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by imran-iq 3y ago
But what if it is the credit card company you are dealing with? For example I wanted to cancel one of my credit cards. There was nothing in their FAQ's that mentioned anything around "canceling". There was nothing under &quot
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by imran-iq 3y ago
There's also tup: https://gittup.org/tup/
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Libdns: Core interfaces for universal DNS record manipulation across providers(github.com)
39 points by imran-iq 3y ago|5 comments
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by imran-iq 3y ago
https://blog.imraniqbal.org/ Random stuff posted infrequently
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by imran-iq 3y ago
Django docs come to mind
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by imran-iq 3y ago
This is what I see on a linux machine with only 6GB of ram: https://blog.imraniqbal.org/ram/ (TL:DR OOM errors and the kernel starts reaping processes) Just seems so odd as I remember playing gta vice city on a pentium
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by imran-iq 3y ago
The samsung galaxy s5[0] had a easily replaceable battery while keeping its waterproof rating --- 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S5
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by imran-iq 3y ago
> Java isn't more scalable, stable or simple than any other solution, that's Java consultancy bullshit. Twitter would disagree[0]. > We now have the capacity to serve 10x the number of requests per machine. This means we can
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by imran-iq 3y ago
This reminds me of a vim koan[0]: > Master Pope once dreamt he was an Emacs user. When he awoke, he exclaimed: > “I do not know if I am Tim Pope dreaming I am an Emacs user, or an Emacs user dreaming I am Tim Pope!” --- 0: https:&#x2
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by imran-iq 3y ago
Allegedly this isn't the first time something like this has happened[0]. Just feels like more open source drama tbh. --- https://twitter.com/__phantomderp/status/1662235332375347202
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by imran-iq 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_... Started off as an April's fools joke, people liked it enough to keep it in.
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by imran-iq 3y ago
> For all the stories about malicious packages on PyPI and whatnot: I can't recall ever seeing a story about "misspelled packages caused us problems in production". https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/depe
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by imran-iq 3y ago
Don't be that guy. https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atokio-rs%2Ftokio%20unsafe...
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by imran-iq 3y ago
It's only a matter of time until it happens to other systems too. Take rust for example where folks can install software via `cargo install <global name package>`. Top that off with fact that during compile (as an attacker) you
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by imran-iq 3y ago
You've actually described what true TDD is, you test requirements which leaves you free to change your implementation without fear that you have broken anything. Also (as you have pointed out) makes writing a faster implementation much
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by imran-iq 3y ago
Good news! One of the Google Summer of Code projects for Guix is indeed adding something similar to the USE flags (called Parametrized Packages)[0] --- 0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-05&
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by imran-iq 3y ago
Isnt it in the book? https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch20-01-single-threade...
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by imran-iq 3y ago
And only 25% have gotten `Champion of Terraria` which means about 2/3rds of players did not reach the "end" of the game. That is inline with the linked article which states: > “Statistically, most players don’t finish game
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by imran-iq 3y ago
This already happens. Most people do not complete games[0]. You can verify by checking out the achievements for various games. This already leads to games having fun beginnings but lacklustre end games --- 0: https://www.ign.com&
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by imran-iq 3y ago
Honestly if you are running any game on your system, you do not really care about security (because most game devs don't care about security, just performance). https://secret.club/2021/04/20/source-engin
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by imran-iq 3y ago
Skype was also horribly insecure and leaked your IP which was a cause of a lot of folks in esports getting DDoS'd from it[0]. 0: https://blog.destiny.gg/protection-from-ddos-attacks/
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by imran-iq 3y ago
How many police brutality cases would we have never known about if not for smartphones?
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by imran-iq 3y ago
Except most major distros have been shipping with wayland as the default for a while now. X has been considered deprecated from a long while now (at least 2019) when all the devs went to go work on wayland
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by imran-iq 3y ago
The wayland devs ARE the Xorg devs. They all decided that Xorg wasn't worth maintaining because it has too much legacy baggage[0]. The rest is just a bunch of entitled whining users that dont like change. 0: https://en.wikip
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by imran-iq 3y ago
That's why TDD is about testing requirements and not implementations. The problem is most people dont know what TDD is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM
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by imran-iq 4y ago
To add on to this, why can't the browser just lie to the website but retain my local settings as is
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by imran-iq 4y ago
You can report them here: <https: //www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/frm-eng/MMCN-9EZV6S> I've done it a few times, its suprisingly quite nice. They generate a unique email you can forward the offe
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by imran-iq 4y ago
> I had to restart my installation process with Internet disconnected. No way! Thankfully I went for windows 10 which did not need me to unplug the internet (just a hidden option down to the side), but that's just awful.
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by imran-iq 4y ago
> It depends on what my needs are. Unfortunately Microsoft/windows does not care what your needs are, it only cares about data collection and ads. I recently had to install windows in a vm because I could not get adobe reader workin
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Let's Package jQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian Novella (2015)(dustycloud.org)
1 points by imran-iq 4y ago|0 comments

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