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Pregnancy Test Doom: Doom running on a pregnancy test(twitter.com)
443 points by boyter 6y ago|119 comments
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Security September: Fun with Fn:Cidr(onecloudplease.com)
2 points by boyter 6y ago|0 comments
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by boyter 6y ago
Without getting into pedantic arguments. Ask any person to write down the name of the Trojan prince and you get Hector or Paris depending on who you ask. The origin is Greek even if the spelling more palatable for the modern English or Span
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by boyter 6y ago
Hah only two? My wife is Chinese/Panamanian. We had to try and find names that worked in English Spanish and Chinese. Appeal to everyone. That was not an easy task. In the end it was more about picking names that aren’t something weird
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by boyter 6y ago
Sydney?
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by boyter 6y ago
Got any papers that go though this in terms of pros/cons and such? While I agree with you I have to wonder given what a lot of people have in terms of search problems are easily solve-able though the use of tf/idf or bm25 because
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by boyter 6y ago
Not the point of the article, but the slow-down from using regular expressions can be avoided in this case by instead generating each case permutation and searching on that. Although its actually a bit more complex because you need to cut o
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by boyter 6y ago
What would you suggest then? Assuming you only have the term frequency values I cannot think of any other algorithm you can apply that gives reasonable results. Of course this breaks down as its easily gamed, but unless you are building a p
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by boyter 6y ago
Agree with the unique log. While filename/line number seems good at first, its more mental overhead to find the file and then go to the line number. I tend to add a unique id based which is usually just the first 7 characters from any
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by boyter 6y ago
For static websites you don't even need that. The OS disk cache kicks in and it becomes more about bandwidth than disk performance.
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The saddest “Just Ship It” story ever(kitze.io)
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How to Code in Go eBook(digitalocean.com)
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by boyter 6y ago
Not from the air... but I hate the 16”. It’s fan is noisy and always powers up under any load. The thermal throttling is horrible. It gets hot enough to be uncomfortable to touch. The cable has coil whine as does the Mac itself. Touchbar...
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What does Unicode support actually mean?(boyter.org)
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Expert Excuses for Not Writing Unit Tests(boyter.org)
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by boyter 6y ago
What I mean is that while the compiler is strict its fairly easy to throw something together that mostly works. The large standard library really helps there. It's certainly not as easy as in Python though.
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by boyter 6y ago
Interestingly my current CLI project https://github.com/boyter/cs/ does need to be stable because I am putting a TUI mode into it... and yes dealing with the dangling goroutines in it for the TUI mode itself is es
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by boyter 6y ago
Go is a particularly good language for CLI's I have found. At least compared to Java/C#/Python. It's reasonably fast, compiles down to a simple to distribute binary, and the language is forgiving enough that you can do e
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by boyter 6y ago
Option 2 specifically public domain isn’t an option for people form some countries like Australia or Germany. They cannot put anything public domain. So please license things and go with MIT or Unlicence if you want it as free as possible.
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Security is not your problem(engineering.kablamo.com.au)
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Who made fy_iceworld? A forensic investigation(rockpapershotgun.com)
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One Thousand Little Breakthroughs(scalyr.com)
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Internet of Rings Building a Slack-Connected Raspberry Pi Doorbell(engineering.kablamo.com.au)
2 points by boyter 7y ago|0 comments
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by boyter 7y ago
https://boyter.org As to why you should read it? I have always tried to show warts and all when it comes to anything technical I post. This includes where I screw up, make mistakes or work with false information. Mostly because
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Amazon Detective Following the Breadcrumbs(engineering.kablamo.com.au)
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SpaceX Competitor OneWeb Is Reportedly Bankrupt(wired.com)
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Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52000 person ReplyAll email storm(theregister.co.uk)
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Windows 10 Outperforming Linux on A –$5000 Laptop, Ubuntu Beating Clear Linux(phoronix.com)
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The Little Scrollbar That Could Not(viva64.com)
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The Evolution of Windows Search(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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