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by mst 4y ago
"If you do that, ideally, a small gnome climbs out the back of the computer and hits the developer with a mallet." (various bits of perl IRC have adopted the mallet gnome as an idiom over the years and it seems to convey the &quot
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by mst 4y ago
I think you might be better off putting the actual adventure in a gist.
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by mst 4y ago
Yeah, I had quite a bit of XML flying around, plus the inevitable "all our vendors want to communicate via CSV over FTP", and some customer facing perl CGIs plus a daemon or two I'd written that usually spoke XML over TCP soc
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by mst 4y ago
My ISP days were not unsimilar, and had we a TARDIS it might be fun to go back to when both setups were still there and compare notes. However, I'd hope the SOAP part made it clear I was exaggerating a little for effect :) ... also bec
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by mst 4y ago
It's also been the standard for that behaviour for shells and, well, lots of other things, for so long it won't change, and notice he also mentioned Ctrl-Space as an alternative. Though my hands don't complain so long as I do
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by mst 4y ago
IIRC HN really wants an indented paragraph for code blocks, your ``` did not go precisely to plan, I don't think - if you indent: ``` foo bar ``` it'll be happier.
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by mst 4y ago
I once saw WAL turned off to make a sqlite queue perform better. But that was ... gremlins. More than one person tried to figure out wtf was going one and eventually it was better business wise to declare 'gremlins' and everybody
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by mst 4y ago
Solution: use a qmail install as the queue manager, and a custom mail server it relays to as a job handler. There's already a spec for transferring SOAP over SMTP so the request/response part is already built for you. (couldn&#x27
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by mst 4y ago
The p3rl.org/Minion job queue has a sqlite backend and I'm aware of it handling what seemed to me a fairly acceptable amount of throughput and the source to https://metacpan.org/pod/Minion::Backend::SQLite lo
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by mst 4y ago
Oddities have been seen on other distros, and if it's a server, trying to deal with it remotely has additional challenges. Ubuntu seems to be doing reasonably well at not shipping ZFS related oddities so far, but not everybody runs Ubu
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by mst 4y ago
These sorts of events are why I know quite a number of people who do ZFS-for-everything on their FreeBSD systems but ZFS-for-everything-except-root on their Linux boxen. Seems like in a lot of cases having all of your data on ZFS gets you a
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by mst 4y ago
I'm not particularly fond of Vue for my own use but pretty much every trade-off it makes that annoys -me- is one that also makes things easier to get started with. So since the person we're making suggestions to is (so far as I&#x
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by mst 4y ago
I am not much of a fan of CRA myself but I am very much glad that https://craco.js.org exists - so far it's handled my needs for tweaking CRA behaviour in situations where "eject" didn't seem like a good rout
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by mst 4y ago
The existence of craco to deal with CRA being opinionated to a fault is both awesome (in that I <3 the craco devs for making it, especially given when I discovered it I was right on the verge of reinventing it in a fit of rage and they&#
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by mst 4y ago
That's ... exactly how short selling reports work? There's an explicit disclosure in the piece that they've taken a short position, but really, when a short seller puts out a report like this, you can safely assume that'
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by mst 4y ago
The vast share price growth since the rebrand and Cash App launch seems like a legitimate target if the app is in fact bullshit. They're not saying the company is worthless, they're saying it's overvalued currently because mo
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by mst 4y ago
> hardware manufacturers guarding their docs more closely than their genitals That's a magnificent turn of phrase and I shall now be on the lookout for an excuse to use it myself.
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by mst 4y ago
I tend to start people on either Use of Weapons or Player of Games depending on the person. Excession is IMO a lot easier to appreciate when you've already got your head around the Culture, Minds etc.
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by mst 4y ago
You might like to try Transition - it's not officially an M novel but it's kinda half way between the two.
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by mst 4y ago
Feersum Endjinn and The Bridge are fascinating but, yeah, work. Excession IME is fine for people -if- they've read several other Culture novels first. Having it be somebody's first one tends to be ... suboptimal, at best. Inversio
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by mst 4y ago
When speaking it out loud, I tend to weight the 'neu' slightly more than the 'ro' but little enough that I think the double interpretation is probably still audible - certainly saying it out loud to myself now I can hear
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by mst 4y ago
I do see what you're getting at but in the SQL case an unhinted statement can potentially produce such a terrible plan it invariably times out and triggers a 500 from the service making the query. This sort of thing somewhat blurs the
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by mst 4y ago
When you're designing a specification (I mean, any code, really, but specifications especially), anticipating how users will use it and trying to guide them down the path of -not- misusing it is part of getting the design right. Someti
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by mst 4y ago
They've explicitly said they're looking at finding a way to still be able to express custom properties. So done right the end result will be basically no different from the use of X- headers in HTTP and friends. What they're
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by mst 4y ago
I've always been fond of _x_ as a prefix for such things.
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by mst 4y ago
Things like comments being used to provide optimiser hints in SQL queries are the bane of people writing parsers or anything that depends on them. I think folding/lint/etc. markers are poor examples here, because they're basi
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by mst 4y ago
I've never yet accidentally bought a fake part off ebay (I'm sure I will one day, of course). Requires a little paying attention to get decent odds, certainly, but it's far from impossible to do so.
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by mst 4y ago
Honestly, once it's out of warranty, I buy the part I need on ebay/aliexpress/etc. and fit it myself. "being able to take it apart and put it back together" covers for a multitude of sins if you're me. Others m
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by mst 4y ago
The values you're quoting are wealth per adult, which is a mean, not a median, and therefore very useful to Credit Suisse in context and almost entirely useless in the current discussion. To get a better feeling for how things look in
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by mst 4y ago
Right, the only thing I'm arguing here is that it's plausible that every step, including the lack of a reply to the emails, could easily have been down to "the organisation was insufficiently organised." Note that I&#x27

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