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arcticgeek··on Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
I find taking the rabbit around the tree twice also works well.
arcticgeek··on IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
I guess this shows us how overvalued HCP IPO was.
arcticgeek··on The analog computer for the Nike missile system (2001)
we have multiple former Nike missle sites here in Anchorage. in a modern day city park, you can check out a missle stabilizer on interpretive display at the former launch command center turned cross country ski chalet. there are doors in that building that are like time portals to tha past. you go through an unassuming modern commercial steel door from a room where kids gather before weekly lessons into a world of concrete hallways with enormous blast doors welded open and narrow staircases leading down to lower levels with remnants of launch and other equipment.
arcticgeek··on Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans
yep, agreed. I know and have talked to some brokers about this in the past, and also closed a few deals as both a buyer and a seller. The commission was split evenly in my experiences but I should have said ‚typical‘ even if only as a starting point in negotiations.
arcticgeek··on Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans
It is customary, at least in some locales (US-AK), that the commission is split evenly between the agents.
arcticgeek··on BMW drops controversial heated seats subscription
ridiculous. it should be enough that a person chose your brand with their wallet in the first place. no one wants to rent your features.
arcticgeek··on Building a front end framework – Reactivity, composability with no dependencies
One example of a framework that takes this approach is Apache Royale. It’s a reboot of the AS3 language and component library that works like Adobe/Apache Flex but compiles to JS targeting the browser runtime. This refactored Flex was rebuilt from the ground up with a Pay As You Go (PAYG) philosophy where components are composed of „beads“ on a strand that enable composition of the functionality you need rather than the kitchen sink.
arcticgeek··on PFAS can suppress white blood cells’ ability to destroy invaders
I loved „Glide“ floss for years because it worked so well. Was totally dismayed when I finally put together why it did. I‘ve switched to Dr. Tung‘s now which is made of natural plant-based materials and works even better than traditional flosses.
arcticgeek··on GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
We used to call it Visual Source Shredder because of how easy it was to corrupt the database.
arcticgeek··on GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
Yes, that’s actually the thing about branching in SVN. Everyone remembers how awful it was 10+ years ago under SVN 1.4 and earlier but has improved immensely since then. Combined with modern client tooling, i.e. TortoiseSVN, problems with merging are almost non-existent for a long time.

I certainly wouldn’t call SVN modern but it’s very well maintained and has never lost code on me. Many git-like features also exist now such as being able to stash some changes in order to pivot to something else for a bit. Except for the central server being a problem for some use-cases, SVN just works.

arcticgeek··on Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often
I‘ve really only had experience with Supermicro BMCs but I totally believe you that there are lots of crufty OOB environments in the wild which are hard to work with. While it’s true that applets don’t work anymore (probably a good thing), and therefore the experience isn‘t as integrated or seemless as it once was, it’s a practical matter to just log into the BMC and click on the console preview, using the JNLP file to launch the console via OpenWebStart as an independent application outside of the browser. One other thing is that the self signed certs from these older implementations are often expired and therefore throw an extra warning or two when you launch these interfaces, but you just click through them and carry on.
arcticgeek··on Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often
We have various Supermicro boards in production at work with BMCs from 2018 or so. The ATEN iKVM on them works just fine with a recent OpenJDK 11 and OpenWebStart. I’ve found that all the features work including mounting ISOs and doing remote upgrades. No need to whine about installing anything ancient or spreading ridiculous Java FUD.
arcticgeek··on PFAS “Forever Chemicals” and Nordic Ski Wax
So is the regular Swix CH7 hydrocarbon wax a C6 or a C8? Should I still be handling these with gloves?
arcticgeek··on The Evolution of the Male Falsetto
It's disappointing there was no mention of King Diamond!
arcticgeek··on Zero Rupee Note
Zero bucks given.
arcticgeek··on What UX designers can learn from 1990s Japanese video games
All your base are belong to us
arcticgeek··on Young Saudis See Cushy Jobs Vanish Along with Nation’s Oil Wealth
Sounds like Alaska in the near future.
arcticgeek··on Single-file public-domain/open source C libraries with minimal dependencies
Another good source of small utility libraries is CCAN.

List of available modules: https://ccodearchive.net/list.html

arcticgeek··on Flipboard releases React Canvas
It's funny to watch the world very slowly reinvent Adobe Flex.