vandyswa

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by vandyswa 14d ago
Yes, uBlock Origin. How can that not be _the_ killer app for surviving with your sanity when (trying to) view the modern web?
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by vandyswa 2mo ago
DMARC, just like SPF before it, solves nothing. The spammers adapt. And unlike SPF, DMARC has an enormous technology surface area. Its failure modes are legion, and each one is tedious to run down to resolution. Which just returns you t
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by vandyswa 3mo ago
He has issues with AI dev policies. Personally, I forked at 5.7 due to bloat. Each of us has our red line, apparently.
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by vandyswa 4mo ago
What's a waveform box and how does one select it?
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by vandyswa 6mo ago
Here in the Seattle area ferry schedules can matter. I cooked up this webapp, 4.5k bytes to load the front page, another 1/2k per destination you query. Web technologies call out to the minimalist in me, but I appear to be in the mino
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by vandyswa 6mo ago
When I wrote the login program for my VSTa microkernel, I took a page from the CDC side of the world--it echoes a _random_ (but small, non-zero) number of *'s. So you get feedback, but indeed peering over your shoulder will not disclo
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by vandyswa 6mo ago
Same motivation, different generation. I carry my own fork of vim 5.7, from around 2000. It did what I needed, and did it well, and I could already see where it was going. SMH at what I see in it now!
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by vandyswa 9mo ago
Yes, I'm glad to see a comment on Prolog. I think of it as _the_ foundational programming language for solving such problems. It isn't so much that it's a back propagation language; it's just that, based on which varia
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by vandyswa 10mo ago
To me, it feels like most feed readers are made by people who don't use RSS, and just exercise their feed reader on a few feeds. I seem to be at 211 feeds with (currently) 13,000 cached entries, organized across a couple dozen categor
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by vandyswa 11mo ago
With Amazon layoff blood running in the gutters today, I'm sure their PR people shook the tree to get something nice to drop onto the interwebitudes.
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by vandyswa 11mo ago
A solid starting point, but it's easy to lose sight of the other critical part of the puzzle--integrity of the voting rolls. High quality vote tabulation needs to start from voters, where _only_ legitimate voters vote, and each only v
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by vandyswa 1y ago
Yes, I understand the C++ aspect, but I was never a C++ coder, and D "fit in my hand" in a way which made me certain that its creator had coded extensively in C and understood the aspects which made it so perfect for its time. It
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by vandyswa 1y ago
FWIW, another take on "C Alternative" is the D programming language: https://wiki.dlang.org/Tutorials Comparatively mature, there's even a freeware book which is quite good: http://www.ddili.org&#x
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by vandyswa 1y ago
Is there any sign of its effectiveness (or lack thereof)? It seems like the world of dense regulatory language may actually be amenable to such techniques. If a (presumably bright) college person driving the tool gives good results--who c
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by vandyswa 1y ago
I have a static web page with a table of A href's. Source controlled under git. Problem solved.
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by vandyswa 1y ago
RSX-280 for the Z280 CPU: https://github.com/hperaza/RSX280 Nothing like DOS. Nothing like UNIX.
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by vandyswa 2y ago
Assuming this act even moved forward (big IF), "bugs" like this show up in first drafts of bills all the time. They'd do a little research, then apply a fix. Amusing that the "coverage" didn't seem interested
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by vandyswa 2y ago
I'm that old guy who married his highschool sweetheart and never looked back. I'll be sticking with vim 5.7 until the day I die: https://sources.vsta.org:7100/vim57/index
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by vandyswa 2y ago
This spell check must have come later. The original spell check burst the words of the document, and sort -u'd them: makewords sentence | lowercase | sort | unique | mismatch
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by vandyswa 2y ago
A nice limited hangout. Within the suspended reality field of the current USA military, the loss of a warrior culture must not be addressed. In fact, hidden. You are richly rewarded to place emphasis on almost anything else.
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by vandyswa 2y ago
RFC's operate under the IETF. RFC's are developed under some specific group, and you can join that group, the business is generally conducted on email. There are (well, were back when I participated) in-person meetings, but atte
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by vandyswa 2y ago
It's sad that women are dominating in accrual of debt to purchase something where the actual value is drifting downward rapidly. Yes, there are places demanding the credential, but they're entering the region of danger where what
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by vandyswa 2y ago
Just scratching my head on this "great" economy. Brutal food prices, energy prices, car prices, commodity prices. Lots of "jobs" that pay less with fewer or no benefits. All the side streets and park-n-ride lots with
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by vandyswa 2y ago
If at all possible, have a family lawyer. You just won't believe how helpful it is in some of these edge cases to have an officer of the court able to attest based on personal knowledge.
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by vandyswa 2y ago
I got the DEA call/email--I let our family lawyer deal with it, and it came to nothing. The crazy thing is that these pill presses, from a 3D printing perspective, are an absolutely trivial object. I'm glad that the drug war is
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by vandyswa 2y ago
Yes, after the third time around where they wanted to review my business filing and my corporate web site... I punted.
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by vandyswa 2y ago
This discussion is interesting, but I'm always cautious viewing discussion when an argument contrary to the interests of a very, very, very large industry are in play.
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by vandyswa 2y ago
My own solution is along these lines. I have a static html page on my personal server; that's the home for all my browsers. (It's under git, of course.) Just flip to my ongoing mosh session to my server, and a trip into vim can
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by vandyswa 2y ago
I've done the equivalent of this by asking them to describe an interesting bug they've encountered in past lives; how it came up, how they hunted it, how they fixed it. By listening to them describe the work, asking questions, an
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by vandyswa 2y ago
This is a textbook case of "limited hangout": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout It argues that journalism has a problem--just like everybody else. Journalism specifically has a crisis because, as

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