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by vbsteven 5y ago
One of the defining traits of Iron Maiden is their use of double and triple guitar harmonies. You could say they popularized the concept and many newer bands were inspired by it. My favorite Maiden song section is the solo/post-solo pa
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Your comment made me wonder if crates.io is starting to show some of the same issues that npm has. Lots of small packages, not always consistent, focussed on one use case that make other use cases non-optimal. The recent posts about Rust in
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by vbsteven 5y ago
There’s a funeral scene in Upload (on Prime Video) that does something like this. It felt like a window into another room and I loved that concept. It looks like the tech for actually doing this is closer than I thought. Exciting!
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Exactly my thoughts as well. Almost all fierce nerd traits PG describes are signs typically seen in Asperger/ASD/Gifted. I recognise myself in the article, as well as a number of my friends/colleagues who are all diagnosed wi
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by vbsteven 5y ago
It's not enabled by default, but unfortunately I've seen many SSH config related articles that advocate some scary stuff like setting ForwardAgent yes for Host * combined with ssh-add <every-key> in .zshrc/.bashrc
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Not necessarily. If you have multiple keys active in local your SSH Agent, then connect to a malicious host with Agent Forwarding enabled, the malicious host could try to connect to to a third host and I believe it will try to use all activ
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by vbsteven 5y ago
There is tooling for that now-a-days. IntelliJ shows a gutter icon on both the declaration and use side so you can click your way to the bean definition. Just like you can with implementations of an interface. It’s even profile/configu
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by vbsteven 5y ago
The HN crowd is not very fond of the magic in popular Java frameworks but to me that magic is what makes those frameworks so good, although with a bit of a learning curve at first. Kotlin/Java with a framework like Spring is the swee
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by vbsteven 5y ago
> Server-side web app development was somewhat limited by the lack of a mature ORM. I assume you mean a mature ORM written in pure Kotlin with this statement. Because Kotlin interopts so well with Java, you can use any of the battle test
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I chose Jekyll as a static site generator because it was simple enough to understand what it does. Its build step is just taking a directory of markdown files and converting them to html pages using a template. It feels like the next logica
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Handovers can exist on a higher level as well. 10 years ago there were calling apps that could handover a WiFi VoIP call to the gsm network (not using voip but actual gsm) when the WiFi goes bad and later switch the same call back to WiFi.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
It can still easily happen in 2021 simply by moving an existing WiFi AP to a new location where the WiFi space isn’t crowded.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
It was a commercial project for a client I cannot link. Nothing exotic though. Just a little smartwatch-type device with soc/mcu/gsm/gps, 1 button and a led display. It only had 2G which is already retired in some countries a
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by vbsteven 5y ago
On a related note, this same mechanism can be used as a fallback for GPS to determine device location. I have worked on an IoT device with builtin SIM in the personal alarm space. Often when a device is indoors no GPS fix can be found, but
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Katatonia - Omerta is an amazing song about this.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Why is that not a solution? The concept of compiling/transpiling a language into the target language for the runtime is everywhere. Even native languages like C/C++/Rust compile their language into binary format that the plat
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Having to have an account is the problem. When someone sends me an Instagram link I used to be able to just watch the video and browse the profile. A bit later profile access was blocked. And now I can only watch a video once before it bloc
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by vbsteven 5y ago
The abstraction layer with lowest common denominator is the tricky problem that The Next Big Thing will likely need to solve. Terraform tries to do it but as you mentioned it’s often a frustrating experience because of lagging providers and
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I’m not sure what you are getting at. Several hundred services probably means going too far to the microservices side. Cross cutting concerns like logging and monitoring are handled by 12factor. Services log to stdout and have the container
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I think the pendulum has swung a bit too far from its optimum with serverless and microservices. The main issue I have with both is the huge complexity and friction between how it runs on a developer machine vs how it runs in production. Fo
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by vbsteven 5y ago
The point is that IRC as a protocol makes it possible to join the FreeNode “home” from any compatible client on any platform. And users can modify most of these clients to their liking. Same with email or Matrix. But with Discord users are
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I think it makes sense since it is completely driven by its config and adheres to the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well and not clutter the binary with additional stuff for fringe use cases. It would make the now surprisingly simple c
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by vbsteven 5y ago
The IQ tests and their subtests can also be relevant for indicating possible cognitive conditions like NVLD and autism. For example a person that scores less than 75 on non verbal subtests and over 130 on verbal subtests likely has some con
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by vbsteven 5y ago
Yes, but it's more nuanced then that. If I remember correctly the bytecode is interpreted and executed by the runtime. This means the bytecode is fully in memory as bytecode when the jvm loads .class files. The native code for the JVM
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by vbsteven 5y ago
It likely counts the memory used by the JVM so it includes memory for the runtime, JIT, initial heap allocation, etc.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
This is what bothers me most about Apple devices and software. They probably have the "best" devices out there in terms of user experience. I use an iPhone and iPad every day because of it. But they keep very tight control over wh
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by vbsteven 5y ago
The github readme mentions that it used to be built on top of the old Mozilla XUL stuff but recently switched over to Electron. That's probably why it only ran on old FF.
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by vbsteven 5y ago
This looks fun. I wonder what kind of applications could benefit from a UI paradigm like this (virtual movable windows inside a browser tab). The only ones I have seen in the wild are demos (the one with winamp and the prank winXP one) and
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by vbsteven 5y ago
This works fine when all goes well but can quickly turn problematic when shit happens. Do you have any form of contract/agreement with regards to payment/scope and what will happen when you or the client cannot fulfill commitments
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by vbsteven 5y ago
I would like to nuance your statement a little bit. I agree that learning a new framework alongside building your project is a bad idea. But if there is a framework that you know well and it fits the project then definitely use it. I have m

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