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by ploxiln 3y ago
It means that urllib3 (python code) isn't actually making the http request (it's not making the tcp connection, tls auth, writing the request, or serializing the request headers ...) It may be better to describe this as a "sh
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by ploxiln 3y ago
The first book came with a bunch of stickers, saying "monsters", "kids", and some other funny ones I don't remember. (My sister gifted it to my 1yo daughter. I mostly enjoyed explaining to everyone who would listen
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by ploxiln 3y ago
In software in particular, thresholds have fallen. Maybe "Senior" today is like a junior 15 years ago. (Some interns out of college are really sharp, and some can basically work at the "senior" level immediately. Basical
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by ploxiln 3y ago
It's always the cover-up that makes it truly terrible. Like Watergate ... or when police misbehave in general ... it's always the desperate cover-up.
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by ploxiln 3y ago
It's like enterprise software - the product and sales managers are just giving the high-paying customers what they demand. And it works for sales. It does not result in a good design though. (Of course, I'm an engineer ... I don&#
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Don't allow un-publishing package versions. If they are literally malware, they can be manually removed by npm admins. If a court orders a takedown due to copyright, that's also something npm admins can handle. If you want to be a
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by ploxiln 3y ago
This protocol is not needed. The browser can discard third party cookies, I configured it to do so for years (but more recently switched back to an ad-blocker instead, blacklist also works fine in practice). Most things will work just like
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by ploxiln 3y ago
EE details relevant to electronics board designers are kinda important and interesting, and I have a lot of sympathy for "technically correct". But that veritasium video was a trick question, and a misleading video. It subtly sh
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by ploxiln 3y ago
> The main reason that doesn't happen in NYC in particular is rent control/stabilization -- dropping the rent lowers your baseline. I was in a few "rent stabilized" apartments in NYC over the years, they always had a
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by ploxiln 3y ago
NYC is pretty good for internet, because there's Fios in many buildings, so the cable companies really try. There's competition here. I've lived here for about 11 years, and outside NYC for 20 years, and as a techy and heavy
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by ploxiln 3y ago
My apartment building in NYC just banned all "lithium powered vehicles" (bicycles, scooters, etc). Building insurance is getting more expensive, and some insurers are pulling out of the NYC market altogether, because too many buil
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by ploxiln 3y ago
The alternative is to fix warnings! You don't have to completely fail the build, to have the good engineering sense to fix warnings. Unless you never build locally? And never look at a build log? You really never improve code if Werror
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by ploxiln 3y ago
> A SBOM is for the producer at this time, not the consumer. It is about requiring the producers to at least try to figure out what they put into your soup. > The next step is exhaustiveness and automated production. There are lots of
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Ironically, windows 10+ comes with real curl installed, to use it type curl.exe instead
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by ploxiln 3y ago
In NYC, faster-accelerating subway trains, with not-better brakes, actually caused slower subway service. The coarse-grained signaling had to assume the worst case: a subway train that started max acceleration (operator fainted on gas pedal
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Besides Tesla, all the other companies operating charger networks don't really care if they work. The purpose of the other charging stations/networks is for press releases, advertisements, government lawsuit settlements, etc. If i
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by ploxiln 3y ago
To provide a counter-example: the startup I was working for switched from python-2.7 to python-3.4 after that came out. It was fine, no major issues. I wrote a whole lot of python2.7 before that, and a whole lot of python3.5 afterwards. I m
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Yeah, that's a fine choice, to also get the Windows/Mac self-update experience ... as a somewhat philosophical matter, I don't like apps that self-update, I prefer if it's mostly impossible for the app to modify itself,
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Yeah I find the first few rules here ... fit for a very different era. Back then, some devs would do something much more complicated to try to be faster, and often the overall program was worse off. Nowadays, some devs do something much mor
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by ploxiln 3y ago
They are. Debian provides latest major release of Chromium, just a week or so behind. For Firefox it uses the LTS releases, but still with major LTS release updates in the same Debian Stable release, when the older LTS is no longer supporte
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I was running debian stable for the last few years (until a few days ago, due to a brand new laptop ...) and was perfectly happy with the Firefox linux build tarballs: 1. untar as root into /opt 2. symlink /opt/firefox/f
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I pre-ordered this, 2nd batch, and have been awaiting the charge/shipping confirmation (which was originally scheduled to be last month, some more delay is understandable, but kinda annoying that they didn't communicate more about
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by ploxiln 3y ago
You can replace the ports and the hinge, without too much expense, and this is kinda the defining feature of this product line. Did you try replacing the ports and the hinge?
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by ploxiln 3y ago
+1 to the advice to have different accounts with different banks. I've done this for a bit over 10 years now: checking account at one bank, savings at a different bank, credit card at yet another different bank, yet another credit card
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by ploxiln 3y ago
A distro uses a consistent toolchain, but doesn't write most of the code. The projects writing the vast bulk of the code, like linux, git, firefox, gtk, qt, openssl, curl, etc, don't strictly control the toolchain, and it does var
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by ploxiln 3y ago
So, how have linux distros worked for the past 25 years? Many independent projects write commonly used libraries and/or tools in C, and then each distro takes those and builds them with a slightly (or significantly!) different toolchai
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I have a 15-year-old Loaded Vanguard (medium flex option) on which I put 85mm "Seismic Speed Vent" wheels. It's great for cruising and commuting, just not great for drifting / slides (too soft, chattery). I have 180mm tr
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by ploxiln 3y ago
That is what it stands for. Inspired by RTFM I assume. I learned these on Slashdot about 20 years ago ... they made sense in that context, and have carried on as a familiar jargon ...
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by ploxiln 3y ago
FWIW there's really nothing wrong with uninstalling this kind of metapackage. I've been uninstalling the "ubuntu-desktop" metapackage as I trim my ubuntu systems, for over a decade. I use a combination of "debfoster
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Ah, where to start ... 128-bit addresses are annoyingly huge. 64 bits would have been enough. Even 48 bits gives you 64 thousand times the ipv4 address space. 64 bits gives you 4 billion times the ipv4 address space. In practice the 128-bit

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