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Holy hell. How do you have a life-threatening disease that puts at you risk of germ infection, costs $250,000 a year to treat AND manage to survive homelessness? Tragic. I'm sorry …

Responding to customer sales inquiries. I'm a hacker, not a salesperson, but working for startup means I have to switch hats and give a pitch 30% of my week. Why is it a waste? Bec…

I remember being exposed to LISP in the late 80's after coming from Pascal and COBOL in my CS101 (C was a 200-level class.) It was such a complete mindf*ck. After learning procedur…

> What else are you supposed to do with the money? Keep it in cash? Yes. That's where my RIA has 33% of my assets now, we moved them in 2019. We will be "piecing back into" the mar…

Why exclude the biggest websites? The problem I see on DDG & Google is having to scroll 5-10 pages of utter SEO nonsense. "Do you have a question about ____? Many ask about _______…

Academia? Shoot... senior hiring in the tech world is the same thing. If you don't have buddies, gooooood luuuuck.

After working int he world of CAD tools for decades, I cannot tell you the number of times I've seen a younger engineer try to write a CSV parser only to fall into a circular hacki…

EDIT: Sure wish I could delete this post. Wait, this isn't TCP, this is protocol level above TCP, right? TCP doesn't shape traffic by itself through rate limiting and congestion an…

That is really smart. Will you be summarizing some of the best debubbles? The reminds me of that subreddit ... changemyview?

Cool! I convinced a bunch of friends to use WL a few years ago and now they're mad at ME for the acquisition! Not really mad, but despondent and looking for alternatives. I migrate…

I would easily pay US$30 for that.

You're referring to "term overloading". This is pervasive throughout all domains of engineering, but more so in software because there are so many conflicting standards, definition…

I'm upgrading MacPorts after Catalina, and realized between `ports` and `brew` I have nearly thousands of packages installed. And I have no idea why. What would happen if package m…

Yeah, the latter: keychain certificate (under "Certificates").

Preview can't digitally sign PDFs. I have to do this on a near daily basis. EDIT: I mean sign with a certificate, not add an image. Personally I would prefer to not have any adobe …

Narrative? Yes yes, because 99.9% of white christian american terrorists are women. /s Were you born today?

What was that about exponential growth and nature? I'm sure the 0.1% can rest on their billion-dollar laurels for the next decade, but at some point the next batch of $100-milliona…

TL;DR: Load Balancers and a clear policy means the cloud works as advertised. Seven years ago I was at a medical conference in Portland, Oregon with a panel of "experts" discussing…

Wow, that's really cool. Googling around it appears that Mountain Lion wasn't upgraded to TLSv1.2 so any website that upgraded to TLSv1.1 broke on pre-Yosemite. I didn't realize th…

> the modern iteration of HTTPS required by DarkSky. I don't follow. The TLS handshake negotiates the appropriate ciphersuite. With the exception of dropping SHA1 in TLSv1.3, how w…

I remember reading this in Parade Magazine when Marilyn Vos Savant published her column. And then was completely blown away by the landslide of scathing letters written by adult pr…

Java? STMicroelectronics uses it for almost all of their applications, which ship in one zip file with binaries for Win/Mac/Linux. It ticks #1 and #2, but I don't know about #3. Of…

This bugs me to no end about Electron. The one module that existed to implement cross window / process communication is deprecated with no alternative. I haven't found a solution f…

This is a very enlightening post, thank you. I don't often develop cross platform to this depth, and I think it is a wise reminder that Microsoft actually knows a thing or two abou…