mlhpdx

Having lived in the PNW all my life, and worked closely with our friend Doug (the fir trees), this article brings up old mental images of otherwise healthy needles with browned (dead) tips in the crow…

My people. My first paid programming was hand translating a BASIC app to C. I did it on the same paper the original was printed on (green/white continuous feed). When I thought I had it right I w…

The two characterizations of people in the introduction are timeless? > A person with a primary interest in software will oftentimes be the person who purchases a kit computer because the kit minim…

I chose to ignore the cost savings and just enjoy the tale of migration. It’s a good one.

I’ll have to take a look at this as a way to move off my homegrown serverless email on AWS. Doesn’t look like it has parity with being able to send email from many subsystems safely (with delay and ve…

I dug up my original AWS account confirmation email from 2006 a while (years) back. Now I need to go find it again to see if I was earlier.

We have a moderately complex set of services we deploy with some separation of application code and infrastructure. No application code that runs on VMs is deployed as part of the infrastructure IaC -…

Run it over WireGuard? I have this setup — cloud hosted private DNS protected by NOISE/ChaCha20. Only my devices can use it, because only they are configured as peers.

Does that mean running your own DNS in the cloud is a better answer? This is what I do.

What would they run on these days? I mean other than my old Gateway 2000 dual Pentium Pro with 32MB of RAM and dual booting BeOS and NT4?

Yes — talking and hearing/reading about it. I don’t fault folks for being excited when first getting into ut, but it’s rare to hear anything new said. And what is new is increasingly niche and un…

If you read the history you’ll see the appropriate word is “restarted” the EV revolution. It was on and off again in a slow march to the point that allowed Tesla to exist. I’m not diminishing the role…

It’s simply satire, not “truth”. The statement doesn’t claim any fact: it’s a hypotheical not unlike a “based on real events” movie/book/etc that never quotes or attributes specific actions …

American raised by a Brit here, and I was literally just doing this during lunch out. I consider the upside down fork just plain torture.

This was one of the projects students did when I helped teach APCS to high schoolers as a TEALS volunteer (FracCalc). Some of the implementations went way overboard and it was so much fun to watch and…

That paragraph doesn’t make it clear (to me) that it’s a snapshot with incremental updates. If that’s what it is. Sorry if my obtuse read offended. I just figured it was edge cached HTML, and less lik…

Static web content and dynamic data? > The archive currently spans from 2006-10 to 2026-03-16 23:55 UTC, with 47,358,772 items committed. That’s more than 5 minutes ago by a day or two. No big deal…

yes, yes. I have seen that abomination. Not class legal. lol

Indeed. The really interesting bit is that the power required is high enough that the wind can be used to cover distances far greater than a fuel tank. And, given their weight nuclear reactors don’t f…

That's not LinkedIn, it's British.

I’m not sure it’s mentioned anywhere here, but it’s likely that this boat will set the world’s record for speed around the globe — if it circumnavigates, and it is hard to imagine it won’t. I’m not su…

in those wonderful little square boats the reason for tipping the hull was to reduce the amount of weight it surface and dragged through the water. It was still floating, being held above the bottom b…

it’s been “flying” as long as I can remember. It’s the distinction between that and floating. A traditional boat relies on buoyancy to keep it away from the murky depths, while these boats rely on buo…

It’s difficult to imagine executives citing underperformance as the reason for layoffs as opposed to clinging to the AI storyline. The risks blaming the economy would entail also means AI is a general…