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by anilakar 2y ago
That's the main reason people have so mixed opinions about the language. If you're stuck with the standard library (hello gsub!) and the application-specific library is an incoherent collection of functions, you're going to h
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by anilakar 2y ago
I once wrote a social CD tray app at the company christmas party after a few beers. It was a simple program that polled the CD tray on the local computer and whenever the user closed it, the daemon would trigger eject on another machine. Lu
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by anilakar 2y ago
But wars don't cost anything because Europe will pay.
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by anilakar 2y ago
EU has been regulating tech companies at least since the MicroUSB charger mandate. This has nothing to do with Trump, but once he hears about it he'll make sure everyone else knows too.
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by anilakar 2y ago
If it only was that easy. Experience has shown that the only reliable way is to run heuristics against the first few lines of the file. There are office programs that save CSV with the proper comma delimiter regardless of the locale. There
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by anilakar 2y ago
If I ever saw an "annotate" command I'd immediately assume it's for adding notes as metadata outside the actual software versioning tool, not for seeing who wrote the code in question. Nomenclature matters. Do not reinve
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by anilakar 2y ago
Obviously in the ideal case indicator animation would be tied to something else, like background process sending output, and there would be a textual description next to it.
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by anilakar 2y ago
OSX has had the striped progress bar for hard-to-estimate processes as long as I remember. Did they do away with it? There are situations where I don't exactly care how far something has progressed but I want to see that it at least ha
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by anilakar 2y ago
Logging in triggers motd-news.service that prints whatever ad they're currently running into the journal.
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by anilakar 2y ago
Ads in the system logs were the last straw for me.
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by anilakar 2y ago
The issue is not Mozilla getting access to your data, but losing access to Sync itself.
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by anilakar 2y ago
It's a really terrible deterrent because people are not rational actors. That said, I'm all for jailing her as long as non-white-collar criminals are getting the same treatment. Edit: This seems to be a controversial opinion as th
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by anilakar 2y ago
Yup, worth a CWE but not a CVE.
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by anilakar 2y ago
Most folks do not realize the consequences. Of those who do, a significant fraction thinks that the only people accessing it are from US mainland and use Chrome on Windows.
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by anilakar 2y ago
Can confirm. If I click certain links in the Discord Electron client on Windows they work just fine, but in Firefox on Linux I get the DDoS block page, regardless of the internet connection I'm using.
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by anilakar 2y ago
Disclaimer: not American. Copyright agencies that monitor torrents here have actually verified that peers offer at least one offending chunk on protocol level and the Market Court has decided it's the minimum that can be considered sha
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by anilakar 2y ago
> A single-channel radar can only measure the distance to a target and is unable to detect the angle of the target. Probably in that specific use case yes, but we have had parabolic dishes and slotted waveguide apertures for a long time
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by anilakar 2y ago
That military style uses little endian so it belongs in the sane formats category. However, with ISO you're likely referring to RFC3339. The full ISO8601 standard allows insane date representations you're not going to see anywhere
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by anilakar 2y ago
In any case there are two sane ways to write dates, and the middle-endian format is not one of them.
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by anilakar 2y ago
And this BS comes from a German company. Oof. Stop pushing EU-wide laws you cannot yourself adhere to.
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by anilakar 2y ago
A large fraction of code I write at work is either network protocol reverse engineering or interfacing with physical devices. Peeling stuff open layer by layer is often the only way to approach a problem and if I had to document everything
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by anilakar 2y ago
Kubernetes is great. Legacy bash and cron is hip and cool again just because you can wrap stuff in a k8s cronjob.
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by anilakar 2y ago
We started measuring progress this month by measuring how many percent of last week's planned tasks were completed, and it's already showing. Everyone is reporting 100 % which means they're probably doing three days worth of
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by anilakar 2y ago
Diffused bright light from a white wall behind you is not any better. Learned this the hard way when I started WFH in Anno Covidi 1.
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by anilakar 2y ago
So... one more reason to not buy the content and pirate it instead.
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by anilakar 2y ago
Their defence is always that they do not follow semver. I remember some undocumented edge cases in string match patterns breaking between 5.1 and 5.2. Imagine Python changing how regexes worked between two minor releases.
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by anilakar 2y ago
Don't fret. The IT systems in Finland's top polytechnic grad school have always been shit.
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by anilakar 2y ago
Both Doom and Bad Apple in top four articles on the HN front page. This week is off to a good start.
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by anilakar 2y ago
I've said this before, but once you start sharing a synced Keepass vault with others you will start getting conflicts even with small teams.
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by anilakar 2y ago
Basically yet another proof that we have managed to perfectly recreate human stupidity :-)

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