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e40on Appearing productive in the workplace

> When called out, he would result to personal attacks.

Oh, that's bad. Sounds like a terribly toxic environment.

e40on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

So pne step towards the Neuromancer universe.

e40on iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

Speaking of that, sometimes I touch the card I want and it doesn't select it. I go through this dance of touch, wait, touch, wait, repeat. Insane.

e40on How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

Thanks for the answer. I understand now.

e40on From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control

Our main repo has git history back to 1985. RCS to CVS to git. Each step was lossless. I don’t remember the exact tool, but the CVS to git step was a fantastic Ruby program. It was incremental and each night I had a cron job that would update a checked out copy of the sources on the git side and diff with a copy from CVS. After 6 months I had confidence and the training of everyone was complete and we switched over.

e40on Security through obscurity is not bad

I remember when port knocking was discussed here on HN many years ago it was shit upon because people said security through obscurity is bad. What really frustrated me, at the time and still (when people shit on it), is that it's not just obscurity, it's also security. Port scans see nothing, but just knowing the port doesn't give you anything. You still need a password or key.

e40on 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home

The "new gen" link you says

> Built-in Newest Marvell chip, Max. Power Consumption 1.65W

Is that wrong?

Also, I'm using this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3F5DSXJ?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_...

which says

> Build in Marvell chip, Low Power Consumption (2.0W MAX @ 30m)

I have had 0 problems. One I use for my Sonic.net Ont and the other for my a 10G switch. Maybe I don't have issues because the cable lengths are so short (1-2')?

I just checked and both are VERY hot to the touch. Now I'm worried.

e40on How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

Why would this be preferred over the Tailscale macOS app? What are the advantages of this method?

Thanks.

e40on I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden

I have used 1pw since fleeing lastpass many years ago. It seems to be just what you want, functional and boring. I never had issues with the version 7 to 8 upgrade, that pissed off so many people.

e40on California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

Freakonomics did a pod about this, titled “how to get away with murder”.

e40on Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests

I got 3 calls purportedly from hubspot in the last week, from 3 different caller ids. It wasn’t a robocall, the same voice. I just hung up the first two times and the third asked him to stop calling. Incredible. I only answered the calls because I was expecting a call from an unknown number.

e40on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

I have used cygwin for 30 years and never had any dll hell issues, because all the programs came from the cygwin installer. Never once needed something outside it.

e40on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

If you're taking a lot of pills, which ill people often do (e.g., cancer patients), it's easy to forget.

Also, people with memory issues...

e40on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

Really nice you found a workaround. I am constantly trying different ways to alleviate my pain without drugs.

e40on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

Agreed!! Here’s my trick: take 1g and set an alarm for +6 hours. If I don’t need it, fine. If I do, repeat.

e40on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

Spine issues are the single thing that pish me to ibuprofen or naproxen over acetaminophen. The latter does nothing for my issues.

e40on Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

As others have said before, I used Magit in emacs and thay already feels like a superpower compared to git alone.

e40on John Ternus to become Apple CEO

I've worked for 40+ years with a hardware guy and he's great at software, for one reason: attention to detail. In hardware, you have to test, test and test. There's no "fixed it later with a patch" (for the most part).

I don't have a lot of samples, just one. So, YMMV.

e40on Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind

Evolutionarily this makes sense. Lower testosterone means less carousing, and better fatherhood.

e40on Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind

Or how carelessly loud teenagers are! Oy!

e40on The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi

Disappointing that there was not a single picture in the post. And, wow, it’s long!

e40on 'Middle Class' Actors Are Getting 'Squeezed Out' of Hollywood

Loved him on Fringe.

The economics of movies, tv etc are changing. If the Warner Bros purchase goes through it will only get worse. The debt load the acquiring company will have will increase pressure on actor paydays. And let’s not forget who is controlling the company. It will be ugly.

e40on FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

Microsoft refuses to send emails to itself? How bizarre.

e40on FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account

If you are a high-value target, it likely will continue. I had a friend that was and the attacks were unceasing.

e40on Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]

Create an account to read? No thanks.

e40on Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

Wasabi + rclone works well for me. Previous BB customer.

e40on Backblaze has stopped backing up your data

I had issues with the personal backup product and was told the solution was to create a new account. I moved to Wasabi immediately using rclone.

On macOS.

e40on Emergency Prices: How Private Equity Captured the Ambulance Market

Are we destined for a future where PE owns everything that used to be in the SMB domain?

e40on CDC director delays report showing Covid vaccine benefits

Is anyone surprised?

e40on Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions

Often the digital version is more than the dead tree version. Generally, I buy the dead tree versions and download the digital versions for my kindle.