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by patwolf 5y ago
That was a problem I always had with replicating directly to CouchDB. They have added more authentication methods now, like proxy auth and JWT, so authorizing on a per-database basis isn't too bad. However, I gave up on CouchDB after m
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by patwolf 5y ago
Until you pointed that out I thought the headline said "flight". Funny how the mind works.
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by patwolf 5y ago
It really blows my mind that there isn't a larger pushback against social media. I do see it here on HN occasionally, but I rarely encounter anyone in the real world that has a strong anti-social media stance. Even then, it tends to be
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by patwolf 5y ago
I was around for web 2.0, and it felt like a substantial change over how the web worked previously. It was the first glimpse that the web was capable of replacing the desktop apps we were accustomed to, while simultaneously adding new capab
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by patwolf 5y ago
The app store has requirements for dealing with user-generated content. The biggest pain points for me isn't with enabling users to upload content but instead with the moderation around it. One user might want to block another user and
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by patwolf 5y ago
I always suspected this day would come for my 2nd gen Kindle. I still remember getting it over a decade ago and feeling that there was something magical about having content delivered to it wirelessly. Now that smartphones and smart devices
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by patwolf 5y ago
I wonder, are these episodes really part of the public domain, or are they just misusing that term to describe being allowed to embed them?
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by patwolf 5y ago
I was considering trying this one. It's interesting that they're trying to replicate the burn of alcohol. I gave up beer because of the calories, but I have since gotten hooked on whiskey. I enjoy the ritual of having a glass or t
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by patwolf 5y ago
I wonder if there's any potential for Copilot to suggest malicious code because it's been trained on an open source projects containing intentionally malicious code.
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by patwolf 5y ago
I enjoy Revisionist History, but I have learned to take everything he says with a grain of salt. He throws out much of the nuance of history in order to neatly meld it with his narrative. The Boston Tea Party episode, for example, tried to
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by patwolf 5y ago
My child came home from kindergarten this year and told me that there were five oceans. I only knew four. I quickly pulled up Wikipedia and confirmed that the Southern Ocean was a thing. That was the first case of something my child learnin
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by patwolf 5y ago
I once refused to give my MBP password to the technician at the Apple store for some hardware repair, and he said that they just wouldn't be able to verify the repair completely. I'm not sure how true that was, but it did catch me
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by patwolf 5y ago
Same here. We previously used Stitch until they dropped the free tier.
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by patwolf 5y ago
I've been trading Bitcoin for several years and have gone through the various booms and busts of that time. I'm not sure I'm ready to call this a crash when it's back to where it was a few months ago. The idea of Bitcoin
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by patwolf 5y ago
I've built auth systems from scratch and used third party auth services. Doing it from scratch always feels reasonable at first when it's just basic username and password, But I start to regret it once a client starts asking for m
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by patwolf 5y ago
At least I was right about the CDC lacking credibility.
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by patwolf 5y ago
The CDC director herself was saying back in April that vaccinated people don't spread the virus. > “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus — they don’t get sick,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, told MSNBC’s Rachel Mad
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by patwolf 5y ago
The CDC really botched this one. Nobody will be able to take them seriously because either a) their previous guidance was correct and they only updated guidance to encourage more people to get vaccinated, or b) their previous guidance was w
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by patwolf 5y ago
I was seeing that too. I switched to a different browser and it started showing the whole article. It was very confusing--I thought for a minute that the article just ended there as some sort of cruel joke about a person that doesn't g
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by patwolf 5y ago
> "It’s the return of freedom" Seems like a low bar of what constitutes freedom.
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by patwolf 5y ago
I like the idea. The price is decent. However, I feel like I've hit a limit for the number of shiny electronic things I want in my life.
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by patwolf 5y ago
It's not accurate to say it was "entirely unsubstantiated". Other news sources besides the NY Post (most recently the Daily Mail) have claimed it was authentic, and Biden himself hasn't disputed its authenticity. Regardl
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by patwolf 5y ago
> The foundation of the program would be quite simple: public ownership of housing, acquired or built with government loans—though run by local for-profit or nonprofit property managers—and rented at market price. I'm not an economi
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by patwolf 5y ago
I long ago left the enterprise Java world. I imagine that despite modern cloud computing, there are still many companies running ancient Java application servers--servers that have been running dozens of applications for years uninterrupted
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by patwolf 5y ago
You're correct. Not sure if I overlooked it or at some iteration of usage it wasn't there.
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by patwolf 5y ago
This looks interesting. We use 1Password, and I always thought it would be useful to programmatically pull values out and use in our cloud infrastructure. Currently we end up using the secret managers available in AWS or GCP, which seems pr
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by patwolf 5y ago
I end up hosting a lot of static sites on Firebase. I've tried several other ways of hosting static content but usually end up back at Firebase as it's simple and cheap. It does have some quirks though, so I'm interested in t
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by patwolf 6y ago
There was an article in the WSJ today about Facebook running Chinese propaganda ads that try to dispell the Uyghur genocide. Regardless of how I may personally feel about Trump, it's sickening to see the double standards held by Facebo
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by patwolf 6y ago
"Antiscience is the rejection of mainstream scientific views and methods or their replacement with unproven or deliberately misleading theories, often for nefarious and political gains." The problem with that definition is "m
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by patwolf 6y ago
Firebase hosting work well.

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