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by ris 9y ago
Correction: much easier to maintain irresponsibly . That binary you just downloaded and stuck somewhere some time ago - when was the last time it was updated? What about all of its underlying bundled static libraries? How certain were yo
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by ris 9y ago
> the points on a map have to represent one of a fairly limited selection of types Absolutely not. Not only is the selection of types huge and full of shades of grey, but an element can be tagged as things from multiple different categor
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by ris 9y ago
Investigate Overpass and in particular Overpass Turbo. And really, any strict layering system in OSM would quickly just fall apart into debates of exactly what belonged in each layer. The range of detail captured by OpenStreetMap users in d
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by ris 9y ago
FWIW I don't really think any of these problems are "new" and don't think OSM is truly in any more trouble than it's ever been. And as many tensions as there obviously are in OSM, it hasn't stopped us getting p
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by ris 9y ago
> There is obviously outdated/sub-standard data, but automated fixes are forbidden. Please consider arms race encouraging automated edits would begin. A lot of people have a lot of awfully different views about how map data should b
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by ris 9y ago
> but it's probably more complicated and harder the reason about Absolutely not. It's made far easier to reason about through the fact that all of its features are exposed through a pure-functional language, giving the reader t
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by ris 9y ago
> C Anyone already running a profile-guided fuzzer on this then?
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by ris 9y ago
Amusing. > options like QT, but found them to be extremely large and full of things I didn't need > But then, I decided to just use a web browser.
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by ris 9y ago
Sounding rockets are small-ish, usually solid propelled rockets used principally for upper-atmosphere research. Importantly they are originally designed for sub-orbital flight. The notable thing here is not only bringing it to orbit, but do
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by ris 9y ago
Lesson #1 in why developers shouldn't be unilaterally in control of the packaging & distribution and why I hate "wild west" style package repositories.
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by ris 9y ago
I do still cite Qt's API documentation as the best I've ever used.
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by ris 9y ago
This is where purchasers of Garmin sat navs are laughing because their map format was reverse-engineered years ago and OpenStreetMap on garmin satnavs is quite a well trodden path: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OS
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by ris 9y ago
For even more detail, https://github.com/petergeoghegan/pg_hexedit With further blog posts https://pgeoghegan.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/pghexedit-rich-hex... and http://pgeoghegan.blo
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by ris 9y ago
> basically it's InstallShield + live updating for cloud software Sounds like a nightmare to me.
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by ris 9y ago
So I have to wonder if they have tried their test suite on Mesa's drivers, specifically the driver for (Qualcomm) Adreno. This could be very beneficial CI for Mesa.
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Pg_hexedit: See postgres relation files in a hexeditor with tags and annotations(github.com)
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by ris 9y ago
The "wild west" model is where there is no maintainer or distributor between the developer and consumer that is allowed to perform any sort of quality control or sanitisation. That sounds good from a naive standpoint - who needs t
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by ris 9y ago
No. My complaint is that things never get fixed properly. The complex problems around software distribution (which proper package managers have made a good stab at solving for decades) are ignored in favour of steamrollering over the proble
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by ris 9y ago
Already counting down the days before yarn is considered old and broken and people are recommending switching to the next hot package manager/bundler...
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by ris 9y ago
And this is why I avoid "package managers" that follow the wild-west model like the plague.
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by ris 9y ago
I note the fake replies are quite limited & repetitive. It would be extremely interesting to see if deep Q learning could be used to develop more realistic replies. "rewards" would simply be getting more (and faster) respons
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by ris 9y ago
> Of four recources commonly metered in Russia - electricity, water, gas and heat When you say "heat" - is this steam from a combined heat & power plant? I was aware these were quite widespread in Russia but didn't kno
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by ris 9y ago
Looking...
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by ris 9y ago
It is not about a "random judge's ruling" - a proper court of law has very specific safeguards in place to ensure that both parties have a equal chance to make their voice heard and put their case forward. Now, it's po
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by ris 9y ago
Whistleblowing, when making allegations against an individual , is best done under non-pseudonyms and inviting possible libel/slander charges. If you're making allegations of this severity, it seems it would be better to straight
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by ris 9y ago
> I can't be be sure that a developer doesn't go behind the scenes and change Sql server either. You basically can. The difference is that it's quite obviously notable to a developer of any level that changing the schema i
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by ris 9y ago
Considering that AMD processors now have the streaming encryption capacity to encrypt data as it travels to and from the memory controller, I think we're at a point where performing high bandwidth symmetric encryption is not significan
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by ris 9y ago
Newsflash: HTTPS is not bulletproof. Subtle weaknesses are uncovered regularly. The latest: https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/bleichenbacher-robot-rsa.h...
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by ris 9y ago
Right, but can you ensure that the only thing that ever connects to your datastore (even to perform auxiliary/admin actions or quick data tweaks) is using that code in strongly typed mode? Otherwise you can't be sure what&#x27
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by ris 9y ago
You can but complex datatypes (json) have complex (and often ugly) constraint definitions. It's not much fun compared to "look, I just want this field to be a date."

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