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> Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable That's his choice, it's _his_ cancer after all > I don't think that excuses all of…

I have one of these too, and I honestly can't fault it. Runs Arch + i3 and they're very cheap in Australia since the education department handed them out in schools. Once things ge…

I always found these incredibly rude, in my experience it's typically senior management, and specifically those who like to really make you feel like a nameless "human resource" Th…

It's interesting that sigma is static and defined ahead of time, how do you determine the initial sigma?

iiNet was probably the best job I've ever had, certainly the place where I learnt the most, and had the most fun. The coffeecam was cute, acb - the one primarily responsible for th…

Given the answer to their question on how it's written is quite obvious in the provided link, I'd say if they are using an AI it doesn't appear to be parsing the content and maybe …

a minor point but you can't _encrypt_ source IPs, you can only obfuscate or more accurately, proxy.

The other 2% keeps engineers fairly busy, I imagine. Custom congestion control algorithms come to mind

Compare and contrast this with the Go Standards project-layout repo example[1] - which ironically is not a standard at all. Personally I prefer a bit more rigidity in how the proje…

OSPF is an interior routing protocol that transmits link state. Link state based routing algorithms aren't a good fit for interconnected networks

(n)vim would work a real treat on a pi. Building locally might be tricky depending on the codebase, but it's not entirely unreasonable to expect to have a full fledged IDE on a pi …

Building software that relies on an incorrect assumption sounds dangerous to me. There's plenty of critical software in the world, some of which has real world consequences if ther…

This has never, not once crossed my mind. I've worked at two FAANG companies and I'm fairly certain that at least at Google they'd be able to tell you've exfiltrated some code, and…

Terry Davis

What if you have a paid application?

This is neat, but I think it's better to use your work provided device(s)/laptop for work, and your personal devices for personal things. Obviously check your contract, and IANAL b…

I think the _real_ takeaway here should be that your status page should be simple, with as little dependencies as possible, ideally none. IMHO it should be a static page using Hugo…

you don't need to know the IP address , you can just dump the ARP cache and look for the MAC address you need. on Linux: $ arp -n | grep "MAC_ADDRESS_HERE" 192.168.86.23 ether MAC_…

> Error establishing a database connection Hugged to death :-(

what programming specific macros do you use?

Sure, PHP is against internal policy. But if you take the initiative to open source a client library in PHP and it gets the attention of AWS it absolutely could result in an interv…

Yeah, I've lived in Australia all my life and for the past couple of years I've used my phone to pay for everything...even transport[1]. People don't look twice if you use contactl…

So maybe you meant something other than code size here, but using words like "minimal" and "subset" feel a bit (unintentionally, probably) misleading to me. I understood it as as a…

works for me $ dig console.aws.amazon.com @1.1.1.1 +short lbr-optimized.console-l.amazonaws.com. us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com. 54.239.31.91