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by gkbrk 3y ago
CGI is serverless without all the cloud-specific tooling. CGI scripts can work locally, they can work on traditional shared hosts that cost peanuts to use, they even work on AWS Lambda. What's not to like?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> I've installed `clickhouse-client` (a new SQL database), which needs almost 900 MB for just a CLI client clickhouse-client is just a symlink to the main ClickHouse binary. That binary also includes the server and a lot of useful u
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Rust code with unsafe still compiles slowly. And safe subsets of C still compile quickly.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
I have an old and unfinished article [1] that uses geohash / quadtiles to implement the same thing. If your goal isn't "every location on Earth", you have a smaller bounding box (like a country or "all of Europe&quo
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Since these patents are granted by the Chinese government, they can generate an arbitrary number of them to seem like they are innovating. A better metric would be how many other countries and non-Chinese companies are finding those patents
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by gkbrk 3y ago
CTRL-F or grep seem like they would work well
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by gkbrk 3y ago
In Python it's really common to install or depend on packages without specifying or locking versions. When you want to use a new feature that's missing in the version you have, you can upgrade, but in general people expect things
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by gkbrk 3y ago
I've had this happen with VS code. When your system is under load, VS Code not only gets keystrokes in a laggy way, the characters arrive in the wrong order. Haven't had this problem with other text editors.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Yeah, just lock your versions without updating in the JS ecosystem with typical projects having thousands of dependencies, and watch your CVE count go up every day you don't update.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> they want to be on the latest version all the time which obviously will have breaking changes Not very common in sane ecosystems.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Sounds like https://tranco-list.eu/ might be helpful.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> why would they need tofurther break Firefox users' experience To prevent the market share from going up? That's the logical thing to do after spending millions developing and marketing your browser to the number 1 spot. Why w
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Come on, don't sell Google short here. The previous one happened just by changing the UA too :)
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by gkbrk 3y ago
I do the opposite thing, I have a uBlock rule that hides Hacker News usernames from posts and comments. I added this rule in order to prevent any positive or negative biases I might have towards users. I believe it lets me discuss and agree
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> To block that, you have to either tamper with the root servers, or get control of the authoritative servers. I don't think so. The ISP can just reply to the DNS packets itself, without sending them to the root servers. Your local
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Why? You could have a 100% secure website, but if the user gives their credentials to someone else (another website in this case), and that website with bad security gets hacked and leaks the credentials, how is that their fault?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
> no requirement to rotate passwords at regular intervals Password rotations are dumb and do not improve security.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Computers use binary logic and circuits, but with neural networks you can and pretty much always use floating point numbers. That's very analog. There are around 2^52 doubles between 0 and 1. Surely that's enough to represent any
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by gkbrk 3y ago
You can pick instances you federate with, but why do you need to defederate with instances that federate with other instances you dislike? If I want to follow Madonna, and Madonna follows Trump, but the admin of my instance doesn't lik
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by gkbrk 3y ago
It's almost like server-side applications are more reliable.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
You can still use it to get updates from websites you like reading, and then click through to the full page on the website without reading the content inside your feed reader.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Wow, I hope MS doesn't end up making it worse to keep the same pricing. I mean open source models and other closed competitors are both catching up at incredible speeds, but for now Copilot is extremely convenient and I'd pay 2x i
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by gkbrk 3y ago
What is the budget? You can get a VM on AWS for ~3 USD a month. It can run Python 3.12. We cannot know if the hardware will be enough unless you give more details about the app and the traffic you expect to handle. You can also run your app
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by gkbrk 3y ago
wigle.net is really handy for finding open wifi networks when you want to work outside or use the internet without a data plan.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
People really forget that you can pay a small amount of money for paperwork and legally call yourself CEO, CTO or any other position you want in your own company.
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by gkbrk 3y ago
- All Electronics Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AllElectronicsChannel RF electronics, Digital Signal Processing - ElectroBoom: https://www.youtube.com/@ElectroBOOM Electronics - 3Blue1Brow
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Which is lovely, can you imagine how many bots there would be, posting "helpful" comments that are just noise?
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by gkbrk 3y ago
You know you can override the font size, or just press Ctrl-+ and your browser will make text larger. The same thing for colors, why do you want every single website everywhere to have optimal display settings for your preference or arbitra
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by gkbrk 3y ago
A lot of people prefer the visual noise of { and } to having to manually fix the indentation of code and still having the visual noise of :
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by gkbrk 3y ago
Any reference for this? I would have guessed Copilot and Tabnine were both making money.

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