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by degamad 1y ago
A few different options, depending on the client. One went to a competing "commercial off-the-shelf" product. Another hired a company to build a system in a low-code application platform running on .NET. Yet another went to a diff
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by degamad 1y ago
I've had a bunch of recent projects reverse-engineering old COBOL code, in financial services. Mostly to figure out the best way to replace the old systems with something newer, so not really as a "COBOL dev", though.
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by degamad 1y ago
The phys.org link does have this relevant statement as to why those two are a different type of thing: > Although other types of magnetism, such as diamagnetism and paramagnetism have been categorized, these describe specific responses t
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by degamad 1y ago
There are some behaviours which are classically regionally identified, but they tend to be the exception to the rule... Italians talking with their hands, the Indian head-wobble, the East-Asian squat, etc.
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by degamad 1y ago
I was able to play without an account, when did it force you to create one?
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by degamad 1y ago
Cute game! A way to sign up without a google account would be nice, but since it's playable without it, that's good enough for me for now.
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by degamad 1y ago
node is not the default in js projects either, it's just the currently most popular manager. Old JS projects are their own bundle of fun.
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by degamad 1y ago
The question is, which is better: 24/7 shift work (so that someone is always at work to respond, with disrupted sleep schedules at regular planned intervals) or 24/7 on-call (with monitoring and alerting that results in random int
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by degamad 1y ago
From the "About this Document" page ( https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel-annotated/node3.... ) About this document ... The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated This document was generat
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by degamad 1y ago
Many (most?) sites that I have used passkeys on allow having multiple passkeys linked to the same account.
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by degamad 1y ago
It was robust against disruption, but it was not secure against attacks. The threat model that was considered was bombs blowing up routers, but at the time, intermediaries intercepting traffic was not considered.
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by degamad 1y ago
> Did you ever think there's a reason why people are paying for professional tools like Cursor or Claude Code instead of using free ChatGPT? Because free ChatGPT wasn't useful to them, and someone convinced them that LLMs becom
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by degamad 1y ago
It is well known that people are bad at taking drugs that work for them. This is particularly well studied when it comes to heart medication, the kind where you take it regularly or you die, and yet adherence is often around 50%. From a qui
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by degamad 1y ago
As an Australian English and Indian English speaker and a mathematician, I have never heard the word plurality outside of discussions of the US political system. I have seen nitpicking on whether the word majority is the right word for a re
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by degamad 1y ago
So relevant that it's even linked in the readme as advice to users! :-)
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by degamad 1y ago
> if a user were to bookmark /todos/123 or press reload in the browser, the browser would ultimately ask the underlying HTTP server for that file. As you mentioned, you would need a 404 page configured to fetch that - but that
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by degamad 1y ago
Previously: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18775099 > Libpostal: A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world - 117 points by polm23 on Dec 29, 2018 (25 comments) < https:/&
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by degamad 1y ago
Ditto - I was impressed with how well it handled the weird edge cases in our data. They've managed to create a great working implementation of a very, very small model of a very specific subset of language.
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by degamad 1y ago
I think you're onto something with "agency". In particular, "a car hit him" seems much less out-of-place than "a ball hit him", but we're more used to treating cars as first-class objects with agency,
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by degamad 1y ago
In theory? No reason. In practice? Because no (vaguely successful) LLMs have been trained that way.
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by degamad 1y ago
> Why would you ever want to amplify a false understanding that has the potential to affect serious decisions across various topics? We know that Newton's laws are wrong, and that you have to take special and general relativity into
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by degamad 1y ago
I think the idea is that if make clean allows the build to complete correctly, then the underlying issue is that the "mistake in the build script, incorrectly declared dependency, or similar" was causing the cached build results t
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by degamad 1y ago
Yep, both eventually link to https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00692-2 "Nonlinear dynamics of multi-omics profiles during human aging"
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by degamad 1y ago
Correct - we knew we could do that with balls, but can you do it with a pyramid? It initially seems like there would always be at least two stable surfaces for a pyramid, but this group managed to figure out how to do it with only one stabl
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by degamad 1y ago
If I have an internal developer in such a scenario, then what makes most sense to me is to issue them a code-signing certificate or equivalent, and whitelisting anything signed by that certificate[1], combined with logging and periodic audi
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by degamad 1y ago
Bearer tokens have a defined scope, which could be used to limit functionality in a similar way to pre-signed requests. However, the s3 pre-signed requests functionality was launched in 2011, but the Bearer token RFC 6750 wasn't standa
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by degamad 1y ago
(2021)
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by degamad 1y ago
Could you try crocheting something for a purpose? Say, make small stuffed toys to donate to a local charity? That way, the task becomes "meaningful" and thus worthy of the additional time and focus that it demands, without becomin
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by degamad 1y ago
I thought iMacs preceeded iPods, but my memory may be failing me... The iMac was the original rebirth of the flagging Mac image...
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by degamad 1y ago
Yep, mine is for my wife and a couple of friends to contribute only, and they're able to do so just fine. There are no public repositories on it, and the url is not published anywhere.

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