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by pbowyer 6y ago
As a former photographer, I agree. I found this article on fidelity vs appeal handy, especially to illuminate the problems with AVIF's algorithm when you are showing off photos. https://cloudinary.com/blog/what_to_
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Many people have a book they read in their teens that changed their outlook. For some it's 1984. For me it was Greene's "The Power and the Glory". It, and the questions it raised, are still with me. Monsignor Quixote I c
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Good to know, thanks. The README says to use stack, so I've stuck with that so far. I'll look for instructions for using ghc
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> It appears that the intent is to focus on pain points in the Haskell toolchain and libraries. Good. I set myself the challenge of compiling a Haskell program [1] during the Christmas holidays. It was meant to be a "one mince pie&q
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by pbowyer 6y ago
I was envious of Custom Tags at the time - when I was writing PHP3. I'd like to see a modern reincarnation.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
I had chkdsk stop my Windows 10 system from booting 2 weeks ago - so I guess that was a different issue. After an evening of trying to fix it, I restored from a backup. Thank $deity for Macrium Reflect and nightly disk imaging.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
My email address was wrong - I've fixed that now.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
My email address was wrong - I've fixed that now.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Will any of these work with LIDAR data under their 3D rendering? I'm keen on industrial archaeology and it's really helpful to have 3D visualisations of sites like old quarries. Stand-alone 3D models can be done like [1] and the d
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Why? I'm really not getting the usefulness of this offering, so can't have been exposed to or dealt with companies that have the problem it's solving. I have worked with events companies on ticketing systems, so any example s
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Please do
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Does anyone know of a downloader that works for private Facebook Groups? I'm a member of some local history groups and the material posted is amazing. I'd like to refer to it in the future, likely long after the posters are gone.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Thanks for asking! Join the php.internals mailing list. The join feature is _really_ unreliable, so that's hurdle number 1. Put up with the rudeness and insults on the list. This has got better in the (checks diary) last _7 months_. I
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Part of the problem is PHP has no team. It's determined to be a meritocratic loose organisation of individuals, and so there's no entity to do outreach. It's not my favoured governance model, but it is what it is.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
WordPress core team members and users are welcome to get involved in PHP development and providing feedback on proposals. They are notably absent, and so people who write modern PHP - or wish PHP was a different language - are the ones infl
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by pbowyer 6y ago
The PHP project is severely underresourced. One or 2 core devs are sponsored by their employer to work on the project; everyone else is volunteering, and the pool of people isn't as large as it once was. And that's for developing
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Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes best practices(github.blog)
210 points by pbowyer 6y ago|86 comments
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by pbowyer 6y ago
I've never learned them because I've never been shown. I've ended up in column mode accidentally and not figured out why it's useful. Any tutorials/videos you recommend to juniors?
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Why would you have any of this tightly coupled to your model? Set up a separate API gateway, which covers all your points (REST endpoints, monitoring, security) - there's plenty of off-the-shelf options. Route authenticated requests to
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BBC makes switch to AWS, serverless for new website architecture(theregister.com)
8 points by pbowyer 6y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 6y ago
read-only - getting older it sure feels like that.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
In speed record world I wasn't aware SSC had two meanings and assumed this was about Thrust SSC's record breaking runs, thinking "they've got the speed a bit wrong". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by pbowyer 6y ago
What do you use in production? I don't have anything particularly high traffic, but knowing how the third party API barfed would be very useful, rather than just being alerted something went wrong.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
I'd like to second the thanks; Vega-Lite is awesome. I've two pieces of feedback. The first is I started by using Vega-Lite-API thinking it would be easier to understand. As I tried to do what I needed I found most examples in the
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P1 – NoisePage from Carnegie Mellon Database Group(noise.page)
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Hello from another of the last archetype. It's a blessing and a curse. And one I find very few careers favour.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
Image dimensions is great, but isn't the same as preloading, which is done via a HTTP header or a <link rel=preload> See https://web.dev/preload-critical-assets/ for more details.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
> Is srcset commonly used? It is, to provide a couple of different image sizes so smaller screens/high DPI devices can load the best-sized image for their use. This is the best article I know on the subject https://cloudf
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by pbowyer 6y ago
> Nowadays users browse the web using their phones, tablets, and laptops, yet images are still as a one size fits all. For example: sites load a 2000 by 2000 pixel image, but phones are only displaying it as 100 by 100 pixels. That'
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by pbowyer 6y ago
> Most distributed filesystems don't provide that guarantee though. It's a very nice guarantee, but it comes at a complexity cost, usually a performance cost (although there are clever ways to approach the perforance of a non-c

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