philsnow

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by philsnow 4y ago
> if I'm searching "bakery" on my mobile phone I probably want the ones around me And yet for me, even in google maps on my iphone, when I search for bakery, the first one is almost always one that's ~40 miles away, a
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by philsnow 4y ago
wow, I'm just walking through the demo linked by Veuxdo and that's exactly what I was thinking: each step in the walkthrough drills context down deeper or widens context in a very clear way. I've tried to do similar things i
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by philsnow 4y ago
I have made software architecture diagrams, but more "descriptive" than "prescriptive" ones, by generating graphviz from source code analysis tooling. (The objective here was getting oriented in a large codebase where t
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by philsnow 4y ago
Companies don’t have plans; individuals have plans and sometimes companies fake it because either enough individuals at a company are moving in the same direction or because there’s one or two charismatic leaders at the company driving it.
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by philsnow 4y ago
I would guess there's about 1000x as many people who are capable with javascript as there are who are capable with elisp though. ... that could be a feature, depending on the person, I guess.
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by philsnow 4y ago
(disclaimer: anecdata) I also used to bring a chromecast to connect to hotel TVs, but no longer do. When I stay in a hotel and I see that the TV has a chromecast hooked up to it (or baked into it or whatever), I don't bother even tryi
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by philsnow 4y ago
One problem with this approach is that the customers of the app stores generally aren't individual developers, they're the companies that make the apps. It would be stronger to say Uber, King Games (candy crush), Roblox, and
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by philsnow 4y ago
Well what are they (the developer-customers) going to do, buy from another vendor?
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by philsnow 4y ago
I’ve worked on a team where Github was the one who reached out about a leaked AWS secret key, not AWS. They apparently usually do this a few minutes before the key makes it into their search index. It’s not much but it’s better than nothi
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by philsnow 4y ago
You can sort-of "clean" whatever output you get from your camera because the symbols are typically around the periphery. Adjust focus+zoom so that your subject is within the rectangle that doesn't have symbols, take the came
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by philsnow 4y ago
The last I looked, there was a different character limit for inline (2k) vs attached (10k) policies, as well as a character limit for all aggregated policies that applied to a single principal+resource+request. The API forbids you from exce
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by philsnow 4y ago
> A double edged sword at best and 100% not something I'd want to see in a larger codebase. the real footgun is dependencies that monkey patch things you don't know about / don't expect, and then the order you requir
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by philsnow 4y ago
I really, really like Ruby-the-language, and prefer it over python. I don't love that it's joined at the hip with Rails. compared to Python, Ruby has: - first-class symbols (yes python has sys.intern but it would take a PEP g
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by philsnow 4y ago
Usually when I read through a build-out description like this, the author writes it for an audience that has a lot more background knowledge than I do. This article, on the other hand, was lucid and the explication helped me follow along.
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by philsnow 4y ago
Inflow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28877610
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by philsnow 4y ago
I generally play “roguelike” games (the most important criterion of which, in my opinion, is permadeath), and I often feel the same way.. the thing is that I feel that way win or lose .
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by philsnow 4y ago
Fascinating, thanks! I'm not sure I would have made the connection between lift and orbital velocity.
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by philsnow 4y ago
I only broke my Diablo 2 addiction in college when I used one of those tools that drives your character on Mephisto runs to scum drops. In the course of one night running it unattended, I got the two items I'd been looking for for week
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by philsnow 4y ago
> defined to begin at 100 km altitude I guess this is probably on Earth, which makes me wonder how far up from Earth's moon do you have to go to be "in space"?
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by philsnow 4y ago
Is that the same VTech that makes kids toys these days ?
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by philsnow 4y ago
> his goal is the Everything App (which he calls X). The Everything App has news, social media, games, videos, and a payment infrastructure so, WeChat?
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by philsnow 4y ago
When I had HSBC accounts, their security was laughable but in the other direction: IIRC, in addition to just the plain password which you had to type by hunt-and-peck on an onscreen keyboard, you also had to make up some "security phr
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by philsnow 4y ago
> We have ubiquitous ID card which servers as passport. And it has smartcard there used to sign documents and communicate with gov/corp entities. Is this Estonia? A while back some friends of mine were applying for "e-residenc
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by philsnow 4y ago
Another thing I do, on the topic of vetting content for the kids to watch on jellyfin/emby: tl;dr: ios shortcut -> flask app -> yt-dlp. I wrote a tiny flask app that runs somewhere on my network, which takes POSTs with two para
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by philsnow 4y ago
I do exactly this (with emby instead of jellyfin though), with a cron job that runs this: #!/bin/bash -x export IFS="\n" find . -type f -name youtube-dl.batchfile | \ xargs -I {} -n 1 bash -x -c \ &#
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by philsnow 4y ago
> open a whole new account in order to stop it from happening again in the future Not sure how that would stop it from happening again in the future, if the bank isn't going to make the barest attempt at stopping people from debitin
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I wonder what happens if I just say "lol, not paying" to them. Would they put me in collections? You can revoke paypal's ACH authorization to your accounts [0]. I would not want to deal with the headache of them falsely
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I'm generally not a fan of the EU mandating technical decisions How do you feel about California mandating emissions standards for vehicles?
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by philsnow 4y ago
To "roll your own crypto" is to develop your own cryptographic primitives/constructions, versus using known-good, well-vetted, best-practice standard tools like NaCl / libsodium. > we rolled out our own crypto "r
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by philsnow 4y ago
I'm convinced they used such a weird placement of some things like that to prompt/goad people into exploring the built-in remapping. The bizarre separation of the arrow keys into left-right and up-down on two different hands was t

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