I had a ddos in 01, took the entire cluster down for a fairly popular website.

Traffic distribution was very wide; everything was on port 80.

All the traffic would come in, smack the front page, then disappear.

Turns out marketing had purchased an ad on MSN which was a hot search engine at the time, we were supposed to be the top link for any search with “school, education, classes, tutoring”. MSN accidentally made us the top link for EVERY search term. My T1 and my BGP frame connection were balls to the wall for 3 days.

OBV, this isn’t marketing, but they’re not a great target. No one’s getting any money from it, They don’t have any stiff corporate competition.

It depends on what type of person designed the circuit and what type of person you are.

Ergonomics: The switch closest to the door first, then mid, then far, figuring the unknown user would click the switch closest, a skilled electrician would start there. However, it’s not unreasonable for the electrician to ask the owner, so this is a hit-or-miss approach.

Installation efficiency: The installer refused to mark any of the lines and instead hooked them up at random, flip in any order, when you find the right one, return the others to the original state.

time efficiency: the energy cost to flip all three switches is minimal and you’re only going in once, flip all three at the same time. you’ve done maximum effort and maximum time savings.

Error reduction, binary counter, all combinations tested in case of chained switching

Debugging: binary counter, followed by checking the lightbulb, possibly swapping for another if one is nearby, checking all the other switches near the room, breakers, power to the structure, and asking an occupant for assistance as a last resort.

Disaster recovery: locate a flashlight or use your phone’s torch/flashlight function.

Ahh crap, other room.

1. ask an occupant

2. shove a penny in the socket behind the light bulb and listen for a breaker to pop

3. turn all three on

4. slide your cell phone under the door with video recording on, stomp on the floor hard every time you flip a switch

5. turn all the switches through a binary counter looking for one that seems to do nothing.

or fingersAtTheEndOfTheFeetNotToBeConfusedWithTheOnesOnTheHands

yeah, i’m working my way back down to jukebox, whatever the fuck this all is, is far too intense

/s

So it’s just a clone of Wells Fargo?

If I have to switch to cash I fucking will

That’s becoming a taller order every year, at least in the US. For a lot of services, Western Union is the last bastion of paying in cash.

often mistaken for disposable vapes

How much grant money can we get to test the aerodynamic nature of dogs.

In 1991, I worked at a Christmas tree farm. They had an ancient tube stereo with an 8 track and one single Christmas tape. Volume at 11.

In 1994, I got a job at a newly built Staples. They had no internet and they chouldn’t get their satellite connection to work, so they sent us a commercial song box that contained an 8 track of pop songs from the 70’s. To this day, I can’t listen to Sweet Home Alabama.

These look shady AF too :)

Worse, he’s picked up a nasty through-hole habit.

You also need to cook 2,3 in this state, or you just crush all the cells in your mouth and end up with 4.

Spending disposable money on hobbies is fine

interesting

A link in the middle of the article leads to a rather detailed explanation of why they’re rewriting binder. Pretty decent read.

The hardware itself is probably already a loss leader.

If they wanted it to launch with Half-Life 3, they would have had to start working on it like five years ago.

I been thinking about donating plasma on the side just to get one of those.

The problem is the actual return on time is poor. I could probably make more of her hour walking around, offering to shovel people’s driveways when it snows.

Maybe.

I think the pushback stems from a bunch of different things.

It’s genuinely bad at some things. asking it to make a clock out of CSS and HTML is mostly awful.

Historically, it’s been really bad at everything. So if someone hasn’t done a serious dive on it recently, they’re going to have the impression that it’s even worse than it really is.

A lot of people don’t understand how to use it, a lot of times it’s like working with a monkey’s paw. You’ve got to pre-guess all the things that could go wrong and keep adding detail until it has no choice but to do it right. And even then, you have to come back and do iterations sometimes.

It’s making a bunch of oligarchs extremely wealthy, for no good reason, on the backs of the working class, while we can barely buy RAM. At the same time, they’re burning through a hell of a lot of natural resources.

They’re shoving options and features down our throats and making us pay for them even if we don’t want to use them.

Some people are genuinely scared that corporations will use it to replace skiled labor with unskilled labor, which they are.

I have seen advanced versions rewrite an entire cross-platform basic interpreter in a couple of tries.

I lost a rather complicated Python program I wrote to manage projectors for my Halloween display. I had it make a framework. I went through all of my different options and modes one at a time and explained exactly how they needed to work. I recreated a couple of weeks of work in a couple of hours and added a significant number of features.

It’s crap like make that admin page look good on a cell phone that’s absolutely bananas. That’s a feature I would never have the time to sit down and work on because it’s not that big of a deal. But it would literally be a day of trial and error on multiple test devices for me to write it myself.

Would it be better received if it were marketed differently? Probably a little bit. But not beyond the things that I wrote about. It would be a subtle improvement in visibility I feel.

They’re doomed to rust in peace eventually.

There are way too many completely compatible alternatives.

ehh, let the votes sort em out :)