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by btown 3y ago
In a way this is a blessing in disguise, because the moment a large car company thinks they can do software well, they'll want that team to be a profit center not a cost center, which means they'll start charging for subscriptions
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by btown 3y ago
The problems with aggregated payments go far beyond just ensuring someone can pay hosting and card processing fees. Who will take chargeback risk? Handle KYC for payouts (especially since many garage bands won’t have business entities)? Han
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by btown 3y ago
Similar to the FG scale in the OP, LOGAF is a fantastic system to use, especially in asynchronous/remote environments. It's radically improved our code review iteration cycles. https://blog.danlew.net/2021/02&
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by btown 3y ago
I often wonder if the only reason we haven't used lisp more as a society, and certainly in the devops world, is because our brains find it easier to parse nested indentation than nested parentheses. But in doing so, we've thrown o
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by btown 3y ago
At the end of the day, Helm's issues stem from two competing interests: (1) I want to write something where I can visualize exactly what will be sent to Kubernetes, and visually compare it to the wealth of YAML-based documentation and
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by btown 3y ago
No doubt they used breach corpuses, but the question is how Trello knows that that was all that the attackers submitted to the endpoint.
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by btown 3y ago
How can they confirm that the email addresses were all from previous breach corpuses without buying said corpuses? Attackers could have been probing for first name + last name combinations to confirm business email addresses, for instance
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by btown 3y ago
Out of curiosity, is Postgres usually able to use a b-tree index's representation of the columnar data for its (set of) columns to calculate a derived value for those column(s), then scan through that in-memory derived data? Certainly
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by btown 3y ago
Has anyone used https://cloud.google.com/database-migration/docs/postgres/qu... to do something like this? Does it work similarly to AWS DMS?
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by btown 3y ago
This is still huge for mobile gaming, though. Per https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl... : > Apple’s commission will be 27% on proceeds you earn from sales (“transactions“) to the user for d
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by btown 3y ago
Meetup had a way to do this: make it opt-in by organizers, then increasing organizer price later on, perhaps even drastically, to incentivize the new structure. Over a year, say, even on organizers who didn't opt in, they could likely
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by btown 3y ago
> also shitpost a lot The parent poster https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig is one of my favorite Twitter accounts. Every day he gives me renewed hope that, no matter how much I wish I had more time to devote to developer expe
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by btown 3y ago
Asahi has a number of ways for people to contribute both code and financial support! https://asahilinux.org/contribute/ https://asahilinux.org/support/ https://www.youtube.com/@Asa
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by btown 3y ago
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/ is a good overview and describes some of the history: > In 2017, then-President, Donald Trump, signed the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs act, which overhauled tax codes and
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by btown 3y ago
Are there any other open-source solutions for this?
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by btown 3y ago
https://supabase.com/blog/react-native-offline-first-waterme... may be of interest. https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-crdt seems to be abandoned but would be the next logical step beyond this.
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by btown 3y ago
And, importantly, it's entirely consistent to hold off on blaming any singular party until the investigation is complete, while simultaneously not wanting to personally fly on a 737 Max!
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by btown 3y ago
Can’t the happy path be branch predicted and speculatively executed, though? AFAIK V8 seems to do this: https://web.dev/articles/speed-v8#the_optimizing_compiler
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by btown 3y ago
On a board with a finite number of squares, is this truly different? The representation of the ruleset may not be the optimal Kolmogorov complexity - but for an experienced human player who can glance at a board and know what is and isn’t l
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by btown 3y ago
As described in the OP's blog post https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/c... - one of the incredible things here is that the standard GPT architecture, trained from scratch fro
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by btown 3y ago
Next up: an AI that can watch a deceptive mobile game ad and actually create the game that they're falsely advertising! Jokes aside, this is very cool. There's always the interesting tension of vendor lock-in vs. portability that
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by btown 3y ago
It's worth noting that, at least on the electronics manufacturing side (which is indeed what we're talking about here) the undeniable success story of TSMC was very much a government-led capital structure from the beginning: http
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by btown 3y ago
FYI a number of streaming sites won't work - while this has Widevine, it does not have Verified Media Path (VMP) which verifies that you're running a signed binary. https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win-AV
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by btown 3y ago
Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor being-fired-from-Mozilla can stop Rust hackers from being Rust hackers :)
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by btown 3y ago
AFAIK Servo's very much active but not yet incorporated into a full-featured browser. You can try it out in a bare-bones browser at https://servo.org/download/ - and https://servo.org/blog/202
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by btown 3y ago
Just like jQuery can lend itself to spaghetti code, but can also be a basis for scalable web apps (I have fond memories of the Backbone.js era!)... React can lend itself to a strong coupling between hierarchy and state management, and that&
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by btown 3y ago
The key word here is DX. If a team is exposed to how the DX of their owned service or library enables others in the company to build things that bring smiles to customers' faces, they'll be able to better design for their downstre
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by btown 3y ago
> became technically easier and easier For those unaware, you can spin up your own direct-to-consumer streaming subscription business in a box (assuming, of course, you have sufficient content to entice viewers) with https://v
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by btown 3y ago
AFAIK it's all about trying to be POSIX-but-not-quite. Via the POSIX spec https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1... : > The first -- argument that is not an option-argument shoul
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by btown 3y ago
Now I'm wondering about a world where OpenAI can treat their compute not as "dedicate this time slice of an A100 to generating tokens for customer A's query" but rather "there is a custom pipeline at a gate level th

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