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by billpg 4y ago
I prefer the first way, as you can read it left to right and each step is meaningful. "Take the contents of file, process it through somecmd, then save the result to file2." I would hope both commands boil down to exactly the same
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by billpg 4y ago
"When asked for a PIN, use 1111." Me: "Isn't the PIN meant to be there for security?"
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by billpg 4y ago
If running WP this way becomes popular, plugins will adapt and advertise themselves as compatible with SQLite.
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by billpg 4y ago
If that's true, that's a flaw in SQLite. The plug might be pulled at any moment and you can't stop it.
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by billpg 4y ago
Thank you. (I wrote this three years ago.) https://billpg.com/dear-wordpress-please-stop-using-mysql/ Short version: With MySQL, I can't simply backup or deploy a copy of WP by zipping up a folder full of files. T
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by billpg 4y ago
If I shouldn't use a file copy to make a backup, what does this mean for the possibility that the plug might be pulled at any moment during a write?
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by billpg 4y ago
Here's a plugin that does the thing you need. 50% of the code is the thing you need. The other 50% of code is stuff promoting the pro version.
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by billpg 4y ago
For the app version of YouTube, double-tapping the right-hand side of the video area will jump ahead ten seconds. Not exactly an automated jump but this works well for things like VPN ads in videos.
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by billpg 4y ago
You can do that without a blockchain. Have all those orgs publish their accounts in a form that allows for anyone to make copies and to audit that the published versions don't get modified over time.
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by billpg 4y ago
Because blockchain solutions to anything are almost always awful. (And I'm unsure about needing the word "almost".)
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by billpg 4y ago
That string gzips to 82 bytes. I thought it would be a lot smaller.
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by billpg 4y ago
I used to immediately throw away half of any load of bread I'd buy because it would always have gone off by the time I got that far down. I would love to have moved that half to a paper bag instead and given it to someone else.
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by billpg 5y ago
The .sbs domain appears to belong to an Australian TV channel.
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by billpg 5y ago
Use the temporary variable swap and let the compiler detect what you're doing and optimize it away if it can.
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by billpg 5y ago
Why would a parental filter modify or otherwise interfere with use-application-dns.net? I'd have thought a filter would pick up the DNS request, see that it isn't on the list of adult-only domains and pass the request along.
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by billpg 5y ago
"Are parental controls enabled?" I wonder how it does that. Will the browser be making DNS requests for playboy every so often?
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by billpg 5y ago
Just to underline the point, in the UK, you need to pay a TV License fee to watch any broadcast TV, including Channel 4. They (C4) don't get any funding from this fee.
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by billpg 5y ago
I've not even read the article, but I already know that no human has actually been sold as an NFT.
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by billpg 5y ago
More money than sense?
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by billpg 5y ago
When I read that RFC, I imagined that a barcode would be more reliable to read in and process than printing the hex characters.
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by billpg 5y ago
The same guy insisted to me that Windows (pre-95) was not an Operating System either, for the same reason mine wasn't.
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by billpg 5y ago
I tried writing a simple OS decades ago as an EXE you'd run from MSDOS. It would rewrite all the ISR vectors and take over all the memory including the space that was previously used by MSDOS. I was told that because I relied on DOS, w
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by billpg 5y ago
"This is Bill. His job is answer the phone, type in to the computer what people say to him and read back to them what the computer says in response. He is not permitted to exercise any initiative and he's been told in no uncertain
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by billpg 5y ago
I had several devices with Micro USB ports. Phones, laptops, tablets, gizmos, portable batteries. All with Micro USB. I purchased too many cables and chargers so whatever room I was in, I would always have a charger. Then I bought my new ph
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by billpg 5y ago
Since you're (probably going to be) proxying my website anyway, what if you intercepted /login and handled registration, email address validation, login-with-X, passwords, MFA, etc. Once you've authenticated that user, pass o
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by billpg 5y ago
Remember those web counter images that would increment the number displayed each time it received a GET request? They were the most evil. -scary laughter-
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by billpg 5y ago
I know why the button is there, as GET requests are not supposed to change state but POST requests can, and you can only make a GET request by clicking on a link in the email. I'd be interested to see if that interpretation has been up
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Iba Engineering Announcements Last Edition 31st July 1990 [video](youtube.com)
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by billpg 5y ago
Agreed. I noticed that a lot of websites only really started supporting Unicode properly once emojis started becoming popular. When Unicode was "just" accented characters, a lot of English speaking devs didn't bother and happ
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by billpg 5y ago
Several jobs ago, I was given a requirements document with a number of sentences highlighted as specific requirements. I was asked to copy each highlighted requirement to a list, briefly outline each one and estimate the development workloa

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