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by fdr 4y ago
I disagree with the author. Text explaining a "why" are often contemporaneous. To put it all in the source text would be too bloated and too prone to bitrotting into misinformation to be useful. To increase concision to the point
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by fdr 4y ago
me too. Large, even medium-large private bureaucracies may have also made it a challenge.
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by fdr 4y ago
I thought the link to the "Memory Pool System" they maintain was interesting. I can't think of too many stand-alone alternatives to libgc (by the somewhat famous author, Boehm) out there. The source has a small Scheme interpr
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by fdr 4y ago
it's been occasionally suggested. There are limits: for example, maybe during initial creation, sure, it can pack for you, but as you start adding and dropping fields it gets more complex, and databases of consequence tend to have long
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by fdr 4y ago
I think you're right. The expected value of a result is generally low in these fundamentally geographical applications that try to avoid displaying a map. There tends to be both inclusion and exclusion error, and viewing things on a ma
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by fdr 4y ago
Six months is not unwise, in my view.
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by fdr 4y ago
they did, but in a way rather odd, where they have a remark in the law that "fish" are a shorthand for, among other things, invertebrates. I wonder if such a drafting choice would be made today, in the presence of the modern word
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by fdr 4y ago
Inflation is (over a long enough time) embedded in stock price, since what you own is really a share of the production and assets of the firm you purchased a share in...it only happens to be denominated in dollars. If a firm you bought stoc
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by fdr 4y ago
Much better friction. It's especially noticeable with synthetically sheathed ropes, including the abundant and inexpensive paracord format. I also find I can tie and untie it faster: the taut line hitch requires finding and threading t
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by fdr 4y ago
I took pandemic time to learn some knots, and then forget a bunch of them that didn't offer enough distinct utility to me. I highly recommend the Farrimond Friction Hitch: https://www.animatedknots.com/farrimond-fricti
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by fdr 4y ago
EBS has always been RAID. You need more.
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by fdr 4y ago
....that seems like an unusually enormous number of partitions.
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by fdr 4y ago
Depends what is meant by "failed." I worked there for a long time, in the earlier days. I also used it quite a bit after I left. From my point of view, as a mere customer of their mass-market product (a.k.a. cedar) with some insig
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by fdr 4y ago
Probably. There are old legends about why they're not in, when it's really more a laundry list as to how they are perhaps somewhat less useful than people think. My personal opinion is that missing from the equation is that it&#x2
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by fdr 4y ago
Looks like it's addressed in an update to https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2413 The compromised tokens could provide the threat actor access to customer GitHub repos, but not customer Heroku accounts While th
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by fdr 4y ago
It's a good book. I thought these passages were memorable: it shows you how quickly a situation can deteriorate, especially under an all-consuming pressure...like total mobilization for war. In its issue of November 11, 1938, the Kro
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by fdr 5y ago
As you said, it's not easy. This is the long and the short of it. Especially if you want to compress multiple pages together and somehow reasonably handle compression of toasted values across multiple rows and pages. That said, there h
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by fdr 5y ago
I'm referring to WSL1. Putting Linux in a nicely integrated VM is not so much a neat trick or as ambitious (and that's good).
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by fdr 5y ago
It's also incredibly slow. It was a pretty neat trick but kind of gobsmacking in its ambition (which eventually caught up with those implementing it).
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by fdr 5y ago
I find this article overstated. I ran some Postgres databases on ZFS for specialty needs for some time, mostly to take advantage of compression. It can be quite potent for this, though the amplification of CPU usage with a pathological acce
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by fdr 5y ago
Is there an equivalent or improved variant of the rsyslog-style character substitution method? While I accept my syslog locally via unix datagram (thus, a supplement that fixes protocol framing issues), I must stream it elsewhere via TLS.
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by fdr 5y ago
I've used syslog-ng for a number of years now, starting because the configuration file format is much more cogent than the somewhat more common-as-a-default rsyslog. From what I can tell, the engineering is generally quite impressive,
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by fdr 5y ago
A long time ago, I wrote something similar ( https://github.com/htcat/htcat ) to assist with Heroku's efforts to speed up moving the tar formatted application releases around. It's pretty old, it doesn't
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by fdr 5y ago
I used this set-up for about a year. It was fine, I even used it on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I found that you'd definitely have to know way more about the principles of the ssh-agent system and smartcards (and GPG's need for a lon
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by fdr 5y ago
Personally, I think they would entertain it, but the implementation has to be fairly good and they have to be up for maintaining whatever that implementation is. There was a lot of hemming and hawing about hot standby & replication for
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by fdr 5y ago
Don't sweat it too much, but it sounds to me like this organization has communication problems, and it's not really realistic to expect a fresh face to industry to identify them consistently and act proactively. I personally think
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by fdr 5y ago
I recently picked up OSM mapping. The tools are way better than ten years ago when I had a look: I like both the web editor and the "Go Map!!" iOS application. My motivation is mostly so that I can have accurate results when visit
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by fdr 5y ago
This is what I do as well. Most schema structure is on tables that are not very large, and it's nice especially when dealing with multiple environments to prevent errors, or to produce schemas with some polymorphism or joins between se
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by fdr 5y ago
I use it frequently. Unit conversions, and the solver.
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by fdr 5y ago
The regulations may have been written with architectural rules of thumb in mind, as in, "surely no one would..."

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