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by halifaxbeard 3y ago
There’s also the pop on gear shifts, due to killing the spark on gear shifts for a faster shift. The alternative is that awful dreadful rev-hang in standard transmission cars.
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Potential for silent data loss on ScyllaDB 5.2.x(github.com)
4 points by halifaxbeard 3y ago|0 comments
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by halifaxbeard 3y ago
“The Doctor and Amy take Vincent Van Gogh - who struggled to sell a single painting in his own lifetime - to a Paris art Gallery in the year 2010” https://youtu.be/ubTJI_UphPk
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by halifaxbeard 3y ago
Safari has translate webpage for me
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by halifaxbeard 3y ago
Close. Sharing it on Facebook means you’ll comment on the story on Facebook and not on the linked website hosting the comment. Facebook gets the linger time to show you more ads but the organization doing the actual reporting misses out.
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by halifaxbeard 3y ago
My understanding of the core issue is people aren’t clicking through to read the article, but they’re commenting on Facebook based on the headline. Facebook gets ad views and user-generated content/comments, and the organization doing
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by halifaxbeard 3y ago
Canadian here. You know how “nobody reads the article” before commenting? That phenomenon is massive on Facebook. News organizations are tired of providing fodder for Facebook comment sections and not getting eyeballs on their own websites.
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by halifaxbeard 4y ago
On the declaration when entering Canada there’s the same question, along with this similar one: “ Meat, fish, seafood, eggs, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, plants, flowers, wood, animals, birds, insects, and any parts, pro
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by halifaxbeard 4y ago
Setup Cloudflare on the domain and turn on “bot fight mode”. If the TLS ciphers the client proposes for negotiation doesn’t align with the client’s User-Agent they get a CAPTCHA. I would suspect that whoever is doing this proxy-mirroring is
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by halifaxbeard 4y ago
The best advice I would have for my childhood self is along those lines. Get angry, and hurt them.
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by halifaxbeard 4y ago
The UX for the COVID vaccination bookings webpage in Nova Scotia was, um, not great, and contributed to the problem. We did rollouts by age groups, and generally the appointments in urban areas would be two weeks out, but once you had a vac
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by halifaxbeard 4y ago
I wrote a vaccine booking availability scraper that helped double digits of people get a COVID vaccine a few weeks sooner otherwise.
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by halifaxbeard 4y ago
Yes. The depth of BMW diagnosis tools is impressive. Even more impressive has been the work of scapy around the debug and diagnosis protocols BMW uses. Check it out: https://github.com/secdev/scapy/blob/master
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by halifaxbeard 4y ago
It would certainly help cushion the blow of the death of a team member.
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by halifaxbeard 4y ago
Didn’t Apple also implement togglable memory models for m1 (and I’m assuming m2)?
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by halifaxbeard 5y ago
Yes.
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by halifaxbeard 5y ago
Yes. Should you? It depends, like everything.
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by halifaxbeard 5y ago
There’s no aftermarket/non-OE brake options for the Passat? I find that hard to believe, I thought VW raided Audi for chassis bits for the Passat.
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by halifaxbeard 5y ago
I’ve brought my jetbrains license with me to three jobs. I see an IDE as no different than a mechanic’s tools, and relatively speaking a personal JB license is less money than a mechanic spends on tools in a year.
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by halifaxbeard 5y ago
Postgres’s transactional semantics are really useful when building a queue, because of how it interacts with the various pieces. Connection 1 LISTEN 'job-updates'; Connection 2 BEGIN; INSERT INTO jobs ('a-uuid&#x
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by halifaxbeard 10y ago
I'm currently working with GitHub Support on dealing with zip downloads of a 5GB repo failing after 2-3 minutes, with curl error "transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining". Sure about the long running connection i
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by halifaxbeard 10y ago
I remember asking for a cap table at a startup and in not so few words, was told to fuck off. At that point I realized it didn't matter how many options I had, I was going to get screwed should there be an exit, and made my own.