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by maxbond 1y ago
Thank you for the suggestion. It's a reasonable one. I'm undecided. The --help output is pretty long, I don't want to put so much information in the README that it damages it's legibility. But you're right that the
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by maxbond 1y ago
Welp, I've never been on an Amtrak with a Viewliner, so my mistake, but I've ridden the Amtrak many times and have never seen that particular style of railcar. They've always been two-story, and apparently that's a one-s
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by maxbond 1y ago
Cool, I hadn't seen this one yet! Using Starlark is a very good idea. I ended up writing some tiny DSLs to specify certain things like status code patterns and durations; using an off the shelf DSL like Starlark would've saved a l
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by maxbond 1y ago
Thanks! Glad you like it!
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by maxbond 1y ago
Thanks! That was the intention. There's a tool called `retry` which does an even better job by caching stdin so that it can be integrated into shell pipelines. I was thinking of it as a subcommand, like `git pull`. I think of the backo
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by maxbond 1y ago
That would be a good name. If it's taken it's not in the Debian or Arch repositories. I've been working on this on and off for a couple years, so I honestly don't remember why I picked `attempt`.
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by maxbond 1y ago
I think you meant to paste this: https://archive.is/0T1zV
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Show HN: Attempt – A CLI for retrying fallible commands(github.com)
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by maxbond 1y ago
Indeed, unless it's a strict table, you can put gibberish in the type field (or forego giving a column a type altogether).
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by maxbond 1y ago
I've also known women who were great hackers. I think the temptation to be concerned with here is the temptation to reject evidence rather than adjusting your priors.
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by maxbond 1y ago
I doubleplus appreciate the thought.
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by maxbond 1y ago
Bit of a nit pick but this is a pet peeve of mine. Creating a new word for a more specific category is never Orwellian. The project in 1984 was to create a language which was less expressive. They were destroying words describing fine disti
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by maxbond 1y ago
That's generally called "local." Serverless is poorly named but describes how certain backends are deployed, not applications without a backend.
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by maxbond 1y ago
"Behold! A man," he declared, gesturing to a featherless ChatGPT.
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by maxbond 1y ago
The expectation that Internet social spaces are massive "town square" style spaces where strangers interact but remain strangers is recent, circa maybe 2012. We can go back and forth about the precise year but early online spaces
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by maxbond 1y ago
How you would we compensate for such effects?
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by maxbond 1y ago
That's a very regressive tax. Despite what was asserted earlier in the thread, the people who are victims of crime are usually lower class, not those living in mansions. Lower class people will get hit with a double whammy of being rob
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by maxbond 1y ago
Esperanto's translation being "it's all Volapük to me" is exactly the kind of linguistic shade I was hoping to find in that article.
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by maxbond 1y ago
https://gov.optimism.io/t/message-to-optimism-community-from... I've never seen a corporate announcement whipsaw from technical incident report to tentative job offer to a threat paraphrasing the IRA before but I
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by maxbond 1y ago
Any good books to recommend on computer history?
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by maxbond 1y ago
I think you're right, my mistake. I didn't find anything definitive but given they were developed around the same time by (on cursory inspection) different people and that Colossus was as secret as you say (it wasn't declassi
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by maxbond 1y ago
Bletchley Park employed linguists alongside cryptographers, and the linguists would help permute the messages (substituting German words for common abbreviations, for example) to mount these sorts of attacks.
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by maxbond 1y ago
ETA: Note that I appear to have been mistaken about the connection to ENIAC. Note that it is equally dangerous to send paraphrased messages using the same key (which is called sending messages "in depth"). This was used to crack t
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by maxbond 1y ago
Lobsters die of old age when they fail to molt, become trapped in their shells, and starve. The lobster body plan does not scale indefinitely. Presumably at a certain point they'd boil in their own metabolic heat.
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by maxbond 1y ago
Given how toxic big tent communities like Twitter can get, I think that makes perfect sense for some communities. Some plants thrive in full sun, some plants thrive in the shade. Some social interactions happen in the town square and some h
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by maxbond 1y ago
I don't disagree but I do wonder if a.) discoverability is really so intractable in a decentralized environment if you're willing to throw a lot of resources towards indexing and b.) if that middle ground isn't like balancing
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by maxbond 1y ago
It's the central bureaucratic/theocratic function of a major world religion which, it just so happens, is organized as a micronation instead of as a foundation or something like that. The primary function of the UK is not to run t
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by maxbond 1y ago
True but I don't think the distinction matters to the overall point that it's perfectly ordinary for religious institutions to operate a TLD, regardless of the mechanism that allows for it.
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by maxbond 1y ago
There's also .va for the Vatican and .lds for the Mormon faith (and .mormon), and more generic Christian ones like .church. I didn't find any for other religions on a casual search, perhaps because many of them don't have the
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by maxbond 1y ago
> It's not like if someone sends me a request for /wp-login.php that my rails app suddenly becomes WordPress?? You're absolutely right. That's my mistake — you are requesting a specific version of WordPress, but I had

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