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Comment · 4 years ago
As I recall, this is severely limited in that it does not correctly support sub-searches or pivoting between different indexes. Any news on if this has been improved?
Comment · 4 years ago
Why is the velocity of a falling bullet > the speed of gravity?
Comment · 4 years ago
I will for sure be using the SSH straight into Tmux trick. To get it to work I had to add a RequestTTY option in ~/.ssh/config.
Comment · 4 years ago
Ouch. If Troy Hunt of all people can make this mistake, it can happen to anybody. HIBP is an awesome service funded totally by donations, so it's too bad this happened. Of course Microsoft is happy to hide behind their confusing pricing model and let customers overpay for Azure without alerting them.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I would imagine part of the reason is because even if you have a trained COBOL maintainer, they still have to learn and understand the actual business logic of the application. Learning the language is not even half the battle. Maintaining old often undocumented code is a hard task in any language.
Comment · 5 years ago
Does it work?
Comment · 5 years ago
Ah, I was confused until I ran > alias ii

Now I see why this works. Good trick either way.

Comment · 5 years ago
I learned from the video you can launch VS code from within WSL with "code ."

That's really useful. I like it.

Comment · 5 years ago
Google DNS is reporting back a different IP for me when I query perl.com (same subnet though). It's all part of the Google Cloud /13 block.

Sure it may have been used for malware, but given those IPs float between ephemeral cloud instances, it does not mean it is currently being used for malware.

Comment · 5 years ago
Are you saying you do not use IDEs? What is your rationale for that decision?
Comment · 5 years ago
I guess this means a lot of malware/botnets that uses Twitter to communicate just broke today.

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