jwalton

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by jwalton 5y ago
In terms of tooling, there’s excellent tooling for ASN.1 for C and C++ and maybe some other languages. There’s excellent tooling for protobufs for a handful of languages too, but they’re different sets, so in practice what languages you wa
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by jwalton 5y ago
When I first saw protobufs, I wondered exactly the same thing. There’s an “XER” if you want a human-readable XML encoding, too.
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by jwalton 5y ago
One thing worth noting is that chalk 5 is ESM only, so if you’re using commonjs, you’ll need to use chalk 4, or transpire it with Babel, or something…
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by jwalton 5y ago
A FOSS license is generally “anyone can do whatever they like with this code provided they include this copyright notice”, and maybe some other conditions. “Anyone” here definitely includes NPM, so NPM is free to distribute, modify, host,
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by jwalton 5y ago
I guess it’s time to remove all of Marak’s packages from my dependency trees. I’m worried his next one will be a post install script that does ‘rm -rf /‘ or something.
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by jwalton 5y ago
There's a fork here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@withshepherd/faker
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by jwalton 5y ago
Here’s a list of DRM free ebook stores: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks Baen is one of the big sci-fi publishers which runs their own DRM free store: https://www.baen.com/
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by jwalton 5y ago
I suspect this more the Chinese equivalent of America’s FIPS 140-2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2
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by jwalton 5y ago
I think you are extremely optimistic if you think the $800 lifetime option doesn’t try to check in with a licensing server every time your turn it on.
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by jwalton 5y ago
This is the set of VSCode plugins I install: https://github.com/jwalton/environment/blob/master/vscode-ex... If you're after some snippets, this is my modest collection: https://github.co
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by jwalton 5y ago
“Mom, don’t pick up the phone!”
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by jwalton 5y ago
Since I see from your domain name that you are in Canada, might I suggest Canadian Shield[0] from CIRA (the .ca registry) as an alternative to 1.1.1.1? I have an article about setting it up via PiHole, too[1]. [0]: https://www.ci
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by jwalton 5y ago
Ah yes, the time honoured tradition of improving your integrity department by removing transparency.
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by jwalton 5y ago
“Comfortable” is not only a function of temperature, but also relative humidity and wind speed. Based on this site, there are no good times to visit Hawaii - it’s always too warm to be comfortable, even in the middle of the night. I assur
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by jwalton 5y ago
:) Fair enough: function isHuman(obj: unknown): obj is Human { return !!obj && typeof obj === 'object' && typeof (obj as any).name === 'string' && typeof (obj
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by jwalton 5y ago
This isn't a great solution: entry = Object.create(null); entry.name = "Jason"; entry.age = 42; entry.constructor === Object // false - constructor is undefined. `entry` is a valid Human here, b
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by jwalton 5y ago
Everyone wants to break up Facebook back into Facebook and Instagram and Whatsapp. I don't think that would really solve any of these issues. I think we're thinking about this the wrong way - we should break up Facebook the same
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by jwalton 5y ago
Unfortunately I think copying 100K elements is going to be exactly as painful as it sounds. The `[]Impl` is going to be (more or less) an array of 100K strings. The `[]Abstract` will be an array of interfaces, each of which is internally
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by jwalton 5y ago
That is a very good point.
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type Abstract interface { value() string } type Impl struct { str string } func (impl Impl) value() string { return impl.str } func ShowAbstracts(arr []Abstract) { for _, a :
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by jwalton 5y ago
> Most newbie gophers don't understand how powerful duck-typed interfaces are Duck-typed interfaces are kind of broken in Go, though. I can use an Impl anywhere I can use an Abstract, but if I have a function that takes a slice of
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by jwalton 5y ago
I read an interview with Vernon Vinge where he said he had this whole story arc with Ravna planned out that he expected to take five books in total. It’s been 10 years since the last Zones of Thought book… Although, it was longer than that
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by jwalton 5y ago
Buy ebooks from Baen directly, or from Tor on your service of choice. These publishers release books DRM free, so you actually own the file. Any other ebooks you “buy”, you’re renting.
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by jwalton 5y ago
If you’re looking for a good source of ebooks at sensible prices and without DRM, check out Baen’s web store. Their prices went up quite a bit a few years ago because of some marketing deal, but they’re still pretty good, they’re still DRM
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by jwalton 5y ago
Iona Räisänen has a really cool visualization and explanation of all the sounds a modem makes as it handshakes: http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
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by jwalton 5y ago
So many memories of watching this and Murder She Wrote with my mom.
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by jwalton 5y ago
> It is important to note that classes in JavaScript still use the prototypal inheritance pattern under the hood. They simply provide syntactic sugar for the prototypal inheritance pattern. With #private variables, this is unfortunately
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by jwalton 5y ago
The first example isn’t a software engineer. The code is a spaghetti mess because the system wasn’t engineered - there are no design documents, because the system wasn’t designed it was just hacked together. There’s no memos describing wh
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by jwalton 5y ago
My Philips shaver has a 120v cord that goes from the wall to the shaver, and it won’t operate while plugged in.
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by jwalton 5y ago
I made the switch from Android to Apple a few months ago for exactly this reason, and boy do I feel like I’ve been bait-and-switched.

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