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by morelish 5y ago
Good read. I’ve used chocolatey a lot plus a lot of other Microsoft installation tools. Windows has been crying out for a decent package manager for years. It’s amazing how little of a sh*t Microsoft seemed to give about stuff that open-sou
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by morelish 5y ago
Guess that’s the thing. When it shows up in your search result, we do expect it to be ready to read without paying for it. This is partly Google’s fault for not making it easier to exclude paywalled content. Would paywalled content-provider
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by morelish 5y ago
Every time Nuclear comes up (rational) people complain of two things: 1) cost, and; 2) safety. I think the cost argument is really an irrelevance. The electricity grid is probably the most important engineering system ever developed. Everyt
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by morelish 5y ago
Personally I’m happier to use wireguard to access my network. I don’t know when I’d ever want a pure SSH tunnelling solution.
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by morelish 5y ago
Cheers, I'll have a look at that.
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by morelish 5y ago
How do you mean?
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by morelish 5y ago
Think the idea is a good one. As S3 becomes standard, it would be nice if someone could rip amazon's face-off (like amazon have done for other open-source companies, e.g. elastic).
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by morelish 5y ago
Really? Gawker published intimate photos of someone without their permission. What Gawker did was very wrong. I don't get why people defend Gawker.
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by morelish 5y ago
My 2 cents, not that it's important, is that Facebook killed it's own product by A/B testing for user engagement. The product went from a cool place to see what your friends were up (bit like insta was for a while), to this s
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by morelish 5y ago
Oh, I actually totally disagree with the original commenter's statement "The cold war didn't go hot because we were lucky, not because MAD changed the basic dynamics of total war." Erm. No. MAD definitely did change the
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by morelish 5y ago
I don't know about the demographic claim but definitely the French could not imagine _fighting_ another war and so their preparations were poor. They built the Maginot Line as a way of avoiding having to fight again. And I believe the
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by morelish 5y ago
For REST api design I've always kind of been pissed that GET doesn't come with a body. (Yeah I know you can do it anyway.) Just because encoding complicated parameters into the URL is pretty sucky at times. I suppose a QUERY would
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by morelish 5y ago
My interpretation is that REST is such a complicated definition that no-one bothers to understand it. It's just too complicated (insert reference to Fielding dissertation). At least, whatever Fielding wrote, terms and languages are too
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by morelish 5y ago
The same advice applies for university exams. (Note, particularly in essay based subjects.) Don't provide against the grain answers no matter how smart or well thought through. Your university professor wants to hear how clever he&#x2F
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by morelish 5y ago
Haha that PS note is great. "Not only did we abuse you, we're going to tell everyone you loved us"
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by morelish 5y ago
Interesting. Thanks for pointing me to Watermelon. I'll take a look.
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by morelish 5y ago
This looks very good. Especially avoiding lots of repetitive backend code. Anyone know if Supabase can manage something like firebases offline data capabilities? E.g. https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/ma
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by morelish 5y ago
I have found HomePod (mini) to be not great. Doesn't work well with third party services like Spotify or radio providers, so it's content is limited. There's also a very large lag (5 seconds ish) for the sound to stream from
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by morelish 5y ago
Yeah I did wonder that. Dunno how far Dolphins echo location is effective from. But presumably it's further than most people probably can see underwater. Especially if the water is murky or dark. It could allow the dolphin to detect th
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by morelish 5y ago
Ah I see, it was the website user SuperAdmin the hacker got into. Cheers.
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by morelish 5y ago
I wonder how the hacker got network access to the database? I couldn't work out from what I read. It said the DB had a weak superuser password. But it didn't say how the hacker managed to make network calls to the DB. Presumably t
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by morelish 5y ago
Sure. Yeah, I apologise if I was aggressive. I agree with you that yeah profit maximising has no necessary relationship to the happiness of workers. But, I was surprised when I read Ford's biography that a lot of (aggressive) practices
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by morelish 5y ago
Read Henry Ford's autobiography. You'd think he'd agree with you. He'd want to overwork his employees to produce more cars. But, actually, he was much more of a perfectionist around all the things that go into producing
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by morelish 5y ago
Congratulations!
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by morelish 5y ago
Any ideas which ones are the best? I would quite like to use a good open-source api, am happy to pay for my own compute. (I've just used googles before because it was handy. But I wouldn't use it the way telegram have done.)
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by morelish 5y ago
Quite a lot of libraries exist to do this. But doing this in an app with a large user base looks offensive. Solution would be for some decent open source translation APIs to appear.
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by morelish 5y ago
What? How will blocking giphy in the UK help? From the regulator “ Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy would reduce competition between social media platforms and that the deal has already removed Giphy as a potential challenger in the display
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by morelish 5y ago
I’ve wanted to try Ada and Spark for a while mainly to try formal verification and because a professor I listened to for a while keep banging on that most bugs don’t need to be written if you use Ada properly. (Shrug.) Who knows, I’d like t