amichal

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by amichal 3y ago
AND a several orders of magnitude larger investment in tech writers, and manual "How can my customer break this software" testing. When I worked in shrink-wrapped software back in dark ages the documentation writing team and a ver
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by amichal 3y ago
I have, in my life as a web developer, had multiple "academics" urgently demand that i remove error bands, bars, notes about outliers, confidence intervals etc from graphics at the last minute so people are not "confused&quot
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by amichal 3y ago
"map stuff" is much harder to understand than your query implies. As an example Have you tried understanding all the possible things that you can get in 'address_components' depending on the input params, the region you
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by amichal 3y ago
I believe the article shows screenshots of it in Apple TV (at least) Looks like it uses the method in this article https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1948/_index... but i have not (yet) t
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by amichal 3y ago
I didnt look but http://unitsofmeasure.org which is part of the HL7 standard for electronic medical records might be an interesting source/reference It has zillions of base units and a algebra syntax for definitions of man
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by amichal 3y ago
I followed a scientific American article in 1992 as a high schooler and got digit recognition and basic arithmetic working on a 386. What the popsci press said at the time was that we were limited by memory bandwidth (cache size), training
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by amichal 3y ago
Day 1: laptop, credentials, hr and high level security/policy stuff. 2-3hr pair programming session to grab an editor, git checkout of their first assignments repo and to push a tiny edit (small bug or doc fix). This ensures they have
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by amichal 3y ago
Someone did some research on if they could have survived... doesn't seem likely https://www.science.org/content/article/hardy-water-bears-su...
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by amichal 3y ago
That was it! Thank you for the references
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by amichal 3y ago
I did a summer program at MIT around then and remember a program that let you send popup messages in xwindows to other users or to a channel. You could subscribe to any channel and use wild cards. I remember being hacked by someone to subsc
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by amichal 3y ago
Hasura has authz this (but ive only used it it toy situations) authn is jwt or custom integration https://hasura.io/docs/latest/auth/authorization/permissions... Edit: roles via jwt token https:/&#
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by amichal 4y ago
Much more info in the Russia source (even if you auto translate like i did and dont understand Russian)
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by amichal 4y ago
I saw several plotter-based AARON demos in the 90s. It was interesting and the sketchy line style was nice but not itself impressive. There were many add-ons to CAD software for instance to render drawings in various "hand drawn"
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by amichal 4y ago
Its also this cache chrome://net-internals/#hsts (or other vendor equivalent)
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by amichal 4y ago
And for local application env you should use .localhost .test was for testing DNS infra. "undefined behavioir" for you local resolver
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by amichal 4y ago
Used to do this. Weekly round trip tickets from CA to the US and a longer round trip ticket the other direction surrounding them (or 2 one ways? Don't remember) The airline (Air Canada) got really mad at me and claimed there was a T&am
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by amichal 4y ago
I recently moved here and really like that website that need your address here often have just 2 fields house ___ postcode ____ you fill them in and typically it shows you the street name as confirmation (or complains that the house doesnt
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by amichal 4y ago
This continues to be a good point and for years my dad, a architect, has told the story of a wise(?) records department he consulted with that demanded their budget be spent on good passive temperature and humidity control for a bigger pape
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by amichal 4y ago
I used to be a happy linode customer. Commercial clients didn't want to use them since they didn't check the compliance checkboxes/certs. Akamai's rebranding claims all of these. Just tried to signup for a "free acc
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by amichal 4y ago
Commercial solution but princexml is really good at this. Its really the kind of tool you want if your "generate pdf" functionality needs any advanced pdf functionalty
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by amichal 4y ago
Line layout rules are a bit complex. Long long ago when i was 19 someone handed me a photocopied set of around 50 rules for line breaking Japanese text and followed them to implement our first draft of it in a text layout program we were ad
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by amichal 4y ago
We have a small ETL process (no other ETL in the apps stack so adding something else was silly) that runs on cloud run. It gets a http request to start, puts a lock,status record in the database, forks a worker and returns the id to the htt
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by amichal 4y ago
True in the sense that you mean and alao in pure CS theory terms but also the TFA also links to some serious documentation on practical solutions to many real world performance problems and browser codebases have most of the underlying comp
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by amichal 4y ago
People do. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252481957/Google-creates...
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by amichal 4y ago
git stash list?
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by amichal 4y ago
The cat is out of the bag but, one fear i have is how easy it is to abuse nested selectors this way. When I first was exposed to SCSS I also started seeing selectors like `.helpPage .faqSection .sidebar ul li` in lots of codebases I touche
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Alt text helps the visually impaired experience the James Webb Telescope images(text.npr.org)
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by amichal 4y ago
I have 3 BT headphone things. They are all paired to both my mac and my iPhone. Something changed recently. If paired to my mac two out of the three play on hold beeps whenever my Google Meet meeting is muted. Or, and this is really annoyin
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by amichal 4y ago
I googled. There do appear to be `codesign` implementations on other platforms now https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14321559/using-mac-os-co... as well . No clue if they work
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by amichal 4y ago
I thought we were supposed to to be doing things that don’t scale[1]. I know that is why I like doing what it do. [1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

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