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Comment · 3 months ago
I feel like I've seen this comment before...
Comment · 5 months ago
> best thing to do is segregate and control damage

I first encountered that concept with a client that put every webapp in it's own virtual server and expected the vm to get compromised at some point. Seemed like a very sensible idea 15 years ago.

Comment · 5 months ago
And uses SOAP for identity and authorization.
Comment · 5 months ago
The Apple ][ basic interpreter placed its "get next token" routine down in the first 255 bytes of the computer's memory. Being there allowed for the machine instructions to be fetched twice as fast as "high memory". And "get next token" is definitely a good guess for hotpath.
Comment · 5 months ago
The economy is so bad even the Director of the FBI has a side gig.
Comment · 5 months ago
Now do ASPX? Pleeeeeeaaasse?
Comment · 2 years ago
I've learned to accept getting a bit of raw cold egg white on my fingers.
Comment · 2 years ago
John Oliver did an eye opening bit on homeschooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI&pp=ygUVam9uIG9sa...

The lack of regulation is concerning. What's truly disturbing is how easily it is for children to fall through the cracks when there are no teachers to report possible abuse. Frightening.

Comment · 4 years ago
If I recall correctly the read/write head of a floppy drive rested directly on the media. This meant the disks wore out faster the more you used them.
Comment · 4 years ago
Can you plug in a gogoro to a regular wall socket? Better a slow charge than to be stuck.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Maybe it's a quantum observer effect and the galaxies only exist because there's an observer. Dark matter/energy is need to make things balance only because we haven't been looking in all the right places.

The universe would be an odd old place if that was true.

Comment · 4 years ago
> Why can't the US government mandate hospitals need to purchase a percentage of their supplies from US manufacturers in order to receive medicaid/Medicare.

Trade agreements most likely.

I would not be surprised if that sort of preferential treatment would count as a subsidy and be actionable under NAFTA (whatever it's called now).

Comment · 4 years ago
12 matches, 10 seconds per shape.
Comment · 4 years ago
As a Torontonian... the Sun isn't much of a paper. Good for sports and fish wrap. Breathless crime reporting too. City politics. That's about it.

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