amichal

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by amichal 6y ago
Thank you for this!. It's why i continue to read HN.
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by amichal 6y ago
I've always wanted to investigate if there is a current way to do this on a URL without resorting to scripting but have never really gotten the energy up to do it. Being able to send users to https://www.example.com/fo
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by amichal 6y ago
i recently got burned because at some point in the last few years Excel decided it would be better if it attempted to use localized thousands and decimal separators. item,cost,currency "Socks",1.234,USD Represents soc
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by amichal 6y ago
Yeah, that particular configuration of SR guys didn't really work out. Why they went drinking and left me to finish up is a longer story, life lesson. I quit within months and went to work with a couple of the more dedicated of the bun
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by amichal 6y ago
I never shipped gold floppies but I did ship golden master CDs on a 1x (maybe 2x?) writer for a very early ebook publisher (sometime in late 1990s). I was young and inexperienced in the business side of things. The machine doing it was unde
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by amichal 6y ago
Assuming we know (lower_bound <= upper_bound) I'd write: Math.max(lower_bound, Math.min(num, upper_bound)) Since i read right to left.
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by amichal 6y ago
Totally agree. I would be curious if anyone who is saying why didn't you use XYZ has actually migrated 500 billion rows of queryable log data from one tech to the other. For everyone complaining about PII. The article shows a 6 year lo
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by amichal 6y ago
A screenshot in the article implies that you "Export from S3" https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2020/snow_job_type_...
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by amichal 7y ago
This is at the MIT museum. I first saw it as a child decades ago and many times sense. The motor has been visibly replaced/refurbed and I'm sure they turn it off at night. All that said, when you see the first gear or two zipping
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by amichal 7y ago
And what utility did it provide while it was in production for the effort that was put into it? We had a nasty nasty 3k line Perl script “in production” at a former client for like 10 years. It was written in a couple of weeks by another o
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by amichal 7y ago
Not a statistician myself but in a visualization project we did a number of years ago that needed a quick fix for this we used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction .
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by amichal 7y ago
This. Last magnetic laptop drive I had was measuring under 10MB per second with small random reads. On a fragged old OS install it’s unbelievably impactful. Back in windows 98 days simply copying my data to a second partiton, erasing and re
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by amichal 7y ago
I learned the hard way several years ago that a bank I used to have will happily cash two checks with the same check number the same amount and the the same recipient (on the same day even). Apparently check numbers are for my convenience n
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by amichal 7y ago
We have one of these in my small, snowy Vermont town. I think it’s brilliant since it’s easily removed in winter when the bike rack would hinder plowing/sidewalk clearing.
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by amichal 7y ago
my understanding (have not tested this) is that CORS " " does not work in all browsers between `localhost` and other domains. This is also AFAIK an intentional security feature. Even so CORS " " would be even more explic
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by amichal 7y ago
They do not. The reason for that is that at the time CORS was designed lots of sites loaded images from other sites and because images where considered static content that didn't change the server this was at worst a information leak.
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by amichal 7y ago
Many years ago I asked google to provide a “reverse popularity” view for Google News via some customer feedback mechanism. Got back a noncommittal “interesting idea”. I understand it would be hard technically and all the reasons why it do
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by amichal 7y ago
Apparently “.test” is the RFC official one to use. Jts recently got around to fixing all my local projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.test
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by amichal 7y ago
it would actually, biometric ids etc are allowed for various regulated reasons -- identifying folks who cross national boundaries is likely one of them
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by amichal 7y ago
This was somewhat explicitly what REAL ID was about. Provide name age, address and photo to the feds along with any related state ID info (which often correlates easily with fed info). I would not be surprised if airport cameras already put
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by amichal 8y ago
Indeed. There are 80+ channels in my workplace of 20 people. Most people are subscribed to just a few relevant to their current projects and there is zero expectation that a non direct message will be read by subscribers until they are next
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by amichal 8y ago
I was able to find items in RHELs issue tracker with references to ones in glibc. Curious what will happen with macOS and other platforms. How does this stuff get done?
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Microsoft to provide automatic updates to handle Japan era name change to Reiwa(japantimes.co.jp)
4 points by amichal 8y ago|1 comments
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by amichal 8y ago
Ahh! that make more sense. Thanks
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by amichal 8y ago
“#” Fragments aren’t sent to the server at all. They are ONLY used to get to a specific anchor (old school) or processed by JavaScript to do something (often fake navigation by showing and hiding content). This article is adding a 3rd magic
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by amichal 8y ago
Brief history of time
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by amichal 8y ago
An example of open source government. https://www.boston.gov/news/bostongov-now-open-source-projec... They also funded and encourage the open sourcing of the work we are doing for them https://github.com&#x
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by amichal 8y ago
This map matches 1-1 in the areas I drive regularly. it orrectly shows no coverage at home and 2-3 places on the way to work 20 miles away where there is zero signal
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by amichal 8y ago
AWS also has a initial soft limit on EC2 instances. I dont remember what it is but its <100
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by amichal 8y ago
While i like the sibling comment's network errors answer better then mine I didn't see any reasoning other then a unfounded statement[1] in the article or on a quick skim for "typo" in the referenced whitepaper: [1] &quo

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