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by bilalq 3y ago
I've been using Graphite since November 2021 and love it. Aside from stacking, their dashboard is also a huge improvement over Github's.
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by bilalq 3y ago
Scrollbars are typically hidden by default on MacOS. I saw source code that looked like it had to be some MongoDB repo, but only saw the first four options. I was confused for a bit. It also wasn't clear that left/right arrows let
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by bilalq 3y ago
Google clearly doesn't care about their reputation. Their shutdown of Pixel Pass before users got a chance to upgrade was just ridiculous[1]. It's hard to quantify the impact that this poor reputation has on their business. Their
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by bilalq 3y ago
I've contributed and/or led development on at least 4 different AWS consoles and have used AWS every day for the last 10 years, with 8 of those working at AWS. Still only got 6 right on the quiz. That said, AWS is transitioning aw
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by bilalq 3y ago
Is this something more prevalent in India than Pakistan? It makes sense that there'd be more cultural crossovers in India given the demographics.
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by bilalq 3y ago
I've heard people mention this, but as someone born in Karachi who moved to US as a toddler, I can confidently say I've only ever seen Muslim caste systems mentioned on places like Reddit and HN discussions about caste. It's
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by bilalq 3y ago
I use X-Ray directly via AWS Powertools for Lambda[1] instead of going through OTel. The underlying AWS X-Ray SDK team pushes OTel pretty hard in their README[2] and Github issues, but the current situation is that OpenTelemetry is just not
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by bilalq 3y ago
OpenTelemetry is being pushed as a replacement for AWS X-Ray SDKs by AWS, but it's in such a broken state for Lambda right now. A 200-500% performance penalty for using it is insane[1][2]. [1]: https://github.com/aws-ob
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by bilalq 3y ago
This is a big question for me. The CDK style form of authoring IaC is way better than config files in HCL/YML/JSON. It has some rough edges and I do wish it wasn't so gung-ho on the magical object-oriented constructor side-ef
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This is a great point. It's true that there's a wealth of good information out there. But there's so much bad information that we now struggle with a signal vs noise problem. If you don't have enough context and knowledg
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by bilalq 3y ago
I don't know about decades. It's true that a lot of clients do that nowadays, but they're definitely still used.
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by bilalq 3y ago
Did you actually scroll through all the way? Some emails send both plain text and HTML. I looked through mine and indeed saw text/html for most Amazon emails (including AWS). Some AWS emails like ACM cert renewals were text/plain.
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by bilalq 3y ago
I just checked, and they don't. It's certainly plain looking and without fancy styling/formatting, but they do send content-type text/html. The links and tracking pixel images are why they need HTML, I guess.
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by bilalq 3y ago
Stock at a big tech company is incredibly unlikely to suddenly end up worthless. Let's say your base pay is $160k and you have $240k in RSUs vesting each year. It would be ridiculous to take another offer of $250k or $300k cash elsewhe
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by bilalq 3y ago
This doesn't work for a lot of mature tech companies. RSUs are as good as cash at vest time, but the delay between grant and vest basically leaves you with variable pay. You can't just ignore it though, since the targeted value of
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by bilalq 3y ago
More than anything else, I'm bothered by Cloudwatch's pricing. $3/dashboard/month when it's essentially just a JSON config? $0.30/metric/month, with the risk of a junior engineer easily being able to add o
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by bilalq 3y ago
And then everyone will start confusing them with pip. Though I suppose people already struggle to keep pip vs pip3 vs pip3.9 vs pip3.10 vs pip3.${n} vs pipx vs pipenv straight. Jokes aside, I feel like the names on python are no more terrib
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by bilalq 3y ago
I don't understand why this dig is constantly taken at software. Look at how many layers of fallbacks exist even on the average webapp written by junior devs. Optimistic rendering on form submissions, graceful degradation of features,
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by bilalq 3y ago
It probably wasn't intentional, but the naming of this is a great play off the Arabic word "علماء", pronounced as Ulamā[1]. It translates to "scholars", or "the learned ones". Pretty fitting. Nowadays, the
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by bilalq 3y ago
I see you limit the number of projects on the team tier. What is a "project" in your terms?
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Google terminated developer account after approving rename(old.reddit.com)
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by bilalq 3y ago
I have no particular viewpoint regarding Assange, but depending on your understanding of "fair", there are probably many whose fairness can be questioned. Partiality of judges, imbalance of legal team budgets, etc. Look at any cas
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by bilalq 3y ago
Agreed that this is not a problem that can be solved via a technical solution. However, I don't think a political solution is possible either. Even in the US, police can literally get away with murder today. Why would they have any dif
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by bilalq 3y ago
Do you see any potential trademark conflicts you may run into against Google due to Codey[0]? I don't know which was announced/branded first, but I imagine a big co like Google is tough to win against even when you're in the
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by bilalq 3y ago
Looks similar to how you can use implicit classes in Scala[0]. They were definitely convenient for writing unit and integration tests, but difficult to read/maintain. I feel like a pipe operator would be a much more useful alternative
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by bilalq 3y ago
Bank of America kinda supports Yubikeys for MFA. But only a single key and it doesn't work on mobile. You're forced to use SMS for 2FA there.
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by bilalq 3y ago
??? The literal example shown in the README has targetlang set to nodejs. Maybe it's a bit odd to specify the runtime instead of the language, but in practice, that's maybe more useful.
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by bilalq 3y ago
Apologies if I was unclear. I didn't mean to suggest that DLSS generates textures. I was raising the question about whether or not generated textures would be in violation of the policy. And if they're fine, what about generated b
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That seems reasonable at first glance, but how is that different from the game downloading generated content or models used for inference from its own servers after Steam distribution? If you argue that the code being used to access it is d
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by bilalq 3y ago
There may be a line between there somewhere, but it's not at all clear where it is. What about generating foliage or varied ground textures? What about generating buildings? Or NPCs? Also, the "just upscaling" relies on train

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