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by mfenniak 3y ago
They're super annoying if you have flaky tests. If the tests are such that you can automate retrying and get to a reasonably low false-positive rate, it can be usable.
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by mfenniak 3y ago
The branch protection rules that you apply are both used to determine if you can add a PR to the merge queue, and if the merged commit passes the merge queue checks and is OK. This isn't documented, but based upon experience using the
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by mfenniak 3y ago
I was surprised by this weird limitation as well. However I found its easy to workaround -- I made my CI checks provide the skipped status when they run on the PR, and then provide the success/failure status when they run on the merge
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by mfenniak 3y ago
It looks really easy in their product preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km3MVZ8HZeY
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by mfenniak 5y ago
> Cycling in Toronto is a life-threatening activity, and Calgary has something like 150km of paved urban pathway. Calgary has over 1000km of paved urban pathway. I'm the creator of a small webapp called yycpathways.ca where you can
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by mfenniak 5y ago
> by public authorities or on their behalf A supermarket chain is not a public authority. This prevents governments from creating systems to evaluate the trustworthiness of people, not private businesses.
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by mfenniak 6y ago
SIGL is not the makers of the Signal communication app. SIGL is a company called Signal Advance ( https://www.signaladvance.com/ ), which makes medical and industrial systems. Signal, the app ( https://signal.org&#
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by mfenniak 6y ago
> ..., ignoring that the ability to independently verify the money supply and being able to transfer money across political boundaries without censorship is probably the most important intrinsic value one could hope for in a MoE/SoV
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by mfenniak 6y ago
Does anyone know a good way to observe & measure the impact of this? I have a small fleet of Linux servers behind NLBs with cross-AZ load balancing turned on, and they have some significant collection of OS-level metrics via the Promet
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by mfenniak 6y ago
North Korea does have a well-established cyberwarfare group, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group . The WannaCry ransomware attack has been attributed to this group.
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by mfenniak 6y ago
Write a client? Just use psql, or any of a dozen other interactive DB clients.
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by mfenniak 6y ago
> For instance, there's a restriction at my workplace (not a software company, a regular old industry fortune 500) which prevents git installs from pushing to any non corporate GitHub repo from our work machines. Oh my! As I have s
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by mfenniak 6y ago
In a 2d, rectangular puzzle, with boring die-cut pieces, you have only 4 corner pieces. :-) Puzzles at higher difficulties are not rectangular, don't have straight sides, or have straight & corner-looking pieces in the middle. My f
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by mfenniak 7y ago
> In Netherlands, a major chain in Amsterdam would only take cash or a Dutch credit card. Visa/Mastercard from elsewhere were not accepted forms of payment. Same experience just recently -- Albert Heijn. You'll find this groce
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by mfenniak 8y ago
You're really comparing two different things here. Prometheus is great at alerting. So, where do those alerts go? How do they reach the right team, the right person who is on-call? How do they know that Person A is on-call between 8
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by mfenniak 9y ago
Replicon -- Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Site Reliability Engineer | Onsite | Full Time Site Reliability Developers/Engineers (SREs) are responsible for creating and improving the tools and processes that power the building, validation,
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by mfenniak 9y ago
Replicon -- Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Site Reliability Engineer | Onsite | Full Time Site Reliability Developers/Engineers (SREs) are responsible for creating and improving the tools and processes that power the building, validation,
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by mfenniak 10y ago
I think it'd be very common to "protect" these services by making them bound only to localhost. The fact that this attack bypasses that protection is pretty interesting.
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by mfenniak 10y ago
I laugh these days when OSX warns me, "This application was downloaded from the internet." when I first access an app. Every application on my machine was downloaded from the internet. Even the OS, after the first upgrade. Tha
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by mfenniak 10y ago
You don't. It just makes it easier and requires less code.
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by mfenniak 10y ago
I feel like a "mini-supermarket" is just a market; the super and mini should cancel each other out. :-)
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by mfenniak 11y ago
In a proportional font. Ew.
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by mfenniak 11y ago
I'm pretty new to Docker, so I'm curious about "a project with 75 gems/packages and a couple of native extensions that need to be compiled"... Is the common procedure in the Docker world to build an application imag
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by mfenniak 11y ago
Apple & Xcode support the same concept, but with PDFs. You can add a PDF to an "imageset", and at build time it will be rasterized into different resolutions for different devices.
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by mfenniak 11y ago
But... how does the truck have the inventory to fulfill whatever is ordered, within 30 minutes? You don't know in advance what "the day's deliveries" are going to be, or where they will be, because the drone deliveries
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by mfenniak 11y ago
Here are the updated terms of service, if anyone wants to see them directly: https://www.snapchat.com/terms And Snapchat's privacy policy: https://www.snapchat.com/privacy
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by mfenniak 11y ago
At Replicon, a SaaS timesheet provider, we started supporting Python scripting a couple years ago. At first, it was a component of the application we called "pay rules", which are basically the rules that determine how much regul
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by mfenniak 11y ago
> So I would anticipate the clumping to even out as the sample size increases. Are you saying we need to crash more planes? That seems a little harsh just to get crashes coming at a consistent rate. ;-)
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by mfenniak 11y ago
A Homebrew ( http://brew.sh/ ) package might be a better approach that a .pkg. It's easier to maintain for you, and, definitely easier for a user. Not all OSX users use Homebrew, of course, but I think many in your aud
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by mfenniak 11y ago
Cool. Very cool. My first thought (aside from "Cool") was that the current time would be the tricky thing that can't be incorporated into a continuous view. But even that seems to be handled! http://docs.pipelin

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