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by taftster 8mo ago
I'm so grateful for flat LCD screens. Man, all those CRT boxes. Yikes. The rest of this video, it doesn't look like the world has changed all that much since 1995. Computing just kind of looks the same. I guess minus the lack of p
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by taftster 8mo ago
I mean, that's fair. I guess I just wanted to put my old man hat on. The song is a tribute to an era of lost innocence. Which I think is quite apropos to the current situation surrounding telnet. Vestiges of the days of the early inter
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by taftster 8mo ago
Well, I mean, the first part is a song by Don McLean called American Pie. You might know that, unsure that everyone will pick it out though. One of the most famous play choices at karaoke bars these days too. I think because the song is a l
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by taftster 8mo ago
How do you automate, for example, "HTTPS over websocket with OAuth", without providing some kind of hard-coded, static or otherwise persistent authentication credentials to the calling system in some form (either certificate based
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by taftster 8mo ago
Makes good sense, thanks for the tip.
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by taftster 8mo ago
OK yeah, that totally makes sense. Thank you.
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by taftster 8mo ago
Honest question. Do you recommend a "devcontainer" for this? Like a Docker image that maybe has both postgres and your development environment preinstalled inside? Or do you generally like to use and reference an external docker c
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by taftster 8mo ago
This is a pragmatic answer. While yes, regex is not proven to be the Most Correct Solution for a generalized parse, when you are sitting down with some data in front of you and you can grab the needed bits with a regex group, why not exactl
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by taftster 8mo ago
In the early days, updates quite often made systems less stable, by a demonstrable margin. My dad once turned off all updates on his Windows machine, with the ensuing peril that you can imagine. Sadly, it feels like Microsoft updates lately
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by taftster 8mo ago
I almost feel like this should just be the default action for all applications. I don't need them to escape out of a defined root. It's almost like your documents and application are effectively locked together. You have to give p
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by taftster 8mo ago
Which is why they go to spam so often.
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by taftster 8mo ago
OK, but who uses email anymore for personal communication? At least for most people in my circle, family is using a social media platform or iMessages. And work is using Teams or Slack or whatever. Work email is basically useless at this po
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by taftster 9mo ago
And honestly, that person deserves the same pay grade as a "normal" engineer. But sadly, most QA staff are underpaid and somewhat even an inferior class. Instead, if the QA role was the dominant and better paid title, you'd i
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by taftster 9mo ago
Edge has so many places that it can send telemetry to Microsoft. Any of the features that intend to "help" your browsing, including safe URL checks, shopping enhancements, etc. These Edge changes are important if you value your
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by taftster 9mo ago
Maybe. Until your natural key changes. Which happens. A lot. Exposing a surrogate / generated key that is effectively meaningless seems to be wise. Maybe internally Youtube has an index number for all their videos, but they expose a re
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by taftster 9mo ago
But to ask, did you consider "chessfriend" instead of "chessfiend" for branding? "fiend" can carry a negative connotation, which I'm not particularly lining up with in your product.
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by taftster 9mo ago
I'm going to check this out, as it's legitimately attempting to solve the gap in online chess coaches. As said on the home page, I don't want to know what to play, I want to know why I'm not seeing it or how to think
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by taftster 9mo ago
Jenny left her number in your neighborhood too?
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by taftster 9mo ago
This says a lot as relating to the rise of AI and the fear of job loss. There's going to be displacement in areas we can't predict, but overall it might very well just lead to leveling up the entire workforce.
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by taftster 10mo ago
Agreed. I was looking for an actual "change" here. It's just a statement to clarify the existing processing rules. Nothing new here.
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by taftster 10mo ago
Yes, exactly. It's kind of a wink-wink nudge-nudge at this point. A company citing "public good" under the guise of "shareholder value" is not actually supporting the public good at all. Not that I condone capitalis
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by taftster 10mo ago
Right, I find the use of protobuf lacking with direct support in the browser. Since JSON is a native data encoding format of the browser (effectively), it's just easier to have a JSON-based API. Yes, there are abstractions or other hac
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by taftster 11mo ago
I saw "Mandarin" and "local fetishes" and thinking I'm glad I have no idea what you're talking about, too!
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by taftster 11mo ago
I can absolutely decide to reject with impunity any and all packets that my computer receives, no matter if I initialized the request. I have not made a sale by reading some other website content and have absolute authority to discriminate
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by taftster 11mo ago
So is Grid supposed to be what we should use to replace the html <table> element? That I still use to this day for layouts because CSS still sucks to me?
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by taftster 11mo ago
But I can't subdivide 400 in to as many ways as 360. Think about the pie industry. They could be put out of business!!
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by taftster 11mo ago
That's not pedantic at all! Indeed, without these capabilities, it is by some definition not the real web. This hits into that concept of what exactly the "web" is. Is it just a media transport system? Or is it something more
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by taftster 11mo ago
I deliberately dodged there, as you noted. I do not have full disk encryption setup. I know that I'm probably have a very bad day if I come to lose my laptop, etc. I should do this, no doubt. But I'm not sure. While maybe good pas
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by taftster 11mo ago
I mean, probably should be. But for me, no. Well, not my personal computer anyway. That's a mistake, I know. But corporate computer yes. So no, I don't think "in this day and age" necessarily. And I believe that the vast
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by taftster 11mo ago
Yes! Me too. Not adding anything here except a confirmation on the above approach. You kind of need your email password as a "break glass" scenario. But mostly, you just need your password manager.

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