@coynethedup Sounds like your company failed its SAN check.
Kian
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Best posts made by Kian
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RE: The game of "Spaghetti Servers"
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@DCoder "At least the lawyers are having fun" is probably not a phrase you want associated with the currency of the future(tm).
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Lorne Kates is a marketing executive
“To me, it’s a ridiculous argument that Rotten Tomatoes is the problem,” says a marketing executive at an independent film distributor. “Fuck you—make a good movie!”
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RE: Which one of you assholes did this?
@Lorne-Kates So someone decided to go "Fuck you, no one should give you money"? Spoilsports. It's such an elegant business model, too. Cuts right through the bullshit of most crowdfunding attempts.
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RE: We need to be more user hostile to help them embrace freedom!
The problem with ideologues is that they want a world where everyone cares about the things they care about with the same zeal they do. And that just won't happen. People care about a handful of things, and that's it. No one can care about everything, there's just not enough time in the world to champion every cause.
Which is not to say that I'm not grateful they exist, they care about things so I don't have to. Computers are very powerful, they control most of the modern world such that or current standard of living would be impossible without them, and keeping them open and accessible to everyone ensures that that power doesn't become concentrated in a few hands.
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RE: Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
@blek I thought that was a roundabout way of referring to himself. But then again I'm used to c++ and tracing pointer shenanigans.
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The Windows Store is TRWTF
Just had a very annoying shopping experience with Microsoft, and since I didn't want to rant at the poor support drones for something that was outside their power I came here instead.
So I got a PC, came with Windows Home, and had to upgrade to Pro. Now, this is a minor issue, but you can apparently get the upgrade for half of what the full license costs at the online store. To get the special price you have to go through Settings > Update & Security > Activation, and click on upgrade. That opens a special window (doesn't open in your default browser, I imagine it's Edge behind it) with the purchase option at half price. At least I didn't see the upgrade option when I was looking at the store. So that in itself is kind of a dick move.
But then I tried to buy it, and damn, I didn't know you could fail at running a store so badly. Let's skip the privacy and security issues around forcing me to link my credit card with my Microsoft account and not letting me just pay anonymously, that's par for the course. As I'm entering the details, the Country option in the billing address is fixed. And obviously, since I'm travelling abroad, it's fixed in the wrong country. I poke at the form a couple times, mess with my account and settings, but it's not having any of it, so I open a chat with Microsoft Support. To their credit, getting a hold of a real person on chat is pretty quick.
The support guy takes a look, and tells me the problem. I can't make purchases from a country other than the one my credit card is from. This virtual store, selling virtual goods, cares where I physically am at to decide if it will accept my card. Everyone else, from Amazon to the drugstore down the street, will accept my card with no issue, but not the Microsoft Store. Because Microsoft cares about my "privacy and security", according to the support guy. Their solution is to instead use PayPal. Which implies Microsoft feels PayPal is more secure than their store.
So I'm busy, I already spent more than the 15 minutes I meant to waste on the store, and go about the rest of my day until just now when I could get the time to give it another shot. I set my information up on PayPal, go to the Upgrade link, select PayPal as my payment option, and naturally it fails again, with the error message just saying "Please contact support" and a fairly long string of random letters and numbers to give to support.
So I call support again, tell the first guy the issue I had and paste the error message in the chat with the code, and I get transferred to billing. There the guy looks at a few things, and apparently the issue is now that my card's currency is ARS, while the store was showing me the price in USD. This despite the fact that the payment processor is PayPal, and that VISA knows how to convert from any currency to ARS just fine. Again, this is something that every other store, online and physical, handles without bothering me about it.
And the most stupid thing in all of this is that the guy tells me that to get the right store, I have to go into my computer's settings and change the Computer's home location to my country. Well, no, the most stupid thing is actually that this finally works. So for whatever reason, the online store is asking my computer where it's from, and if that doesn't match the billing address of the person paying for the software, the operation doesn't go forward. I just can't understand what was going through the mind of whoever came up with such a messed up way of going about things.
The one good thing about this is that I got to pay for the upgrade in my own currency. My country is going through a bit of a crisis right now, and their store was using an old conversion rate from a couple weeks ago that saved me about 20% of the price. I'm calling it the shithole country discount.
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RE: 256 is "oddly specific number"...
If they were doing it right, the headline would read:
WhatsApp increases group chat size limit to 9223372036854775807 people
It's not clear why WhatsApp settled on such an oddly specific number
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RE: What if we just didn't write the bugs, then we wouldn't have buggy software
@pie_flavor well, before formally verifying my code I would first need to have ever been given a spec that covered everything the program needed to do. I would then need the spec to not change between the time it was given to me and the time it is ready to be verified.
Hell, give me those two things and I would write bug free code even without formal verification methods.
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The ultimate ide
In a world that keeps trying to bring back the tools available in 1973, these guys are pushing the envelope and creating new ways to develop and share code.
Might try to contribute a wooden table plugin for it.
Latest posts made by Kian
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RE: Setting up a roaming local network
@Gąska Thanks, even without an OpenWRT device, seeing how it works is useful. After some research, I think I have a plan.
My local network would be built around a "Multi Wan" router. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/SafeStream-TL-R600VPN-Broadband-throughput-Concurrent/dp/B007B60SCG
From it, I would have a LAN port head to a wifi AP which will provide my "Home" wifi network. Potentially I could have a switch in the middle if I need more wired LAN ports. My devices will connect to this AP (and potentially switch, if not wireless).
A WAN port will connect to an outdoors wifi enabled device (using a poe injector so I don't need to think about powering the device at the end). This will serve as the "wifi modem", as @Gąska's post above describes. When I reach an area with a wifi network I want to use, I connect to the wifi modem, tell it to connect to the external wifi, and if needed click through whatever splash pages they have.
The other WAN port will connect to a 4G/LTE modem, like this: https://www.netgear.com/home/products/mobile-broadband/lte-modems/LB1121.aspx This part is a bit tricky, I would really like to be able to split the sim card and the modem/antenna, so I can have the modem/antenna "outside" at the end of the poe cable, and a sim slot "inside". I've only seen one device that did this, but it was crazy expensive and overengineered (space for like 8 SIM cards, plus another 2 on the modem/antenna). Still, most celullar antennas I've seen have like 5 meters of cable, and I just need the modem itself to be reachable, so I can work something out. And you don't change the SIM card often anyway.
With this, I would meet all my functionality goals. I could add other WAN interfaces in the same manner. Thanks to everyone that commented.
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RE: Setting up a roaming local network
@Rhywden That's just fine. I don't mind having to manually connect one device, so long as the rest of the network can then communicate through it. The worry would be if the external network somehow filtered the traffic from my other devices. But I don't think it should.
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RE: Setting up a roaming local network
@Rhywden I did have a concern about those, but could the "something" connecting to it be able to accept the terms or interact in whichever way the portal requires, and then share the connection? At this point I'm thinking of a pi or similar, smart enough to run a beefy networking suite. Maybe I could RDP to it, open a browser, and click through.
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RE: Setting up a roaming local network
@cvi said in Setting up a roaming local network:
The NanoPI had a useful /compact form factor, though.
Looks interesting. Does it support power over ethernet? Would be nice to cut down on cabling.
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RE: Setting up a roaming local network
Made a quick diagram of the topology, with what I don't know in orange:
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RE: Setting up a roaming local network
@Gąska Thanks. That's something I had considered, but I was hoping for some kind of device for two reasons:
One, I'd like to be able to keep the WAN wifi in an outdoors, exposed spot with good reception and connect with ethernet to the router. You can separate the antenna itself and connect to it with an appropriate antenna cable, but the antenna cable dampens the signal based on distance to the device. Putting a small wifi receiver of some kind up in an exposed place is easier than a laptop.
Two, once I figure that out, I would like to be able to have other "internet interfaces", such as a sim card modem, and some kind of priority routing in place (if wifi is available, use wifi, else switch to cellular), or enable both together to improve bandwidth, etc. Maybe add satellite to the mix later on, when even cellular is degraded.
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Setting up a roaming local network
I'm trying to set up a particular network type I haven't worked with before, and I'm having some trouble figuring out what I actually need.
In a traditional home network, you would have a router that connects through a modem to your ISP (usually via a dedicated WAN port in the router), and your devices would connect to the router through ethernet or wifi. You could change your ISP and your devices wouldn't care, they're still connected to the same local network.
In the setup I have in mind, I would like the local network to work the same, but the "modem" should connect to an external wifi that provides internet access (that is currently in range). To give an example use-case, imagine you have a number of devices in your car, and you don't want to bother entering wifi details every time you go to a new location that offers free wifi. So you set up a router in your car, your devices connect to it, then drive to starbucks and "somehow" (this is the bit I'm having trouble with) you tell the router to use the starbucks wifi to gain internet. Then you drive to mcdonalds, and tell the router to use that wifi instead. And so on. So you only enter the wifi details once, and all your devices immediately gain access to the internet.
I've been reading about APs, repeaters, and wifi bridges, but they don't seem to be quite what I have in mind. They all require that the local wifi share the same SSID as the wifi you are connecting to, essentially making all your devices belong to the external network. I want my local network to be separate, and the devices to be ignorant of whatever wifi I'm using to gain internet access.
So the question is, what kind of equipment and configuration do I need to achieve this?
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RE: Visual Studio WTF
@dcon said in Visual Studio WTF:
I certainly wasn't expecting a breaking change on a minor release. (It used to just issue a warning)
What do you mean breaking change? You are compiling with warnings turned on and set to treat warnings as errors, right? Then that never compiled and nothing was broken.
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RE: Arbitrage. With Pizzas!
@topspin said in Arbitrage. With Pizzas!:
Acting like you're not a business but just "sharing" rides doesn't fly.
As I understand it, Uber's argument is that they're just a platform used by the drivers and passengers to connect, instead of the drivers' employer. If a self employed driver used PayPal to collect fares, you wouldn't say they're PayPal's employee. Similarly, their argument seems to be that they just offer a service to the drivers.
The situation is some pretty dark shade of grey because the "service" they provide is about 90% of what's needed for the driver to actually be able to do the job, particularly getting customers. So getting dropped from the platform has pretty much the same effect as getting fired, and they have little in the way of negotiating power to set the fares.
Not sure how the payment structure is though. I do wonder how the perception would change if drivers had a system to make bids for rides when a passenger requests a trip, so that even if Uber provided a suggested price, it was the drivers choosing the actual amount. And if Uber had a system where they charge a fixed rate per month for access to the service, or some fee per ride.
I don't understand how Uber is losing so much money in the first place, though. Like, what are they spending the money on? I would have thought servers and programmers would be their main costs, but they're spending billions per quarter?
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RE: Arbitrage. With Pizzas!
@HardwareGeek said in Arbitrage. With Pizzas!:
Sure. So get the laws changed. Or engage in civil disobedience, knowing and prepared to face the consequences. But you can't just say, "I don't like that law, so I'm going to ignore it."
What do you think civil disobedience is? Does it depend on the level to which you advertise that you are breaking the law?