danudey

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by danudey 2y ago
MySQL feels more "modern" (in the context of the early 2000s when I started using it), in that it seemed to know it existed in an environment with other tools; for example, authentication was handled internally and was unrelated t
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by danudey 2y ago
It's very rare that the client protocol changes dramatically and in an incompatible way, so typically nothing changes and no one notices. I've seen a few rare cases where an update to the client library is required for improvement
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by danudey 2y ago
MySQL, for all its faults, actually handles this quite well. Generally speaking, assuming there aren't any major backwards-incompatibilities (which there haven't often been in my experience), you can start up the old server in pla
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by danudey 2y ago
In my experience, the fuss around "AI" and the complete lack of actual explanations of what current "AI" technologies mean leads people to fill in the gaps themselves, largely from what they know from pop culture and sci
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by danudey 2y ago
Make also supports a ton of other features that a lot of people don't use (or don't directly use) or understand. It's possible to create makefile targets which say "Don't run this other target on my behalf, but if y
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by danudey 2y ago
IIRC part of it is that the software itself can make connections between separate data sets. You're not just ingesting data about purchasing information and drug convictions and so on, you're getting automatic relationship detecti
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by danudey 2y ago
I've seen some interesting articles lately on Forbes' transition from news site to content farm. I couldn't find the one I originally read, but this one seems to be covering the same bases. https://www.nearmedia.co
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by danudey 2y ago
> It seems needlessly expensive to me to run empty buses. But there's the counterpoint: if you increase service on a route that isn't full already, then you 1. Create more frequent, more reliable transit for people 2. Run more
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by danudey 2y ago
> Why don't we try to induce demand on public transit? Make it cheaper, subsidize it like we subsidize roads/parking, add additional routes. Good systems do; most systems don't, for lots of reasons. 1. Public transit is fo
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by danudey 2y ago
I'm not sure if "search engine that was good and is now sometimes crappy and full of ads" is worse than "AI-powered plagiarism factory"[0]. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2024
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by danudey 2y ago
> it's now just sponsored spam Is it? I get a lot of product recommendations from Amazon that aren't sponsored. For example, we bought a countertop dishwasher a few years ago, and then for two months afterwards Amazon kept show
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by danudey 2y ago
If you copy the app over to your work Macbook it should ask you to authenticate to the App Store when you try to launch it so that it can validate your license. IIRC this doesn't cause it to save that login to the app store but just do
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by danudey 2y ago
This is an old example, but - date/time parsing. A coworker of mine years ago was trying to parse out some large logfiles and it was running incredibly slowly (because the log file was huge). Just for fun he profiled the code and found
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by danudey 2y ago
> explicitly define the Content-Length up-front (clients then usually don't like it if you send too little and servers don't like it if you send too much) We had a small router/firewall thing at a previous company that had
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by danudey 2y ago
So since abusers, stalkers, and harassers can't just log out to view the blocker's posts, X is making it so that they can view those posts without logging out or changing to an alt account. That makes it a lot more convenient for
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by danudey 2y ago
Why should I have to work from the office just because other people would like to?
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by danudey 2y ago
"Breakthrough" devices have to be devices which show a significant improvement to quality of life over existing treatments for "life threatening or irreversably debilitating" conditions, using breakthrough technology in
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by danudey 2y ago
Is this true, or anecdotal? Personally, every time I decide "I'm going to check out this streamer's live stream" I always end up joining at some point where they're getting set up, they're taking a break, they&
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by danudey 2y ago
> More likely than movies, you might find your game patched to add or remove content you do not want. Well this is a complicated point. A lot of games these days rely on digital distribution for day-one patches, a practice which allows d
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by danudey 2y ago
Not just buying used games, but borrowing games as well. Being able to swap games with friends is a pretty compelling offer. (I'm all-digital and have been for the last nine years, but there are compelling reasons not to go that route)
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by danudey 2y ago
With 7z compression level 9, the .sqlite archive comes down to 61 MiB, which is about a 92% file size reduction.
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by danudey 2y ago
You can also get adapters that allow you to connect any standard watch band you can find at a store to an Apple Watch. Example: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07YTN8VY4/ Probably makes it even easier to find watch band
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by danudey 2y ago
`go telemetry local` will gather local data but not upload it.
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by danudey 2y ago
Also a lot of CI is "start a VM/container, run the build, save the artefacts, wipe everything", whereas the telemetry data is only uploaded every however often; most CI systems wouldn't collect data for long enough to ac
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by danudey 2y ago
Theoretically it thins out the workforce by triggering resignations in the people who are the least invested in your company; the ones who really "get it" will stick with the company and RTO. In reality, it thins out the workforce
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by danudey 2y ago
Yep: https://beta.music.apple.com/ At least that one works in Firefox though.
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by danudey 2y ago
Being in Canada makes Amazon seem entirely unhinged. I'll see something on Wirecutter or some other review site, click through to Amazon.com and see that it's only $64. Great. Switch to Amazon.ca and it's $350, presumably bec
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by danudey 2y ago
> then to an open office environment which was hellish enough that it got me to quite my job and vow to never work in such an environment again. We're moving to an open plan office design, to help people collaborate and interact in
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> So while you can write down a prescription and cut a person open you can't manually do things pull up the patient's medical history for the last 10 years in a few seconds, have an image read remotely when there isn't a r
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by danudey 2y ago
You can continue to record audio in the background, but you can't use the API to just listen all the time, like "hey siri" does, and then open the app and act on it.

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