philsnow

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   by philsnow 2y ago

   Went looking for the source, but when following a link to podcatcher.net, Cloudflare is saying the podcatcher.net backend is “502 Bad Gateway”ing. edit: oh right, > I am still debating whether or not I want to make the app itself source
2. 182.▲
   by philsnow 2y ago

   I’m getting an error going to the Discover tab and also when hitting “search” after typing a search term (newlines added): string::1: bytes->jsexpr: bad input starting #"error code: 502" context..: .../syntax&#x2
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   I had thought that maybe it was pre-warming a connection so that when the user searches for something, it saves a network round trip and seems faster, but probably not if it’s to a static domain.
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   I hadn’t seen that before and I can’t speak to the quality of the project, but I wanted to call out the first section in the readme [0] for being perfectly clear and succinct: > Git versions files. Dolt versions tables. It's like Gi
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   > After that they released Matrix Authentication Service (MAS), which is an additional service to deploy that moves the internal authentication functionality out of Synapse and interfaces with Synapse using OIDC. I haven't deployed
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   To get what you want (links open in Safari.app, not the safari webview inside Gmail): configure your default browser in Settings (your iphone settings, not gmail's settings) to be Safari, and then in Gmail choose "Default browser
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   Imagine a maze or labyrinth, with the agent and the destination both inside of it. Is it useful to try to figure out the convex hull of the walls, even if it is effectively "the entire maze"? The agents in the article seem to mos
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   JS progress bars also generally show you your progress through the main-content div or whatever, so even if they have a particularly egregious footer (I've seen footers that are over 1000px tall, with embedded youtube videos), the prog
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   I often scroll with the space bar instead of more modern contrivances like arrow keys, scroll wheels, trackpoints, or trackpads. Sites with these header bars always seem to scroll the entire viewport y size instead of (y - bar_height), so
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    “Translation of each word” is also called a “gloss”, and I think it’s absolutely vital for trying to read works in translation. Lots of words and phrases have multiple meanings and connotations in their origin language and it’s not usually
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    > The advantage of PQConnect is that, once you have installed PQConnect on your computer, PQConnect automatically detects servers that support PQConnect, and transparently encrypts traffic to those servers. I mainly take issue with this
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Note that, locating airtags and making them play sound requires them to be near some other iDevice (the battery is a standard CR2032), so if you live in a remote ranch or something and nobody around you has an iphone, they might not be very
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    What spyware? I don't have a tiktok account
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Some foreshadowing of Valve creating Steam, in the parts about having trouble finding a publisher and eventually going with Sierra.
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    > You held this grudge for 10 years, lmao. ~18 years ago I owned a Belkin router that would hijack on the order of 1/10000th of plain http requests and send them to a belkin.com domain to try to get people to buy more Belkin product
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    TIL that Ethernet encodes bytes as 10 bits not as a parity / error detection mechanism as I had thought, but in order to be "DC-free" (to not accumulate too many electrons on either end of a connection) https://en.
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Reading your comment made me think that they're so close to "OSQuery for k8s", but that already seems to exist: https://www.uptycs.com/blog/kubequery-brings-the-power-of-os...
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I guess they would say that you have to send the output of that to be inputs of another kubectl command like $ kubectl logs -n foo $(kubectl get pod -n foo | awk '/Running/{print $1}') because one of their selling
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Apple Configurator.app You can set the phone to only run an approved list of apps (like Phone and Messages, and that’s it, no App Store)
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    > So most serious Catholics are not going to walk away from the church because there is evil inside of priests. There is evil inside all of us. But we are called to do battle with evil. For most of us, that battle is within our own heart
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    RAID 45 strikes again
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Are assets versioned by URL (/path/to/foo-1234abcd.js or /1234abcd/path/to/foo.js) or are they updated in-place (/path/to/foo.js, but now containing 'const version="1234abcd";
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    One of the things I would want included is any and all metadata / tags that Google Photos adds to photos. For instance: - inferred/corrected geotags - inferred/corrected time of day - names or at least UUIDs or somet
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I had also not seen PEGs before, but the way you can use parsing node identifiers recursively (and mutually recursively) seems very intuitive.
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I know it was just a typo but "arthropic principle" sounds like something from A Deepness in the Sky
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    > Like snthpy said "real" is a shortcut to say infinitely subdivisible. The numbers themselves are actually rationals. That sounds like a fair bit of complexity vs using 64/128-bit unsigned integers or something. I guess
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Ah, chubby is a distributed lock service. Think “zookeeper” and you won’t be far off. https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... [pdf] Some random blog post: https://medium.com/co
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    At Google, the global Chubby cell had gone so long without any downtime that people were starting to assume that’s it was just always available, leading to some kind of outage or other when the global cell finally did have some organic down
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Thanks for this! Some notes: - food clock is kind of arbitrary (I went four levels without finding any food), or else I'm just not diving nearly fast enough. - game crashed when I descended from level 16 - the only difference I can fi
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    The brain has specific face-recognition machinery that mostly only works with face-up faces. It can be easier to objectively decide whether two photographs are of the same person if they are presented upside-down or sideways.