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Good fiction is not usually judged for how true it depicts a real living person. Heck, even actual Biography (non fiction) isn't even judged that way. Cat Person succeeds because i…

You're so vain You probably think this song is about you

Cause of death could be related to him finally honouring this bet and being too weak from pain and loss-of-blood to upload the final video. YOUTUBE: Videos over 25MB require verifi…

This reminds me of my father's advice to every client (he had a corporate litigation practice): "When you feel the urge to write an email, pick up the f*king phone instead. When in…

80TB on AWS is $44K USD / year on their crappy (cheap rotational) "st1" volume.

Re: dogfooding - The word nice apparently comes the latin word for ignorant but do you mind if someone says you're a really nice guy?

The ambulance rates where I live (Vancouver, BC, Canada) always make me blink: Insured: $50 flat rate, ground or air. Uninsured: $848 flat fee (ground service) $4,394 per hour (hel…

You clearly don't study any subjects in the fine arts. :-p

> stakeholders wanted an over-the-top bridge design [...] Nothing wrong with that! > They were so focused on building a nice looking bridge — and meeting deadlines These are also g…

Fighting against an HTTPS endpoint on 443 returning data in response to a query is kinda futile. Might as well argue against using windmills to grind wheat.

My ssh server runs on port 443. That way I can connect to it when I'm on the Tim Hortons WIFI.

Very neat idea. But I worry that it's vulnerable to bad people. Got a hefty personal bill coming up, and you're pretty confident your SaaS business will be dead within 6 months but…

Joking aside, "git pull -r" is pure magic in the face of upstream rewrites. It always does the right thing: https://mergebase.com/doing-git-wrong/2018/03/07/fun-with-gi... After I …

I'd like to see the performance of growing the list (a common scenario): ArrayList list = new ArrayList(); for (int i = 0; i (Forgive me, Java is my mother tongue).

I think the data-structure is careful to make sure the main array is at most SQRT(N) and all linked queues also SQRT(N). It's a neat restructuring of the vector into a SQRT(N) * SQ…

Yes, I was running Windows 10 on a 7200rpm drive. Reinstalled onto a cheap $50 SATA 256GB SSD (AOPEN SU800): night and day difference. Blew me away. Obviously M.2 or NVME or PCIE w…

Is true master-master replication across continents even possible? I guess partitioning can help, but then isn't it just turning the DB servers into pizzas of master-slave where th…

I remember plugging my windows box directly into my internet cable modem around 1999. My printer started printing dick pics (that I had not asked it to print) -- I had not even cli…

Monetizing our work is not strange. It might require some contortions compared to the most direct approach (step 1. write software. step 2. git push), but that doesn't make it a ba…

You also probably can't be a director of a private or public company until the bankruptcy is discharged (2 years?). If student loans became dischargeable through bankruptcy, I imag…

> Five days to do what? Five full 8 hour days? Does it take 5 days to cut a GitHub release and push it to NPM? I'm not OP, but I gotta say whenever I've faced questions like these …

Even bad_user's assertion that "Once a piece of software is [legitimately] released as open source, it can be freely distributed" is not 100% true. There is a mechanism in US copyr…

Copyright law prevents package repos from being truly immutable. Fortunately a copyright takedown request is not a typical scenario, but it does happen, even with "immutable" repos…