nfirvine

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by nfirvine 10d ago
Hello! I'm nfi-hashicorp from https://github.com/actions/setup-go/issues/395 :) My 2c given that that issue has sat in TODO for several years with no movement is that the maintainers probably aren't
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by nfirvine 6y ago
Castle Adventure? https://archive.org/details/msdos_Castle_Adventure_1984 That's how I learned to spell the word "necklace"
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by nfirvine 10y ago
I switched to Firefox for a week and wanted to kill myself. Basically, extensions still aren't forced to behave. As soon as you install a non-e10s extension, it disables e10s entirely, and then you're in the bad old days of single
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by nfirvine 10y ago
How is this different/better than Gmail's address+spammer@gmail.com?
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by nfirvine 10y ago
I've been doing a little interviewing at my company, hiring engineers. I tend to avoid the pop quiz questions because I, having been asked them in interviews before, can't imagine they're that valuable, and, considering our f
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by nfirvine 11y ago
"Novices to the language have a tendency to overuse channels." "The explicit instruction to [new] Go programmers is that they should avoid channels... [is] false." -- Isn't this a contradiction?
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by nfirvine 11y ago
Ad. Written by marketing.
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by nfirvine 11y ago
"Do not perform table alter commands. Table alter commands introduce locks and downtimes. Instead, use live migrations." You know what avoids alter? Going schemaless.
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by nfirvine 11y ago
The groups studied all live and are genetically from within 20 degrees latitude (S). USA is from 30--50 deg N, and genetically probably higher. I would be willing to bet that higher temperatures and longer days tend to make your sleep short
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by nfirvine 11y ago
"due to Third Party Doctrine, users forfeit their legal right to privacy by merely making it possible for sysadmins to access their information. This means the sysadmins can legally share users' information and passwords with addi
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by nfirvine 11y ago
How is this not functionally equivalent to TLS client-side certificates? Yes, I understand that there's a UX problem, but CBCrypt has to solve that in addition to the crypto problem. Also, C#? What is this, a Silverlight applet? :P