danielheath

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by danielheath 6mo ago
It feels snappy _compared with most sites_. That's the point! It feels _very_ sluggish if I try it after spending some time using a windows 98 VM, or a library catalog from 1990.
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by danielheath 6mo ago
Every time there's a new discussion of some arm board, I compare the price / features / power use with the geekom n100 SBC I picked up awhile back. As far as I can tell, the OrangePi 6 remains distinctly uncompetitive with SB
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by danielheath 6mo ago
The negative/positive distinction is (you must _perform_ this act by <date>) vs (you must _refrain from_ this act <indefinitely>). Additionally, an ultimatum comes with a deadline; a boundary is indefinite (until stated oth
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by danielheath 6mo ago
I get what you’re saying, but Chaucer was not in _my_ lifetime.
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by danielheath 6mo ago
Is this code multithreaded? X could indeed be null, in that case.
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by danielheath 6mo ago
“Valuable humans in transit”, maybe? The “Ancillary” series, for sure.
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by danielheath 6mo ago
To me, the difference is positive vs negative acts. An ultimatum says “you must do X or else I will do Y” A boundary says “you must refrain from X or else I will do Y”.
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by danielheath 6mo ago
Maybe check your network isn't sending web traffic you're not aware of? I'm running firefox and seeing the normal amount.
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by danielheath 7mo ago
The fraud isn’t what he’s being punished for. The ongoing refusal to answer questions under oath is. He could have agreed to talk anytime and been released shortly.
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by danielheath 7mo ago
If a judge says you're in contempt, you'll get charged with contempt immediately - all the people required are present. To charge him with defrauding investors requires a whole different group of people to get involved. Additional
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by danielheath 7mo ago
Having a visual builder tool in an IDE like Delphi or Visual Basic or any of the others. They ship with an existing library of components, you drag and drop them onto a blank canvas, move them around, live preview how they’ll change at diff
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by danielheath 7mo ago
The biggest one for me is the way AWS security groups & IAM work. In AWS, it's straightforward to say e.g. "permit traffic on port X from instances holding IAM role Y". You can easily e.g. get the firewall rules for all y
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by danielheath 7mo ago
I'm one of those people, and I don't agree. Before I drop 5 figures on a single server, I'd like to have some confidence in the performance numbers I'm likely to see. I'd expect folk who are experienced with on-prem
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by danielheath 7mo ago
I switched to my own domain ages ago; it only took 2-3 years to stop getting relevant mail to the old one (I put a forwarding rule in place and just used the new one for everything). Imported all my past mail on day one, forwarding meant I
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by danielheath 7mo ago
They wouldn’t have bought $100 worth of product if the deal weren’t offered, because they didn’t have $100 to spend.
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by danielheath 8mo ago
Found a few aliexpress sellers offering LD2410C's, but all cost 30% more than the webcam I used.
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by danielheath 8mo ago
I did a similar thing with a regular backlit computer screen. It automatically shuts off after 30 seconds of inactivity. I added a $3 webcam, and use openCV to detect motion. If three consecutive frames (sampled 0.5s apart) are each suffici
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by danielheath 8mo ago
I’m not sure they were _introduced_ by switching to serialised, but it means some processes started taking long enough that the existing possibilities for deadlocks became frequent instead of extremely rare.
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by danielheath 8mo ago
Haven’t kept history from the bug tracker back that far, but we definitely hit some pretty awful issues in prod trying to solve race issues with “serialisable”. Big older codebases end up with surprising data access patterns.
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by danielheath 8mo ago
230 is an obvious place to say “if you decide something is relevant to the user (based on criteria they have not explicitly expressed to you), then you are a publisher of that material and are therefore not a protected carriage service.
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by danielheath 8mo ago
SERIALIZABLE is really quite hard to retrofit to existing apps; deadlocks, livelocks, and “it’s slow” show up all over the place when you switch it on. Definitely recommend starting new codebases with it enabled everywhere.
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by danielheath 8mo ago
Acceleration at 1g lets you get to another galaxy in a single human lifetime (although earth will have been swallowed by the sun by the time you arrive). Relativity is pretty counterintuitive.
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by danielheath 8mo ago
Perhaps I’m misremembering, but I feel sure that Siri was much better a decade ago than it is today. Basic voice commands that used to work are no longer recognised, or required you to unlock the phone in situations where hands free operati
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by danielheath 8mo ago
Neither does baking a cake mean you'll get to eat any - but it's clearly a better cake-obtaining strategy than deciding not to bake a cake.
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by danielheath 8mo ago
> Is it perfect? No. Neither is SQL parameterization against all injection attacks. But good is better than nothing. What injection attack gets through SQL parameterization? If you must generate nonsense with an LLM, at least proofread i
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by danielheath 8mo ago
For a unique index, that requires a table check, which - IIRC - isn’t implemented during index updates. The article suggests using a check constraint to get around that - are you saying that does actually check the underlying value when USI
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by danielheath 8mo ago
You doubt that it's a drug? Or you doubt that internal messages describing IG as a drug are relevant to a lawsuit over social media addiction?
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by danielheath 9mo ago
The hash technique for uniqueness isn’t supported for indexes because it doesn’t handle hash collisions. The authors proposed solution suffers the same problem- values which do not already exist in the table will sometimes be rejected becau
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by danielheath 9mo ago
No, but ECC ram gives you _hardware_ parity checks, which is much faster and doesn’t require you to change your code.
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by danielheath 9mo ago
Have you ever tried to make anything nontrivial out of clay? It’s not intellectually straightforward merely because it’s done with your hands.

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