CodesInChaos

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by CodesInChaos 6d ago
In my experience public torrents often die as they grow older. It doesn't help that BitTorrent V1 makes long term seeding annoying, and BitTorrent V2 is almost never used.
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by CodesInChaos 7d ago
Many safe languages still suffer from integer overflows. For example in Rust and C# you can pick between an exception being thrown, or silent wrapping when an overflow happens.
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by CodesInChaos 7d ago
ParadeDB's implementation builds on the Tantivy crate, which predates AI coding.
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by CodesInChaos 9d ago
A referral program can have two very different purposes: 1. A trusted employee vouches for a potential employee they know personally or worked with before. 2. A way to collect applicants as an alternative or to complement job ads on page. T
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by CodesInChaos 9d ago
I remember a mechanism where you could redeem a single-use invite token, which would return another single-use token when consumed, which could then be chained idefinitely. Local CCC groups where given a few such tokens to get their members
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by CodesInChaos 9d ago
How difficult is it to get a ticket as an outsider nowadays? I remember publicly available tickets selling out in like 3.5 seconds a few years ago.
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by CodesInChaos 10d ago
Though many use network block storage (e.g. EBS), which is significantly slower than an SSD.
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by CodesInChaos 10d ago
I'm surprised that a variable length encoding like this is usable directly as in memory format and not just as storage/transfer format.
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by CodesInChaos 11d ago
The appointment of the commission president is quite different from how the German chancellor is determined: 1. The majority of representatives in Bundestag represents (up to rounding issues) the majority of voters. 2. Parties advertise the
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by CodesInChaos 11d ago
How does that handle concurrency (e.g. updates being atomic, conditional PUT) and data consistency after a crash? Getting that right over generic backends sounds challenging, to say the least.
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by CodesInChaos 15d ago
Which one specifically? The ones I found looked like unmaintained throw-away experiments.
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by CodesInChaos 19d ago
I think this should include benchmarks zstd with larger windows and long range mode. I wouldn't be surprised if the window they used is smaller than an individual version tar file, which would prevent useful compression.
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by CodesInChaos 23d ago
Namecoin (.bit) was an attempt to create naming system without a central authority using a blockchain. But from what I remember, they fucked up the pricing function and it got overrun by domain grabbers.
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by CodesInChaos 23d ago
.org almost got screwed in 2019 too: > In April 2019, ICANN proposed an end to the price cap of .org domains and effectively removed it in July in spite of having received 3,252 opposing comments and only six in favor. A few months later
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by CodesInChaos 23d ago
They altered the deal. Now they are altering it further.
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by CodesInChaos 23d ago
Surprisingly the public suffix list doesn't list `*.name`. So they're indeed not properly isolated from each other. https://publicsuffix.org/ edit: apparently not all second level domains in .name are public suffi
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by CodesInChaos 24d ago
Which would have terrible performance for range requests starting late in a large file. For files that are frequently accessed that way, this could be prohibitive. You could split the file into independently compressed blocks as well. But t
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by CodesInChaos 24d ago
I'm confused by how this affects range requests. Without compression, those can be easily satisfied by reading the relevant part of the cached complete file. But how are they handled now? The article claims "range requests remain
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by CodesInChaos 25d ago
It's an alternative client app for the google store.
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by CodesInChaos 25d ago
For me anonymous use of Aurora never really worked, and with a google account it still works.
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by CodesInChaos 28d ago
Are the obstacles technical or legal? I vaguely recall most wikis on wikia being CC-BY-SA, but it's been a while.
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by CodesInChaos 29d ago
> Which was extra nice because I had no idea I was in fact charged for the bloatware, but I still got ~50€ for it on top of the OS license price. I actually expected those to pay for being pre-installed, offsetting or possibly even excee
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by CodesInChaos 29d ago
The currently mainstream payment solution hurt privacy even more than the current ad tracking. We'd need something like GNU Taler for that. I wonder what the world would look like if the Chaum E-Cash - Microsoft Windows cooperation had
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by CodesInChaos 29d ago
BTW Google had another go at forcing Treacherous Computing on people. This time it's a reCAPTCHA successor, which requires the user to scan a QR code using a Google/Apple owned phone.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
An IBAN can be used to take money via SEPA direct debit.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
That wouldn't make the decoy text look plausible to the AI.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
That, and how it's rendered needs to be separate from the value the the input gets. Just like `<option value="123">John Doe</option>` or ideally even rich html like `<option value="123"><sm
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
What I'd like to see are searchable drop-downs (not to be confused with text input with suggestions). And the date/time picker controls are too limited for many applications.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
Unlogged tables still support MVCC and keep old versions of tuples around until they're garbage collected.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
In our multi-tenant e-commerce application we handled it like this: * Metadata for each file is stored in the database * The application accesses files through an abstraction based on that metadata, and doesn't care if the actual file

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