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by donatj 2y ago
We're passing some sort of threshold where their antics are starting to piss off the normies. I am very curious what comes of that. I have had non-technical friends get so fed up with Windows that they're willing to try Linux. One
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by donatj 2y ago
I have a probably stupid question, but would microwaves like this heat water in the air in any sort of substantial manner? Perhaps with negative climate effects?
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by donatj 2y ago
With modern Content Security Policy restrictions and such most sites now have, previews almost entirely have to be implemented server side to make them work anyway, so no real privacy fears.
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by donatj 2y ago
In the early aughts something like this would have had zero moderation and we'd have just accepted it. This as is it's pretty touchy. And yet I've still seen a handful of antisemitic posts... Sigh.
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by donatj 2y ago
I used Windows from about 1993 to 2006. In 2006 I was given a Mac Mini as a thank you for completing an unpaid internship. I fell in love with macOS and have basically been a macOS user since. At the start of the pandemic I bought a PC to g
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by donatj 2y ago
We sell to K12 schools. Depending on the district sometimes they'll have a single IP for an entire district. If not, often a single IP for the building. This makes things like DoS protection... Interesting as we can regularly have thou
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by donatj 2y ago
I have been writing shell scripts for over twenty years and don't think I have ever encountered a file name with a newline. I have hit file names starting with a dash - though being interpreted as flags at least a few times. Every comm
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by donatj 2y ago
I mean isn't security by obscurity generally accepted as bad practice? If everyone treated it as easily available data, and stopped using the act of having it alone as "proof" of anything we could be much more secure. E.g. me
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by donatj 2y ago
It's kind of bizarre to me that people now days don't think of their address as public information. In the US at least, until about a decade ago, we would get a physical book in the mail every year of everyone in our metro areas
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by donatj 2y ago
When I was in Japan in 2008, I found if I asked someone how to get somewhere they would often just walk you there, even if it was several blocks.
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Running PHP 1.0 in 2024 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by donatj 2y ago|0 comments
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by donatj 2y ago
I'm not a Pythonista, but I think the deal is that line 56 was only executed once, at class definition, so every time the server spun up, you got a new uuid that could only use once
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by donatj 2y ago
Speaking of clobbering each other, min and max are names I had used for variables and functions all over the place. Suddenly they go and add global generic min/max functions and I'm shadowing like crazy. I still don't underst
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by donatj 2y ago
I'm skeptical. As it was pointed out to me, what percentage of things going in those plastic bags is already wrapped in a plastic bag, 90%? The single most useful plastic bag on the outside seems negligible in comparison.
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by donatj 2y ago
I worked for a company that hired a lot of developers straight out of college and I found myself doing a lot of essentially developer mentoring and encountered this daily. I would have to stop and ask "What are you trying to do?"
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Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web(androidauthority.com)
181 points by donatj 2y ago|139 comments
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by donatj 2y ago
Hey hey, WebArchive. Haven't thought about them in a long while. 11-ish years ago I was tasked with porting an existing dotnet application to PHP feature by feature. Their existing application had the strange ability to export reports
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by donatj 2y ago
This poor woman. I feel like auto-brewery syndrome is well known enough in pop culture that I am somewhat stunned it went so long before anyone considered the possibility.
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by donatj 2y ago
My company started making absolutely perplexing decisions. We were bifurcating everything, in a way that seemed like was set to double our workload for a lot of things. It was under the guise of "being more efficient by having fully in
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by donatj 2y ago
I worked for a company where every blog post went through an SEO team and came out keyword laden and unreadable.
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by donatj 2y ago
Their tech stack is essentially a really weird really opinionated custom static site generator that makes improvements difficult. The build process is slow and troublesome. I talked with them about adding an index of authors, and were open
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by donatj 2y ago
What is the financial benefit to Intel in artificially limiting its CPU sockets like this? Logic and reason would have me believe they'd want to sell as many CPUs as possible, and keeping the socket compatible for as long as possible w
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by donatj 2y ago
Après moi, le déluge. After I am dead, publish everything, correspondence, search history, location history, nude photos. I am dead, I cannot care.
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by donatj 2y ago
For the service I primarily work on, we've stuck firmly with REST for our internal APIs despite some mild pressure from elsewhere in the company to move to GraphQL. I personally believe it's been the right choice. Not only would i
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by donatj 2y ago
I think it would be roughly that easy for anyone with basic nginx experience. Nginx includes a php fast-cgi snippet that you just `include` from your server block. It really is very easy.
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by donatj 2y ago
Say what you will about working from home but my company went almost entirely remote after COVID and I have barely spoken to anyone who isn't on my team in 4 years. I used to regularly chat up our support, design and production people
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by donatj 2y ago
I am by no means a Wordpress expert, but I have had to deal with moving clients sites from time to time and I have vivid memories of hardcoded absolute file system paths in the database embedded in serialized PHP that broke when trying to m
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by donatj 2y ago
I am old enough that I still remember people including myself being perplexed why s3 didn't ship with an FTP adapter. They FINALLY added the option in 2020, 14 years late. I do think the storage "space" could use some disrupt
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by donatj 2y ago
The article only touches on it for a moment but GDPR killed big data. The vast majority of the data that any regular business would have and could be considered big almost certainly contained PII in one form or another. It became too much o
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by donatj 2y ago
If we caught had imaginary panels of 100% efficiency, it would take a perpetually sunny area the size of Delaware to match the United States current needs. With the move to electric cars, and the average American family owning 1.88 cars acc

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