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mcstafford··on Undefinable yet Indispensable
There may be room to improve in describing the undefinable?
mcstafford··on Dumb Pipe
https://www.iroh.computer/docs works
mcstafford··on Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code
I took a peek at the terms of service[1] when considering signing up for an account. It seemed unusual to have them in a separate language from the rest of the site.

Presuming the translation was correct I would "agree to comply with Chinese laws ... [and] grant the company a non-exclusive, free, perpetual license for global use (including modification, display, and derivative development)."

[1] https://staying.fun/en/legal/terms-of-service

mcstafford··on Show HN: Changefly – Rebuilding the foundation of privacy and authentication
The personal plan[1] repeatedly emphasizes the word free and makes no mention of the $30+/year optional fees or what features differentiate the levels of service.

[1]https://www.changefly.com/personal

mcstafford··on Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter
I prefer heredoc[1] syntax.

I find it more readable and portable.

[1] https://www.docker.com/blog/introduction-to-heredocs-in-dock...

mcstafford··on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
Whose popularity do you champion, and what sorts of motive bring deservedness in to the discussion?
mcstafford··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
:-) Delicious irony
mcstafford··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
I suspect science has had more to do with the reduction than superstitions like jinxes.
mcstafford··on The Relativity of Wrong (1989)
> Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -- Isaac Asimov

Useful discussion is an interesting scope for someone with the broad, in-depth knowledge of a vast array of subjects he demonstrates in the linked essay.

mcstafford··on How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect?
You make a decent point. There's a clear limitation... but a clearly worded prompt often produces more valuable content than an SEO optimized guess article.
mcstafford··on GCP CloudSQL Vulnerability Leads to Internal Container Access and Data Exposure
The vulnerability sounds like it's inherent to SQL Server, and that cloud providers haven't been successful in blocking the underlying problem due to its proprietary nature.

Presenting it as a Cloud SQL problem is disingenuous.

mcstafford··on The long, slow death of global development
I'm a little curious, but haven't heard a word of what you're referring to. A quick search for 'atoms stalled' didn't result in anything that felt helpful.

Do you have a link that would clarify?

mcstafford··on “True” Randomness vs. “Pseudo” Randomness
One thing we seem to have discovered is that absolute randomness is harder than it might first seem.

Your idea combines what feels like a significant percentage of randomness while still having enough participation to rationalize buy-in.

It's tough to want to yield control of an important choice to a random number generator... though that's not an inaccurate description for this.

I like this as a perspective on "the illusion of choice". Part of me hates the phrase because I want to believe that I can take meaningful action.

mcstafford··on Apple no longer allowing iPad as Home Hub, to increase TV and HomePod sales
Apple reminding me why I don't buy their hardware.
mcstafford··on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
The Cliff comparison is a good one in that it very confident declares its every answer was though it is well-founded fact.
mcstafford··on The simplest app that makes money
Hi, I'm Bob... welcome to ideators anonymous. If you can't stop incentivizing perspectives, and monetizing paradigms this may be the place for you.
mcstafford··on Sending UDP Messages in Node.js Without DNS Lookups
TL;DR "Using IP Address Instead of Domain Name"

Everything else remains pretty much the same...

mcstafford··on New York City will allow 800k noncitizens to vote in local elections
At first glance, the headline sounded likely to be a conspiracy theory from the other side, not something from NPR.
mcstafford··on Mosh: The Mobile Shell
I'm unable to use mosh after switching VPN clients, though ssh works. What should I discuss and/or request with the security+network folks?
mcstafford··on Incentives in Computer Science
Lecture notes available:

http://timroughgarden.org/notes.html

mcstafford··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
> people complained that [my microphone] was taking up all their bandwidth

That's not how I expect your choice of mic to affect anyone else's experience.

It would surprise me if additional network load is part of what happens.

mcstafford··on Python 3 Types in the Wild: A Tale of Two Type Systems [pdf]
Google's pytype seems to be better deployed within the standard PyPi ecosphere. The Microsoft packages you're using aren't.
mcstafford··on CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers
I see download options for Mac and Windows. Is Linux support in the works? Slack and Teams have us covered.
mcstafford··on Deprecating scp
I suppose this could be easily worked around with an alias presuming the most frequent use case names only files.

alias scp='rsync'

mcstafford··on Stop using RSA (2019)
The section entitled "So what should you use instead?" doesn't make a suggestion of what to use instead...
mcstafford··on Facebook Container for Firefox
This is like finding a technique that will make it safer for your kids to play with the creepy neighbor.

You may be better off not playing with the creepy neighbor.

mcstafford··on Git Exercises
> git start master

I've been using git for years, and can't find documentation for start.

https://gitexercises.fracz.com/exercise/master https://git-scm.com/docs

mcstafford··on Modernize your Bash Scripts by adding GUI
Too heavy? The executable I just built is 19K. I like it for localhost.

Did you wind up picking something else?

mcstafford··on Scrollbar Blindness
I've taken to using a fling motion on my Android devices since grabbing the position indicator in a scrollbar is comparatively inconvenient... but performance is fine.
mcstafford··on Pycopy – a minimalist and memory-efficient Python implementation
I'm a bit of a hermit at times, but this smells like "doesn't play well with others":

> I no longer contribute to upstream directly, due to upstream's failure to recognize me as a major contributor and uphold my copyright accordingly.

https://github.com/pfalcon/pycopy#fork-faq

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