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byJust Some Guy
ry 20, 2018 @05:03PM
(#56159879)
Attached to: FCC Orders a Brooklyn Man To Turn Off His Bitcoin Miner Because It Was Interfering With T-Mobile's Wireless Network
I eventually put a pin through his coax, which apparently burned out his linear. Ha Ha!
I, too, love to chuckle about committing felonies (depending on the price of his amp) based on my complete misunderstanding of regulations and my rights and responsibilities under them. Hee hee, ho ho!
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byJust Some Guy
y 18, 2018 @03:03PM
(#56148272)
Attached to: Who Killed The Junior Developer?
My company explicitly states that it's our job, as senior developers, to farm the crop of new junior developers. And FWIW, we've seen enormous success from hiring inexperienced (but talented and eager) new engineers and mentoring them in the ways of our world. The main difference between me and a new kid out of college is that I've made a lot more stupid mistakes than they've had time to. I share my experiences with them, and they share their excitement and willingness to try new things with us. If I can play a small part in helping them graduate to a senior role - either here or elsewhere - I'll consider it a personal accomplishment.
We did our time as juniors. Now it's our turn to help the next cohort learn the ropes.
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byJust Some Guy
ary 17, 2018 @12:29PM
(#56142858)
Attached to: FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct
Gotta agree. I was ready to be all offended by a super restrictive list, but there's nothing there that seems likely to every be accidentally crossed.
Probably OK:
●Sorry I didn't look at your patch earlier. Someone ran over my dog.
● Aww, hugs!
Probably not OK:
●What do I need to change about this PR to get it merged?
● Hugs
●Yeah, I'm still not interested. Please stop.
● Hugs
●Seriously, I'm getting pissed off.
● Aww, hugs!
I think all those rules are there so that if someone won't quit being an ass then they have an explicit rule they can point to. That seems reasonable.
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byJust Some Guy
y 16, 2018 @04:27PM
(#56137788)
Attached to: Two Years After FBI vs Apple, Encryption Debate Remains
The first problem is that there's provably no way to reconcile "only the One True Protector should have access to a backdoor" and "any backdoor can be, will be, and has been exploited by third parties". It's like hoping desperately to find some value of A such that "A & ~A == true". It won't (and can't) happen.
The second problem is that encryption only makes it more convenient for criminals to do the things they've always been doing anyway. If I wanted to communicate secretly with you, we used to meet in the woods and talk privately. If we didn't want to be seen going into the woods, we sent emissaries to chat over coffee in a busy restaurant. Criminals are using encryption today. They are also meeting in woods and restaurants and behind barns and in churches and above taverns and on boats. There is no question that intercepting their woods / restaurants / barns / churches / taverns / boats communications would play in huge part in stopping there schemes, maybe saving lives. That point is just not debatable.
But what isdebatable is whether it's worth bothering to live in a society where you and I can't talk in private, or where I can't exchange pillow talk with my wife without someone listening. If it came to that, fuck it - the experiment's over. I'd rather burn it all to the ground and start over than live in a society where laws and technology mean it's impossible to communicate without eavesdropping.
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byJust Some Guy
y 12, 2018 @01:22PM
(#56109389)
Attached to: Verizon is Locking Its Phones Down To Combat Theft
When a would-be thief sees the giant flashing "Powered by Verizon" sign floating over my phone, they'll know not to steal from me and to look for a giant "Brought to you by AT&T" banner. Thieves put a lot of thought into deciding which phone to steal.
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byJust Some Guy
y 30, 2018 @10:39PM
(#56037951)
Attached to: California Senate Defies FCC, Approves Net Neutrality Law
It's almost like people want to live here, even if they have to pay more for the privilege.
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byJust Some Guy
29, 2018 @06:11PM
(#56029969)
Attached to: Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years
Neither one, no. The 2600 doesn't measure seconds but frames. Seconds aren't actually clock seconds but the number of rendered frames divided by a constant.
If the clock crystal ran faster (but not so much that it screwed up the TV sync), then the "time" score would speed up by the exact same proportion. The 2600 would still calculate the exact same amount of animated movement per frame because that's how it works. On a modern computer, something updates video RAM while another something reads from that same RAM and generates a video signal for the screen to display. On the 2600, the CPU fills in the current TV scanline as it's being displayed, with only a few ms between screen refreshes to do work like calculating scores, etc. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... if you want to be horrified at what our predecessors had to do to put a dot on the screen.
The 2600 doesn't get feedback from the TV display. It just blindly writes its signals to the wire and it's up to the TV to decode them properly. The TV doesn't send a clock signal to the 2600.
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byJust Some Guy
29, 2018 @05:30PM
(#56029735)
Attached to: Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years
This is an excellent time to make an exception to that otherwise-sacred rule. The video was awesomely damning, entertaining, and infuriating. Other "accomplishments" it documents:
- Getting high scores of exactly 15,000,000 on two different games whose scores increment by 100 each time. Not 14,999,900 or 15,000,100, but exactly 15,000,000.
- Beating the second highest scores on those games by factors of like 30x. He got 15,000,000; #2 got 500,000.
- Beating the Barnstorming game by an unlikely margin. Summary: every time you move up or down in that game, you lose a bit of horizontal speed: the fewer movements you make, the better your time. Testers hacked up a copy of the ROM to remove all obstacles, then timed flying from one end of the course to the other in a perfectly flat line. Rogers beat that machine perfect time by over half a second.
- Scoring 1,698 in a game that increments by 5 points at a time and that caps at 1,300.
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byJust Some Guy
y 23, 2018 @10:58PM
(#55990897)
Attached to: Apple Releases Meltdown and Spectre Fixes For Older Versions of MacOS
High Sierra runs fin on my 2011 MBP (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD). If it didn't, I'd upgrade this 6 year old boat anchor to get the newer OS, but it's had a pretty great run of it already.
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byJust Some Guy
y 16, 2018 @05:52PM
(#55942149)
Attached to: France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone'
i don't speak French but even I can figure out that's a big mealy mouthful... hard for six or seven syllables to come up with two...
First rule of speaking French: get bored and trail off halfway through each word. No one says six or seven syllables. In practice, you'll get two on a regular basis and three if it's your waiter sneering at your bad accent.
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byJust Some Guy
14, 2018 @01:58PM
(#55927591)
Attached to: Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages
To be honest, that PR is a great reason for why you'd want to use someone else's left padding function. Turns out there are about 100 ways to subtly screw it up in JavaScript, so it makes sense to collect everyone's wisdom in a single place rather than everyone trying to re-invent that (surprisingly non-trivial) wheel.
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byJust Some Guy
14, 2018 @02:02AM
(#55925209)
Attached to: Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages
That’s terrifying!
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byJust Some Guy
ry 13, 2018 @04:05PM
(#55923069)
Attached to: Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages
It’s the Internet. You can say “fuck” here.
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byJust Some Guy
ry 13, 2018 @01:05PM
(#55922277)
Attached to: Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages
I disagree about security flaws. If it’s not possible to use a package - say, it mistakenly always degrades SSL connections to plaintext - then I think it’s at least arguable that users should be prodded into upgrade to the fixed version.
I agree about the “same author” bit. I didn’t spell it out, but that to me means “officially designated maintainer”. Maybe that’s always the same individual maintainer, or maybe it’s “Release Manager at Foo Corp”, or perhaps it’s “person who took over package Foo after Randy got a new job”. But in all cases, the uploaded is still the person who’s directly responsible for that specific package in real life.
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byJust Some Guy
ry 13, 2018 @11:49AM
(#55921943)
Attached to: Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages
That doesn’t help if you accurately mirror a repo where a package can be replaced with something malicious.
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