Balooga

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by Balooga 1y ago
There is one reason. The DELETE absolutely must be idempotent. If it's not, then use POST.
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by Balooga 1y ago
> Fielding's paper doesn't provide a complete recipe for building self-discoverable APIs. But it does though. A HTTP server returns a HTTP response to a request from a browser. The request is a HTML webpage that is rendered to
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by Balooga 1y ago
The simplest case, and the most common, is that of a browser rendering the HTML response from a website request. The HTML contains the URL links to other APIs that the user can click on. Think of navigating any website.
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by Balooga 1y ago
Can the executive branch force arbitration via presidential order to limit the ability to form class action suites?
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by Balooga 1y ago
The problem I find happening too often is that everything works on the initial install. Then an update comes along and nukes sound. Then a few weeks later a round of updates fixes sound but breaks Bluetooth. Then a few weeks later an update
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by Balooga 1y ago
Africa runs on WhatsApp. Went to South Africa on vacation last year. United lost our luggage on the first leg of the trip, which then became South African Airways responsibility to sort out because they handled our final leg. I communicated
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by Balooga 1y ago
Between $3k and $30k to solve a single ARC-AGI problem [1]. Not sure if "100 runs" makes this comparable. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/openais-o3-model-might-be-...
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by Balooga 1y ago
The library would continue to work but may no longer be usable if other dependencies require a later version of "n" that the abandoned library is incompatible with. Ruby or Python runtimes are the classic example.
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by Balooga 2y ago
I have been involved in numerous "waterfall" software projects and the majority were successful. This is because the "waterfall" process was never as the Agile proponents describe it. Successful "waterfall" pro
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by Balooga 3y ago
I don't know. Maybe treat others as you yourself would like to be treated?
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by Balooga 3y ago
"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" -- https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
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by Balooga 3y ago
I wish I had the link to the YouTube video where a researcher described one of the main reasons why MYCIN failed. Because when you optimize for number of patients per doctor, it is a lot more cost effective to prescribe a broad spectrum ant
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by Balooga 3y ago
There are differences between the NMOS and CMOS implementations of the Z80. And an FPGA is neither NMOS or CMOS [1]. This is an interesting post describing the hoops one has to jump through to replicate an NMOS chip in an FPGA [2]. [1] htt
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by Balooga 3y ago
Imagine remotely bricking a fleet of fighter jets. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35983866
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by Balooga 3y ago
An interesting video on the GDC YouTube channel [1] on generative AI. The speaker states that generative AI doesn't raise the bar, rather it raises the floor. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOqLuWml0UY
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by Balooga 3y ago
Oh, I'm pretty sure someone(s) manages a massive GANTT chart over on the SpaceX side.
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by Balooga 3y ago
"Model Collapse" https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-...
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by Balooga 3y ago
IKR!
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by Balooga 3y ago
Not crazy. Well done! The thing with losing weight is that it doesn't differentiate between fat and muscle. So unless the body has a reason to keep the muscle around (the weight training) the body will absorb it (because of the calorie
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by Balooga 3y ago
> cutting out foods with added sugar, eating foods having a low glycemic index, eating a lot of chicken, whole vegetables, whole fruit >> This is great advice for most people, depending on what "whole" means. Am I allowe
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by Balooga 3y ago
I lost about 70lbs in about 10 months by cutting out processed foods, cutting out foods with added sugar, eating foods having a low glycemic index, eating a lot of chicken, whole vegetables, whole fruit. And by not juicing, and not drinki
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by Balooga 4y ago
That's for services rendered by the SFFD. But there are plenty of private ambulance companies that charge whatever they charge. You don't get to say "no thank you" if you are unconscious. For example, when my family were
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by Balooga 4y ago
This is a great podcast that discusses the topic of body size as it relates to sizing of clothes, sizing equipment for the military (cockpits, etc.); https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/
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by Balooga 4y ago
https://vimeo.com/771406693#t=85m30s Handmade Seattle 2022, Day One. Around ~1h25min in. I assume this is the video.
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by Balooga 4y ago
There are many different programming paradigms; Logic, functional, declarative, iterative, OOP, stack-based (if you consider Forth style languages their own paradigm). Each has its pros and cons. >> much more widely used and honestly
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by Balooga 5y ago
Could it have been this one? http://forums.indiegamer.com/ >> "When the original Dexterity Forums closed in 2004, Indie Gamer was born and a diverse community has grown out of a passion for creating great games.
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by Balooga 6y ago
Perhaps consider choosing background and font colors with a little more contrast? A white background and light grey text isn't the easiest on the eyes (mine at least).
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by Balooga 6y ago
I have a soft spot for the Usborne computer books from the 80s. https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin... Scroll down to the bottom of the page for links to the pdfs.
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by Balooga 6y ago
> Starting fresh (i.e. no experience with an IDE or vi/emacs) there is zero productivity benefit to choosing vi or emacs over a real IDE in this day and age. vi/emacs will definitely still be around in 20 years. Other editors m
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by Balooga 7y ago
Or the same sides of different coins.

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