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by tpxl 5y ago
Then there's PUBG (BattlEye) ruined by rampant cheating. Then there's EFT (BattlEye) ruined by rampant cheating. Then there's (was?) Combat Arms (multiple anti cheats over the years) ruined in-part by rampant cheating. I woul
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by tpxl 5y ago
I like this feature because I'll use ctrl+C to cancel the current line I'm writing like I would in a terminal. Psql does the same thing, but I started using mysql recently and I keep getting booted out of the app because I want to
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by tpxl 5y ago
You make the password a random string, so the victim thinks they've forgotten it, buying you time.
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by tpxl 5y ago
As far as donations go, Patreon and Ko-fi should have a lot lower fees.
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by tpxl 5y ago
> I'm not sure how compatible getting enough sleep is with a 48 hour hard limit. It's perfectly compatible I think. The difference between 8 hours of sleep or 16 hours over two days is 1/6 of the whole jam, but the differe
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by tpxl 5y ago
An actual, honest to god, _relevant_ advertisement, unlike every other one I've seen in the past week.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Some things seem to have changed from 2018, but MongoDB was by far the worst database I ever had the displeasure of using (and Amazon DocumentDB was even worse). https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-6-4 https:/&#
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by tpxl 5y ago
> expensive because weather APIs are not cheap Just FYI, you can get free hourly (or 30/15 minute, I forget) cloud coverage data from the likes of EUMETSAT (and equivalent US/asian agencies).
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by tpxl 5y ago
Because when your rent rises you don't go homeless, you pony up.
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by tpxl 5y ago
> 1. Only test the behavior from the user/consumer's perspective, do not test implementations. (Therefore the internal can be refactored without deleting tests.) Sometimes you still need to test implementations. We had database
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by tpxl 5y ago
Lots of tools have this. IntelliJ has it mapped to ctrl shift U by default I think.
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by tpxl 5y ago
I love me some checked exceptions.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Yes, there are plenty of games written in Java, but afaik there are no big game engines written in it. I'd love to be proven wrong regarding this.
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by tpxl 5y ago
I was testing ZGC the other day on my machine (24vcores, 64GB RAM) and it ate through about 4GB/s of garbage with about 10milisec of pauses over 220sec of runtime (24 threads doing nothing but allocations). G1 ate through about 2x as m
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by tpxl 5y ago
> One neat feature of Shenandoah is once the application shuts down, it prints into the GC log a table depicting how much time each phase of the GC cycle took. This data can be crucial to optimize the GC pause time further Other GCs will
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by tpxl 5y ago
The search straight up doesn't work. You have to search for an exact word or it wont find it, ie 'hell' wont find the word 'hello'.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Man I'd love to live in your house for a couple of days to see what it's like.
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by tpxl 5y ago
If you're willing to tinker, a camera that compares the current image with a "baseline" image and says it's occupied if there's enough change. You'd have to have an IR or NIR camera to work at night, and take
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by tpxl 5y ago
to a human.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Substack tends to annoy you for your mail rather obtrusively.
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by tpxl 5y ago
I would add to that the option to 'self-host' the smart bits. Why have 10 computers idling all the time if you can have 1 computer in use most of the time. This obviously adds complexity (you either need a compute module, or a mod
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by tpxl 5y ago
Don't feel down about that. If someone's job is writing database engines or JSON parsers, you can't do a better job than them while also writing business logic. We should be glad some people chose to provide such code in a ma
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by tpxl 5y ago
> Why not? 1. "Buying" is usually 15$ in my experience, not 3$. 2. Like said, the limitation is not technical, it's purely milking users. 3. I like to own stuff and sometimes play older games and watch older movies. Rentin
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by tpxl 5y ago
> Tbh, I don’t know why subscriptions get such a bad rap on HN Because a lot of the times things don't need a subscription, but it's just a way for the company to squeeze more money out of you. Some things you can't buy of
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by tpxl 5y ago
> And I’m still not sure why a dedicated time series database is supposed to be better than using standard mysql/postgres with inserts It's optimized for timeseries data, so queries and inserts may be faster and the storage req
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by tpxl 5y ago
Shouldn't that be separate? If you buy a 10k speaker today, it's going to sound excellent in 10 years, but the software will long be dead, perhaps taking the speaker with it. Separating the smart from the speaker leads to cheap fu
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by tpxl 5y ago
> also most cache at least support a ttl which might be even worse for postgres on the query side since it needs to evaluate the expiration date on the client side while redis supports that directly. Afaik redis will check TTLs on access
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by tpxl 5y ago
Remember the Sonos "recycling" program? Deliberately brick old devices to get a discount on a new device.
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by tpxl 5y ago
Similar, but with a much better perf/W. That's the biggest problem with old hardware. I'd love to be able to run old servers with dual cores and such in a big cluster, but 60W for an old CPU with 10% of the performance of a s
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by tpxl 5y ago
Also, if this results in underpaid workers getting better salary, this results in the average salary going up and then the max salary going up.

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