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by sigwinch28 3y ago
I am a bit rusty on the specifics of the BEAM's registers (the VM that Erlang and Elixir run on) but IIRC the short version is these are registers in a VM and the VM takes care not to let them clobber. Also, in the BEAM, intra-module a
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
This is a topic I often see overlooked from the user perspective and I'm happy to see more discussion about this. My anecdote: when I was working for a B2C startup we had to ensure we billed customers on the correct date, like OP. Time
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
Edit: this was meant to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37122798 but I messed it up. I don't see a good reason Elixir wouldn't allow it, since Erlang (yes I know it's not Elixir) often comp
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
The title feels a bit like a garden-path sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
Does ChatGPT tell me that I can caramelise onions in 15 minutes?
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
Buy an East Asian style rice cooker and you’ll have hands-off low effort carbs for the rest of your life. Cook dried pasta in a pot of boiling water. Season it with oil, salt, pepper, and Parmesan or any vegitarian/vegan alternative. T
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
> but the check-in agent had attached the wrong tag. This one was for another passenger, who was traveling from Baltimore to Chicago only. So what? It’s not the customer’s fault that someone acting on behalf of the company made a mistake
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
> Majority of restaurant is all about experience and event payment system should match that experience. I'm in the UK. I go to many high-end restaurants, cocktail bars, etc. Portable card terminals are essentially universal in these
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
Have you tried the ss05 variant of Iosevka? It's intented to be Iosevka in the style of Fira Mono. https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/doc/stylistic-...
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
The pinned tweet for @StackStatus starts "With our recent status page improvements". https://twitter.com/StackStatus/status/1575844926884962305?s... The old status page https://stackstatus.tum
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
>Isn't pulumi aws just terraform under the hood still? It depends. The AWS "Classic" provider uses the terraform provider [1]. The AWS "Native" provider does not, and instead uses the AWS Cloud Control API [2]. [
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
If someone at work asks me the date or if I’m signing in somewhere as a visitor and I ask the date, the response is the same: “the 25th”. The month is expected to be somewhat obvious. The year even more so. If I’m giving or getting a respon
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
I want to see a native service discovery protocol for OCI registries. HashiCorp uses a service discovery protocol for Terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/internals/remote-s... It allows domain own
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
> That doesn't completely justify Lego Unless Bricklink actively hid it during acquisition it doesn't justify Lego at all .
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
If you are using containerd then you might find the "hosts" section of the configuration file useful: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/docs/host... You could mirror the i
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
This is incredibly frustrating to deal with because of how deeply the registry name is baked into Dockerfiles and image names. We end up "mirroring" our base images but there's some disconnect internally between "oh, yea
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
Which group is that? Disabled people, or their allies, or someone else?
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
I hope (reatively immature) solutions like this will not be used as an excuse to remove accessible infrastructure from the world (e.g. captions at the cinema, live subtitles at the theatre, text displays on public transport).
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
Fair.
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
I wonder... how many issues was Kafka "soaking up" by dealing with concerns that applications and services didn't have to even consider? As in, I wonder how much application developer burden would be present if using MQTT ins
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
I find myself conflicted between two approaches at work: 1. Write a provider/extension/whatever for a tool like Terraform or Pulumi. I live in a world where the infrastructure doesn't move underneath my feet. I am the source
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
> To what extent can I run kubernetes locally with this tool? Why do you want to use this tool specifically? Have you considered minikube? What features/use case are you looking for? Do you want to run stuff on Kubernetes? If so, Do
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
law and enforcement
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
Finding and creating products to sell to your target demographic, rather than finding a demographic to target your products at? When you’re in a gold rush, sell picks and shovels...
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
Yep. Everything is “tweet cannot be sent”
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
> Users who want more advanced digital document features — such as the ability to edit text and images, convert PDFs to other file formats, and combine files — can purchase an Acrobat subscription that enables access to these features an
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
> But if you're watching the politician speak, you can already see all of the emotion in their facial expression and body movement. Yes, but a deaf person has trouble hearing how the speaker is speaking. They're missing out on
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
There's more to speaking than just the words. Sign language can convey inflection and emotion in ways that closed captions cannot. Watch someone signing: they use their face and body to convey emotions like anger, confusion, hesitation
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
I am happy to see the author mention WCAG and British Dyslexia Association. They seem to have a refreshingly strong focus on accessibility. I wonder how much of an uphill battle is fought inside the GDS and across the UK government to push
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by sigwinch28 4y ago
"Sign in with X" can and does get abused: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917962 Getting a user to log in on a malicious app which has legitimate OAuth client credentials is usually game over, yes.

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