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871.
by psd1 3y ago
Words like "good", "better" and "should" always carry freight that's often worth unpacking. Here, "better" really needs a definition. A CCD is better than human eyes inasmuch as it captures a fie
872.
by psd1 3y ago
I suspect the salient point is that early adopters are more likely to care about openness, both practically and philosophically; but as the bell curve fattens, you include hobbyists-following-tutorials, who only care about specific practica
873.
by psd1 3y ago
I wonder if I've interacted with you on jaguarforums...! I guess a 308 is a Ferrari, but Jaguar also used these systems in the later XJS models.
874.
by psd1 3y ago
If you rtfa, then you'll understand.
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by psd1 3y ago
Could you go into the disability point a bit more? I can't believe that the common case of physical disability is that you can cycle but not drive.
876.
by psd1 3y ago
Easy bureaucracy. AIUI, American citizens must eat broken glass once a year under the name "filling taxes". Many nations in Europe require businesses to eat broken glass just to do basic business functions - Spain is astonishingly
877.
by psd1 3y ago
No sarcasm tag required. Exposure to oracle is a business risk. I expect any architect to think pretty hard before allowing anything owned by oracle into the stack.
878.
by psd1 3y ago
No, IDEs do not give you ADHD. ADHD has a clinical definition and a physiological cause in a region of the brain.
879.
by psd1 3y ago
I've paid more to take longer by train, for greater convenience and comfort. I agree with your point in general, I'm just quibbling that speed is the decider.
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by psd1 3y ago
On GDPR, broadly speaking it's more "you can't" than "you must". Don't keep people's data and you're fine. Granted, some businesses need to keep some data as a matter of doing business. But the p
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by psd1 3y ago
The outcome of moderation here is very good, and changing policy has a high chance of damaging the value of HN. I would not risk secondary effects, myself. But I would enjoy HN more with a soupcon of joking (currently considered zero-value)
882.
by psd1 3y ago
That varies with culture. District heating is more common in Europe than America. I sometimes think of the USA as a machine for converting noble ideals into intractable problems.
883.
by psd1 3y ago
I think it's a valid cavil; you take heat from the sea but emit it to the ground and atmosphere. The respective deltas may or may not be negligible.
884.
by psd1 3y ago
The Dalai Lama. Perhaps Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn?
885.
by psd1 3y ago
Not inducing the backlash effect, probably. I have spent too long being right but an arsehole. I never got my ideas into production that way, even though the existing codebase was patently a trough of piss. I learned to stfu and, generally,
886.
by psd1 3y ago
Could we eat apes? Other hominids? Neanderthals? Funny where empathy ends, isn't it. It seems to be subject to individual variation.
887.
by psd1 3y ago
Tailscale has a beta feature called "funnel". As of now, it only supports 80 and 443, and does not support custom domains - though you could presumably add your own cname.
888.
by psd1 3y ago
My goodness. That raises questions. I hope you are merely naive. "I don't hate them! I just think they got a bit worked up over a few arrests. They're too sensitive. I don't blame them for it, but when you deal with them
889.
by psd1 3y ago
Best Hendrix impersonation I've ever heard: https://youtu.be/jh-hzbG5FzI
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by psd1 3y ago
I dipped my toe into NamedTuple. Where it falls down is that it requires a custom serialiser. Python's json library is a crock of shit once you've used .net. TypedDict turned out to be the winner. The runtime type is dict but you
891.
by psd1 3y ago
I follow that convention. I've written many functions that accept a list of values and, typically as intermediate processing, build a dict from them. Many rest APIs I've coded for require me to fetch from two endpoints to build my
892.
by psd1 3y ago
Would that all our codebases be that straightforward... I worked in a team with low skill. One of our flagship apps had a lot of inherent complexity, and was coded by an over-promoted fool. He wrote spaghetti that was vile even at launch. T
893.
by psd1 3y ago
I had a very expensive old-fashioned once where the bartender chiseled a sphere of ice out of a block. It took about five minutes. The diameter was about 8cm or so. He created a very spherical sphere. I twizzled it round and round but could
894.
by psd1 3y ago
My employer is headquartered in the US and has presence in about 30 countries. I don't recall them taking a position on communism. I don't understand why Americans still cling to this villain. It's 2023, the USSR collapsed 30
895.
by psd1 3y ago
The prevailing opinion on /r/networking is that cisco is trading on reputation and position, like a tank rolling forward with all the crew dead. Competitors matched their features years ago and cisco has been unable to innovate du
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by psd1 3y ago
My concern is leaking through browser sessions. If browser adware finds traces of two identities in a session, your secret is out. If browser fingerprinting works (it does), your secret is out.
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by psd1 3y ago
I spent several days evaluating mail providers and migrating. It is work.
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by psd1 4y ago
Where do you get "five to ten minutes"? I have a win11 VM that boots from cold to login screen in 10-20 seconds. Windows services can be configured with dependency order and with delayed start. There are startup profilers. I'
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by psd1 4y ago
Sadly that's x64 only and will likely never support Arm, so I've been stuck with the shitty taskbar on the VM on my mac. Works very well on x64 though.
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by psd1 4y ago
It's mild compared to other punishments, but severe for the action of voting on a review For me the salient factor is what this is a rare occurrence. If you operate at scale you're going to occasionally do the wrong thing. Is this

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