Chris Siebenmann

@thatcks

That cks. Overcommitted sysadmin, photographer, bicyclist, and other multitudes. I write a lot of words for a programmer.

Toronto
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Joined December 2011
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  1. 16 hours ago

    It's like no one tests their TBT directions with anything but simple routes and people who never have to divert from them (for long).

  2. 16 hours ago

    On the one hand, Garmin GPS bike computers don't have robust turn-by-turn directions. On the other hand, everyone else is apparently worse.

  3. Jul 31

    Good: my dialup modem PPP link still works. Bad: the modern web is in no way happy with a 28.8kbps link. But it's still faster than nothing.

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  4. Jul 31

    In closely related news, I am about to see if my dialup modem environment still works. Let's hope it does.

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  5. Jul 31

    So has discovered a creative way to discourage bug reports: report a software bug, get an immediate 'we must swap your unit' demand.

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  6. Jul 31

    TIL that the boutique ISP I use has a single Radius server. Or 'had', since apparently its hardware died & took out lots of the ISP's stuff.

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  7. Jul 29

    Well. That was an epic yak shave, which I'll have to write up somehow. For now let's just say there are hazards to a really old .

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  8. Jul 29

    If the Rust devs ever wonder why people like Go more, just compare the 'build from source' experience. One is fast & simple; one is neither.

  9. Jul 29

    My experience of building Rust from released source is a dumpster fire. The latest failure is my attempt to build Cargo to go with Rust.

  10. Jul 29

    I'll say this for containers: containerizing all our services would make it easier to spin up test instances. Building new VMs gets old.

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  11. Jul 28

    Blog post: My view on people who are assholes on the Internet (tl;dr: selective/'fake' assholes are still assholes)

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  12. Jul 26

    When they say "The camera adds 10 pounds" they're not kidding. Here's the effect with different camera lenses:

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  13. Jul 27

    Space is awesome:

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  14. Jul 27

    I was out biking earlier today in somewhat cooler conditions and even that was clearly into the 'no fun at all' heat territory.

  15. Jul 27

    I could in theory go for a group ride this evening. In practice it is currently 33 C (37 C humidex).

  16. Jul 27

    TIL that some people write blog entries and articles with the content text set to be centered by their HTML/stylesheet. My eyes hurt.

  17. Jul 26

    The good news: I don't need a new PC power supply. The bad news: I need a new DVD drive and a new power connector for it.

  18. Jul 22

    By the principle of 'pay for services you use to support them', I should probably start paying even if I can get away w/o it.

  19. Jul 22

    It wouldn't be a proper scorching hot day (hopefully Toronto's hottest this year) if we didn't have a machine room AC failure to go with it.

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  20. Jul 21

    So, Ubuntu 16.04 can't apply MySQL server updates if you have the server installed but have disabled it running. Good show, you lot.

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