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by pmontra 9mo ago
I missed that, thanks!
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If somebody is MITMing a target person, they will respond positively to "update available?" calls from that person and then serve the tainted update. The article does not say what the frequency of auto update check is. Let's
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by pmontra 9mo ago
The British Crown had to concede some rights centuries ago, or there would have been civil wars and probably no more crown. Dear Leaders are the ones that don't have to concede anything, yet.
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Well, the only difference between Fascism and Stalinism was more or less that Fascism was anticommunist (communists and fascists were killing each other in Italy when Mussolini, a former socialist, was raising to the power) but Stalinism wa
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by pmontra 9mo ago
> But Everyone Uses It! All of my customers are on bitbucket. One of them does not even use a CI. We run tests locally and we deploy from a self hosted TeamCity instance. It's a Django app with server side HTML generation so the dep
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I guess that the European Commission pays a lot of money to Microsoft in licenses. They could pay a fraction of those money to Matrix.
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by pmontra 9mo ago
The article is very well written but is somewhat lacking at the end. The conclusion lists pgbouncer as one of the solutions but it does not explain it clearly. > Many pieces of wisdom in the engineering zeitgeist are well preached but po
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Well, it takes time to assess and adapt, and large organizations need more time than smaller ones. We will see. In my experience the limiting factor is doing the right choices. I've got a costumer with the usual backlog of features. Th
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Raspberry Pi raises prices by as much as 70% in response to RAM price increases(liliputing.com)
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by pmontra 9mo ago
I've been using snapshot for backups since so many years that I forgot when I started. I keep the last 14 snapshots.
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The very last words of the article are > Time is something the universe continuously writes into itself. So the next question is "how?" We can generate interactions by bringing stuff close together, but the definition of closen
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Apple make money from the App Store and from selling their hardware, so why should they want to invest on something that let people install software bypassing the App Store or that works on other platforms? Alphabet make money from ads, so
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Who is legally responsible in case a Waymo hits a pedestrian? If I hit somebody, it's me in front of a judge. In the case of Waymo?
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It's "Apple’s new iPhone and iPad security feature limits cell networks from collecting precise location data"
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Companies with an IT department, maybe. Companies without IT, not much. People, nope. I can't see my neighbors opening ports on their switch. What's a switch, to start with. And what happens when they change provider and switch ne
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Back in the times of Windows 95 and Windows XP, reinstalling the OS at least once per year made Windows noticeably faster. Then it degraded month by month. And yet I still remember how incredibly faster the same laptop was with Ubuntu 8.04.
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by pmontra 9mo ago
A throw away mail is a way to anonymously test a service. Maybe you want only people that commit their real identity to evaluating your service, but maybe you will lose some conversion after an anonymous evaluation. You'll also have le
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by pmontra 9mo ago
You might check how the Mongols managed to do it on a much vaster scale 800 years ago. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gurganj The museum of the city has a paper with the order that every soldier wou
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by pmontra 9mo ago
That's pretty common: a lot of developers left Windows for a Mac in the 2000s because it was a more comfortable and realiable Unix than Linux. However I never liked the UI of Macs, so I never bought one. It was OK on the 9" screen
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by pmontra 9mo ago
In my experience it's great a writing sample code or solving obscure problems that would have been hard to google a solution for. However it fails sometimes and it can't get past some block, but neither can I unless I work hard at
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Yes. Maybe they saw Windows 11 and decided that now it's the right time to release Liquid Glass and fix it later. Anyway I've been on Linux since 2009 and it's getting better at each release (Ubuntus up to 20.04 and then Debi
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by pmontra 9mo ago
That looks like an integration test. A possible way to handle that scenario is to drop all the databases after it ends and create them again, or truncate all the tables or whatever it makes sense for that possible set of different data stor
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by pmontra 9mo ago
> In Elixir tests, each test runs in a database transaction that rolls back at the end. Tests run async without hitting each other. No test data persists. And it confuses Claude. This way of running tests is also what Rails does, and AFA
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by pmontra 9mo ago
But there still won't be Google Services so what extra money is Google to make there? The markup on hardware. But they have to compete with local manufacturers with the very same OS. At least Apple is the only manufacturer selling phon
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by pmontra 9mo ago
My first Android phone was a Samsung Galaxy S2. It weighted two grams less than that Hiby R1. Of course it was much larger, but tiny by today's standards. https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-3621.php
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> I'm pretty much never typing secrets into an SSH tunnel; these days if there's a secret I need to transmit over SSH I'm going to be copying and pasting it, which will not reveal info from keyboard timing One common secre
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by pmontra 9mo ago
My first reaction has been: when we install some node modules, import them and eventually run them, we do grant local execution permissions to whatever the authors of those modules coded in their scripts, right? More or less every language
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Getting a pipeline wrong 5 times is common. The normal process is: write a couple of steps, right output! Add a grep, bad output! Fix it, again, again, right output! Add cut -bM-N, adjust the boundaries a few times. Sort the output. Oops, s
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by pmontra 9mo ago
There have been 203 Show HNs in the last 24 hours. This is not a bad thing but nobody can open all of them, so we look at the title and if it matches something we care about we might open it or at least upvote it.
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by pmontra 9mo ago
Yes. Another way to look at databases is that they store the state at given time. We can augment tables with valid_from, valid_to columns to retrieve the state at a particular time. In that case there is never a DELETE, only INSERTs and UPD

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