tech2 2y ago
Maybe? I guess the difference is that with a capability object model (or similar arrangement) the _only_ way the application has to interact with the outside world is via those objects/handles it's been granted. There's no ri
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by tech2 2y ago
You grant them capabilities, a handle which permits access to a particular directory, one which allows network access (or possibly even further limited than that) etc. No user, just a series of object handles which permit them to perform th
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by tech2 2y ago
I remember the 3c590 ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/20cb38a7af88dc40095da... ) doing something awful too which required changing the PCI latency setting from 32 to 248 to avoid some catastrophic error
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by tech2 3y ago
I think that whole situation is what eventually meant MD being purchased by Boeing, Lockheed leaving civilian aircraft manufacture, and Rolls Royce being bailed out and semi-nationalised. The DC-10/L-1011 competition was an amazing per

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