adamzochowski

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by adamzochowski 3y ago
There is also base64URL , where the encoding uses different ascii characters that are url safe. I have seen some devs use BASE64URL but call it just base64, and that can lead to some problems for unaware. https://datatracker.ietf
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
Isn't this what is done by some SQL engines with materialized views? They update view data (counts and group by and sums) as the source table data changes. But not by rerunning the view, but smartly updating its contents based on the c
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
New players can stop supporting decrypting keys, locking out a disc. Famously intel stopped supporting some encryption chip tech and bluray players for pc stopped working. Finally, new disks too van stop supporting keys. This means that ne
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
> Weird pricing: PlanetScale prices you on row-reads and row-writes per month. What is weird is that row-reads is something that nobody controls. It is the SQL query planner which determines the query plan, which results in how many rows
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
I don't understand the issue? The first screenshot (CSS Theming) shows an app that doesn't use standard background color (?offwhite?), but uses standard font color. Normally this works, as standard font color is something dark (?b
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
Sublime merge runs on linux. Why is it not a good git gui?
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
IMDB predates html and http protocols. When IMDB was sold, it was seen as if wikipedia was sold to a private company. Amazon promised to leave IMDB mostly alone, and to provide data feeds / db backups for free. They are still available
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
For fantasy and sci fi there is nothing better than : Worlds Without End https://www.worldswithoutend.com/ The site tracks multiple literary awards: https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books.asp The site trac
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
Why not ovh's option called kimsufi or not Hetzner?
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
FTP does FXP without either server knowing credentials of the other. How does what you say "SSH" accomplish server to server transfer without exposing credentials of one server to another?
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
I don't think preact is part of the "progressive enhance html" Progressive enhance HTML means whatever backend you use, it spits out html, and the HTML is rendered without Javascript. Preact fails this. The libraries are mean
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
When keyboard is not supported and I can't scroll by pagedown/space buttons. When keyboard is not supported and I can't scroll to the bottom. When I want to scroll to find something in a binary like fashion, scroll to the mid
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
I don't use mobile, so I can't comment on that, but I can compare to old.reddit (the classic good version). Overall it is decent, but there is still plenty of work, Here are my comments, ignore if you don't agree. ---- Conten
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
There is a fourth category of hash functions: find similar items. For English words, this is usually done with soundex / metaphone / doublemetaphone. Fun fact, soundex was developed over 100 years ago to help immigrants find their
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
Unfortunately you can't do site:old.reddit.com , It is a tragedy as old version loads more comments and has better UI.
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by adamzochowski 3y ago
This is missing Electrobody / Electroman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GosPJVggVmI As per burmistrz for c64, I remember playing a differently looking ve
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
Constantly innovating can also be interpreted as 'having no standard'. I had developed sites for 25 years. I still have a corporate site that was developed 20 years ago, and it returns more results, and is faster to render than mo
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
This seems to lack tons of APIs , maybe instead of 'apirank' it should be called 'openapi dev rank'. Apple Itunes : https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Au... last fm
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
Total Commander was in Delphi, but is now compiled with FPC. This is best file manager for windows. https://www.ghisler.com/ I believe Zoom Player too is a pascal beast. Before VLC became ubiquitous and playing all formats
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
This doesn't work perfectly well if you are on multiple calls at the same time. Desktop Teams allows you to join multiple calls at once, and switch between them is easy. Web browser teams disconnects you from one meeting to join anothe
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
Article doesn't mention yEnc, that is (or was?) very popular for binary attachments on usenet. from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YEnc > yEnc is a binary-to-text encoding scheme for transferring bin
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
This is based on old Echonest scanner. Echonest was bought out by spotify. Echonest had same issue as AcousticBrains, their first scanner sucked and mid way had to ask people to rescan using a new version. Echonest used to provide source co
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
An optional value just means that the value is unknown. For example, it is optional to enter the colour of the car I own. So my car colour is null. The database can't confirm if my car is Red or isn't Red, because it is an unknown
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
> SQL has many problems: > "from" should come first to help auto-complete; Agreed > null handling is complicated; Mostly the issue is that null in dbs has different semantics than all programming languages. I wish progra
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
1:1 mapping means that if one table has a row, so does the other. How does this guarantee that the ID is in both tables?
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
I don't want to be tracked. The options are: swurl is ok with denying users access that it can't spy upon. I am ok with that. Or swurl builds code in a way to gracefully still work if a script doesn't get load. This would be
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
I use gorhill's uMatrix (author of uBlock). uMatrix is awesome as it disables any 3rd party domains and only loads content from main domain that author controls. it also allows blocking by content type. Like iframes. I believe some blo
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
Broken behaviour without google tag manager. I have disabled google tag manager, but javascript excepts it. It is generally recommended way to write javascript not to expect any spying/telemetry tooling to always be loaded.
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
I wish mp4/av1 could be put as <img src= or <body background= or through css as background-image: url() . As it stands, to replace GIF one has to go through a hacky series of other tags/options.
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by adamzochowski 4y ago
Does render() also generate plaintext?

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