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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Except that by definition, in a URL the data has no implicit meaning so for a cache hit you need an exact match, including order and case, but for a list of POST parameters, they could legitimately be in any order and so you can't just
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Not necessarily that simple, as you'd have sort all the input parameters to maintain a useable cache key. Not especially difficult, but if the data is large and so re-allocation and sorting is required, then you're starting to ope
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Yeah, I agree. Often prohibitions are made without any context as to why they exist. I remember back in the 80s when I was a young kid (maybe 8 or 9) and I'd just started learning Z80 machine code. The manual for the computer had a s
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
My sister once applied for her dream job and didn't hear anything back for 6 months. In the mean time, she'd applied for another job, been accepted, signed all the paperwork, and worked out the notice on her old job. A week before
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
This is why we have postcodes. More concretely, a postcode is usually specific to between 7 and 30 dwellings, in the usual case it's about 15 houses. Contrary to common belief, they're not always on the same street, but in the vas
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Oh maybe his books are just seen as less relevant now. When times are good, people buy books like "4 hour work week" because they dream of a day when they might not have to work as much. When times are bad, and they face the very
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I should add a disclaimer that I've never used kubernetes or docker, the latter mostly because I prefer the mental model and data encapsulation of a VM per service. That said, the app I'm developing in my startup is designed with
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
OMG, hire some designers! It seems they took some ugly phone from early 2000s, applied some 1990s "copy the imac transparent case" aesthetic, slapped a Commodore logo on it and called it done. I mean, yeah, it sends a visual state
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
The lowest is 46.70 EUR, and loads under 50 EUR. Seems about the same as usual. I've not checked any of the higher models in the auctions for ages though. It's important to understand how the auctions work though - the price of ea
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
It sounds like a nice idea, but "It drives a real browser, lets the page finish doing whatever it does, grabs the finished result, and then rips every script out of it." sounds like it'd fail for a lot of websites that do thi
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Isn't that what we have already?
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
The price of server auctions seem pretty much the same as before: https://www.hetzner.com/sb so if you don't need the latest hardware, Hetzner is still and outstanding deal.
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
For instance, I received one today from HMRC (my country's tax body). I had to log in to find out what the contents were, in this case it was just a reminder of how much tax I need to pay by the end of next month. As it happens, I alre
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
The whole thing was already stretching realism, when the initially assumed 500 metre object "covered by a fine vapour obscuring the rest" suddenly became estimated at 500 miles across. When they were approaching to land, by the ti
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I'm not in the younger generation, but I listen to most of youtube (apart from songs and comedy) at 2x speed, and wish it could be even faster most of the time (that's a feature of premium, but I'm not paying for that). The p
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
The title of the article is wrong. It's not that removing 'um' from a recording is hard, it's that not removing everything else in the recording while doing so is.
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
> A person is not responsible for the actions of their government. All governments wage war and cause suffering. That is true, but one of the reasons for imposing sanctions after diplomatic processes fail to get the government change the
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Suppose the issue was an incorrect constant used, e.g. a change from a 0 to a 1. As long as somebody verifies that is the correct thing to do and submits a patch, I can't see anybody would complain about that. How else would you fix it
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
The boot flag might have been undocumented, but so was absolutely everything else that was reverse engineered to make Asahi possible. Rather than blaming Apple for this, the correct approach would have been to post something like "if y
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I'd say yes, but it's harder. It's actually what I plan to do very soon. He's not exactly an introvert, but one good example is from the founder of my client. He wanted to stay doing the technical work he enjoyed, so he
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I've never used linear, but just watching their example video [1] would worry me if I was a user and it's actually doing what they say it's doing. He creates a task called "Create faster app launch", if we believe t
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Not the point the article is making but "Hardware Is $22" and "The cheap hardware costs less than a sandwich" makes me very glad I don't live in the US and want to buy a sandwich!
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Maybe answering my own question, but I'm now wondering if the reason that the divide by 4 was chosen (so essentially using byte addressing instead of word addressing) is so that the linker can do symbol fixup / relocation.
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
At the risk of being voted down for stating an unpopular opinion, the problem is that faith is neither provably true nor provably false. That's what makes it faith, not science. Even though you clearly believe very strongly that religi
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Interesting that this dev sees domain knowledge as the most important part of his job. Over my nearly 30 year history, I consider domain knowledge as the least important aspect, and in fact have experience of many varied domains. 3 years we
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
I think I like this idea, but the linked-to Eternal Software Initiative [1] is a bit confusing. There are several different versions of the instructions to decode this, all conflicting. There's the one here: Set m[b] = m[b] - m[a] Then
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Another failed submission story here... At some point Amstrad Action, probably around 1987 or 1988, printed a type-in that was able to load standard ZX Spectrum tape files, basically a simple port of the LD-BYTES routine [1]. (EDIT: thinkin
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
Hmmm, it's been a long long time since I actually had a failed drive (and also I don't use zfs), but from what I remember of my last failing drive 20 years ago, the drive was able to detect that sectors had been corrupted, and the
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
By "obviously there", I meant take some old analogue receiver and twiddle the tuning knob. The vast majority of radio transmissions are many orders of magnitude louder than the noise floor. They are very obviously there. Tune your
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by ralferoo 4mo ago
As I said at the beginning of my first post higher up, different companies have different requirements, and there's no one right solution. But as for the last point, many companies prefer constant integration of work in progress (perha

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