slooonz

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by slooonz 3y ago
> I think that people perceive databases to be slow, not because they are slow, but because they often interact with them in the context of persisting data to disk, from across a network, by passing strings back and forth which must be p
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by slooonz 3y ago
The entirety of the European Union changed their national currencies to a new one, from scratch (no prior partial euroization), essentially overnight, in 2002. It’s definitely doable, if properly planned.
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by slooonz 3y ago
Current date being correct is the best indication.
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by slooonz 3y ago
> There is no way to specify how a client would like this upscaling to be done Isn’t it one of the points of content type hint ? ( https://wayland.app/protocols/content-type-v1 )
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by slooonz 3y ago
By that argument, you should count the codebase of the whole browser against slack.
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by slooonz 3y ago
> The court is only supposed to decide things when someone has been injured. Who was injured in this case? It’s literally the first point held. "Here, as the Government concedes, the Secretary’s plan would cost MOHELA, a nonprofit g
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by slooonz 3y ago
> To me, it's clear that what's illegal are private genetic tests. Which is even worse ? Why the hell I have no right to know my own DNA ?
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by slooonz 3y ago
Or just sci-hub.
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France's Proposed Website Blocking: A Dangerous Threat to the Open Internet(blog.mozilla.org)
24 points by slooonz 3y ago|2 comments
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by slooonz 3y ago
Why are taxis so high in this hierarchy ? It seems to me they should be barely different from single occupancy vehicles.
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by slooonz 3y ago
For the love of sanity, please don’t. In real life, I struggle enough to scan normal QR codes when the redundancy of error correction is here to… you know… correct errors and help the scanning process.
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by slooonz 3y ago
I’d add barriers of entry. Not high, but way higher that anything that is publicly readable on the internet and therefore indexed on Google. I can discover interesting subreddits by pure chance by following a google search on a question I
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by slooonz 3y ago
You are not accepting DMs from people you don't follow.
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by slooonz 4y ago
How is it wrong ?
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by slooonz 4y ago
Important (IMO) reminder that StackAid exists and has been made just to solve this kind of problems. (I’m not affiliated with them)
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by slooonz 4y ago
> You could use Ansible, or Puppet, or Terraform. But then you need to have the tool installed on the host Ansible only needs Python to be installed on the host (and SSH access), I don’t think it’s an unreasonable requirement.
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by slooonz 4y ago
Shower thought: we need a SQLIR, to be able to communicate with databases on a lower level that SQL. Many ORMs would benefit for that.
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by slooonz 4y ago
I find the data fetching example extremely confusing… 1. Where does this "use" comes from ? It is not present in the official React API reference : https://reactjs.org/docs/react-api.html 2. It says that the
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by slooonz 4y ago
Using a random port for SSH (or even "better", port knocking) is a "clever trick", until you forget the one you used for that server that quietly runs on which you log once every two years. Then it can range from minor a
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by slooonz 4y ago
So, the flagship of the article is the wikipedia entry for "Clarice Phelps", notably for "her work on a team that discovered a new periodic-table element at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory". The article (heavily) impli
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by slooonz 4y ago
> I don't want my equality operator doing timezone conversions Nobody argues for that. Especially since we’re comparing timestamps (floats), not datetimes (objects). Let’s go line by line : > ts = 1571595618.0 This is 2019-10-20
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by slooonz 4y ago
Because scaffolding by itself is an anti-pattern and you shouldn’t do it. The proper way to factor code is libraries/packages, not automated copy pasta.
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by slooonz 4y ago
HTTPs not completely blinding traffic analyzer doesn’t make the partial blinding useless.
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by slooonz 4y ago
When anyone tells me that "there’s no such thing as a 10x programmer", he’s my go-to example.
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by slooonz 4y ago
Can you prove you to us have one ?
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by slooonz 5y ago
> They have above average security, but unlike a typical website they can’t just store a one-way hash of passwords that remains secure even when stolen, they have to store the actual password No, they don’t store directly the actual pas
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by slooonz 5y ago
How do you backup a 500 GiB sqlite database ?
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by slooonz 5y ago
Unicode and utf-8 are fine. The one at fault is the one who thought that Unicode was a good place to put things like "GIANT POOP WITH FLIES".
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by slooonz 5y ago
> - receiving donations wouldn't be fair to any current or past contributors that made the projects what it is Hard disagree on that. Maintaining (bug triage, pull requests review, bug fixes…) is actually the hard work and the part
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by slooonz 5y ago
Don’t you see that one big issue, that I never see addressed in this kind of discussion, is the enormous tension between true observation 1 : > Consider something as basic as running an SSH server on the Linux kernel. In the mix you woul

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