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by hnick 5y ago
We setup a new lower-end AWS server for dev only and had to disable it because it was impossible to login or run SQL Server queries due to hitting quotas. Probably a bug in the implementation, but couldn't find a better fix. We do have
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You say that but a lot of people just can't get over the sigils.
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Perl makes you think differently. True for all languages I guess, but maybe a little truer for Perl than most. I've moved on but still use it for simple scripting tasks despite doing my best to learn Python. I just feel so expressive a
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> I work for Google Search, passed your feedback along, thanks. You said in the post that quotes don't give exact matches. They really do. Honest. Put a word or phrase in quotes, that's what we'll match. If anyone has an e
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Mastery is a big one. Getting better at something feels good, even useless things. This ties into "progress", which is what a lot of games are doing to give us a false sense of mastery (collect the things, get the rote achievement
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And recycling that just gets diverted to landfill since China stopped taking it.
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It might, I'm not familiar but after a quick look it seems to operate on a vetted trust model i.e. you can use these because we checked and they are compatible. So you could miss out on a lot of the ecosystem. I was leaning more toward
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I'm not even sure it's not a fool's errand with the current software ecosystem. I think at some point it will have to be a language level feature. The ability to sandbox or provide permissions to packages/functions. Just
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You can use a slow validation function (bcrypt) to naturally rate limit login attempts, or log login attempts somewhere and do it based on that in the code layer. Most login schemes will have at least a basic database with a users table so
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This basically happened to me on a site, sans cookie. It sent notifications when customers left reviews. The convenient user experience is, when someone leaves a review, to forward the email with the review to the customer and ask how we ca
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Then you either have: 1) A different salt each time, meaning the server must know your plaintext password to validate, or 2) The same salt every time, in which case the hash is essentially the password since that's all the attacker has
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The day I started work, we had the ability to browse and restore backups on our Solaris system via a Windows GUI. It was useful to retrieve archived data and job state like old logs. Within a month another graduate developer had accidentall
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The problem is that "games" is one word, but we really have two core types of game. Some games focus on mechanical skills or rules akin to a sport or boardgame, others are an interactive narrative experience. This interactive expe
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Apologies for the video link but I couldn't find a write-up yet. This is a (very) slightly more technical followup to the original story by Josh Strife Hayes on his channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1v6vxENXbg
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New World was completely broken today – Dupes, Crashes and more [video](youtube.com)
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Poached chicken is also quite nice in the right place, like Hainanese chicken rice.
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I had to turn Outlook rules off due to an issue temporarily. I was getting over 1500 notification emails a day that I usually just auto-delete. They just email entire departments and have us setup rules for things we don't care about,
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I actually visited Ikea this afternoon and noticed they had the regular ones, but also one they blew up on A3 basically filling the page. Sensible Swedes.
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Dictatorships tend to be more efficient at getting things done ;) They could do so much more with the check ins. We had a rule that one household member could leave once per day for essential shopping. It would be trivial to get people in t
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How about backups? I struggle with it a bit for our home office.
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Here we get a PDF for our vaccination status. Easily faked of course, but they only really started checking them after we "reopened" 2 days ago when we hit the required vaccination rate for gyms, bars, etc.
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They don't need to know where you are, they just need to know when you checked in/out along with a business identifier. Syncing the data later when you're back online would do this fine. I checked my history the other day and
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Somewhat related, there was a thread that raised the issue on Reddit a little while ago. Mostly anecdotes/complaints, but some technical discussions too (with varying levels of accuracy). https://www.reddit.com/r/s
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I fully admit it's a baseless conspiracy theory :) Perhaps it happened in the early days to get traction if not now, or perhaps not, but anyway thanks for the information.
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> Reddit: As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, they created tons of fake accounts to show a community. My personal conspiracy theory right now is that they're behind 90% of awards on posts. It costs them nothing and normalises the
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Hearing loss and age often go hand in hand, so it makes sense that the music has to be too loud for us to sound just right to some of them.
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Or simply change your perspective on what porn is, and it's already there. "Feet pics when?!?"
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Probably fine for a journalist to argue, but I'd guess a tech guy saying it's "research" won't have much luck.
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Dozens? The 4chan post said "almost 6,000 internal Git repositories". We don't use git at work (TFS, yay), and we definitely aren't on their scale, but that seems high to me. Do they have a repo for every class? Is this
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I saw them doing microphone licking lately. Apparently that's popular.

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