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by partdavid 2y ago
Weirdly enough, INI is not that well-supported; but yeah, it's loads better than stuff like curl/jq for the very common JSON, YAML and other structured data cases (which includes near-100% native support for what you are commonly
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by partdavid 2y ago
My wallet case is indispensable (to me). In other words, I'd rather use the "space" of the camera's bump-out for my own purposes (ID and credit card) than a worse camera or even more-er battery life (for some time now &q
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by partdavid 2y ago
Step 2 is: you go where we say.
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by partdavid 2y ago
In addition to the problems others mention, dynamic object dependencies are only one slice of a dependency pie; if you can config-manage your way out of all of the others then maybe dynamic libs aren't really a lot of problem? I think
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by partdavid 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but the device the story is complaining about is a TV, not a Roku device. > On June 6th, my TCL TV’s Roku OS was updated to version 13.0.0.
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by partdavid 2y ago
I've been pretty trained that search in the modern era is pretty crap. Nearly all of what I see in the first few results are a cluster (it's all the same stuff), and it seems dumber at interpreting keywords than it used to be. Due
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by partdavid 2y ago
I'm not 100% sure what Salesforce's business model is anymore. They're hosting election websites now? > Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the secretary of state’s office, said the website vendor, Salesforce, wa
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by partdavid 2y ago
If you have a chance and are interested in the subject, I highly recommend the Musée Cinéma & Miniature in Lyon, France: < https://www.museeminiatureetcinema.fr/ >. A lot of the promotional material highlights the s
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by partdavid 2y ago
What you think is ubiquitous is actually pretty narrow, and your perspective is biased based on your own experience; by "machines" you could mean containers, VMs (of a dozen different virtualization technologies), on a bunch of OS
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by partdavid 2y ago
I've done (some? a lot?) of bash scripting and failing correctly in the absence of dependencies is really important. And once you've incorporated them you've destroyed what was good about targeting bash in the first place, be
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by partdavid 2y ago
Agreed, for sure.
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by partdavid 2y ago
It's an entirely different problem; the problem being solved here is not "use a better shell than bash". It's targeting bash as a universal runtime because it's (kinda sorta) ubiquitous.
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by partdavid 2y ago
There's actually a lot of things that embed a SMTP client for sending mail that should use a host MTA. The reason is that the user who actually wants to use "the thing" is often just about able to enter an SMTP server, but th
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by partdavid 2y ago
No! X--X--X 0 1 2 That diagram represents a length of 2, not a length of 3, see? Here's three: X--X--X--X 0 1 2 3 It's not that the hazelnuts are somehow imperfectly laid out or are an imperfect rep
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by partdavid 2y ago
I've had some bad patches but I don't think they were unique to my profession. Sometimes it was my boss. The tech landscape in the late '90s at Internet hyper-growth companies, when I started, is way different than it is now-
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by partdavid 2y ago
You mean on some individual person's laptop when that person remembers to run it?
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by partdavid 2y ago
You can probably set your browser to play animated gifs only once; that's what I did.
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by partdavid 2y ago
Well, point one of the article is that they're unnecessarily hard to copy-paste.
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by partdavid 2y ago
For some value of "strictly speaking", this is true; but it's not a very relevant value. You can't be "sure" your counter never produces a duplicate, either--strictly speaking--in reality. The bug-free program
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by partdavid 2y ago
In the real world, the likelihood that a bug in your database engine or ID-hander-outer (a race condition, storage edge case or the like) is a lot higher than the risk of collision on a sufficiently large and random key. The whole point of
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by partdavid 2y ago
The degree to which this is so pervasive and standard--so much so that Github renders your README by default--is kind of an artifact of the open source movement. Which also brought a lot of similar standardized files, as the need came up (L
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by partdavid 3y ago
I have seen it, I think it's because it's not easy to see whether the cmdlets or functions your calling support and support it right. It does work, but I have seen it not always work and that results in having to check or test eve
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by partdavid 3y ago
What are the things that are stopping you? I use MacOS on my personal machine and Linux for various shellboxes and I switched to Powershell years ago and haven't looked back. Occasionally I invoke bash as a language runtime for checkin
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by partdavid 3y ago
Yeah, I think it's the wrong choice. It's really off-putting because the words are the wrong way. There's a reason books on a bookshelf consistently have the words reading down. That's what I expect to see. But if you do
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by partdavid 3y ago
"to varying degrees" Very much agree with this. I kind of crave some kind of configurable advanced workflow around calendar categorization, membership, visibility, etc. For example, I want to accept a prompt to create a calendar e
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by partdavid 3y ago
The only real way to handle it, even though it's not a fully general solution, is to ask the user if it needs to be different than what you've said is their canonical name. For example, just ask "How should your name appear i
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by partdavid 3y ago
And slowing down, which is usually the first measure and reduces fuel efficiency from whatever's optimal there.
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by partdavid 3y ago
These are all very valid points, and I appreciate you making them! But what I was trying to point out to GP is that the conversation here is not starting from 0. Certainly I'm not suggesting that ACM membership or their code is a suffi
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by partdavid 3y ago
This might be the first time you've considered the question, but it's not novel. The ACM has a code of ethics required for membership. A compatriot of mine has focused on encouraging employers to pay for their engineers' ACM
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by partdavid 3y ago
Migrating from AWS to othercloud isn't really going to be about converting your CloudFormation stacks to something new (TF or otherwise), because that's the least of your concerns. If you had Terraform-defined infrastructure for A

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