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by timbray 5y ago
This makes sense, but if I'm handing these things around probably some of the code [ gasp ] isn't in Go. So someone should write an RFC for the case where you don't need algorithm agility, and then devs don't need to kn
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by timbray 5y ago
Call me weird, but I tend to start by searching for what I think I'm looking for. I was looking for "serialize 25519" or something like that. None of "pkix", "ASN.1", "CRL", X.509, o "OCSP&
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by timbray 5y ago
Just committed changes to use those functions. Didn't remove all the ceremony but saved a few lines of code. Thanks. Credited @agwa in the commit.
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by timbray 5y ago
Right, what path would have led you to that doc page. I read a lot of doc pages and none of the paths I followed led to that one.
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by timbray 5y ago
Well, because it's not just Go. I want other languages to be able to use these. Other languages maybe don't regard ed25519 as a byte array. So I could tell the world "I invented a way to serialize keys, please use it" or
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by timbray 5y ago
Fair enough, thanks, will adopt those. An interesting question is why heavy googling and stackoverflow diving looking for "how to publish ed25519" and related things failed to turn this up.
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by timbray 5y ago
Fixed, thanks
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by timbray 6y ago
That turns out to be hard because in your typical log file you have bursts of requests localized to a particular part of the file that get something into the top-N without even appearing in other segments. So essentially you can end up havi
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by timbray 7y ago
Yeah, but others were as well, it was obvious to anyone who understood both SGML and the Web. Mind you, there were only maybe a dozen people in the world like that.
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by timbray 7y ago
Ahem. No I didn't: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/11/22/Not-the-I... But, I was there, and it's an interesting story: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
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by timbray 7y ago
AWS open-sources lots of stuff and upstreams lots of fixes. I'd expect this to increase in intensity. (Disclosure: I work there.)
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by timbray 7y ago
Um, I’ve been at AWS since late 2014, and AFAIK the only extended SQS hiccup correlated with the DynamoDB issue in 2016. SQS isn’t perfect but I’m pretty sure “does routinely have temporary failures that generally last for a few ours at a
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by timbray 7y ago
(Oh, should disclose, I helped design & build Step Functions.)
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by timbray 7y ago
If you want to do your workflow in your own procedural code, SWF (and presumably Cadence) are good choices. If you want to use a dependency graph, Airflow is for you (but I hear operating it is kind of tricky). If you like a state-machine
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by timbray 9y ago
[Tim here] Folks might notice that the article is once again find-able. Being 2 links from the top of Hacker News will do that…
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by timbray 9y ago
Where by "sucks" you mean "reveals what the actual picture you're going to get will look like", which on modern sensors is amazingly brighter than what your eyes think they see. EVFs are the future.
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by timbray 9y ago
My personal fave lens ever is the Fuji 35mm F1.4, which somehow manages to be really modest in size, despite being fast and razor sharp. So, it can be done.
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by timbray 9y ago
I suspect you've never looked through one of the good modern EVFs. They aren't slow any more, and they're immensely more accurate than what you see through glass.
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by timbray 9y ago
“dimensionality”?
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by timbray 9y ago
Hm, the Mac Display settings says “looks like 1920x1200” when I mouse over it.
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by timbray 9y ago
Guilty as charged on being a techie/programmer, and I love DPReview, but I don't encounter general-overview articles much, and I felt like writing one, and it's my blog so nobody can stop me, haha.
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by timbray 9y ago
I don’t think the data supports your claim about sharper, and low-light performance. AFAIK the best low-light performance in the world is the Sony A7S, which is mirrorless. At the high end, I don’t think either of the mirrorless or SLR cho
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by timbray 10y ago
BTW, the Step Functions product that interprets this uses the SWF bsck-end.
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by timbray 10y ago
Glad to hear that so many people already did this (only better), years ago. Nice to have company. The only thing new or interesting about States is it has a product behind it that implements it at scale, available now; give it a try. I thin
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by timbray 11y ago
Excuse me… SQS, Route53, Auto Scaling, and Simple Workflow are “niche”?
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by timbray 12y ago
Oh dear, I’ve probably hurt some feelings for having missed 6901. Interesting that when I googled around for JSON analogues of XPath, I didn’t turn that up. Having said that, it’s not obvious that any syntax is a win; an list of strings
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by timbray 12y ago
In Ruby or Python or JS, you should be able to do the user.them... form. In a statically typed language like Java or Go it’s harder, and I happened to be working on an Android app, thus Java.