CodesInChaos

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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
My rule is "use a single database for as many of you persistence needs as possible". Often Postgres is a good choice for that database, but many other general purpose DBMSs will work just as well. In my previous company we used Mo
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
One specialist and a group of generalists is often enough. Especially if you are allowed to contact the specialist outside normal working hours in rare emergencies.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
I wouldn't put auch limitations in the system prompt. A mix of fine-tuning and out-of-band detection appears to be a better fit.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
> apparently the Japanese did not like Unicode's tendencies towards Aristotelian essentialism Do you mean Han Unification? I.e. that conceptually equivalent characters which are written differently in Japan and China received only a
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
> just use SSE And then the user opens your website in a handful of tabs, and everything breaks because having enough open SSE connections blocks ordinary http requests to that origin. You can avoid that by using a shared worker for all
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
It's amusing how top law students become glorified narrators/voice actors. Had to visit one of these every time we raised capital. He never did more than read the text aloud and perhaps correct a typo. I don't want to know ho
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
They have google.com, which is the brand they use towards customers. The Alphabet brand is little more than a stock ticker.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
Which gTLDs are reliable besides the classics (com, net, org,...)? By that I mean that the TLD owner won't screw you over a few years from now, for example by raising prices? I kind of like the idea to use .com for the marketing site,
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
I understand using http on localhost and in some cases local domains accessible within the LAN. But I don't see much point in using http for public domains, especially since browsers apply many restrictions to insecure origins ( http:&
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
A lot of things go up forever, as long as you denominate them in an inflationary currency ;-)
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
Yes, accounting/tax related stuff is still annoying. But there are a few more advantages: * Employee share options are taxed when they sell the shares, not when issuing the option (regardless of strike price) nor when exercising it. *
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
I really hope "EU Inc." will reduce the pain in that area.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
They can't be as bad as KfW, right?
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
1. You can move those folders to other locations. I used to do that in the Windows XP days. 2. They are required because applications can ask Windows "what is the 'music' folder" and get back the path. Most of those appl
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
The patent office applies a much lower "non-obviousness" threshold than how a technical person would interpret that word.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
It's closer to a trojan horse talking to its C&C server than a typical RPC scenario. In particular it's the server telling the client to execute arbitrary code in response to a request from the client.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
Businesses know no shame, if applying for a trivial patent is useful, they will of course do so. The real problem is patents which are trivial and/broad being granted.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
Unfortunately there are many patents that simply combine an old thing with a new thing in the obvious way. Since the new thing is new, the combination is "novel".
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
Even if you only consider the language itself, semantics, especially the type system, are more important than syntax.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
You could argue that Musk spent 44 billions buying that.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
When you spend many billions buying GPUs, you want to maximize utilization, and not turn them off during the night.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
Assuming you're on a filesystem that supports reflinks (Btrfs, XFS), `--clone` is an interesting option as well. Though assuming you create a volume backup before starting migration, hardlinks don't really have downsides and will
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
> Then throw out the crappily built product, with years of tech debt and cruft, and rebuild it leanly Which products have they rebuilt? I mostly hear about them selling the existing product at a higher price while reducing the size of th
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
You could also phrase it as "Bending Spoons is where dying products go".
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
That's what they meant by "in boat displaces its weight in water". While it's in the boat, the amount of water it displaces weighs as much as the bowling ball. While it's in the water, it displaces the volume of the
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
A couple of games that might not quite meed the definition, but fit the aesthetic or themes: Tron 2.0, Prey (2017), Ghostwire: Tokyo
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
A dip increases the speed (decreasing travel time), but also the distance to travel (increasing travel time). Which of those effects dominates depends on the shape of the dip. The hill decreases speed and increases distance, so it's al
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
I believe most major versions of postgres only change metadata, so the downtime only scales with the size of the schema (usually small) and not the size of the data.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
I'm sure if somebody hired him for a pentest it'd cost more per vulnerability found.
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by CodesInChaos 2mo ago
> but the fact that there are three waves in the attack shows the level of coordination and pre-planning that was involved in making it happen. That's a strange interpretation. If it was planned well, why weren't all affected a

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