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by piaste 5y ago
Thanks for the tip, I just installed it (revoked network permissions + blocked in TrackerControl) and I will check how it works. Lots more options than Gadgetbridge it seems, which is nice.
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by piaste 5y ago
No problem. Not right now, but I'll see if I can drop by in the next couple of days.
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by piaste 5y ago
Thirding the Docker Swarm... I wouldn't say "love", more like the "it's a piece of our infrastructure and it chugs along just fine, I guess it's cool?", which is sentiment I've rarely seen anyone ex
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by piaste 5y ago
Hadn't heard of Wundergraph, I will keep it in mind if we encounter issues with Postgraphile. Thanks! Regarding your solution, it seems to be the same that Hasura is working towards. It's a perfectly fine solution if you have a fe
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by piaste 5y ago
It's a VERY fragile support: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/issues/6648 Basically, if two entities in the databases have the same names, Hasura fails unless you manually define a unique `custom
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by piaste 5y ago
> It would take a lot for me to switch. We were pretty happy with Hasura but had to switch to Postgraphile due to poor multi-database support, bummer. (Postgraphile is not as polished as Hasura in some ways, but since it can used as a li
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by piaste 5y ago
Linux will annoy you due to honest-to-God bugs, misconfigurations, or other genuine mistakes. The authors of the software would like it to work effortlessly and they're trying their best, they just didn't quite get there. As a d
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by piaste 5y ago
> I'm not sure what streaming iterators have to do with it; the thing I noted was simply that you only need two values at a time Yes, iterators have nothing to do with the 'just compare the two changed values' optimization
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by piaste 5y ago
I agree with the general principle of naive vs. specialized solution. Using AoC day 1 is probably not a good example of it however, because a lot of modern languages offer streaming iterators, so the naive, declarative solution will still n
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by piaste 5y ago
Living in Italy, not nearly as advanced as Estonia, but still: Yesterday I got an alert that I was on the last day to file my taxes (if I didn't want to pay a €25 late-filing fee). On my lunch break I SSO'd into the tax agency web
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by piaste 5y ago
"Thread" is a good keyword to include to find discussions, even though it's a bit overloaded. Eg. 'good cheap mountain bike' -> 10 results out of the first 10 are commercial spam and listicles. 'thread good
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by piaste 5y ago
> The reason that's the best choice is that it's the approach that provides logical data rather than a specific visual style, allowing people can just configure their editors to do word wrapping to whatever line length they pre
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by piaste 5y ago
I think that the network effect / ecosystem considerations are the meaningful discriminator here. MS didn't create and ship IE as a freebie gift to its customers; it did it in order to gain a foothold into the burgeoning Internet
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by piaste 5y ago
Why do you find it counterintuitive? "Pay them well to encourage them to stick around" seems intuitive to me.
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by piaste 5y ago
Have you tried Clementine? Or Foobar2k if you're on windows? Or VLC for that matter, although it's not a dedicated music player.
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by piaste 5y ago
> Thr JSON APIs are secured by tokens and other mechanisms, so you can never query them directly without the Angular app. What, you can't acquire auth tokens via API?
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by piaste 5y ago
> The lack of shared culture[2] today means people have less in common. It seems to me that having less in common with people makes them more distant and that there could be negative effects of that. This is something that we need to ada
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by piaste 5y ago
> It's "closure" in the mathematical sense, not in the functionnal programming sense. The latter being of course an instance of the former :) Your lambda uses a reference to a local variable `x`, so go follow it and transi
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by piaste 5y ago
> Some calls it just another package manager and others dare to call it another Docker To be fair, when it gets installed on a personal, non-developer desktop machine, Docker typically is just another package manager.
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by piaste 5y ago
> In what world is this a useful comparison? If you're also separately benchmarking the same C library running on its own, then it's quite interesting to benchmark a .NET wrapper around the exact same library, as it allows you
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by piaste 5y ago
Yeah, I'm going to be looking for a new car in 2-3 years probably, but I have absolutely zero interest in SUVs and crossovers, so the market is looking more and more dire every year. If I need an electric (most likely), and unless my f
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by piaste 5y ago
> Also, private businesses should always be able to enforce their rules on their platform/property, as long as they don't discriminate against protected classes like ethnicities, genders, sexualities, etc. > Otherwise you co
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by piaste 5y ago
It's a human idea and a human invention, developed in a certain historical context. Calling it "made up" is pejorative, for sure, but not at all wrong. It isn't like the Hubble Deep Field has a pattern that spells out &q
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by piaste 5y ago
From what I heard - anecdotes from my online friends' parents and grandparents - in the mid-20th century it used to be ridiculously easy to get a job, for all social classes. One anecdote that stuck in my mind was someone's gran
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by piaste 5y ago
I assume that means running everything within a transaction? Does that mean you can't use regular transactions in code, since Postgres doesn't support 'true' nested transactions? Or does the Django ORM automatically conv
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by piaste 5y ago
Having read many of the books and short stories as a boy, I would rank them as 'entertainingly trashy'. The Americans are a collection of unintentionally hilarious stereotypes - the rugged hero who saves the beautiful & brilli
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by piaste 5y ago
However, if nothing happens on the Bitcoin network, then the funds aren't locked down, are they? In other words, Billie has no guarantee that the key she holds will be valid tomorrow; Katy could empty that account at any time, and Bill
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by piaste 5y ago
> For many reasons, including lower fees (see [1]) The lower fees derive from the medium used (crypto instead of traditional payment processors). You didn't need to involve a NFT to send crypto to the artist's wallet. > acqu
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by piaste 5y ago
> And, most importantly, the artists and non-profit organizations in the arts are getting paid via NFT sales. So why couldn't you have just donated money to the artists and right-click-saved / printed the art anyway, without in
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by piaste 5y ago
> This is an interesting option for people who need a specific Raspberry Pi hosted somewhere. What is that use case though? The page says that they only host regular Pis and optionally a USB SSD. So they can't do anything that a reg

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