diocles

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by diocles 3y ago
Support looks pretty reasonable (works for 95% of global users) with some caveats around Safari: https://caniuse.com/input-datetime
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by diocles 4y ago
(Not the parent but) one cool CGI-specific problem that always comes to mind is HTTPoxy: https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/server/configuration/ht... You could write this off as a library implementation pr
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by diocles 4y ago
I believe the parent comment was thinking of 1 round trip time. Typically the TCP initial congestion window size is set to 10 packets (RFC 6928), hence ten packets can be sent by the server before waiting for an ACK from the client. So unde
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by diocles 5y ago
For GCP you can enumerate and graph the publicly visible dependencies as per this blog post: https://binx.io/blog/2020/10/03/how-to-find-google-cloud-pla... However, that does not take account of GCP ser
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by diocles 5y ago
"The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking" by Barbara Minto. This approach is taught at consultancy firms to help structure clear written business communication, especially if your audience includes time-poor senior ex
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Tokenizing IT jobs(retout.co.uk)
2 points by diocles 8y ago|0 comments
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Startup Financing Without VC – London Business School(coursera.org)
2 points by diocles 9y ago|0 comments
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by diocles 9y ago
OP here - thanks for that! This blog post represents my slow realisation that PID 1 is even more special than I thought, and the fairly common pattern of running applications without an init system is quite broken.
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Perl as PID 1 under Docker(tech-blog.cv-library.co.uk)
71 points by diocles 9y ago|15 comments
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by diocles 11y ago
I've been thinking about the naming of this library, and I don't think "science" is a good metaphor for what it does. You can only test hypotheses of the form "A is exactly like B" - no bug fixes are allowed, b
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by diocles 11y ago
The ruling itself is available - it's quite a long read: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/david-davis-and-other...
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by diocles 15y ago
I suspect it's also partly an artifact of the article being from 1998. :)
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by diocles 15y ago
Just for fun, I found a hash collision (hardly surprising on an 8-bit hash): aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Copying/pasting the above password doesn't immediately get you the full square - something to do with the s
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by diocles 16y ago
The first thing I spotted was that full domains weren't showing next to the links, so for example, story 3 is currently: Hosni Mubarak has resigned (co.uk) Showing just the last two sections of the domain is clearly unexpected behavi