wingman-jr

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by wingman-jr 8mo ago
While the article's a fun exploration, I do wonder if the key point of the XOR cipher was actually to allow the manufacturer to claim that encryption was in use so that the DMCA could be invoked and make reverse engineering illegal.
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by wingman-jr 8mo ago
I grew up with Hypercard etc. and always loved the classic icons, like these: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/designed-with-kare-in... Don't suppose you've ever extended the timeline further back? I be
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by wingman-jr 11mo ago
I found this: https://textslashplain.com/2016/03/06/using-https-properly/ Seems like it at least partially corroborates OP's recollection!
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by wingman-jr 1y ago
Agreed. These technologies are the backbone of a lot (most?) of IoT devices, so unlike the article's description of "devices" in terms of "consumer handheld phones (that are often replaced every 3 years)", the impac
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by wingman-jr 2y ago
I have worked at such a place as well and would strongly recommend this. If it works out right, you can remain in software and do adjacent jobs to manufacturing. I suspect industrial / specialist products would be the better side to ge
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by wingman-jr 2y ago
This is an interesting article, and the subject of alternate paths to payment seems quite relevant. It listed a strategy or two I hadn't seen before. What other strategies have folks from HN seen? Did they work or not?
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by wingman-jr 2y ago
Fair point. But putting on my user hat, that Smart Paste sounds pretty handy if it works half decently. I'm thinking CRM entry use cases and the like.
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by wingman-jr 3y ago
My experience was quite a bit different than SWE. For me, it was as part of a R&D group and was more closely assigned to say, signals processing and my coworker was a physicist. The big change was that the skillset was more in rigorous
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by wingman-jr 3y ago
Yeah, I went looking for debug.exe on the listing as well. There was something just so visceral and direct about its usage that I enjoyed.
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by wingman-jr 3y ago
If memory serves correctly, I think that's close to how ClickOnce worked/works? - but Windows only. One of the apps I worked on does it, but it was a homegrown framework. Definitely the sort of thing it's nice to delegate to
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by wingman-jr 3y ago
As an interesting contrast, I work on a WPF app professionally that has been around for sure since .NET 3.5 (with references to .NET 2.0 DLL's at times) - at least 12 years - and as much as we give MS crap for abandoning WPF, I can sti
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by wingman-jr 3y ago
For a side project of image classification, I use a simple folder system where the images and metadata are both files, with a hash of the image acting as a key/filename - e.g. 123.img and 123.metadata. This gives file independence. The
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by wingman-jr 3y ago
Also, Tensorflow.js WebGPU backend has been in the works for quite some time: https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/tree/master/tfjs-backend-...
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by wingman-jr 5y ago
Thanks for the response dynamite-ready. There's a lot in here, but I'll try to comment on a couple items. Some of your suggestions I've actually thought about extensively, so perhaps you'll find the reasoning interesting
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by wingman-jr 5y ago
Jump point search is also pretty nifty for a block-based subset of pathfinding.
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by wingman-jr 5y ago
For whatever reason, animated Pokemon were a particularly tough case - I remember Charizard in particular being a tough offender for false positives. I cannot find a reference to it now, but I distinctly remember that at one point Yahoo&#x2
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by wingman-jr 5y ago
You're right that stuff is quite difficult. I write a Firefox addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wingman-jr-fi... , https://github.com/wingman-jr-addon/wingman_jr )
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by wingman-jr 5y ago
Probably the humidity. In the western part of North Dakota, it's generally a bit dry so it doesn't _feel_ quite so cold. That's a big difference from even say, Grand Forks or Fargo which are right next to the Red River.
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by wingman-jr 5y ago
I'd recommend trying to work a place that has both web dev and the role you want, then try to move within the company itself after some time there. Could be more gradual and you can see what the day-to-day work is like before you jump
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by wingman-jr 5y ago
I have a WD MyBook and unplugged it last night - still fine, fortunately. I ssh'ed in and renamed the factoryRestore.sh and wipeFactoryReset.sh to cripple the attack as well as removing one drive from RAID until I can get an airgapped
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by wingman-jr 5y ago
I've been watching developments here since FLIF days and I wanted to say thank for you for taking the serious time, effort, and tireless communication to see things through the standards processes. That takes perseverance!