mrngm

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by mrngm 1y ago
(title could use a [2018]) But if setting up this message queue takes $750k of "super high powered redundant hot/standby hardware"... what have been the running costs for the file drops and cron jobs?
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by mrngm 1y ago
Firefox 136 on Linux, desktop; and as a sibling commentor suggests, it could be font issue, interesting! Firefox uses Noto Serif here, I don't have Lato installed.
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by mrngm 1y ago
Little nit on the Github README: the logo on the top seems cropped (frontend/public/favicon-wide.svg), the letter "e" is partly visible, and the "t" isn't visible.
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by mrngm 2y ago
A few thoughts, I tried this on mobile but got a bit confused by the initial "How to play" dialog (besides that it was too large to fit on screen). The dialog says: How to play. String together factors to answer the question.
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by mrngm 2y ago
I think the societal aspect of your collegues being helpful to each other, while not having that exact task assigned, is the reason you could appreciate this setup. I think putting a card on another person's desk and walking away isn&#
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by mrngm 2y ago
Earlier discussion in 2016, with 102 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11757669
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by mrngm 2y ago
You might want to take a look at jsfunfuzz[0][1] or this USENIX paper[2] by Christian Holler, Kim Herzig and Andreas Zeller, called "Fuzzing with Code Fragments" (which also references [0]; two of the paper's authors contribu
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by mrngm 2y ago
One hint might be found in yearly financial reports. It depends a bit on the country if you can access those reports from non-publicly traded companies. Are they debt-heavy, or do they have enough free cash flow? What if all customers disap
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by mrngm 2y ago
Well, looking at our bespoke logging system in PHP handling some 15-20+ million log entry's per day on a virtualized dual-core system... it's mostly disk I/O on the underlying MySQL database (currently duplicating to Clickhou
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by mrngm 2y ago
I'm sure you've heard of PHP's opcache by now. That's not experimental and actually caches the interpreted code in memory for faster subsequent execution.
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by mrngm 2y ago
You can also find a [PDF] export of this document, a bit more recent (2022) than most of the webpages (2019). From page 67 onwards, there seem to be various notes for future expansion. I hope they also update the website as the document imp
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by mrngm 2y ago
Interestingly enough, in the movie Kill Bill: Vol 1, The Bride (Uma Thurman) does a similar thing as the author does to get out of the cataplectic attack: wiggle her big toe.
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by mrngm 2y ago
https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#field.referer A user agent SHOULD NOT send a Referer header field if the referring resource was accessed with a secure protocol and the request target has an origin differing f
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by mrngm 2y ago
YNAB4 or YNAB Classic, the standalone desktop application based on Adobe Air, was already quite capable of learning the categories for transaction, of course after you've provided them a few times. This still works good to this day, wi
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by mrngm 2y ago
Find out their frame of reference, look for comparable concepts in the real world. For technical debt, this scene from Malcolm in the Middle (S03E06) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0 might be a good comparison. I
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by mrngm 2y ago
Goed gedaan!
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by mrngm 2y ago
That is already tampering with the request. It's not simply forwarded to the requested destination, but intercepted, interpreted, and resent... with a different client than the original source.
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by mrngm 2y ago
The toot itself is from 2021, and links to a 2012 PDF* from the "ASPECT 2012 Conference (UK)", specifically 2.10 strangaric - legacy train control system stabilisation.pdf [*] Due to the website's interface, navigatin
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by mrngm 2y ago
Earlier notable thread in 2022, 518 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30679935 The title could use a [2022], as that seems the year it was originally posted.
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by mrngm 2y ago
Earlier HN thread for the original article on dropbox.tech (48 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41968299
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by mrngm 2y ago
If you look at it as if it were an everyday object, where would you start opening it? I also appreciated the subtle hints of the VHS logo on the tape and the display.
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by mrngm 2y ago
$ dig @8.8.8.8 +nsid news.ycombinator.com. ; NSID: 67 70 64 6e 73 2d 61 6d 73 ("gpdns-ams") news.ycombinator.com. 1 IN A 209.216.230.207 Repeating the same query returned: ; NSID: 67 70 64 6e 73 2d 67 72 71 ("
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by mrngm 2y ago
You'll need to explicitly navigate to the input box _designated_ for using a search engine. If I'm accidentally pasting what I thought was a URL but actually is some other text in the paste buffer in the combined input box, that t
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by mrngm 2y ago
A recent thread on compiler optimizations and cryptography (blog post by djb): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41146860
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by mrngm 2y ago
Earlier threads: - [2023] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35283067 (24 comments) - [2022] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31069163 (127 comments) - [2018] https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by mrngm 2y ago
I'm not entirely on the same page as the parent comment regarding "[t]hat's what you're paying a good PaaS for" in terms of security and availability. If the platform is down, having a service level agreement (SLA)
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by mrngm 2y ago
It usually never is exponential, see e.g. https://longform.asmartbear.com/exponential-growth/ that shows examples from "hypergrowth" companies where it's perceived these companies grew exponentially, but
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by mrngm 2y ago
I can only find mentions of the minio client as a way of accessing their S3 service. Their introductory page[0] says "Any data you save in your Bucket is saved in a Ceph cluster.", which suggests they use Ceph's radosgw tha
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by mrngm 2y ago
For more context, read the comment[0] on Reddit's /r/sysadmin thread from the follow-up tweet[1]. It boils down to a certain bit-pattern in the spreadsheet's headers that corresponded to a signalling pattern in their T1
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by mrngm 2y ago
> less special character noise I hope you've at least once stumbled upon the existence of https://noyaml.com/ and/or, at the time, were familiar with the quirks regarding number interpretation.

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