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by jarofgreen 2y ago
That's so close to a variant we once invented. There were 4 of us, 2 of us good at chess and 2 beginners. We played in teams, a good person and a beginner on each team. We took it in turns to move and you couldn't tell your partne
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Show HN: DataTig, crowd source a data set in a Git repository(datatig.com)
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
> Rebuilding a legacy system doesn't require you to support every single edge case that the older system did. Depends on context. This isn't some social media fun site where you can live with some rough edges; in this context &
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
This comment cuts straight to my immediate thought when reading - did they dig into the separate bits that people thought a managers job entailed, and which bits where appealing or not? Cos apparently* "double the amount (30%) would op
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
They were sold to another company a year or two ago and now some people are a bit wary
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
https://jamstack.org/generators/ has a list of static site generators (I think you can ignore the "for jamstack" part).
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
Lakes can have currents. I wonder if pedantically speaking the definition of lake would include non-tidal in many countries but .... A) humans use names sloppily and if it's an important detail I wouldn't assume a lake is non-tida
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
I've noticed a lot of people use git repos as a way to crowd source this kind of data, and I'm currently working on tools to help in that situation: https://mastodon.online/@jarofgreen/112506346958981241 I&#x
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
Totally this! In the UK many landlords only have one or a few properties and it would be obvious which tenant is bad mouthing you. In some cases there are laws against "revenge evictions" but I don't know how much people woul
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
I had a similar concern about a custom monitoring script that was regularly writing out a metrics file in Prometheus format to be picked up by the Prometheus node monitor. What if the script breaks? So I set the script to also write out a m
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
This one? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/15/hawaii-mi...
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
I think in that situation most people would just walk away from the machine. Or try and press the red "start again" button. Ok, maybe my suggestion is the wrong wording but I still think the original is confusing. If I'm goin
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
Anyone else find the "buy ticket" and "cancel" button text confusing? I had to take a second to work out which one was which. I'd try clear text like "buy ticket anyway" and "use contactless".
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by jarofgreen 2y ago
But then, Prometheus is open source and it's pretty easy to host your own server.
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
Well, I'll bet they haven't gone back to "put all the keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" ...
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
That's only the intro to the article and if you want to discuss that you can do so here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848657 The article then goes on to make other points about AI and automation.
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Adding Cosmetic Carbon Copy to email (April 1, 2010)(ietfng.org)
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
Is that address correct?
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
Interesting. Our contribution to monitoring DNS is to make sure our HTTP uptime checker runs over both ipv4 AND ipv6 as separate checks. That way if we mess up our AAAA record but not our A record (or vice versa) we still get a fail. I&#x27
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
As well as what the others have said, various bits of software make the assumption that 1) may be private and to be careful with it and 2) isn't. eg Your web browser will automatically save any URLs to it's history for any user of
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
In your git & sqlite setup, I'm not sure which way round you are thinking - which is the SSOT (Single Source Of Truth) and which is the handy cache. I've been working on a tool that treats the git repo as the SSOT then lets yo
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
Static?
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/banking/com... "Banks and building societies are required by law to have a written complaints process which tells customers how to make a complaint."
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
The original home of the content may have more on this (but it crashes my phone browser so I can't check): https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
The original content has a big "Donate" button, which is now gone.
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
> I’d love to see more neoq-like libraries for languages other than Go. Python has Celery, but maybe the author is looking for more choice between brokers. https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/index.html
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
But then only technical people could contribute information. The website may be trying to make it so all gardeners can contribute.
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
There used to be this project: https://www.mysociety.org/2019/06/26/placing-everypolitician...
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
I really like endoflife! It's great for looking up dates with a consistent UI and also codenames - I could never learn that Debian Bullseye was 11 or all the other silly codenames so I look them up here. Thank you! We also do something
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by jarofgreen 3y ago
It's a general ORM issue. I once took a Python API with SQL Alchemy and took 30% of the speed by adding an eager load instruction to a query. Python profiling showed a lot of time in the ORM & database, then turning on SQL logging

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