alisonatwork

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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This is basically it. When I started programming in C, I used a debugger all the time. Even a bit later doing Java monoliths I could spin up the whole app on my local and debug in the IDE. But nowadays running a dozen processes and containe
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I think it's the same reason why phones killed cameras and portable music players. It's neat to have dedicated devices that do one thing well. It's even neater to have one device that can do all the things. It's easier t
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
We already have that and it's Wikipedia.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I've played a bunch of great RPG Maker and Ren'Py games that used creative commons art and music. The draw of those games was experiencing the story that the creator wanted to tell. What's the difference if the same creator u
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Depends on the processes in place at the company. Presumably if a backup is restored, some kind of replay has to happen after that, otherwise all the other users are going to lose data that arrived in the interim. A catastrophic failure whe
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
It would be interesting to hear more about your experience with systems where deletion has been deemed "literally impossible". Every database I have come across in my career has a delete function. Often it is slow. In many places
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Some of these issues could perhaps be addressed by having fixed retention of PII in the online systems, and encryption at rest in the offline systems. If a user wants to access data of theirs which has gone offline, they take the decryption
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Backups can have a fixed retention period.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I work professionally in Python these days, but I've just spent a bit of time digging into the contemporary situation because the JVM environment is much more interesting to me, and found this spec: https://build-server-prot
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I'm aware of the Gradle daemon, but wasn't sure if it only handled dependency resolution and other build orchestration tasks or if it also ran the compiler in the same JVM instance. Last time I worked somewhere using Gradle I thin
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Hypothetically, if you could daemonize javac, would JIT eventually kick in over multiple recompiles of the same code? The obvious use case for this would be IDEs, but I imagine it could work in CI too if you had some kind of persistent &quo
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
The problem with AI hype is not really about whether a particular model can - in the abstract - solve a particular programming problem. The problem with AI hype is that it is selling a future where all software development companies become
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
It's not terrorism if a country is at war and their military facilities were targeted.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I was hoping this was going to be a magnificent awk script that somehow implemented an SQL parser. It is not. This is the one time where "written in Rust" in the headline could have been useful, since it would have avoided me wast
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
In your scenario you could still apply additional protections to a user id after detecting X attempts of sending a forged JWT. At least you could alert on JWTs that arrive with invalid signatures. Or you could put a 2FA challenge key inside
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I can't speak to this particular NYC subculture, but it is definitely the case that all round the world long lines form around "the best" version of a thing even when it is literally the same thing you can get at a half dozen
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Tea and coffee don't have to be sweet either, and there are lots of cold versions of those.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I keep sweet soy like kecap manis and 醬油膏 in the fridge because occasionally it can catch mold otherwise. I do the same with sweet vinegar like balsamic. However I think this depends a lot on how hot and humid your environment is. In cool a
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I think it's supposed to be read as "the Windows subsystem for [running] Linux [applications]". Back in the old days there used be a thing called Services For UNIX (SFU), which was a bunch of Windows tools and services that p
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
It's easy, it's right there in uname -r.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I am sure the language is capable, but if you search "mojo python" then the top hit is https://www.modular.com/mojo where the first line on the page talks about AI inference and the first code example seems to be
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Sadly I think the ship has sailed and Rust has hit critical mass now. Personally I find it aesthetically awkward, but for Python integration and tooling it seems like Rust has become the default C replacement. You would think Python devs mi
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I remember seeing one a while ago, and a quick websearch leads me to this Reaper plugin: https://github.com/gwatcha/reaper-keys I think I wouldn't hate a modal tracker nowadays. In the old days when everyone had g
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This program doesn't look top down to me, it seems like the main sequencing interface is piano roll, although the sample editing looks tracker-inspired. It'll be interesting to see what people do with it. Maybe fans of piano roll
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Me too, except with the CPC. After going through enough of them, I got to a point I could flick through the book in the library and figure out what was going to work ahead of time, what could be adapted and what went way beyond my abilities
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
That is an excellent tip! Thank you.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I don't usually recommend software that isn't open source, but MusicBee is really great for organizing tunes. You can build really deep auto playlists based on any tag you like, you can do bulk updates across lots of fields, you c
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I've never used Spotify so can't compare to that, but Bandcamp is like a much better version of the local record store. You can follow artists and record labels you like, which will give you email notifications whenever they relea
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by alisonatwork 2y ago
Didn't you ever grep a text document written in a language other than English? No processing of CSV files in different charsets? Not even encountered a file with a non-English character in the name? Not to mention the folks who deliber
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by alisonatwork 2y ago
Emoji selector is fast and works perfectly fine over SSH, it's no different to any other input method that needs to use characters beyond 7-bit ASCII. grep is a bit more iffy. UNIX command line tools seem to be a bit of a crapshoot in

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