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by thraxil 3y ago
> I have spent < an year in US (mostly in California) and found the America behaviour to be very polite in speech but indifferent/mean in actions. The passive aggressive behavior seemed quite common It's worth noting that in
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by thraxil 3y ago
> I see this weird back-lash in modern development against having common, standard platforms. I suspect it comes from the Python and JavaScript world, where having "no batteries included" is seen as a good thing, instead of a g
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by thraxil 3y ago
> This does a POST each time, albeit automatically on typing. It still means a lag for a kind of validation that could have been done client side. If you can accept that lag, the tradeoff is that you only have to write the validation log
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by thraxil 3y ago
Dijkstra's "Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control" from 1965 https://rust-class.org/static/classes/class19/dijkstra.pdf The entire paper is just one side of one page. In it he
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by thraxil 3y ago
Also noteworthy that Hipgnosis artist Peter Christopherson (who's shown in the photo in the article but not otherwise mentioned) also happened to have gone on to be a founding member of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil and was a
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by thraxil 3y ago
https://thraxil.org/
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by thraxil 3y ago
I have to confess that I don't deeply understand DNSSEC. I've set it up on domains in AWS (Route53) and GCP (Cloud DNS) and found it pretty simple and never had any issues (only .com and .org, no weirder TLDs). Are all the problem
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by thraxil 3y ago
I get the same. I use a tiling window manager (sway) and monitors in portrait mode. No way I'm changing my whole screen layout just to use a particular site/game.
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by thraxil 3y ago
I mean... literally every VM running nginx or apache that I've ever seen has had the SSL certs just sitting on the filesystem in /etc/ssl or /etc/letsencrypt or similar... All of letsencrypt's documentation poi
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by thraxil 3y ago
FWIW, I subscribe to over 500 feeds and use a tool similar to this to read them. I average several thousand entries per day. Having them all in one combined UI that's lightning fast and entirely based on keyboard input (vi-style '
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by thraxil 3y ago
Yep. I once inherited a system where the previous team had used GCSFuse to back the `/etc/letsencrypt` directory on a cluster of nginx webservers. It "worked" and may have been a reasonable approach at the time they buil
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by thraxil 3y ago
> I've never seen a production ready web framework or library that would let your entire process crash because of a bad request. It's rare, but I've seen linked C libraries trigger a segfault that takes the whole thing dow
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by thraxil 3y ago
Every time this discussion about different projections comes up, I just want to ask: has no one ever seen a globe? When I was a kid, we had them in classrooms and I had one in my bedroom. I never got the impression that that was unusual or
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by thraxil 4y ago
You'd also have to consider threat models that include attackers other than Tesla owners trying to get free charges. Eg, Tesla competitors looking to cost them money, people that have twitter beef with Elon, ransom/extortion attac
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by thraxil 4y ago
I've been doing web dev since the 90's and my first reaction to Tailwind was the same. Basically, "are we doing <font> tags again? really?" What the article (and many that are trying to introduce Tailwind) doesn&#x
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by thraxil 4y ago
The bigger issue with pass, IMO, is that there's no audit trail on secret access. At a previous job, the team used pass for shared ssh keys, passwords, etc. One developer got malware on their workstation. It was detected fairly quickly
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by thraxil 4y ago
Activating virtualenvs isn't necessary. In every python project I work in, I do $ cd projectFoo $ ./ve/bin/python whatever... (more realistically, it's `make whatever` which then builds the virtualenv i
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by thraxil 4y ago
> How "test first, then code" works in a compiled language like C++ or Rust be beyond me It's not really any different than in dynamic/interpreted/weakly-typed languages. "Writing the test" for a functi
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by thraxil 4y ago
> You will never switch databases, so abstracting away the DB for some hypothetical "I might want to switch DBs one day!" scenario is absurd One of the main reasons that Django has been so popular for so long is the idea of reu
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by thraxil 4y ago
> Your point is not valid. Which point? That we didn't have solar panels, cellphones, etc? Because I'm pretty sure we didn't. Or that "off grid" living with children isn't necessarily "child endangermen
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by thraxil 4y ago
SOC2 is relatively minimal. You describe your policies and controls, the auditor verifies that they meet some baseline requirements of generic "best practices" appropriate to your risk profile, then they collect data during the ob
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by thraxil 4y ago
I was actually an off grid child. My parents were hippies back in the 60's and part of the "back to the land" movement. They bought a bit of land in the middle of nowhere in Maine, miles from the nearest neighbors, built a lo
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by thraxil 4y ago
I agree if you are only considering whether to automate your own tasks. The value of "admin tools" goes way up when they enable someone else to self-service on tasks that would otherwise require intervention from you or your team.
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by thraxil 4y ago
I don't know if I'd say I "miss" XSLT and XPath, but yeah, it was fun and powerful at the time. I made some crazy stuff with Cocoon and AxKit that, if you didn't mind the syntax, were actually pretty elegant.
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by thraxil 4y ago
I've worked in academia doing a lot of simulation/modeling work with scientists that are experts in their field. Brilliant people but my experience is that scientists often generate the worst code you've ever seen. They are v
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by thraxil 4y ago
If you fit within the language/runtime restrictions, Cloud Functions and App Engine also both can be invoked with the same scheduler setup. We use Cloud Functions for monitoring all the time (schedule to call a function once per minute
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by thraxil 4y ago
Weird. I have pretty severe astigmatism, but I find dark themes much more comfortable. I'm maybe a bit photosensitive in general though and prefer to have my whole room/environment on the dim side (I especially can't stand br
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by thraxil 4y ago
Yep. And before they shut down Google Reader, they pretty systematically drove Bloglines and other major competitors out of business.
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by thraxil 4y ago
I worked on a groundskeeping team for a small cemetery (in the US) as a summer job when I was in high school. Mostly, it was mowing grass, trimming weeds, cleaning lichen off stones (we got to use the power washer for that, which was always
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by thraxil 4y ago
Yeah, our last pentest report had a bunch of "vulnerable ciphers" listed. I responded by showing that Google, Amazon, and the pentesting company's own sites all used the same ciphers that they flagged.

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