adamckay

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by adamckay 3y ago
I await your feedback on the Framework. I really like my Surface machine. I've got a Surface Pro 7 that I've had for 3 and a half years, but I don't really use the touch screen/pen as much as I should but I like the form
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by adamckay 3y ago
I hadn't used it, but I looked at it in the past. They didn't control the block lists, it was entirely up to you. Basically it had "lockout filters" which would mute people you didn't follow/hadn't interac
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by adamckay 3y ago
> It's possible for someone to already be far away even if a detection system cuts the engines right away. If you see someone go overboard you're told to keep your eyes on them, point and shout man overboard repeatedly until a
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by adamckay 3y ago
Likely referring to the 737 MAX crashes which were ultimately caused by cost cutting by Boeing leadership and the assumption using a single sensor was sufficient.
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by adamckay 3y ago
Now add in vacation and sick days, as well as the worker protections for things such as layoffs.
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by adamckay 3y ago
You're correct that it's the general expectation, but it is possible to select certain elements from the response using `hx-select` [1], so it is possible, just not particularly efficient... [1] https://htmx.org/at
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by adamckay 3y ago
There's a difference between abiding by lawful court orders that have gone through judicial process and a friend in a police department calling in a favour.
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by adamckay 3y ago
For Python packages served by PyPI?
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by adamckay 3y ago
Thrice. You're forgetting about when it's inevitably delayed or cancelled and you're stuck.
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by adamckay 3y ago
There's a limited number of volunteers with the experience to improve (C)Python, though, so the resources are better spent on improving the CPython implementation to such a point where PyPy is no longer necessary.
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by adamckay 3y ago
You don't have to be restricted to just using htmx, you can use it with client side Javascript to give you that interactivity you need in the places you need it. Indeed, the creator of htmx has created another library called hyperscrip
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by adamckay 3y ago
I really don't. Raise a `NotFound` exception in the method and catch that instead when you're calling...
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by adamckay 3y ago
But you can put them in places in your home where it's not practical or aesthetic to run cabling to plug them in (e.g. fireplace mantel or hung up on a wall) and have a battery life that is measured in weeks or months rather than days.
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by adamckay 4y ago
> constantly innovating Don’t mistake activity for achievement.
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by adamckay 4y ago
> Or is there an alternative to polling and if so, what? :) LISTEN and NOTIFY are the common approaches to avoiding polling, but I've not used them myself (yet). https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-
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by adamckay 4y ago
> Their ideas and memes unconsciously get preferential treatment. I think as this repo shows it's conciously, rather than unconsciously, getting preferential treatment.
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by adamckay 4y ago
> What companies layoff their best people? Any company where the execs and decision makers are so far removed from the people they're judging, where they won't even truly understand or care what the person does, let alone who t
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by adamckay 4y ago
They didn't pay $8.
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by adamckay 4y ago
> If everyone is aware of what went wrong and the issue is unlikely to ever happen again, what is the point? Because the only way you can make everyone aware is to write it down. Anything else is hearsay. And going through the process of
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by adamckay 4y ago
Really? You can find a hotel for £68.29 per night which includes all food, unlimited soft drinks and alcohol with meals? That's in an area with a wide range of touristy things to do (as the ship will be docking at various interesting l
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by adamckay 4y ago
> In my experience, advertising has never worked, always costing more money, never recouping the expenditure As the old saying goes:- “Half my advertising spend is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.”
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by adamckay 4y ago
I take it you're not aware that the default database of new Django projects created by the admin commands is SQLite?
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by adamckay 4y ago
> It's completely eating its lunch in my book. It will not eat Google's lunch unless Google eats its lunch first. SMILIE
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by adamckay 4y ago
It does indeed. Here's an article that discusses it more [1]. I know of a few thins that introduce an artificial wait with a progress bar to make the user feel like it's doing something complex. There's also situations in the
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by adamckay 4y ago
> But if you asked me what the operating margin of company X was, and I give you an answer (whether I make it up or compute it incorrectly), you or the company can't sue me (and win) for libel or anything of the sort. If your answer
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by adamckay 4y ago
The articles notes about async messaging architectures being superior to REST-based systems seems rather disingenuous, in my opinion, as it's seemingly only considering the most basic REST API deployed on a single node as the alternati
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by adamckay 4y ago
Because people have deadlines and need to get things working. You read enough to figure out how to do what you need to do and then mostly move on. This function was added in 3.7 with no note on the importance of saving a reference. In 3.9 a
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by adamckay 4y ago
I'd assume then we'd also need notifications of replies. Not a lot of good in replying to someone to get their (later) thoughts on something if they never see it.
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by adamckay 4y ago
They're ever so slightly different. Scream test is to discontinue service entirely and see who screams, akin to pulling the plug on a server in a rack when you've got no idea what's running on it, to then plug in back in when
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by adamckay 4y ago
UUID is a part of the protection. If your access controls fail then preventing an attacker from enumerating through data by incrementing an integer is protection from Insecure Direct Object Reference. [1] Even if there are no vulnerabilitie

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