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by pbowyer 6y ago
Thanks!
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by pbowyer 6y ago
>> Also how do you as an attacker know that it was user not a e-mail server checking those images? > Agent signatures. Can you Expand? Googling isn't helping me understand what this means/how it works.
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by pbowyer 6y ago
You're a welcome voice of reason in this thread :)
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by pbowyer 6y ago
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford did a rapid review of the literature on Vitamin D: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/vitamin-d-a-rapid-review-of-th... Unsurprisingly there's no direct clinical evidenc
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OpenSafely, a secure platform for electronic health records analytics in the NHS(twitter.com)
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by pbowyer 7y ago
For years I've dreamed of building a wood-fired pizza oven, or buying one of the cast kits from https://www.fornobravo.com/ . But this looks way easier and cheaper. How long does a gas cylinder last?
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by pbowyer 7y ago
There are few hills I'm prepared to die on, but one of them is macaroni cheese. It should have two main ingredients: macaroni and cheese. No milk, no flour. It's called macaroni cheese after all, not macaroni in a cheesy white sau
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> There's a lot of devs that think database design is the same as starting a new ORM class and generating a migration file. Yes, this. Add to the list those who have drunk the DDD koolaid and the database is "merely an implemen
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by pbowyer 7y ago
I find thinking about analytic queries like these as map/filter/reduce easier than thinking in terms of the SQL!
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by pbowyer 7y ago
Yes, agreed. It was designed for OLTP not OLAP, and I have to get my mindset into that. For days as my example has, would the Time table be generated for say 1970-2050? Given months are of different lengths and there are leap years, I'
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> Set 1 could be a "numbers table" or generated with something like "generate_series()" I've done it this way when doing it per-minute or per-hour - i.e. for 60 minutes or 24 hours; fixed, constant ranges. I pick
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by pbowyer 7y ago
I like SQL when I'm not writing reporting queries. GROUP BYs bite me (With MySQL 8 I end up reaching for the ANY_VALUE() function), and I end up with more subqueries than I feel I should need. When working with time-indexed data I feel
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by pbowyer 7y ago
Andrews & Arnold are the best UK ISP I've used in 20 years of being online. As well as going above and beyond when it comes to sorting problems with BT, I appreciate that like with this post they are not afraid to stick their neck
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> Even though that project is long in the past for me, I’m really curious how other people do this. Anyone come up with something better? I've always gone the other way. Bland fields (Lines 1-4, city, state, postcode, country) or -
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Scenario analyses for Covid-19 outbreak in the UK (in R)(github.com)
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by pbowyer 7y ago
For more details on chat and the community side, see https://twitter.com/trek/status/1239904391152504837
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EmberConf 2020 goes virtual and free to attend due to COVID-19(emberconf.com)
19 points by pbowyer 7y ago|3 comments
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by pbowyer 7y ago
Have you any experience with http://cleanfeed.net/ or https://ipdtl.com/ or squadcast.fm? I'm assuming they are good for interviews because you can correctly merge the separate audio tracks later, rath
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> E.g. The description of an item in a sales invoice is the description at the time the contract of sale is made, and must be immortalised as such as a copy of that description. +1. I maintain a couple of systems that younger-me wrote 15
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> As a teenager I read "Object Oriented Software Construction" by Bertrand Meyer, and was convinced that Eiffel was THE programming language of choice. > However, that love didn't last long. Too many simple things just
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> [PHP is] so fast and elegant to consume a (SOAP or REST) webservice. I would never choose PHP to consume a SOAP webservice if I could use C# or Java instead. And I say that as someone who's been consuming SOAP with PHP since 2001,
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by pbowyer 7y ago
If this is something you would like to see in PHP, please have your say on the mailing list. There are some discussions, most recently https://externals.io/message/108226
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by pbowyer 7y ago
Have you any view on libev and the PECL ev library? There's been a recent discussion on the php-internals mailing list about whether PHP needs a built-in event based system ( https://externals.io/message/108226 ) .
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by pbowyer 7y ago
Thanks, that's a great explanation.
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> Yes, but it's also a wonderful way to corrupt a DB as soon as anything goes wrong in your storage fabric system. Why is this more likely to corrupt a DB than having it on local disks, when something goes wrong?
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> Commercialization of HyPer took a lot of resources Do you have any more information on this? I saw HyPer had been acquired by Tableau, and assumed it was a finished product they bought.
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Umbra: an ACID-compliant database built for in-memory analytics speed(umbra-db.com)
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by pbowyer 7y ago
Seconding @fpereio's request - I too would like to know more. CSRF handling is painful, so your approach is very interesting, but I don't understand it fully yet.
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by pbowyer 7y ago
I used to use Ansible, but recently have gone back to Bash scripts. I only set up a few VMs a year, and found the open-source Ansible modules I used weren't maintained any longer or weren't updated. So I was having to maintain the
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by pbowyer 7y ago
> PHP ORMs in general (compared to say Ruby or Python) are absolutely painful to work with Which PHP ORMs are you thinking of? I've worked with Doctrine ORM, I would not say it's more painful than SQLAlchemy.

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