ubergeek42

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by ubergeek42 8mo ago
tl;dr: Rippling does not ensure HSA contributions from your paycheck and deposits into the HSA actually match, leading to a situation where you may have money withheld from your paycheck that doesn’t actually get deposited into your HSA. If
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Rippling treats payroll errors as feature requests(ubergeek42.github.io)
3 points by ubergeek42 8mo ago|1 comments
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by ubergeek42 11mo ago
It's not so much about the environment itself, but the data in it. If the data you use for your tests is all hand crafted/manually created by someone who has left the company then you don't have any way to scale it (e.g. if y
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by ubergeek42 11mo ago
I've been in the QA space for a while now, and one thing that repeatedly comes up is people neglecting their QA data. It's always an afterthought about how to get their application into the right state to be able to test their fun
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Your QA environment needs 'cattle', not 'pets'(rainforestqa.com)
1 points by ubergeek42 11mo ago|4 comments
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by ubergeek42 2y ago
This[1] is something I've come across but not had a chance to play with, designed for reading non-smart meters that might work for you. I'm not sure if there's any way to run it on an old phone though. [1] https://
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by ubergeek42 2y ago
> Fixed an issue where Copy and Paste context menu items intermittently were not enabled when expected. I'm glad to see they were able to get this fixed, it'd been bothering me for a little while now. Shortcuts (ctrl+c) still w
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by ubergeek42 2y ago
I think the surprising thing to me here is the high usage of ChatGPT (82%). Every time I try to use it I find I can just search for an answer quicker than it, especially when taking into account the time I have to spend trying to figure out
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by ubergeek42 2y ago
> Also, not sure why you wouldn’t just use Base64 encoding for which optimised versions already exist instead of rolling your own conversion to/from base 26 (or 52). It's mentioned in the article, but base64 includes weird char
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by ubergeek42 2y ago
Along the same lines, there are some programming contests that use a web based system for submitting solutions. They often restrict internet access to just the contest website, but a motivated user could use the same trick with the user pro
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by ubergeek42 11y ago
The only other thing I've seen in this space is DodgerCMS. It may meet your needs as it seems to do a lot more than Tumbless already. I think I prefer the way it handles credentials too(saved in local storage iirc rather than in a &quo
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by ubergeek42 11y ago
I've been using this for a few years to cache basically the whole of a USB drive after booting from it. It helps make up for the slow read speed of many cheap flash drives by caching everything before a user even sits down to use it.(I
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by ubergeek42 11y ago
Very cool, I was working on basically the same thing[1]. What do you think will happen to your project now that this exists from Amazon? [1] https://github.com/ubergeek42/lambda-letsencrypt/
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by ubergeek42 11y ago
That's a good point. For some reason the only thing I was thinking about was cloudfront/elb.
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by ubergeek42 11y ago
Can anyone think of any advantages LetsEncrypt would provide over this offering from AWS? Or does this basically kill LetsEncrypt's usage on AWS? The only thing I can think of is that AWS Certificate Manager only validates by email add
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by ubergeek42 18y ago
Something similar to this has been available for a while on http://www.govtrack.us The entire website is open source, including the data files(and some of the tools used to gather/create the data files) so if you require something more po