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"Oft as not, in talk or script, we'll force the use of some long hard word, and with it, blunt the keen edge and dull the sharp point of what we want to say." - H. Phelps Gates
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ashmud··on CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
$10 per device per month [1].

[1] https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/business/

ashmud··on Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg
From the article: "[Ron Milner] remembered showing it off to some buddies at a county fair when the game first came out, but that was 40 years ago!"

Perhaps it did?

ashmud··on Tesla employee writes of low wages, poor morale; company denies claims
How does this compare to Nissan (US), also non-union?
ashmud··on Backing up a Linux system to Usenet
Parchives. Great for adding recovery to any file. :) I use them [now par2cmdline-tbb] religiously for archives. I started doing this years ago after having CD-R's burned on a drive (Plextor, no less) that I started having a hard time reading on any other drive.
ashmud··on Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software
Bitdefender likes to revert to default settings frequently. I prefer Windows Firewall (Win7) and have to turn off the Bitdefender firewall usually at least once a week.
ashmud··on Music's weird cassette-tape revival is paying off
And reel-to-reel. Example article from a quick web search:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-...

ashmud··on Crafting a high-performance TV user interface using React
They can. I bought a Roku 3 after seeing how much more responsive it was compared to my Sony BDP-S790 for streaming apps.
ashmud··on What Style Is That House? Visual Guides to Domestic Architectural Designs
Paris, even though it may not be what is pictured, is also what I immediately thought of, from the GP's second link.
ashmud··on LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance
LEDBenchmark [1] does a good job with their own spectrum and flicker graphs. So far, the LED bulbs I have gotten based on their results have been good.

[1] http://www.ledbenchmark.com/

ashmud··on Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often
How DuckDuckGo generates revenue: https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates
ashmud··on Problems with CSVs
A regional (to me) real estate web site that we had to work with had a data service that output XML. It was naively implemented and managed to output malformed XML. Mostly in the form of a CSV field crammed into an XML field with non-conformant XML markup.
ashmud··on Problems with CSVs
Employee IDs. That is [not even close to] all. Sadly.
ashmud··on Show HN: Fun tool that cut my family and friends tech support time in half
A few jobs ago (factory automation), we had a story from one of our projects where a device (would have been a PLC or relay panel) was failing. Rather than dust, metal filings had gotten into the case and were shorting out connections. A "quick" cleanup, and the device was working again.
ashmud··on Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
Also, (unsweetened) cacao nibs: http://navitasnaturals.com/product/439/Cacao-Nibs.html
ashmud··on Big News in Databases
The old Right Stuf website catalog [1] (old catalog not accessible) would list their pages with the first two letters of the first item's title on the page. I found it immensely helpful, and even "borrowed" the idea for a directory on a local govt website (also no longer accessible).

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20071016095932/http://www.rightst...

ashmud··on LaiNES – Cycle-accurate NES emulator in around 1000 lines of code
You might find ladder logic for PLCs interesting. It simulates old hardware relay systems.
ashmud··on Cassandra is not row level consistent
In case this is not the explanation you found: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wat
ashmud··on Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
That is starting to sound like 419eater.
ashmud··on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build
My work machine is not nearly that beefy. :| I do often have 8-10 cmd windows open. According to task manager on my machine, each PS instance on start is 90-100MB. I didn't dig deeper to see if that RAM usage would shrink over time.
ashmud··on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build
I know we have machines with lots of RAM now, but at 90-100MB (PS) vs 4MB (CMD) [1] RAM usage per instance (not counting the conhost instance that also spawns), I think I would still want CMD around.

[1] Quick check done on my Win7x64 laptop.

ashmud··on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build
This bit me badly when trying to pipe GPG output. I ended up building a command string and sending it to cmd. :|
ashmud··on Court to Cops: No Immunity If You 'Don't Have Time for Constitutional Bullshit'
News story from 2012: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/guns/2012/may/23/miller-...
ashmud··on “I have toyota corola”
This categorized approach is what my email usage has evolved into over the years. I ended up "demoting" email addresses over time and letting them be used for spam-attractive uses or disuse altogether.

I have another category for family/close personal friends. For money matters, I go a step further and split out general commerce (online shopping) from financial institutions (banking/investment).

ashmud··on Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
One of the earliest www rabbit holes I remember visiting: https://www.chroniclesofgeorge.com/

Surprised MF has not been mentioned, yet. http://www.metafilter.com/

ashmud··on HP is buying Samsung’s printer business for $1.05B
I have a Canon Pixma MG7520 that works fine over wifi with a Win 8.1 client. Quality of the prints are scans are pretty much inline with the price I paid (i.e., mediocre). It sees very light use, so I have no ideas about how long or well it will last. I got it to scan contracts and for the occasional color print (not photos).
ashmud··on YouTube's road to HTTPS
On the desktop side, IE9, the last version on Vista, which is in extended support until April 11, 2017, only supports up to TLS 1.0.
ashmud··on Real-world HTTP/2: 400GB of images per day
OTOH, progressive JPEGs tend to require much more memory to decode. I do not have specific numbers to cite. Only going off of anecdotal usage of image programs over the years (e.g., Java photo uploaders that choked on progressive JPEGs).
ashmud··on Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes and Sizzles Like Meat
Vegan french fries is the stand out here. Many commercially available ones are flavored and/or cooked with non-vegan ingredients.
ashmud··on Mistakes Beginners Make When Working with Databases
For processing data types without quality natural unique keys, being able to generate a unique key beforehand is very useful. I've written code both ways: inserting to get an auto-incremented integer, and generating a UUID, and the UUID approach was much easier to write and maintain.
ashmud··on Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S
It let us switch our servers to SNI-only as we still have clients with users on XP. (IE on XP does not support SNI.)
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