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I think your reasoning makes total sense and agree with the criticisms of the JS ecosystem. Just to throw out an alternative embedded-JS option for you or anyone else looking to do something similar though, there’s QuickJS from Fabrice Bell
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Any specific examples you have in mind?
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I find Pandas vs. SQL to be complimentary, rather than an either-or type situation. For anything in the tens of GB range or smaller, it’s easy enough to move between the two with read_sql_query and to_sql. The general strategy is to build t
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Yep, same basic premise as GE-tracker with higher detail visualizations and fancier stats/feature engineering on top. Flipping to max cash became a pandemic hobby of mine, so I started off with a handful of homerolled spreadsheets&#x2
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Learned Java as a first language to write bots back in 2009. Present day, I’m 1.5 yrs into writing a market analysis/flipping site for OSRS, and it’s been a great way to play with time-series stuff, sysadmin, and front-end. Gotta credi
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Safest move would be to not actually expose your server from your public IP, but instead tunnel traffic from your home server through a cheap, public-facing VPS instance acting as a gateway host. To fully automate, you can use a premade too
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Fully possible to set login shell to powershell on Linux. Wouldn’t recommend it, but it’s an option.
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SmallPP-HN-Troll.com Troll the troll into trolling themselves?
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Don’t mind me; just checking for any automated scripts that are watching for unregistered domains mentioned on here: SmallPPDomainRegisterBot.com
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Consider the potential for espionage when you have the up-to-date social graph, voice/facial scans, home/work/hangout addresses, phone number + email, and browsing interests of thousands of government employees of an adversar
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> If you go with one view, you will eventually end up paying a performance cost for computations you actually aren't using in certain places (barring incredible and maybe impossible advancements in query optimization). This is outda
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YMMV - I’ve been fuzzing permutations of various prompt phrases to come up with some art for a female D&D character. “Temptress”, “seductress”, “dominatrix”, and “femme fatale” are on my list of 22 phrases, and I’m only getting ~30% NSF
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If I’m reading you right, you’re correct that the database is still technically passing its data to the filesystem at the end of the day. However, databases generally subsume most responsibility for the on-disk representation of data as wel
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Can be; it’s all contextual. https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
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I’m right there with you in dismay, but I think this has been building up a while: consider how long there have been Google employees who browse HN, fully aware of how broken processes are damaging users and developers, and just sitting on
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Yeah my bad, brain autoparsed that as “filter” == “clean out” in context.
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Hmmm… someone should really make an email client with user-friendly filters to let you sinkhole that junk into a folder you never look at ;).
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> we respond to emails Edwin, I’ve seen dozens of claims of Stripe simply ignoring complaints to support@stripe.com, a few in this very thread. You even fess up to dropping one personally in this thread: https://news.ycombinat
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by wswope 4y ago
Is your thinking that more ads would convince people who don’t currently care about privacy to care about it? Or that there’s a contingent of privacy advocates with enough tech skills to navigate these issues that aren’t aware of VPNs yet?
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> this is a niche market that, if it could reach a broader audience, would experience an influx of new customers. Honestly curious: what makes you think that? I'm someone who really likes VPNs, but in all my experience, they have so
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It’s economics: much like with car insurance, the market is a zero-sum game because the quality providers all more or less have equivalent levels of service - thus advertising becomes the most effective way to capture revenue, because prosp
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Would you say the same about workers at Philip Morris or Shell? If the money and prestige is ill-gotten, I’d say those workers are complicit.
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Apple, by walling their garden, have essentially used their hegemony to steal billions of dollars in potential revenue from developers. Think of how much innovation has been blocked by them intentionally gimping iOS Safari to prevent web ap
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How would you fix that race condition?
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If I’m reading you right, you’re talking about something like Epic’s “sticky note” system, where providers can leave general comments about a patient not associated with specific encounter? That’s a really good question - and one I’d have t
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> There's some incorrect information in my kid's medical file. It's basically impossible to get it corrected. Not the case, chief - that's covered by HIPAA. If you submit a formal correction request, they're obli
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Gonna shill Time Team for anyone interested in seeing what these villa digs look like. It’s a British archaeology series with a reality TV twist: they bring a big team of professional archaeologists and do as much digging/surveying as
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Does tailscale match what you had in mind?
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Having started my technical career long ago as an angsty teen looking to develop cheats, I'm aware of the architectural issues. This is probably a hot take, but for FPS and the like, I view wallhack-type cheats as fully inevitable, and
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They’ve never actually rolled this out for League. I’ve played hundreds if not thousands of hours of competitive matches over a decade and never seen a blatant cheater (maybe 1-2 cass botters, but couldn’t be sure). Given that it’s one of t

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