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by perlgeek 5y ago
I assume most of these are bots, not AI/ML, so could be just a bot that reports a merge request into a slack channel, and lets you merge from slack.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Testing requires a mindset. It always takes longer to write tests than not -- at least in the short run. Some developers, at least, seem to get it now. Even if they don't write enough tests, they have some awareness that they should be
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Makes you wonder what it would take to get such a process (that produces a new medicine for every individual) approved...
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by perlgeek 6y ago
My kids are now 7 and 10 years old, respectively. I wonder if they'll have to learn to drive, and make a driver's license? It could be that by the time they come of age, there are self-driving cars, but they're much more expe
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Step 1: sell 10k copies of your book through self-publishing. Step 0: already be successful at marketing or be well-known. There are certainly some valid points, but his solution pre-supposes that you already know your marketing. So the act
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Nothing really. Luca app just had more hype/better marketing.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
The official app stores all its data decentralized, only cryptographic hashes are stored centrally that each device then can check locally for potential risks. In the Luca app, the user's location data is stored centrally, and the stat
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by perlgeek 6y ago
... though in the past many developers have complained that the source code didn't seem to be the one from which the app on the appstore was built and/or it was quite out of date.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
A great uncle of mine back in Eastern Germany (DDR back then) purchased a decommissioned pleasure boat, but it was longer than 25m so he would have needed a captain's license to operate it. Instead, he cut out a part (most of the aft d
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by perlgeek 6y ago
What would prevent a bad actor from getting verified, and then uploading material that they don't have consent/license for? What would prevent anybody from claiming they were the "talent" in the material and giving conse
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by perlgeek 6y ago
For hand-writing I love jsonnet, which produces JSON, is much more convenient to write, and has some templating, functions etc. https://jsonnet.org/ You wouldn't serialize data structures to jsonnet though, you'd
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by perlgeek 6y ago
What exactly is the security benefit of a reverse tunnel, in comparison to just listening on a port? Usually DB servers are "always on" and always accept connections, so the reverse tunnel also needs to be always up. Regarding row
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by perlgeek 6y ago
There are still some use cases where light-based computation could work very well without miniaturization, just don't expect it to replace general-purpose chips. One possible application is in the amplification stages of optical commun
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Hotel or b2b travel agencies also have PII that can be very useful to intelligence agencies.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
What's wrong with using objects as hashes?
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Ha, in the late 90s/early 00s, there was some buzz in Germany about building a huge freight airship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter They went bankrupt, which is kinda sad. It had a designed lift capacit
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by perlgeek 6y ago
It's currently only at the top-level package level, and so the data is simply taken from the package manager. I want it to go one level deeper (we use dh-virtualenv to put several Python packages into one Debian package, but that'
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by perlgeek 6y ago
The old design was optimized for usability, the new is optimized for ad revenue and/or for pushing people on the app.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
At my employer, we have a company-wide database of which package is installed in which version on each machine (several ten thousands of them). This allows the compliance department to follow known security issues, and they can then open ti
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Yes, mostly due to two reasons: * overall high energy density (lots of current flowing everywhere) * the batteries for backup power are dangerous, and can easily(ish) overheat when activated.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
> I also notice that lots of comments seem to be coming from front-end or customer-based companies. For backend and b2b, 2 weeks sprint for some new functionality is funny. I develop internal tooling for a b2b company, and we ship featur
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Note that Kanban requires a certain maturity and self-discipline from the development team and the stakeholders. If that's a given, Kanban can work very well. Scrum was really invented for situations where management is constantly aski
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by perlgeek 6y ago
As somewhat of a Python developer these days, I have to point out that each 3.something release of Python potentially breaks backwards compatibility. Second issue is that Python without any extra modules is still pretty limited, nearly ever
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by perlgeek 6y ago
OK, so they payed $500M about two years early, right? That's very bad for your cash flow, and you lose 2 years worth of interest from that, but in the long run, citibank isn't $500M poorer, right? I'm trying to understand wha
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Several people I know have some seemingly disjoint food allergies, some of the attributed to lack of certain enzymes, some without any explanations. I'm wondering if some of the effects could be mitigated with sufficiently smart microb
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Sounds interesting, do you have a link to an example where this is done/demonstrated? (Also I'm not sure how that's better (and not just different), except maybe it allows more than one host user in the container, but I haven
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by perlgeek 6y ago
One huge advantage over docker is that if you mount a directory into the container, and the container writes files there, on the host system they always have the owner of the user that started the container. That makes it much more convenie
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Some things are just far less typing in markdown than in HTML, for example lists of bullet points and inline code.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I would argue that naming very high-level things (like your top-level services) is very much an architectural decision.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I've seen many engineers reach for a microservice architecture by default. Why? Because they read HN, reddit and lots of blog posts, and thought that's how you do things now if you start from scratch, no legacy architecture to con

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