chunkyks
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Comment · 5 months ago
It would be a better device if I could install cfw and make it somewhat more versatile. But I haven't found anyone doing that, and haven't even found enough specs online to get started.
Comment · 5 months ago
My wife bought one of these:
https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler
Reviews are wildly polarised. * Some folks find it to be the best thing ever [long battery life, the new patch makes the eink surprisingly fastly responsive, decent keyboard, no distractions] * While others find it terrible [it's still eink, that's a lot of money for a device that doesn't actually do much]
You can find a selection of alternatives, and homebrewed options, here: https://www.writerdeck.org/
Comment · 1 year ago
Also known as bikeshedding:
http://bikeshed.org
(if the color scheme is hard to read, hit reload. You'll understand after reading the piece)
Comment · 1 year ago
Wake me up when wayland just works for basic things I need and use daily, and I don't have to hear some diatribe about why what I do daily is wrong.
(What I do may be "wrong" in some cosmic technological sense, but it's still "the only thing supported by the software vendor" and also "isn't actually broken" in the sense of "works just fine". Unlike wayland, which "doesn't work just fine")
Comment · 1 year ago
If you think about it, a Turing machine is also Turing complete, and also is a zero player game where one only sets initial inputs...
Comment · 2 years ago
I got you! https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
Comment · 2 years ago
We've been hit by this.
When I talked to them four years ago, they agreed we were good to use it for free, no problem.
The dollar figure they're asking for would make it the single most expensive software product we would be licensing in our enterprise, by a lot. The deadline is absurdly soon for such a big deal. And they opened discussion in an incredibly hostile manner and have made no attempt to work with us.
So, I'm helping lead the effort to completely purge them from our ecosystem. On the one hand, I'm sad because their stuff is pretty good. On the other hand, their behavior is bad and the product isn't better by the amount they're asking for.
Good riddance.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not the only person who uses "dc" for throwaway calculations all the time? Woo!
The thing that I find has the biggest useful-to-popularly-known ratio is "tee".
Comment · 2 years ago
This book was wonderful. I worked through it and it made it super easy to create one. Thank you for writing this!
(https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer was the one I created. Slightly obtuse but I really enjoyed writing it)
Comment · 2 years ago
I work with a lot of economists. As such, I'd argue that people respond to incentives. Famous example being the cobra effect (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive)
The job market is hell to apply in. Job seekers are incentivised to come up with strategies and techniques to make mass application simpler, and sure enough, they have. Go team humanity.
Comment · 2 years ago
I developed an unhealthy obsession with the RAND book in 2020,which culminated in an article on the front page of the wsj. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rand-million-random-digits-numb...
RAND used to cut copies of the punch card deck for anyone who asked, but I'm sadly unable to find anyone who's still got a copy.
Comment · 2 years ago
Are there in person communities for this sort of thing? I've set myself a personal project to reproduce some circuits I have in a 1947 paper. But I'm not a hardware guy, huge tracts of the tooling are opaque, best practices are unclear, etc etc etc.
So I'm looking to just come meet people in person who know the material and can provide advice. Do such groups exist? Especially in Los Angeles?
Comment · 2 years ago
"malicious compliance". Do exactly what you're told!
Comment · 2 years ago
It's easy to imagine that the same person who's willing to ignore explicit instructions and clearly put others at risk, is going to be willing to spend extra time struggling to open a locked container.
This isn't going to be a "gave it a tug, didn't open, give up and move on" situation.
Comment · 2 years ago
I have a USG Pro 4. Which is still purchasable from their website, not yet EOL, nominally still supported. The only firmware update in the last two years was to fix a security issue, and didn't include support for updated VPNs.
Release notes history is here: https://www.ui.com/download/software/usg-pro-4
The wireguard of which you speak is only available on their "next gen" gateways, ie, not the full set of gateways currently "supported": https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/12594825307927-UniFi-G...
It's now been three years since at least some of the forum threads started expressing concern: https://community.ui.com/questions/L2TP-unsecure-update-to-I...
From my perspective, they have failed catastrophically to do what I perceive as the pivotally important parts of their job, without which the rest of it is pointless. So, while you say "Just stop", I say "Why the hell should this company be trusted with anything network-related, if they can't do bare-minimum-required security stuff?"