Dunedan

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by Dunedan 4y ago
In the past I used reveal.js with its Markdown plugin to create slides for presentations. While that worked somewhat it always felt like working against reveal.js. Also their default of editing the index.html and other files in the source c
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Some customers got such an email, but not all of them (also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34255721 ). The only email received by people in my org was the email pointing to the post-mortem, which went out on 2022-0
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Which is in fact what they did (or even worse they didn't delete them at all): https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-security-alert-rotat...
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> On January 4, 2023, at 18:30 UTC, we shut down production access to nearly all employees, limiting access to an extremely small group for operational issues. Shouldn't that have been the case from the beginning? Why did more than
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Check out pip-tools [1] which does exactly that, albeit in a slightly more polished way. [1]: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools
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by Dunedan 4y ago
While featuring a smaller screen the 11" MacBook Air wasn't smaller than the 12" MacBook! Here are their sizes for comparison: MacBook Air 11" 300 mm x 192 mm x 17 mm 1,08kg MacBook 12"
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by Dunedan 4y ago
One killer feature for me aside from usability for less-technical people are comments. While comments are not be necessary for certain types of websites, I consider them essential for anything you might call a blog.
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by Dunedan 4y ago
As USB-C becomes more and more ubiquitous, I'd love to see every device with a USB-C port and a display to support incoming DisplayPort alternate mode. That would be a worthy successor to Apples target display mode and would offer a gr
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> I hate metered API billing, and I don't want to use it. > Instead, I want to do credit-based billing: you buy credits, and when you get to 0 credits, you are cut off (with an auto-refill option for the "metered billing exp
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> The plant will operate two 9 1/2-hour shifts per day, down from two 11 1/2-hour shifts currently Isn't that more likely to be a measure to improve employee retention instead of a sign of a possible demand issue as sugges
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by Dunedan 4y ago
As the algorithm used in the example is straight-forward I figured that using UNIX command line tools might be an even simpler way to implement it. Here is what I came up with: time cat kjvbible_x100.txt | tr "[:upper:] " &quo
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> That is of course an easy solution but I would argue that this is just throwing more resources at the problem. Not a very impressive optimization. You could say the same about the existing implementation as that reads the whole file in
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> Nope, the GIL will make that useless. In Python yes. I missed that. The Go implementation would still benefit from multiple threads, wouldn't it?
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> I haven’t shown an optimized Python version because it’s hard to optimize Python much further! (I got the time down from 8.4 to 7.5 seconds). It’s as fast as it is because the core operations are happening in C code – that’s why it so
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by Dunedan 4y ago
That's surprising to me, given how much effort AWS put into emulating old instances types using newer instances to still be able to offer instances with the characteristics of old instance types to customers. [1] Do you have additional
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by Dunedan 4y ago
If you work directly in the source repository that works actually really well on Github (if everybody works on its own fork instead, you're unfortunately out of luck). When opening a pull request, you just select the branch the pull re
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Google not so much, as they still accumulate losses with GCP. [1] [1]: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252523200/Google-results...
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by Dunedan 4y ago
How is warning that the company can't afford losses forever a false peril? It's just saying out loud what everybody knows anyway.
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Somebody on Reddit recently did collect what one gets for donating blood in different areas of Germany: https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/xoqyay/aufwandsentsch%C... What you can see from that is that
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by Dunedan 4y ago
There is also `parameterized` [1] if you want to do it by using decorators. [1]: https://pypi.org/project/parameterized/
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> This makes two partitions, one for GRUB to inject legacy BIOS boot code into and one for the ESP. Why do you still need the legacy BIOS boot logic?
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Out of curiosity: Could you please elaborate what such challenging environments can be?
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Up to a certain degree they work, as humans can drive in fog or heavy rain/snow as well. If visibility is so bad that a human wouldn't be able to drive, I wouldn't want to sit in a self-driving car either, no matter if it doe
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Proper naming of variables/functions is important, but would only tell a part of the story. In the example you'd loose the context why that port might be already in use. Using comments instead of commit messages is of course alway
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by Dunedan 4y ago
AWS supports up to Python 3.9 right now: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/08/aws-lambd...
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> A good example was the broadcast industry. Entire branches of that industry doing post-production, colour, transcoding, and whatnot moved it all out to AWS. After price hikes, they wanted to go back to running their own services. Do yo
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Various Linux Kernel WLAN Security Issues (RCE/DOS) Found(lwn.net)
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> Have you taken a look at the website? No, I haven't, because the parent comment was referring to registering these domains, not about what they serve. I also don't want to judge whether whatever happened at that C3 was justif
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> You don't get a timestamp from nowhere without knowing the kind of time it references: local or UTC or fixed to anything like client time. Imagine you have a software which deals with CSV files sent by clients. Clients are interna
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by Dunedan 4y ago
CloudWatch at least lets you choose in which timezone to display datetimes. Other AWS services don't let you choose and don't even show in which timezone they display datetimes, which is somewhat infuriating to me, when I'm i

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