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by vosper 4y ago
To be fair, integrating with enterprise SAML isn’t zero-effort. There are engineers/IT on both sides going back and forth, and the provider is going to have to deploy a test environment for the customer, possibly debug things there, th
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by vosper 4y ago
You have made the thing I’ve been wanting to make for ages. Well done, and thank you!
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by vosper 4y ago
It's curious they omitted MySQL, which is the usual point of comparison for Postgres. > InnoDB full-text search is modeled on the Sphinx full-text search engine, and the algorithms used are based on BM25 and TF-IDF ranking algorithm
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by vosper 4y ago
Is x86 at the end of the road? I don’t follow closely, but I impression is it’s been getting faster and faster ever since AMD stepped up and provided some competition with Ryzen.
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> Still doesn't explain what this is doing on here Because someone posted the link. It’s not off-topic, and design systems are posted here fairly often.
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by vosper 4y ago
Yeah I've seen a similar tool fail hard on any wiki site that returns a placeholder page for any username whether or not it actually exists. I've never seen anything except 95% false positives, which is so many that after a few ru
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by vosper 4y ago
> The only metric that most managers in Google seems to be the size of their teams. The larger a team, the more "successful" a manager will likely to be. I suspect this is pretty universal at large companies. And especially man
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by vosper 4y ago
> GAFYD "Google Apps for Your Domain" for anyone who (like me) could not figure out what that acronym means.
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by vosper 4y ago
Sure, but there's a difference between "impossible" and "not supported by current evidence". As another poster points out, there is an example with flouride (though I am no anti-flouridist). Other examples might be
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by vosper 4y ago
Why is it impossible for something to get into the food chain for a large number of people? You've got loads of spraying, processing and packaging going on in the industrial food chain. Even if you have myriad producers, ruling out an
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by vosper 4y ago
That’s not what your article or the actual researchers say. You’ve extrapolated from “possible link that needs verification” to “cause” which is potentially incredibly dangerous for babies. > While scientists continue their research, Dr.
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by vosper 4y ago
This is pretty much what happened, but in my case it was a bunch of IDs for objects owned by customers. It was intended (and did) to provide detailed performance metrics related to our Elasticsearch searches, but in the end I had to drop a
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by vosper 4y ago
It's really easy to run up a huge bill from Datadog if, for example, some engineer adds a whole lot of new tags/dimensions to metrics data because they think it would be useful to have in the future (full disclosure: that was me,
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by vosper 4y ago
I hear you on "don't build your own design system"... but Datadog's got a really complex UI, I think they've definitely graduated past the point where something like MUI would be a good choice (and obviously they ha
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by vosper 4y ago
> I think that AWS already offers Aurora Serverless v2 which pretty much accomplishes what a lot of these me-too-serverless services that won't integrate as well as something that is offered out of AWS. People should just be aware t
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by vosper 4y ago
> It seems anyone can come to Reddit or the orange site and rail against UI programmers all day. But if we sit down and explain the situation nobody is very interested to listen. And when someone tries to make things better with a new ta
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by vosper 4y ago
The last paragraph of the article admits that this is almost certainly just made-up “research”. There are no facts here.
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by vosper 4y ago
I am a non-paying subscriber to his Substack; I generally enjoy his writing there. I don't know enough economics to know if I/we/anyone should agree with him, but you might want to read a few of the articles if you're st
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by vosper 4y ago
> It must come out to under 0.1¢ per search. I was struck by their pricing page [0] which says that "it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches" and that "at USD $10/month, the price does not even cover our cost for
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by vosper 4y ago
> Uncapped means that if you raise at a $200m valuation in one year, the SAFE will convert to equity at 250k/200m or 0.125% of the company. How would it be different if it was capped? I went to your link but there are no mentioned o
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by vosper 4y ago
I think the convertibles are a bit of a trap, though - even though the rules are transparent. You might overprovision to begin with (which you may not realise), then you can't even sell them.
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> Businesses can sell RIs they’ve purchased, setting their own price for the remainder of the contract. You can't sell convertible RIs, I thought? Would love to find out that's wrong. From what I've seen RIs are a trap, su
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by vosper 4y ago
One reason to put tolls on roads is to make the people who use the infrastructure also the people who pay for it's maintenance and improvements. Public goods are provided by public money, and in some cases it might be fairer to get som
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by vosper 4y ago
> just keep asking it questions and maybe its reasoning would check out for most of them. But the AI isn't reasoning... is it? Perhaps it could give an explanation, but you couldn't (currently) conflate that with any actual und
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by vosper 4y ago
Something I've long wanted is a type-explainer - something that will let me highlight parts of a type definition and tell me in English what the fragment means. The example that OP linked elsewhere in this thread [0] is a good one - I
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by vosper 4y ago
Is it money laundering in that "dirty" money pays for the bots that rack up the streams, which generates "clean" money paid from Spotify to the fake artist?
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by vosper 4y ago
For those who don't know, ETOPS = "Engines Turn or Passengers Swim" j/k, it stands for "Extended Range Twin Operations" https://www.caa.co.uk/commercial-industry/aircraft/operation...
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by vosper 4y ago
> The current norm seems to be two week sprints and all these things are done at the beginning and end of them. Everywhere I've worked that did "agile" did it this way. The ending of a sprint is always the start of the nex
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by vosper 4y ago
Ones and Tooze - shortish weekly podcast about world events and economics, with Adam Tooze The Inquiry, The Briefing Room, and Analysis - BBC podcasts about current events Revolutions - great series which has had its final ever episode, but
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by vosper 4y ago
PGSync might be useful for those who don't mind also running Elasticsearch https://github.com/toluaina/pgsync

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