dherls

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by dherls 14d ago
Basic details from post: * $2.99 one-time fee to register without a phone number * Only works with Google in-app purchases right now, but they are working to expand to other payment methods * An ID and Key are generated for these accounts w
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Signal releases phonenumber-less signups in beta(community.signalusers.org)
1 points by dherls 14d ago|1 comments
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by dherls 14d ago
This whole website appears to be Claude slop articles about Postgres.
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by dherls 5mo ago
Seems needlessly angry about what is ultimately a decent if imperfect source of entropy, and a good illustrative example for the general public
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by dherls 5mo ago
Giving LLM agents direct, autonomous access to a real production databases with write access seems insane to me. NO ONE, agent or human, should have direct write access to production databases outside of emergency break glass scenarios. Thi
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The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened(forbes.com)
241 points by dherls 6mo ago|199 comments
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by dherls 6mo ago
The author fails to mention any of the negative effects they experience due to this go version selection. They say that the effect is "viral" but don't give any concrete examples of why it's a bad thing to keep your tool
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by dherls 9mo ago
It's much easier to detect a single account abusing your API and ban them/require payment. Trying to police an endpoint open to the internet is like playing g whackamole
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by dherls 9mo ago
Really impressive that it's implemented in < 400 lines of Javascript code and runs so smoothly in my phone's browser (Firefox on Android)
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by dherls 9mo ago
I would definitely recommend not putting complex logic like this in your cron definitions. Much more annoying to find and debug in the future. I prefer to write a short wrapper script that contains the test logic instead and track/vers
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by dherls 10mo ago
Some of the alternatives that the author suggests (Slack, Discord, Matrix rooms) are so much worse to search for answers in. Stack overflow has many disadvantages, but it is extremely good at being a publicly searchable repository of answer
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by dherls 11mo ago
Even in the case you mention you really shouldn't be overriding these methods. Your load settings method should take the path of the settings file as an argument, and then your test can set up all the fake files you want with something
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by dherls 11mo ago
This blog post talks as if mocking the `open` function is a good thing that people should be told how to do. If you are mocking anything in the standard library your code is probably structured poorly. In the example the author walks throug
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by dherls 11mo ago
I like how the article uses "Googling" as a verb meaning to shut down a service
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by dherls 11mo ago
I think the sandwich demo is really good. Once you establish the sandwich idea you can start zooming out to OK now you have a cook making multiple sandwiches, now you have a whole kitchen, and use that to talk about levels of abstraction an
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by dherls 1y ago
I think the "joke" is if the US government orders a company to hand over that data, the fact that the servers are physically in the EU won't stop anything
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by dherls 1y ago
A solution could be enforcing hardware keys for 2FA for all maintainers if a package has more than XX thousand weekly downloads. No hardware keys, no new releases.
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by dherls 1y ago
Another scummy tracking move from Meta, shouldn't be surprised. In general I think browsers should prevent websites reaching out to localhost without explicit opt-in from the user.
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by dherls 1y ago
With Java, there are a lot of usability issues with checked types. For example streams to process data really don't play nicely if your map or filter function throws a checked exception. Also if you are calling a number of different se
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by dherls 1y ago
I'm confused why it's encrypted as a JPEG image per frame instead of one AES encrypted video file. Since the same AES key is used for each frame it wouldn't add any additional security imo
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by dherls 2y ago
Charitable, use of system level randomness primitives can be audited by antivirus/EDR.
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by dherls 2y ago
I was thinking that one solution might be to specify that the "justification" also has to be a justified true belief. In this case, the justification that you see a cow isn't true, so it isn't a JTB. Of course that devol
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by dherls 2y ago
> These interviews can identify candidates with strong problem-solving skills and logical reasoning abilities. I would disagree with this premise. Leetcode identifies people who have just finished cramming for Leetcode questions. You don