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by piaste 5y ago
Similarly, I'd love some form of GROUP BY every column except for <these> It feels silly when you are SELECTing a ton of columns, then you add a JOIN to a many-to-one relationship which you want to aggregate. Now you nee
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by piaste 5y ago
> The ones that are not for the FOSS aspect are either masochists or using Apple, aren't they? I'm yet to meet anyone using Linux because they couldn't buy or pirate Windows. I switched to Linux this year, after three deca
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by piaste 5y ago
Many modern mice have onboard memory, actually, to store sensitivity settings and occasionally macros. I doubt they need more than a few kb's for them, but being 2021, maybe the cheapest onboard memory chip can still hold 16MB or more,
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by piaste 5y ago
Oh man, that brings back memories. Roman System Engineering a.k.a. "TimeCube with Tits"! They still have the original promo 'marketing' on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/29490154
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by piaste 5y ago
> Why is it that AppImages, snaps, flatpaks, Nix and every distro package manager is replaced by docker? Where are you seeing distros using docker for containerization? If anything, I'd say Flatpak is the one you're most likely
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by piaste 5y ago
Equality before the law applies to citizens, not to bank accounts. Take a broader view.
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by piaste 5y ago
> However even HN must admit the art world is a real industry, with a lot of big money players, and the reason things have value is not in the quality of the art. If your standard is 'there is lots of money in it, therefore it is co
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by piaste 5y ago
> OSS developers do not have to be unpaid doormats. If I would be log4j dev, I would probably just wipe out all JNDI related functionality from project. Companies who need JNDI for backward comparability, would have to pay for support. T
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by piaste 5y ago
Yep. Log4Shell and Heartbleed were nasty security bugs, but imagine living in a world where every single software shop wrote their own logging libraries or SSL libraries. 99% of them would have far worse vulnerabilities. It would be like &#
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by piaste 5y ago
Unfalsifiable. You're basically saying "they're adults, so if they do it they must necessarily get value from it". Myth of the rational maintainer, if you will. In real life, people get (mentally) stuck into suboptimal s
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by piaste 5y ago
You're not paying $5 for the cup. You're paying $5 for the guy making it for you at a moment's notice, for the warm couch to sit in while you drink it, and for the other guy who comes after you leave and cleans after you.
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by piaste 5y ago
> Now, I don't speak Italian myself, but this is the complete opposite of what you'll hear from pretty much any youtube polyglot who talks about Italian. In fact, the conclusion I've gained from them is that Italian dialec
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by piaste 5y ago
Semantics. E2E is necessary against a wide array of threat models and is a fundamental part of what can be considered 'pretty good privacy' by 2021 standards (pun intended). If a government, possessing a working set of quantum com
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by piaste 5y ago
> Because there are so many of them we don't have time to bother honest citizens Can I come and live on your planet? It sounds very nice.
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by piaste 5y ago
For one, the kind of psychotic violent criminals that might assault random children in the streets are unlikely to get caught thanks specifically to cyber-surveillance. I am perfectly comfortable with having my children run around in the sa
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by piaste 5y ago
Secure E2E encryption makes companies unable to decrypt encrypted data upon request. Therefore, a law forcing them to decrypt encrypted data upon request necessarily makes it illegal to implement secure E2E encryption. QED. (If the law only
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by piaste 5y ago
> If they can get their hands on a governmental private key, which is unlikely. But those private keys aren't going to be created by the government. They will be created by Facebook, Signal, Telegram etc., who will then hand over on
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by piaste 5y ago
> It must be fully acceptable. There is zero legal distinction between foreign-owned companies and local ones. This is not China. Who is the "this" you're referring to? The US has forced this distinction into existence via
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by piaste 5y ago
> A top comment on one of the most popular websites in the world You could just as easily be describing YouTube or Instagram comments, which regularly feature humanity at its worst and dumbest. Why would you expect Reddit to be any bette
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by piaste 5y ago
I don't quite understand your comment. You seem upset at the sight of the unwashed masses hollering against the haughty elites, but at the same time you sound gleeful over the prospect of Reddit being punished for insufficiently protec
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by piaste 5y ago
Depends on what it is you're encapsulating. For example, we encapsulate our email sending service (Sendgrid). Sendgrid has a pretty good client library, so other than providing a slightly more idiomatic F# API, our wrapper layer doesn&
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by piaste 5y ago
In your example, "TRUE AND NULL" is a value, it's not a boolean condition. What is the difference? Try this: SELECT CASE WHEN (TRUE AND NULL) THEN 'A' ELSE 'B' END Now "TRUE AND NULL" is a bool
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by piaste 5y ago
I don't know why OP described SQL NULLs as 'three-valued logic' because it's anything but. SQL boolean operators can only result true or false, there isn't a third option. NULL is a data value for all data types, wh
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by piaste 5y ago
> There is an argument to be made that all those actions should be done by an external log parsing tool. Yes, keeping them separate is typically good, especially if you have multiple applications. There are also some instances where doin
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by piaste 5y ago
Cool, now make it so that only high-severity logs from a particular set of subroutines get sent to a particular subset of employees, grouped into a daily email. And make it possible to change any of those knobs at runtime, without touching
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by piaste 5y ago
Irresponsibility != malice. If your FOSS software uses plaintext passwords because you don't care about data-at-rest security for whatever reason, sure, you're not required to make all your public code super secure. Otherwise all
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by piaste 5y ago
Owning a car vs. renting one allows me to keep it in my garage indefinitely. If I try to keep in my garage without the ownership title, the police will come, take the car, give it to the owner, and put me in jail. What does owning a NFT of
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by piaste 5y ago
There's also the option to spin up a tiny VM with pfSense/OPNsense and have it act as a bastion, is there not? Or would it introduce too much latency?
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by piaste 5y ago
Never had the pleasure. I skipped the whole configuration management era and went straight from Windows "click around the UI following this manual procedure" to cloud-config and IaC.
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If you want to have fun with utilitarian tools, simply apply the Unix philosophy: fortune | cowsay | git commit -F -

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