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by deskr 2y ago
Imagine if the subscriptions were opt in every month. You'd get an email: "Want to extend your subscription by a month? Click here." That'd be wonderful for consumers and terrible for shitty companies. But it should be
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by deskr 2y ago
If I change the language in the demo, it removes all my text and replaces it with a template text. That's bad.
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by deskr 2y ago
Sadly the way the subscription system is abused, this doesn't sound crazy at all.
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by deskr 2y ago
You might also find Sonic Pi interesting: https://sonic-pi.net/
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by deskr 2y ago
This is interesting. What I would have sold me the idea is a screen recording of someone programming and playing a few examples.
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by deskr 2y ago
It's not exactly the surprise of the century that running your own services, let alone a security platform, requires maintenance. What was it specifically that made it a "maint burden of the first order?"
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by deskr 2y ago
> and they still fail to catch even some remarkably simple cases I totally agree. Although I'd say that there isn't anything "remarkably simple" about writing a bash script. Anything in the shell scripting world that
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by deskr 2y ago
If you're writing scripts, use that and don't forget -e and -u -e Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a single simple command), a list, or a compound command (see SHELL GRAMMAR above), exits with a non-z
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by deskr 2y ago
> So he launched a nuke. You can't just end there. Let me continue: So he launched a nuke and got his ass nuked.
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by deskr 2y ago
I can understand the test frustration on both sides. * He's being asked to fix tests that were already failing. That can be an enormous task depending on the nature of the failure and the code base. * The team doesn't want to merg
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by deskr 2y ago
> Why this approach is not more common? Because file system excels at handling files. Need an atomic update? Checkout into a new directory and switch a symlink. I've seen various versions of using a database as a filesystem. They ha
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by deskr 2y ago
There will also be many more people that can't read. Sure, they can read simple sentences but not an article.
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by deskr 2y ago
> in Microsoft git fork for now Wait, what? Has MS forked git?
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by deskr 2y ago
> mostly because figuring things out is fun I also think that figuring things out is one of life's most rewarding experiences. But I've found out a lot of people don't think like that. I've often been asked "but
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by deskr 2y ago
> ... auto-generated code (that many people would avoid in principle anyway) Auto generated code is 100% enough, sometimes.
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by deskr 2y ago
DIYOAJFTSOI, dude! (Don't invent your own acronyms just for the sake of it)
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by deskr 2y ago
This will encourage people to compose a write only, Perl-esque horrors. Euthanize this atrocious abomination right away.
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by deskr 2y ago
He also collects and displays all the previous letters he's got from the BBC: http://www.bbctvlicence.com/ They get increasingly threatening and aggressive. I'd guess that the OCR code scanning is to confirm that
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by deskr 2y ago
> ... satellite maker Boeing to address an anomaly that emerged earlier that day, but “believe it is unlikely that the satellite will be recoverable.” Yeah, the satellite disintegrates and they call it an "anomaly" and "un
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by deskr 2y ago
As a side note, you can also simulate various network problems in the linux kernel via tc: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/network-failures-simulation
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by deskr 2y ago
I don't think I visualize anything when programming. It's more like I'm assembling a factory, conveyor belts, cogs, switches and stuff. I just know where everything is. I'm still not sure if I have aphantasia or not. I c
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by deskr 2y ago
I was referring to the link posted to HN: https://graphite.rs/
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by deskr 2y ago
1. When this red error message is displayed, I'd have loved to see a "report this bug/issue/incident" next to it. That button would have opened a dialog box for me to write in, and telling that the context would be
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by deskr 2y ago
I'd suggest allowing bug reports directly from the app. You can capture highly useful context with the report. You have highly technical people here eager to help your wonderful creation!
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by deskr 2y ago
If I click with a drawing tool on the drawing and my drawing disappears and gets replaced with that screen, that's 100% a bug, no matter how we try to phrase that.
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by deskr 2y ago
Some suggestions: I was doing something and then suddently I got a red error message, "The document cannot be rendered in it current state", instructing me to click the Node Graph button. 1. I couldn't find that button. Perh
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by deskr 2y ago
This is one of the more interesting projects I've seen for a while. Excellent landing page by the way.
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by deskr 2y ago
Let's hope countries like China and India will put the same pressure on their industry. Otherwise we're just offloading work to them even further.
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by deskr 2y ago
Sadly, 1.3 MB is nothing on the modern web, especially for a static file. BBC's frontpage loads 3.78 MB. https://www.bbc.co.uk/
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by deskr 2y ago
According to this article, Prabhakar Raghavan is the main cause of google's destruction: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ Do you remember how Yahoo went from pretty bad to awfully shit? Guess

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