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ajryan

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About ajryan

http://www.aidanjryan.com ryan.aidan@gmail.com

Current music: http://soundcloud.com/aidan-ryan-1

Band I was in from 2002-2005, "Masters of the Universe": http://mastersuniverse.bandcamp.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47718550

    Claude and I wrote a python decoder for these https://github.com/ajryan/toyshop-decoder Have not yet tried printing and folding one yet

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    Comment #45939822

    I use this - pain in the ass but it works. https://github.com/tom-englert/RegionToShare

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    Comment #45191680

    Redmond only

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    Comment #41017305

    South shore of Alamdea CA has this and it’s great. My kids called them the “secret paths.”

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    Comment #38410586

    Can you estimate what proportion of fraud is automated/bot/scripted versus manual human interaction? Do you rely much on botnet detection or IP reputation?

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    Comment #38410556

    Card testing doesn’t require a purchase, fraudsters can validate a card by adding it to an online wallet. The retailer will send a $0 authorization to the bank. Fraud happens acros…

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    Comment #38363220

    Call it Blazor weirdness then. This obviously wasn’t a swipe at Microsoft being closed, just a point that Blazor stuff is not general standard web stuff.

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    Comment #38348881

    Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish for those unfamiliar.

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    Comment #33307737

    Uhh Yeah Dude is one of the very first podcasts (est Feb 2006). Zero ads.

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    Comment #32218624

    People are conflating consistency of a design system with consistency of ux metaphors. I worked on the team that built the new home page dashboard and my experience with the compon…

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    Comment #29565118

    Wellbutrin is an NDRI, not an SSRI.

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    Comment #28115468

    I wonder how much energy we waste on pedantry.

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    Comment #24710497

    We contain multitudes too. Inconsequential, no - a node in the fractal seat of consciousness.

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    Comment #22383632

    Another, better-written take on this: https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.htm...

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    Comment #21422107

    Where exactly can I find this in Windows' Task Manager? I don't see it as a column on the Details pane...

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    Comment #20042201

    You should be using OnPush everywhere, then your struggle will change to only getting changes detected in certain scenarios. Still a pain sometimes but not as bad as the Default ch…

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    Comment #18416732

    None of those definitions mean "disclosure," which is certainly what was meant.

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    Comment #18415032

    What are you disclaiming?

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    Comment #18415020

    You could replace .NET core in this comment with any $framework and see plenty examples of developers misusing a tool.

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    Comment #18415001

    We use .NET core in production and are very happy. A mixture of EF Core (for ad-hoc queries) and Dapper (for stored procs) works just fine. Also, new in EF Core 2.1, you can map vi…

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    Comment #17718037

    https://zealpc.net/products/zilents

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    Comment #17718001

    You said "no one else makes" them...

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    Comment #17717994

    I think they meant "high-quality cherry-switched keyboard," referring to the quality of the keyboard, not the switches. Regardless, Cherry switches are absolutely high quality - th…

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    Comment #17474070

    This is an insanely privileged thing to say though. The problem, in your mind, is that you have to see sick people, not that there are sick people who need help.

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    Comment #17191933

    Metafilter has just about the highest groupthink quotient of any site I know of. Every single post ends up being about social justice, even when it isn't.