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by jxcl 8y ago
I don't really think the choice of language matters that much. I don't know Ruby at all but I have read through part of the book and can follow the examples pretty easily. Plus, I think I'll get more out of the book if I just
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by jxcl 8y ago
Thank you for introducing me to the fact that a collection of ferrets is called a "business". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret#Etymology
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by jxcl 8y ago
I was super excited to try out Lambda@Edge with Rust a few weeks ago but discovered that right now, Lambda@Edge only supports Node.js. It's a pretty major limitation of the platform. (Although since Rust can compile to WASM, it might b
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by jxcl 8y ago
If Haskell allows you to express code as simple and correct at the expense of being fast, I think arguments can be made both ways as to whether or not that's a bug. If we accept the premise that the first two are more important than th
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by jxcl 8y ago
That may also be a concern, but there are software workarounds. I would also not run Postgres on a non-checksummed filesystem or without data checksums enabled in the postgres cluster.
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by jxcl 8y ago
I'm wary of running anything with data I care about on a device without ECC RAM. From the docs: > PostgreSQL does not protect against correctable memory errors and it is assumed you will operate using RAM that uses industry standard
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by jxcl 8y ago
Thank you for your your detailed response! It would be really nice to have this information in the official documentation.
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by jxcl 8y ago
My concern isn't that I don't trust Keybase to not be malicious, it's that I don't trust their packaging to not conflict with other packages. Debian has a very strict packaging process and it effectively guarantees a sta
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by jxcl 8y ago
They also have no (as far as I could find) way of installing Keybase without root permissions on Linux. I tried looking for a way to install keybase without "sudo dpkg -i keybase.deb" but had no luck. In the end, since the people
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by jxcl 8y ago
1. It's an open standard that the major browsers have agreed to, so it's not a plugin that you have to install. A WASM app will work seamlessly in your browser without any additional software. 2. WASM is designed from the ground u
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by jxcl 8y ago
I reject the idea that all tools can be made simple enough for people to use them without understanding what they're doing. Yes, of course we all want our tools to the best they can be, but that involves making tradeoffs in features be
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by jxcl 8y ago
Many years being on the scale of tens to thousands of years. Cody did a great video on his channel showing confined aquifers, how they work, and why they recharge so slowly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4iCgxsZX4
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by jxcl 8y ago
I am still able to log in to my chase account with Firefox on Debian. I don't have any user agent switching going on.
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by jxcl 8y ago
How do I see the detailed pricing of this offering if I don't have an account? I want to know what $15/mo gets me before I decide whether I want to sign up.
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by jxcl 8y ago
Eh, I don't know about privacy concerns being minimal at the places where ring devices are installed. The ring doorbell is installed at your front door. It records pretty much all movement to and from your house. It records audio at th
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by jxcl 8y ago
I've interacted with Steve a few times on the Rust IRC channel and he's always been super awesome and helpful. He's also been very receptive to feedback on the Rust documentation and helped me to contribute to it. Thanks for
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by jxcl 8y ago
I feel like this could easily be read as "software engineer finds placebo sleeping pills". You very well could be right, but those sources are not scientific. If you want to show me that magnesium helps people sleep, show me a Pub
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by jxcl 8y ago
Also, since the moon is tidally locked to the earth, it rotates at the same rate it revolves, which means that sunrise and sunset only happen once a month, which makes dawn a pretty long time. There's a pretty good song about how the m
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by jxcl 8y ago
> hey, trillions of humans have collectively decided over a few thousand years that the latin alphabet hits a pretty good sweet spot in human communication. I bet they didn't consider how readable it is, though. I can do better than
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by jxcl 8y ago
This is the one I have listened to on and off: https://historyofphilosophy.net/
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by jxcl 8y ago
I can entirely relate to what Lewis writes about reading Plato. I was interested in philosophy but found myself gravitating to reading and listening to podcasts about philosophy rather than reading it directly. Once I actually picked up a v
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by jxcl 8y ago
Isn't the whole point of good satire that it's not immediately evident whether it's a joke or not? Regardless, I don't see how this satire could be considered dangerous.
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by jxcl 8y ago
Right now the killer feature of yubikeys for me is the fact that they're waterproof and have no physical buttons to wear out, making them effectively indestructible on my keychain. I'm still waiting for another manufacturer to eve
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by jxcl 8y ago
> Email exists well within our very centralized federated political and cultural system, and so no, it is not meaningfully decentralized. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this, especially since you go on to say that artist
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by jxcl 8y ago
Why is this a link to a cnet.com? Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbNv9MP27xE
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by jxcl 8y ago
In Colorado you're already asked when filing state taxes what the value of the goods you bought online that haven't been taxed yet, so the onus is on the filer to look up receipts from the year for tax purposes. Amazon already col
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by jxcl 8y ago
On my version (60.0.2), I can click the hamburger menu on the right side of the address bar, click customize... and there's a "subscribe" button with the RSS logo that can be dropped onto the address bar or the overflow bar.
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by jxcl 8y ago
You should check the website of your insurance company. Many of them offer exactly this sort of tool.
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by jxcl 8y ago
This is what I like about collaborating on code that still uses mailing lists to collaborate. I already have an account that I can use for every mailing list in existence -- my email account.
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by jxcl 8y ago
The point of a secure password is that it _won't_ be in the list of hashes by the server. The service should prevent the user from using any of the passwords that are matched by the password database.

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