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Background music is awesome

The US Navy's WW II floating drydocks in the Pacific were wild - whole battleships and aircraft carriers lifted up, fixed, and sent back out.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/the-massive-fl...

barryp

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Loved loved loved that show, a definite must-watch for a young nerd back in the late 80s. Thanks Stewart.

barryp

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I've been grabbing macOS builds of Chromium from the Playwright project (https://playwright.dev)

The download URL follows this template

    https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/chromium/{revision}/chromium-mac.zip

To find the current revision, look in

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/playwright/main/packages/playwright-core/browsers.json

Today I'm seeing

    {
      "name": "chromium",
      "revision": "1151",
      "installByDefault": true,
      "browserVersion": "132.0.6834.32"
    },

So I'd grab

    https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/chromium/1151/chromium-mac.zip

After unzipping, mark the file as runnable with

    xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Chromium.app

barryp

2 tahun yang laludiscuss

I got curious as what happened to the other 4. Wikipedia lists them as extrusion presses being scrapped in the 90's and 2021 in Maryland and Torrence CA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program

I wonder if they wore out?, something better came along?, or just no demand?

barryp

2 tahun yang laludiscuss

Yeah, I was just doing this last week with an old HP Elitedesk 800 G2.

This Youtube really helped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhq0bsWJEOw

And there's more here: https://www.meshcommander.com/meshcommander/tutorials

barryp

2 tahun yang laludiscuss

I think you're right about the first part...a passkey being tied to a single account on a single site.

But not the second: on Github for example you can have multiple passkeys for the same account.

barryp

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

Try "The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYdAT0v4DHs (Scott Manley)

https://www.lanl.gov/orgs/padwp/pdfs/2nwj2-03.pdf

barryp

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

Yes, absolutely this for the content-side.

Especially in the tech world, it would make sense for r/php to be hosted and run by the offical php.net guys, r/laravel by the laravel.com crew, r/vuejs by ... (you get it).

However it'd be hard for the subreddit hosters to manage which user-facing instances are allowed to post. If shitposters could just fire up new personal instances every time they were banned, then subreddit hosters would just be playing whack-a-mole and get fed up with it.

They'd almost have to require that users post from instances with good reputations - and now we've just reinvented e-mail's problem of forcing users into using one of the big providers in order to be able to send/post anything.

Too bad we can't have nice things

barryp

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

I thing orgs like that already exist, see: https://ripmedicaldebt.org/ and https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rip-medical-debt-forgiving-medi...

barryp

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

Yes, the have datacenters in Virginia and Oregon - seems to just be AMD servers though (no Intel or ARM).

Been using a couple VPSes in Oregon, pretty happy with them.

barryp

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

I had a huge amount of fun back in those days messing with QuakeWorld and Quake2, learned a ton of stuff.

One project was embedding a Python2 interpeter in QuakeWorld, along with a QuakeC->Python translator. The translator and the resulting Deathmatch and CTF games are here: https://github.com/barryp/qwpython

The other was embedding a JavaVM in Quake2, and instead of trying to translate the C game logic, we recreated the whole thing from scratch in an object-oriented Java fashion: https://github.com/barryp/q2java

Thanks to Carmack for opening up those old engines, that was a real education.

barryp

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

That'd be tedious and error-prone if had schemas with maybe dozens of tables. Now you've also got dozens of views to manage and keep in sync with the underlying tables.

I work with both MySQL and PgSQL, and not being able to reorder columns easily is one feature I really miss in PG.

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