kevincox

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by kevincox 3y ago
There is a small benefit as some videos have "enhanced 1080” but no higher resolutions.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Oops, just typoed the date. I probably won't be able to fix that until tomorrow.
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by kevincox 3y ago
I would say that ~/Documents is pretty good here. The only trouble I have had is it being the default save location of some apps. But I haven't had something yet write there without any explicit action.
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by kevincox 3y ago
The problem with your brain and your eyes are that they aren't available after the user picks their preferred font or for user-generated content or probably not after the text had been translated.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Off the top if my head I can think of two reasons. 1. Doing stemming is hard with substring search. 2. Substring search is more expensive. (Bigger indexed and more joins/merges)
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by kevincox 3y ago
I don't think Google uses this in a major way. It also probably isn't the best fit for this use case. 1. You can really only subscribe to particular URLs. So this would require millions of subscriptions. It would only make sense i
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by kevincox 3y ago
You can just spot check a tiny fraction of the data to validate this big it doesn't match the the site gets blocked.
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by kevincox 3y ago
It depends how it is implemented. After extracting the ID and looking up the post you can then check that the "slug" matches. Return a 404 if it doesn't. This may add a bit of complexity (if the slug data is mutable you need
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by kevincox 3y ago
I don't think it is. If this was the main goal they would have just done nothing. Instead they rolled out a design which sucks for both desktop as well as maintaining shittiness on mobile..
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by kevincox 3y ago
To be fair Reddit needs a redesign. The existing UI is pretty good on desktop but sucks with smaller displays. Of course their last redesign was so bad that they are already working on a new one: https://sh.reddit.com/ . It
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by kevincox 3y ago
There are actually some good reasons. The default paste action will just paste text or HTML. However most OS clipboards have the ability to paste various types of content. If the clipboard contains a "better" media type it makes s
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by kevincox 3y ago
The worst part about this is that it requires knowing the font. I generally like to let users use their preferred don't so I don't change the default. So I have no hope.
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by kevincox 3y ago
Yeah, this is a bug in their quick example code. Basically think that you simply give each thread a start and stop offset with simple byte division. Then each thread handles the first line that starts after the start offset up to but exclud
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by kevincox 3y ago
> These offsets are obtained iteratively, stepping through the entire file buffer by the desired split size (= total file size / desired number of parts), and marking the position of a new line character: In many cases it is better
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by kevincox 3y ago
I run into this dilemma a lot, not even for profitability. I would happily test my software on macOS and Safari, but I'm not paying for that privilege. So a lot of my stuff just doesn't work. But Windows, Edge (and previously IE)
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by kevincox 3y ago
Yeah, I'm a Canadian and I didn't know this. Seems like it shouldn't be the tenants problem to know if the landlord is a resident or not.
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by kevincox 3y ago
LOL "Yes we love the ads" said no user ever. If they had any intention of listening to user feedback they never would have started this project because the feedback is obviously going to be negative. At the very "best" t
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by kevincox 3y ago
I mean it isn't a coincidence. But this framing is pretty negative. These apps broke and started crashing because they were updating the start menu. Probably related to the addition of ads. Then they blocked these versions because they
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by kevincox 3y ago
If they don't think that Google is giving them a good deal they can simply opt-out of the index. But they don't want to do that, because Google is giving them value. This is their method of side-channeling an "unfair" de
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by kevincox 3y ago
> Write regularly [...] mostly it's that they keep my attention by publishing regularly! I'm going to strongly disagree with this. Keeping my attention is a cost, not a goal. You should publish because you have something that i
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by kevincox 3y ago
You can do that I suppose. But I have found that in most cases I have a unique index on the ID anyways, as they are often table primary keys. So really I just have to ensure that it is either an INSERT or an UPDATE to a record that is owned
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by kevincox 3y ago
It can be very useful for offline work and latency hiding. For example the client can generate data structures with the final IDs then sync them to the server. This can also be useful for implementing idempotent updates. The alternative of
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by kevincox 3y ago
But you still need to be wary of malicious collisions. I have seen security vulnerabilities where the client generates a UUID ID and that was inserted into the database. However by picking an ID that corresponded to objects from other users
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by kevincox 3y ago
It isn't two APIs, but there is effectively some batching. The main thing to focus on is triggering layouts. Basically you want to do all of your reads together then all of your writes. For example imagine we are trying to move one ele
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by kevincox 3y ago
Even if you can't use it constantly having a high top speed is useful. Most people aren't downloading large files most of the time. But it is very useful to be able to have those bits fly when do you do want to transfer something.
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by kevincox 3y ago
keys.openpgp.org seems to claim that keys aren't searchable by email until the email is verified. Did you ever verify the email with them? If not something is going wrong. Maybe there is a problem in the service or maybe Proton Mail is
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by kevincox 3y ago
Can't it be a strong validator if the files don't change at all between revisions? Or does the revision number only increment on "significant" revisions?
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by kevincox 3y ago
That isn't the problem. It is completely possible to process untrusted data in a batch script. (Even if it likely isn't the best tool for the job) the problem is that the method of getting that untrusted data to a batch script is
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by kevincox 3y ago
Because only the OS will actually know if it is running a batch script and wraps it in a call to cmd.exe or an executable. If the OS was passed an actual list of arguments it can then encode them the correct way for either path and handle a
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by kevincox 3y ago
I see that a lot of the blogs have feeds but aren't tagged as such on the site. For example the first item I saw was https://foudil.fr/blog/ which has auto-discovery metadata pointing to https://foudil.

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