timwis

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   by timwis 5y ago

   But if you GET /posts/123 and then do it again, and in between, the author updated the post, you’d expect to get the latest version of the post, no? That doesn’t make it non-idempotent, because your GET requests did not change the
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   by timwis 5y ago

   Idempotency in the HTTP context is about the ability to make the same request multiple times without side effects. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Idempotent
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   by timwis 5y ago

   Nice! I do something similar for a few production applications, but I use docker compose to bring the services up, so I don’t have to create the networks manually or remember all the command arguments. Works great.
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   by timwis 5y ago

   But in the movies, when someone’s on the run, they take the SIM card out, stomp on it, and leave it behind. How will this work in the world of eSim?
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   by timwis 5y ago

   Celery?
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   by timwis 5y ago

   Bummer about Python :/ it’s my go-to for CLI tools, but I’ve seen that problem too.. pipenv helps, but I wonder if there’s a better way to package them so they’re more future proof.. or do I really need to learn go?
7. 187.▲
   by timwis 5y ago

   Could you just build this OS as a web app?
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   by timwis 5y ago

   This service is great. I wish they offered it in the UK.
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   by timwis 5y ago

   I hope they do something like this for gym memberships!
10. 190.▲
    by timwis 5y ago

    Thank goodness! When trying to cancel NY Times, I had to cancel it in PayPal because I couldn't get through to NYT!
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Interesting.. Would this be effective at loading a remote CSV file with a million rows, then performing basic GROUP BY COUNTs on it so I can render bar charts? I’ve been thinking of using absurd-sql for it since I saw https://new
12. 192.▲
    by timwis 5y ago

    Wait is this like Google inc rebranding as Alphabet and owning Google as its main product, or is the social media platform being renamed to Meta along with the company?
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Oh wow, very relevant indeed! I guess I thought ephemeral DBs would be better so that a user’s expensive query wouldn’t bog down the db for other users. And rather than just limiting them, enabling them to do whatever queries they could wit
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    by timwis 5y ago

    This sounds great! I’ve wanted to create an open data portal for a while that lets you spin up a (ephemeral, read-only) Postgres database of a dataset and run queries on it, maybe with a notebook. Sounds like this might be perfect!
15. 195.▲
    by timwis 5y ago

    Perfect for beating London traffic
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    by timwis 5y ago

    NES cartridge
17. 197.▲
    by timwis 5y ago

    Have you tried on a page protected by cloudflare captcha?
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    by timwis 5y ago

    csvkit’s csvlook works similarly but outputs a markdown table.
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Wow, I saw the episode this morning and assumed it got hacked. I hope he gets the help he needs.
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    by timwis 5y ago

    I was thinking the same thing recently for looking for a flat with a partner/roommate. A collaborative triage/kanban style system for reviewing/contacting/setting up a viewing would be great, but a typical user would onl
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Really well said!
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Note that authy’s login (twilio login) uses sms-based 2fa itself, which is very vulnerable to sim-swap attacks. There is no way to disable sms 2fa on it. To counter this I recommend disabling device sync in Authy, and only enabling it tempo
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    by timwis 5y ago

    I always worry about missing bits like code samples in iframes when switching to reader mode :/
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Anyone know if this is possible in Google sheets? Also, one thing I always find challenging when applying formulas to a column is applying it to the entire column. Either you remember to copy and paste it when you add a new row, or you drag
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    by timwis 5y ago

    This is how mail chimp does it, I believe. JavaScript to submit the form automatically.
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Sounds a bit like a data package, a spec defined by the same people who wrote the csv spec referenced in the article: https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/data-package/
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Interesting, hadn’t heard of these! My guess is the complexity of parsing csv consistently extends a bit beyond that (e.g. handling line breaks), but the bigger problem is getting enough traction behind any solution, no matter how spot on i
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    by timwis 5y ago

    What about conflict resolution? If two users update the same record/field around the same time? Isn’t that the trickiest part of real time?
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    by timwis 5y ago

    This looks really interesting. I use csvkit all the time. Curious how they compare. Will ply around with it.
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    by timwis 5y ago

    Interesting side effects of css utility frameworks: I was trying to scrape a website that uses tailwind this week and it’s really difficult, as nothing had a unique class name.