billpg

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by billpg 2y ago
If you are going to put comments in your JSON, please use the /* */ style. It is often useful to express a JSON object as a single line of text. Comments that start from a symbol ("#" or "//") and con
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by billpg 2y ago
I once used `SELECT TOP 1` ... `ORDER BY NEWID()` to pick a record from a table of millions. Millions of UUIDs generated! All so one would randomly be picked as the lowest valued and the attached record returned. Such a waste!
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by billpg 2y ago
Given that .zip is now a TLD, I completely support not automatically linkifying things that might be links. (If you used "https" and made it a full URL, that's different.)
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by billpg 2y ago
Can I opt out of receiving letters from this service please?
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by billpg 2y ago
I'm interested in an answer. Is there a way, by design, to run code from an untrusted source in a restricted manner? So the worse the code could do is call me rude names.
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by billpg 2y ago
You could, but this website's better.
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by billpg 2y ago
"We build this city on rock..." "That's a good place to build a city." "... and roll." "We're doomed!"
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by billpg 2y ago
If I followed this link, would I end up on a list?
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by billpg 2y ago
I remember when QNX was going to be the OS for the first post-Commodore Amiga machines. Fun times. I'm old.
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by billpg 2y ago
Anyone remember "Hacker Monthly"? Years ago it was a monthly PDF with nicely laid out copies of popular articles that had been highly voted on here.
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by billpg 2y ago
There's been times I've seen the HDD light blinking and I've thought to myself "You're running remote-desktop right now. Why do you need the hard disk so much?"
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by billpg 2y ago
"Test two values for equality, but this time we mean it."
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by billpg 2y ago
I get the feeling we only need 16 or so control characters. We could use those slots for more printable characters instead. What's that? Doing that would break every single program that uses ASCII? Darn it.
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by billpg 2y ago
My ISP gave me a new IPv6 router and everything was given a globally routable IPv6 address without my having to do any of that stuff.
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by billpg 2y ago
I do remember it was a large 2D barcode. Like QR but with a square in the middle. (AZTEC?) I was trying random barcodes I had lying around to test my own component. The one with the zero byte happened to be a large one they had added to my
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by billpg 2y ago
I once reported a bug to a barcode decoding library, reporting that it crashed when the barcode contained a zero byte. They responded that they wouldn't fix it because barcodes aren't supposed to contain zero bytes. "But it c
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by billpg 2y ago
In case anyone needs it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240306134340/https://legend.oc... (The most recent snapshots look like a bad redirect.)
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by billpg 2y ago
Anyone else getting this? The connection for this site is not secure legend.octopuslabs.io uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
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by billpg 2y ago
Except its complicated. The licence fee is effectively a tax, with criminal consequences for non-payment.
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by billpg 2y ago
Is "name constraints" new? I wanted to do something similar a decade or two ago and found I'd have to be trusted for all domains, which I wanted to avoid.
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by billpg 2y ago
I'd be convinced that IPv6 is done when large companies deploy servers on IPv6 only without an IPv4 fall-back.
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by billpg 2y ago
It took a rather embarrassing amount of time before I realised you weren't saying "Voyager Half".
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by billpg 2y ago
Decades ago, I discovered a compiler for an obscure microprocessor was generating a subtraction operation to test if two integers are equal. I then turned the optimisations on and it generated an XOR instruction instead. I suspect a lot of
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by billpg 2y ago
"The government are going to reintroduce ID cards! Panic!"
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by billpg 2y ago
But how will I become an actual member of the House of Lords by buying a square foot of land in Scotland if I skip the sponsor blocks of videos?
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by billpg 2y ago
I vaguely recall thinking the file was just some sort of serial number or stock tracking metadata when I deleted it. It might have instead failed for quite mundane reasons such as low quality manufacture. I don't know. Exposing the fir
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by billpg 2y ago
I recall once having an SD card with a mysterious file in the root folder with system and hidden attributes on it. I decided to delete the file and some time later (months), the card suddenly stopped working. It maybe stopped working once t
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by billpg 2y ago
"move the UTC prime meridian" We'd have two prime meridians. One for time and another for longitude. (Not a deal breaker but we'd have to plan for it.)
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by billpg 2y ago
Why do you want to put LF bytes into filenames? Using magic, I've renamed any files you have to remove control characters in the name and made it impossible to make any new ones. (You can thank me later.) What can't you do now?
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by billpg 2y ago
https://example.com/droste.zip/droste.zip/droste.zip/droste.... ...

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