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by mdavidn 2y ago
I think vbezhenar's point was simply that the recovery e-mail at a registrar should not depend on a domain managed by that same registrar. The registrar can update MX records.
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by mdavidn 2y ago
Another limitation is that GraphQL always starts traversal from the same starting objects, one for "queries" and the other for "mutations."
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by mdavidn 2y ago
This language actually reminds me more of SPARQL, but without RDF’s URI prefixes reminiscent of XML namespaces. These queries search a graph for patterns spanning many nodes and edges. GraphQL is more of an RPC protocol that always recurses
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by mdavidn 2y ago
OIDC has very much “caught on” in business contexts. Large organizations end up with hundreds or thousands of independent internal tools, many hosted externally. OIDC and SAML are common protocols for centralizing employee authentication an
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by mdavidn 2y ago
I remember being shocked in the first year of college that introductory physics and introductory derivatives and integrations were not taught together. The calculus class never explains why these methods are useful, and the physics class ex
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by mdavidn 2y ago
At a very high level, the query planner's goal is to minimize the cost of reading data from disk. It gathers pre-computed column statistics, like counts of rows and distinct values, to estimate the number of rows a query is likely to m
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by mdavidn 2y ago
Radar struggles to identify stationary vehicles. Their reflected signals hide in noise from road signs, roadside vegetation, and the road surface itself.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
That’s … not where I thought you were going. A ban will drive demand for ICE vehicles in the years before going into effect, even if it ultimately does not.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Also: Why did Debian patch a service that runs as root and accepts connections from the internet to load unnecessary libraries?
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Rust is more similar to C++, in that the compiler inserts calls to free as variables exit scope. Runtime reference counting is limited to those objects wrapped with Rc or Arc. I agree with pron’s larger point. GC is fine for most applicatio
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I developed my preference for PostgreSQL years ago, before MySQL supported foreign key constraints or defaulted to durable commits. MySQL also had this annoying tendency to silently store invalid timestamps as zero. All of these things have
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Also, the license. PostgreSQL is controlled by the open source community via a nonprofit organization.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Sam Harris likes to say that consciousness is “what it’s like to be.” This has always seemed to me a pointless tautology.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
You should read the documentation for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-insert.html#SQL-... I'm not sure what's happening with your VACUUM. It does not lock the table wi
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I'm glad you found a corner of this industry with "serious engineering." It's still the wild west in web development. Today the creators of frameworks chase engagement metrics rather than wizardry, but the end result is
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Any OLAP database that accepts unstructured data can be used in this manner. The ELK stack is a popular choice, albeit with a focus on search rather than OLAP. If SaaS is an option, a simple staring point in AWS might be Data Firehose into
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by mdavidn 3y ago
The SQL-equivalent in the sampling rate example should sum the inversion: SELECT SUM(1 / samplingRate) FROM AdImpressions WHERE IsTest = False
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Ah, I was thinking of a switched DC converter. My mistake.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
If that were true, a DC transformer could not work. It is the flowing current.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
This is not that dissimilar to how transformers work. High-voltage lines are never physically connected to low-voltage lines. There's always a gap. The circuit in everyone's home ends at the local transformer.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
There are some important caveats to consider: Client and server software will not handle URLs like secrets, so UUIDs will leak out through various channels. Some examples include logs, user analytics, ad networks, browser history, bookmarks
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Halting digital sales might be necessary to declare a write-off and recoup a tax benefit that year. That was happening to some streaming shows, anyway. Which sci-fi novel?
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by mdavidn 3y ago
This is exactly what Apple attempted to do, but Netflix never provided API access or data, so Netflix shows never appeared in the unified interface.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
"Stole" isn't the right word either. Pirating does not deprive any legal entity of ownership. It's merely copyright infringement. It also likely circumvented access controls, thereby running afoul of DMCA. But it is not
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by mdavidn 3y ago
That is exactly what Hulu tried to be initially.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Yes, personal printers are still a thing. My family uses a Brother laser printer. It sits unobtrusively in a corner. We have yet to buy more paper or toner, so we don't print in great volume, but we do regularly need it. We print ticke
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I holding onto my hybrid until the industry comes to its senses and realizes that PHEVs are the solution to electrifying daily commutes with sensibly sized batteries while simultaneously sidestepping range anxiety for long trips.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
The reason amortization exists is to reduce taxes in later years: If a company invests $1 million into an asset that earns $250k each year over 5 years, the company would otherwise see a $750k loss the first year followed by $250k profit fo
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by mdavidn 3y ago
What you say is true, but thinking of ourselves as the only life feels like hubris. It reminds me of geocentrism.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Developers need to write tests so they understand how to structure the application in a manner that can be tested. The test engineer brings a fresh set of eyes and different expectations about how the application should work. That's va

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