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by gwbas1c 1y ago
It's funny: "in my head," Handbrake and ffmpeg are two different tools, with very different purposes. Even though they "do the same thing," the context when I use one over the other is very different. Handbrake is e
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Rust wasn't available at the time. It probably won't come as a surprise to you, but I am a big fan of Rust.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
You were able to manage everything through the command line the entire time. Now I will admit I am more of a point-and-click person; but if I had to I could have figured out how to use the command line.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Years ago I did a project where we followed a lot of strict immutability for thread safety reasons. (Immutable objects can be read safely from multiple threads.) It made the code easier to read because it was easier to track down what could
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
You can take once-in-a-lifetime experiences in your 20s and still save for retirement. I went to Burning Man and traveled to Amsterdam in my 20s and that didn't impact my savings. I should point out that it's cheaper to travel whe
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
They're all run on a shoestring: 1: I doubt they're "with it" enough to put together a backup arrangement for internet. 2: Their internet problems are probably due to a cheapo router, loose wire, ect. 3: The employees pr
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> no way whatsoever to access most/all of your services I work on a product hosted on Azure. That's not the case. Except for front door, everything else is running fine. (Front door is a reverse proxy for static web sites.) The
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Ahh, but you forget what it used to be like. Sites used to go down all the time. Now, they go down a lot less frequently, but when they do, it's more widespread.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I haven't had a stroke, and many of these tips are, IMO, important for the unimpaired productive software developer.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
No, it's only if you forward the body to another HTTP request. If you're deserializing to an object, you are not vulnerable. Blanket disallowing old HTTP depends on who is calling your web service: I don't think modern browse
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I've always wondered, if you started recording audio, can you treat the least significant bit as random? Perhaps as an alternative to a real hardware random number generator?
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
What's an IEM?
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
This just sounds like the fallacy of ignoring corner / minority use cases. A minority of users might encounter a flaw in a corner case, but if that's an important corner case, it's a defect: IE, Airpods might only be used on
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
IANAL: I don't know how you can post something publicly on the internet and say, this is for X, Y isn't allowed to view it. I don't think there's any kind of AI crawler that's savvy enough to know that it has to f
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> Yeah, US hospital billing is based on the idea that the patient has insurance and won't really care about what their insurer gets charged. Not quite: US hospital billing is based on the idea that the insurance company does the ha
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I feel like we need a different programming paradigm that's more suited to LLM's strengths; that enables a new kind of application. IE, think of an application that's more analog with higher tolerances of different kinds of u
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> You can usually tell a prototype that is pretending to be a human PR, but a real PR a human makes with AI assistance can be indistinguishable. A couple of weeks ago I needed to stuff some binary data into a string, in a way where it wo
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Basically, if you handle the request at the stream level, there's a small chance you might be vulnerable. For example, let's say you have an HTTP API that checks a few headers and then makes another outgoing HTTP request. You mi
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I wonder if this will be more/less useful than what we have with AI in software development. There's a lot less to understand than a whole codebase. I don't do spreadsheets very often, but I can emphasize with tracking down &
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
1300 and 1320 look like drug paraphernalia.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> It is reasonable for companies to increasingly target that small part of population and sell them the same (small) number of widgets /services in higher prices and see their profits go up. (Joke), well, if they keep convincing the
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
As I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690085 : This looks like something that needs to be done before the house is built, under the foundation / slab? Or did I read it incorrectly? Either way, I had to reall
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
It was a manufacturing problem with the lineset: https://minisplit-services.com/blog/f/why-is-white-line-set-... > The white insulation material, typically made of polyethylene or similar compounds, was found t
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
My mini-split was installed sometime between fall 2017 or spring 2018 when my house was built. It failed when it was 6 years old, and the lineset had to be replaced because there was too much acid in the insulation and it corroded the coppe
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Remember: The season that you need heat is the season with the least sunshine. Solar is only cheap as you claim due to net metering; without pairing it with batteries or some other form of storage, you're pushing your heating cost on o
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
That wikipedia article makes a whole lot more sense defining what the traffic light protocol is. At first I thought this was some kind of tech protocol that's implemented by a computer. Now I realized it's an informal protocol.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The ability to do original, academic research without the pressure to build something marketable.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
At the time (2010), MongoDB was intended (from the creators) for handling high volumes of data where some loss was tolerable. What happened was that its document model, and flexible index model, made it very attractive as an easy-to-use dat
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I built something similar years ago. These are terribly hard to build, so I did a bit of digging. 1: This appears to be backed by a French company called Linagoria. I don't know much about the company, but they've been around for
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Chuwi sells USB-C Charger that fries other devices, blames the customer(forum.chuwi.com)
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