TheFlyingFish

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by TheFlyingFish 2y ago
Wasn't sshuttle created by the now CEO of Tailscale?
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
I don't know, I think pinch-to-zoom + pan is a pretty decent way of dealing with pages that have more complex layouts than basic document, but were designed using e.g. tables for layout. Given that most non-trivial pages would have bee
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
(assuming that we're talking about the AWS serverless functions) Like everything else, it's situational. Upsides of lambdas are ease of deployment (no need to worry about servers, that's kind of the whole point of serverless)
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
You may be interested in Mojo: https://modular.com/Mojo Kind of a crazy project but the "just go ahead and import any Python module and we'll embed the VM in your binary" approach is interesting, at least.
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
I have trouble imagining that more than 2-3 fingers can be realistically used for input at once. For one, you normally have to use one hand to hold the phone, which uses up 3-4 fingers. And to enable frequent multi-touch gestures you'd
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
Sadly this isn't just the case for scientific Python. E.g. some widely-used web library (I forget which) recently switched to using a Rust implementation of TLS, and suddenly you needed a working Rust tool chain available to install it
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
This is just my personal opinion, but I think YAML is more intuitive but has a lot more footguns and gotchas, while TOML is more consistent but less obvious (ironically, given the name.) This may contribute to YAML's popularity in CI s
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
When I use the datalist element with a text input, Chrome shows an arrow on the right and the list drops down when you focus the input. Firefox, however, shows neither until you start typing, at which point it suggests just those items that
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
Wouldn't this include passwords? People lose those all the time. The proof will be in the pudding, but I suspect that widespread adoption of passkeys will make account lockout less common, rather than more, for the vast majority of peo
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
Caddy has been my default choice recently: https://caddyserver.com Among other things, it features automatic TLS via ACME and dead-simple configuration for my most common use cases: namely, serving a directory of static files an
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
Oh man, early Slack was great. Back in ~2015 or so I submitted a ticket about something trivial (why I could no longer hide the menubar or something, I forget), but just for fun I did it all in stilted archaic language like you'd see i
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
Interesting, my dyslexic sister absolutely swears by Dyslexie (a similar font) and has set her Kindle to use it all the time. I wonder if there are different sub-variants of dyslexia that work on different principles?
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
The obvious thought that occurs to me is UI - how are users going to access this hypothetical application? If it's via the web, then you'll need a whole setup for generating HTML, and doing that in SQL sounds extremely painful. If
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by TheFlyingFish 3y ago
As in, write your entire application in SQL? That sounds like a nightmare of epic proportions. Every time I've tried to use SQL for anything more general-purpose (like string manipulation, say) I've wanted to gouge my eyes out by
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Seems unlikely to work given (if I understood correctly) the main direct consumer is Babel, another OSS project that is known to have had trouble with funding in the past. If he starts asking for license fees, Babel eill just be forced to m
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
I can second that. Parsec is the best remote-access software I've used, bar none. The lack of Linux hosting is an unfortunate downside.
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Nim is garbage-collected, actually. It has an option to disable garbage-collection (though I thought there was talk of removing that at some point) but then it just leaks memory, it doesn't have a comprehensive system for GC-less memor
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AI Is Not the Problem(stilldrinking.org)
12 points by TheFlyingFish 4y ago|0 comments
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Couldn't agree more. His series on networking is also fantastic. Hugely leveled-up my understanding of how computers talk to each other. It's almost Euclidean how he builds it up, with each segment applying the principles from the
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Materials Breakthroughs Pave Path to 2D Transistors(tomshardware.com)
1 points by TheFlyingFish 4y ago|0 comments
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
To me, the #1 reason to use YAML rather than anything else is if you need to embed complex multi-line strings in your document. This is a practical necessity in CI systems: you always end up with at least a little bit of shell scripting to
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
I do a very similar version, minus the pepperoncini. One thing that I've found can really take it up a notch is to add just a touch of soy/worcestershire sauce, maybe about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of each. IMO it adds a nice
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
I'm guessing this is "Do-nothing scripting: The key to gradual automation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367 Although the example uses Python, rather than shell.
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Ah yes, the "advertiser's gigabyte". Sort of like a "baker's dozen" but in reverse.
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
The image for Noemi appears to have been removed now: all I see is a generic abstract pattern. Looks like a PowerPoint slide background or something.
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Is this possible with Yubikeys? I'd be very interested if so. "Two identical Yubikeys" is something I've wanted for a long time.
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Yeah, they get a lot of flak for that from HN. Doesn't bother me personally, but I can see why it would be a dealbreaker for some people. On the other hand, I sympathize with their decision to just not have to worry about storing passw
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Not GP, and I can only answer for myself, but: Personally, I use it to connect my home devices as if they were always together on the same LAN, even when they're not. E.g. Raspberry Pi, home NAS, "home" server that's act
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Depends on whether you're talking about stuff that you actually want to be "exposed to the public" (i.e. can receive traffic from any IP) or just "accessible from outside the LAN." If the former, Tailscale isn'
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by TheFlyingFish 4y ago
Obviously "every single day" is hyperbole, but I agree with you that a much higher proportion of Tailscale blog posts end up on the front page than most corporate blogs. Finally I think it comes down to this: Tailscale is full of

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