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by slau 2y ago
Maybe there was an edit, but I don’t see how OP said anything was due to AI. They’re just asking whether distributed systems aren’t even more relevant today than during the 90s or 2000s as it seems AI could benefit from being distributed.
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by slau 2y ago
The second article, about the GoT character, is a big nothing burger: > With fears it could affect her daughter’s future travel, the family sought legal advice over the passport rejection. > They found while there is a trademark for G
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by slau 2y ago
I agree that a duplicate key problem is 409. However I disagree that 422 is for encoding issues. Quite the contrary, 422 specifically says that “the server understood the content type of the request entity, and the syntax of the request ent
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by slau 2y ago
From the author themselves, 6 years ago: > defusedxml.lxml is no longer needed and supported. Nowadays libxml2 has builtin limitation for entity expansion. https://github.com/tiran/defusedxml/issues/25#issu
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by slau 2y ago
DefusedXML is an amazing piece of code. This being said, many of the mitigations it enables are now also available by default in many “standard” libraries. For example, bandit will often tell you to not use lxml in Python, but instead use d
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by slau 2y ago
I’m struggling to see why infill would need to be over 30%. I thought it was fairly well known that increasing infill does not significantly increase strength. More perimeters definitely do help, so maybe that’s what it being referred to (w
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by slau 2y ago
If they have heated chambers for their printers, ASA/ABS shouldn’t be too much of an issue. I print ASA on the regular without a heated chamber (but with a heat soaked enclosure), and I can print fairly large parts without too much war
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by slau 2y ago
I’m working on a product for a client, and the amount of pressure I’ve been under to “make it AI” has been tremendous. “Could we add a chat bot?” “What about AI generated images?” This is for an extremely regulated industry, where content n
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by slau 2y ago
For those who aren’t scuba divers, 10m range is very impressive. Most radiowave-based systems have a range of 1-2m, with many being plagued with connectivity issues. One of the main use-cases is air integration, which allows you to have a t
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by slau 2y ago
Well, GitHub, Google, and many others, allow you to bypass 2FA by using an alternate method. For example, GitHub will send a prompt to their app on your phone, if you’re trying to log in to the website. I believe Google can send a similar p
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by slau 2y ago
Is that 500kg mass or negative buoyancy? Because 500kg of octogen (density of 1.91g/cm³) which thus would take up 261800cm³. An item of that volume and mass would only be 230kg negatively buoyant in sea water. Still very heavy, but bas
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by slau 2y ago
Where does the 500kg figure come from? I don’t see it in the article. I’m also surprised about the 220lb figure mentioned in the article. Assuming a steel twinset, and 4 extra cylinders, we barely get to 60-70kg. Where do the remaining 30-4
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by slau 2y ago
IIRC, when my payment lapsed due to an expired card, I got plenty of time to fix the issue. In my case, the payment is taken from the card a whole month and a half before the invoice is generated (typically a different fiscal year, smh).
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by slau 2y ago
> I don't even want to calculate how tall the corresponding pile of floppy disks would be. I do! Assuming 3.5” floppies with 1.44MB capacity, and ignoring the split container overhead. 128GiB / 1.41MiB = 92960 92960 * 3.3mm = 3
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by slau 2y ago
Yes of course. The issue here is not left vs right. The issue is “man-child thinks messing with politics and free elections is funny, and that he’s entitled to it because he bought a plot of land on the internet.”
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by slau 2y ago
If you don’t want to maintain the infrastructure, you can also just commit to git and push to GitHub, and there have CI build the Hugo/Jekyll website and host it using GitHub pages. You can easily have your own domain connected to it a
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by slau 2y ago
I wanted to move to Denmark and saw a startup looking for an engineering lead. I applied, received a coding challenge, was invited for some interviews with the engineering team, after I came back home I had an online interview with the CEO
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by slau 2y ago
I actually quite like it. There’s obviously a few quirks, and it works heaps and bounds better when you’re driving in the country where the system was designed (Germany vs Denmark in my case). My main issue is when speed limits are reduced
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by slau 2y ago
My car instantly recognises that I’m in Germany and knows what speed I used in the unrestricted sections, and automatically switches back to that. When I’m in Belgium it knows the speed on the highway is 120 km/h. In France or Denmark
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by slau 2y ago
Well, yes, but not really. The recommended speed limit is still 130 km/h. However going past the recommended speed limit is not illegal. If you get into an accident while going faster than 130km/h which could have been prevented b
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by slau 2y ago
A client had a DB hosted by Oracle. The client was doing most of their compute on AWS, and wanted to have a synchronised copy made available to them on AWS. Oracle quoted them a cool $600k/year to operate that copy, with a 3 year cont
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by slau 2y ago
Agreed. For most people it would be more reasonable to lose the three-four kg in body fat and keep the aluminium frame rather than upgrading to carbon fibre.
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by slau 2y ago
Well, considering I was part of the implementation team of one of those hardware tokens, I'm sorry I'm going to have to disagree with you :). Please note that I'm not talking about RFC6238 / 4226. I'm talking about
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by slau 2y ago
Depending on the algorithm, one or two of the digits in the TOTP are counters to help the server figure out clock drift on the client device. This was especially relevant when talking about hardware tokens that had relatively inaccurate clo
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by slau 2y ago
I’d be interested to understand why the $60 is incompressible or an unsellable price. Did you consult with a print farm to see how much they could produce your items for, or was this based on you producing them yourself? Also, designing for
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by slau 2y ago
I’m bit confused by your comment as a bullet train is significantly faster than this train you mention. The French TGV has hit 574 km/h (356 mph) nearly 20 years ago. I can’t immediately find the average speed of the TGV, but consideri
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by slau 2y ago
I’m sorry he had to admit guilt, but I see how it was necessary for the US to finally give up this insane battle. I honestly can’t believe we’re living to see Julian walk free. I’m not certain he can either. Go home and finally get some res
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by slau 2y ago
Parallel point: the tech stack is more of a business decision than a tech decision for early stage startups. I’ve seen many clients fail, or lose a lot of money and/or velocity when they’ve had to shift their tech stack in order to sca
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by slau 2y ago
I think it’s also because plug-in hybrids make a lot of sense for Europe. In a Nordic capital, I refuelled (E10) my car in January, and that lasted me until June. I’m now driving across Europe, and I don’t have to worry about finding charge
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by slau 2y ago
You are correct, I misremembered.

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