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by thorum 5y ago
As a counterpoint, learning the basics of a good OAuth library or service like oauth2-proxy, auth0, next-auth or keycloak is well worth your time as a developer. Once you get over the initial learning curve, it’s almost as easy to add to a
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by thorum 5y ago
I’m increasingly fatalistic about computer security. It seems like your options are carefully auditing all dependencies (difficult and maybe impossible if the dependencies are highly technical or the malicious code is sufficiently subtle or
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by thorum 5y ago
> Since Jackson reported problems with Ventavia to the FDA in September 2020, Pfizer has hired Ventavia as a research subcontractor on four other vaccine clinical trials (covid-19 vaccine in children and young adults, pregnant women, an
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by thorum 5y ago
That’s very cool. Does anyone know if there is a good list of other databases that include a PostgreSQL interface?
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by thorum 5y ago
True, but poorly designed studies and non-replicated results are also very common. I think if a majority of people find some effect to be anecdotally true I’m their own lives (“using flux makes my eyes hurt less and I fall asleep more easil
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by thorum 5y ago
The article mentions TabNine as an alternative. I think TabNine’s approach of providing one-line autocomplete suggestions is a nice middle ground where you’re still in charge of writing code but can do it faster with AI assistance. Unlike C
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by thorum 5y ago
One negative: With all that hardware it’s almost 3 times heavier than the Nintendo Switch, which is already near the upper limit for holding comfortable for longer play sessions. edit: On closer look that's comparing the Switch without
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by thorum 5y ago
My experience has been that a small amount of work each day builds mental momentum which can snowball into something bigger when my schedule opens up and I have some free time & an idea that excites me.
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Hackers steal 26M account logins for Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and more(metro.co.uk)
4 points by thorum 5y ago|0 comments
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by thorum 5y ago
skaffold and minikube (which runs a simple Kubernetes cluster on your local dev computer) are great - the developer just types “skaffold dev” in their terminal and skaffold handles the entire process of building and deploying code into mini
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Tilt: Productivity for teams building Kubernetes apps(tilt.dev)
2 points by thorum 5y ago|0 comments
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by thorum 5y ago
That's really cool. When I tried WSL a while back, file system access was pretty slow especially for scanning large folder trees with many files (important for programming projects). Is this still an issue or has it improved in that ar
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Big Sleep: Simple CLI tool for AI text to image generation(github.com)
2 points by thorum 6y ago|0 comments
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Moving Away from UUIDs (2018)(neilmadden.blog)
2 points by thorum 6y ago|3 comments
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by thorum 6y ago
Quanta does some of the best science reporting. They have a knack for making highly complex and technical concepts accessible to the general public without sacrificing accuracy.
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by thorum 6y ago
On the other hand, the URL for a common library hosted on cdnjs (or one of the other big JavaScript CDNs) and included on many different websites is much more likely to already be cached on edge servers close to your users than if you host
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by thorum 6y ago
> Users, meanwhile, face a security “nightmare” because they won’t be able to get app updates that fix bugs and security vulnerabilities, he said. This is because people who already have the app will be able to continue using it, just wi
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by thorum 6y ago
Music recommendations seem to work OK. My Spotify discover playlists are always decent.
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by thorum 6y ago
WebBundles seem like they would be a useful format for distributing PWAs - like a web standard alternative to Android's APK files.
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by thorum 6y ago
I think the true importance of GPT-3 is its general learning ability across multiple domains. David Chalmers wrote about this recently: > More remarkably, GPT-3 is showing hints of general intelligence. Previous AI systems have performed
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by thorum 6y ago
It's true that WebAssembly makes web apps more opaque, since it's a compiled binary vs JavaScript code. However, ad blocking should the same as for JavaScript single page apps. The Rust code in this article hooks into JavaScript A
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by thorum 6y ago
Lately I've been experimenting with regular caffeine resets to avoid tolerance. I'm following a two weeks on / 1 week off schedule. I also use caffeine tablets instead of coffee, and limit myself to 50-100mg, usually taken in
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by thorum 6y ago
Mixer had potential as a streaming platform, they completely failed to create a culture anything like what Twitch has. Any streamer who wanted to move to Mixer would have to sacrifice being part of that Twitch community.
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Planned changes to shared memory in Firefox and Chrome(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by thorum 6y ago|0 comments
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by thorum 6y ago
Chrome's Incognito mode is pretty clear about what it does, and clearly states the fact that websites and ISPs can still track you. Private Browsing has never been about hiding your traffic from analytics AFAIK. It's about your lo
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by thorum 6y ago
Holographic displays are one approach being studied for use in VR/AR headsets. My understanding is that they may help solve the vergence-accommodation conflict, which causes a lot of the motion sickness, headaches, eye strain and other
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by thorum 6y ago
Does your browser extension really need to access localhost/* - as in, port 80 on my local machine? That would make me very uncomfortable about installing the extension. Would it be possible to restrict the extension to accessing a spe
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by thorum 6y ago
For some context, there are already dozens of Twitch talk shows, dating shows, Bachelor imitations etc. that are extremely popular on the platform - hosted by individual streamers, not the company itself. For example “The Rajjchelor” (hoste
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by thorum 6y ago
I've had good success with the Upright GO. It's a little device that you stick on your upper back and connect to your phone via Bluetooth. It detects when you're slouching and buzzes your back with a slight vibration to remin
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by thorum 7y ago
Thanks for the heads up, just uninstalled.

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