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other_herbert··on The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
I have this dock.. I basically just use it for the power and DisplayPort to a 4k60 display... since USB is awful on it I have a USB hub I plug in to the notebook also...

So I guess calling that thing a “dock” is generous

other_herbert··on Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
They didn’t have to be slow and you can communicate between the two with a parameter in the applet tag “ mayscript” with that methods in the applet could be called from JavaScript. I used that for an invisible applet that would handle communication and drawing HTML to the browser.. kind. Spa like way back in the Wild West days when applets could nearly do anything.
other_herbert··on Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
Our product isn't at that scale, but because of the way our hosting environment is set up we have typically 8 machines at 3% usage over a week... Some of this is pushing back against the desire by management or others in your group to seem larger than really necessary... I guess I'm saying part of pushing back against waste is taking care of both sides...

I know if I tried to get our people to shut down half of our current infrastructure people (who have no real knowledge of any actual load numbers) would never allow that...

So much political nonsense... It's been a long week :)

other_herbert··on Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
Sharing your screen through slack... Zoom works though..

The screenshot thing just depends on the tool...

other_herbert··on Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight
Only if we wound and not kill
other_herbert··on Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it
This looks like a power cord that would be used for a welder that can run on 120 or 240v usually at about half the capacity when at 1/2 the voltage

Edit: nevermind since it was pointed out that this is only a 120v appliance end

other_herbert··on We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it
in our app we have a requirement that is similar.. I kicked and screamed and sent them spec documents from the NIST.. no one cared.. we have a max length of 10 chars... that SERIOUSLY hurts... 8 and 10 chars are our current requirements... plus some combination of numbers and special chars... WTFBBQ !!!!111...

hypothetically it's "ok" but c'mon..

other_herbert··on Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
Then have I got the queue for you!... LiLo...

:D

other_herbert··on Nessie – Lightweight Web Browser
They made word for the web! That text centric view sounds so much like the way word works _now_
other_herbert··on Why is America stuck with bad headlights?
My grandfathers 53 Chevy truck has them high beams or low beams, no one will be blinded by them
other_herbert··on Facebook says Apple’s iOS 14 changes could hurt its ad targeting
How will the children buy ice cream if we don't tell them where their local ice cream shop is!
other_herbert··on This Blog Is Now Running on Solar Power
A single pi4 has an impressive amount of processing power...

In my day job I'm a .net and react guy and I made a proof of concept for a next version of a possible product (tech preview, to show the people that their estimates were just insane - on the high side) on a pi 4, running in .net core on manjaro on my pi4.. this is a fairly intensive thing, using signalR with lots of messaging going on and cpu usage is ~10% at peak...

So.. my next task will be to run that on solar too :D

other_herbert··on Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from TC39
This is a case for events! The store opens when the owner unlocks the door..... but since you are in that nebulous time when it is "closed" the next "open" may never happen.. so maybe what really needs to happen is a giant disclaimer around times for things...

like in your search results for let's say some M-F 8-5 business... it would say "Hours: 8:00-17:00, Closed right now, in 72% of the cases, the next opening time is tomorrow morning at 8"

other_herbert··on Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes
Jwt works in this case... You issue a key to a known user.. In this case you create an API user (doesn't have to exist in a backing store) and set the expiration to a super short duration and validate it on the other end... You can also use this for API testing in unit/integration tests
other_herbert··on Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined”
The charger is just letting the load side know what it can supply... There are tons of cheap charges that are specified to supply 65 watts but will happily provide more than that until they melt or light the floor on fire..
other_herbert··on Tesla poised to reveal 'million-mile' battery as soon as this year
Lol so apparently this sounded like a good enough math problem to get a lot of people interested
other_herbert··on Tesla poised to reveal 'million-mile' battery as soon as this year
Ok so.. 100kwh = 350 miles ish

1,000,000 miles would need a capacity of 285mwh...

Or... 245 tons of TNT...

I don't want to be in the same zip code as that vehicle

other_herbert··on Tesla employees who don’t return to work could lose unemployment benefits
Sort of... If you are getting unemployment then your past employer notifies the state that you have been recalled (or something similar) they (the state) will deny your claims
other_herbert··on Don't Touch Ya Face
This is cool but the downside of having a dell xps is that the camera is basically always looking at my hands :D... works fine if I'm not using the keyboard :)... or if I got up and actually went to my desk and that sort of thing..
other_herbert··on Coronavirus Lockdown in Wuhan Is a 'Living Hell'
There's also the potluck dinner with what sounds like all of the city...

https://www.ibtimes.sg/focus-wuhan-potluck-dinner-cpc-fires-...

(midway down the article)

I think we may not have even heard about the virus if not for this

Edit: relevant portion:

Ill-advised potluck dinner helped spread the virus

Another major perceived lapse of the Wuhan party authorities was their decision to let a large public feast go ahead in January despite the fact that there were clear signs that an epidemic was gathering pace. The local government had controversially allowed nearly 40,000 families to gather and share food as part of the Chinese New Year festival even as deaths from the virus were increasing.

It later turned out that at least 10 cases of coronavirus infection were reported from among the participants of the feast on January 18, raising fears that the event must have accelerated the spread of the infection in Wuhan.

other_herbert··on U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams
Anecdotally I've had a fairly large uptick in the frequency of spam calls lately... I don't think it's anything you've done
other_herbert··on Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
It may just be that once this exists then you end up in the "software engineer who uses hn " bucket and will just see adds for ssds and processors and coding conferences... A segment that is really hard to identify may turn into a group that is generally easy to identify...
other_herbert··on Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels
Maybe this was the goal... Higher quality vector memes!
other_herbert··on Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft
I remember going to a small electronic supplier for custom and mainly military things around 1999... The assembly folks would not waste time on getting a resistor and several other parts of they fell and at the end of the day the sweepings would be sold in a miscellaneous bag of parts
other_herbert··on Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages
man tough crowd :)... I thought more of you would've gotten the Futurama reference ... Fear of a bot planet.. I think..

edit no, the one with the evolution of robots and such

other_herbert··on Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages
Show us this, "the wheel"
other_herbert··on Loudness war
I think this is one of the things driving the vinyl resurgence. Albums that release on vinyl tend to less alteration to the dynamic range... Ymmv I've not listened to everything out there :-]
other_herbert··on Don't Shave That Yak (2005)
I think the idea in the analogy would be to just use a bucket and the broken hose as a good enough solution... Like find alternatives if the right path ends in a yak
other_herbert··on Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
Yes.. I had made a form that was scanned and all the metadata for the page was stored in datamatrix at the bottom.. With a laser printer and a good scanner you can reliably put a lot of data in there...
other_herbert··on Commit messages are not titles (2015)
Thankfully (and also regrettably) in the org I work in now we don't have a pr standard yet... But we do use jira some of our people commit with just the bug prefix and number and not at least the title.. I really don't want to have to go paste that into the jira URL (usually more than one) to see if what you think is the issue is really the issue... Having at least the description for what you fixed helps...

Maybe it's time to dust off the "go to hell hat" and start demanding more info from the submitter...

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