ben0x539

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   by ben0x539 6y ago

   My understanding is that it's okay to be infuriating if I have an analytics query or something claiming that it'll not affect 99ish % of users and also save customer support a bunch of work.
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   by ben0x539 6y ago

   If I were a site accepting email addresses, I could see rejecting "+" stuff because chances are it's people trying to pull something funny like registering multiple accounts when I only want one per email address. If I were l
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   by ben0x539 6y ago

   https://gist.github.com/ben0x539/9cf66dd8347c264179a89944278... Caveat that it doesn't emit a csv you can import elsewhere, it's not extremely polished, hasn't ever been run outside of my laptop, just do
4. 454.▲
   by ben0x539 6y ago

   ... I wish I'd thought of booting into my Windows partition and installing 1password there, instead of spending an evening writing up an extremely overwrought export script on top of the commandline client.
5. 455.▲
   by ben0x539 6y ago

   idk, vim across ssh (rn from my place in the west coast to a vps in iirc the east coast) feels a lot snappier and less frustrating than my typical interaction with slack.
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   by ben0x539 6y ago

   I'm not trying to convince you to reveal what you make, but I don't think "it's not good for anyone" is right. It might cause a bunch of conflict and I can definitely see wanting to avoid that, but that doesn't
7. 457.▲
   by ben0x539 6y ago

   > I prefer not to discuss compensation Why not?
8. 458.▲
   by ben0x539 6y ago

   I find value in essays like that even if they don't make me write completely different code tomorrow. Having design consideration clearly laid out and discussed is really helpful, imo. (Of course that varies with how effective the essa
9. 459.▲
   by ben0x539 6y ago

   Which ones are daft?
10. 460.▲
    by ben0x539 6y ago

    idk about you but if I were a hyper-advanced singularity hive mind entity from the year 12,020, I'd get a huge kick out of scrolling through some archive of those adorable entry-level not-even-sapient programs our ancestors wrote in an
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    by ben0x539 6y ago

    Thanks, this irks me disproportionally. People gotta respect our stupid proprietary vowels!!
12. 462.▲
    by ben0x539 6y ago

    If you don't want people to reach for Turing complete config languages, don't make them solve weird problems in config files, imo.
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    by ben0x539 6y ago

    I think this is an argument that the user interface of a build system needs to go out of its way to make it hard to misuse it. It's not realistic to believe that all users will find and read documentation from start to finish any more
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    by ben0x539 6y ago

    While I agree with a bunch of what you're saying, I expect that FAANG compatibility is not people's top priority when they're not getting paid FAANG salaries.
15. 465.▲
    by ben0x539 6y ago

    How the hell do they implement "lost password" resets?
16. 466.▲
    by ben0x539 6y ago

    Rust binaries effectively statically link a lot of code via monomorphizing generics. I may well be wrong but I don't think you could get Rust binaries down to C sizes just by separating all the dynamically linkable parts.
17. 467.▲
    by ben0x539 6y ago

    The user should use nix to do that.
18. 468.▲
    by ben0x539 6y ago

    https://hub.docker.com/r/nixos/nix/ seems to be a thing. It's apparently not a nixos image, but you probably don't want nixos with all the service configuration and so on, just nix, for most docker
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    by ben0x539 7y ago

    I'm gonna assume that for purposes of the thought experiment you're supposed to envision a point-shaped elevator, not one where you can place two baseballs next to each other.
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    by ben0x539 7y ago

    This is not a cavalier attitude. The article is not minimizing the harm caused by bugs. It is attempting to direct the blame away from individuals and towards systemic causes of defects. This is necessary to be able to effectively address t
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    by ben0x539 7y ago

    I suspect the post is about GNU C rather than ISO C.
22. 472.▲
    by ben0x539 7y ago

    I think getting paid and getting a fairly solid commitment to be paid at some point in the future are equivalent for this argument.
23. 473.▲
    by ben0x539 7y ago

    From the article, only slightly misquoted: > Employees who have been using Zoom [...] can continue to do so through a web browser or via mobile.
24. 474.▲
    by ben0x539 7y ago

    im surprised at myself for shilling a service i dont even use and dont have any stake in, but https://pinboard.in/ lets you bookmark things and then also archive those things so they dont go away
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    by ben0x539 7y ago

    randomly generated IDs as 64 bit ints, pretty often. I mean, tweet IDs are up there too.
26. 476.▲
    by ben0x539 7y ago

    Almost all numbers aren't 53-bit integers (or smaller) :P
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    by ben0x539 7y ago

    Mhm, we have a bunch of non-crawled content that sees a significant minority of request volume from disguised bots. Overall, it is definitely dwarfed by traffic from real users, but it still forces a lot of work to prevent the bots from gam
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    by ben0x539 7y ago

    I'm reconsidering my intuition in the face of the fact that the sample is from OP's blog and not a customer-facing business.
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    by ben0x539 7y ago

    I meant bots with sufficiently sophisticated adversarial motives (ad fraud? blog comment spam? automated wordpress exploitation?), who I'd expect want to avoid being recognized as such.
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    by ben0x539 7y ago

    Yeah, the numbers in the article are so far off my intuition that I'm happy to latch onto any explanation for why they're weird. Being unable to effectively discount bots seems likely.