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by wvh 2y ago
Could also be construed as paying homage, though. I think the number 5 here is a reference to congruence with ECMA Script 5 rather than to imply a version of JSON.
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by wvh 2y ago
I agree, if one of those myriad alternatives is to be used, at least specify that clearly.
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by wvh 2y ago
Arguably, if there's ambivalence about numbers or other core structures or doubt about the intent, the correct thing to do is to return an error and not try to guess. The point of an error bubbling up is asking for clarity from the end
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by wvh 2y ago
Depends on one: how interested/motivated are you, now and down the line; and two: how likely is your dependency on a third party going to screw you over in the long run. My opinion, from the viewpoint of a consultant often involved in
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by wvh 2y ago
I work for a consultancy company that helps companies building and securing infrastructure. We have a lot of customers running Kubernetes at low-cost providers (like Hetzner), more local middle-tier and top-three (AWS, GCP, Azure). We also
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by wvh 2y ago
Because you don't want to ever store bad data. There's not point to that, it will just create annoying situations and potential security risks. And the best place to catch bad data is when the user is still present so they can be
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by wvh 2y ago
There's little more you can do to validate a name internationally than to provide one textbox and check if it's a valid encoding of Unicode. Maybe you can exclude some control and graphical ranges at best. Of course there are vali
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by wvh 2y ago
Fair enough, but how life-crucial can an old copy of Adobe be?... I'm assuming a project like the Voyager mission relies on something a bit more bespoke than a copy of Adobe Creative Whatever. I really hope the defence forces core miss
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by wvh 2y ago
What about the browser? Still loading modern websites? That was an issue the last time I tried to reuse some of my ancient tech stuff. I guess technology lasting a long time for specific non-commercial purposes is one thing, keeping up with
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by wvh 2y ago
One can see how quickly people could drop through the bottom of society once you can't afford to pay your phone or car bills. None of that technology comes cheap, not at least if you hit hard times for a while, and you will become a se
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by wvh 2y ago
Identity, authn and authn are hard. A failure in the code, logic or at the seams messes up everything that it tries to protect. There are a few big commercial players trying to take the market with their "social login", and a few
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by wvh 2y ago
We've been using Steampipe every once in a while and it works as advertised, though perhaps SQL isn't always the abstraction of choice mentally. Congrats on hitting v1!
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by wvh 2y ago
I'm in a custody battle to allow shared custody of my daughter. I don't really have anybody else that's important to me here. I understand your message is about positivity and resilience, but I can't help to feel sad for
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by wvh 2y ago
I'd use a set (or map, or "tags") for the complex example. Basically, you're saying that booleans are hard to enumerate and combine. How you combine states is pretty arbitrary and dependent. For the company partner/
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by wvh 2y ago
I'm not American, and we've had a female president. Clearly we're not misogynistic over here, then. Maybe it's something in the water. > What is shocking is half the women in this country also don't care about th
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by wvh 2y ago
If the average "CIS white male" feels this way and is checking out, you've got a problem, whether you're the cause or not. It's perception more so than truth that's costing "the left" the elections. I
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by wvh 2y ago
Maybe you're right, and that makes me sad.
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by wvh 2y ago
Exactly. If, as a non-American who is non-political and didn't follow the elections at all, that's the only thing that I've heard, I guess there's your problem (assuming you lean democrat). What I wonder as a complete ou
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by wvh 2y ago
I'm not American. This is not a moral or political statement. I'm pointing out you (as in "the left") seem to be losing men. This costs you support, and well, victory. Clearly enough people felt "the left" were
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by wvh 2y ago
Most men care. We have wives, mothers, daughters, friends. But it becomes very hard to vote for a party (mind you, I'm not American, but this is showing up everywhere) that airs too many radical sentiments that men are shit and useless
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by wvh 2y ago
The "tolerant" left has become the intolerant blind block I've been raised to fear the far right for. As a typical European middle-aged (I guess) male, mostly apolitical, I don't really feel anybody speaks for me anymore
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by wvh 2y ago
Not American, not political, but this. What the hell is the left doing but focussing on a few ideological fringe fights?
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by wvh 2y ago
It's coming. Left vs right, rich vs poor, socialism vs capitalism, men vs women, LGBTQ* vs straight, immigrant vs native, religion vs religion (amongst those who still have faith, with the rest as collateral). As an apolitical person,
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by wvh 2y ago
SQL is not going to be of much help when the dataset easily fits into memory, but I'm a bit surprised by the lack of performance of the trie. I guess the overhead is too much when the dataset has a lot of single IP addresses (only one
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by wvh 2y ago
> I have fully implemented IPv6 in my home network. I could have written this message in 1999. That's 25 years ago (as you alluded to). That's a long time to hold your breath.
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by wvh 2y ago
Governments and ISPs should focus on improving how things work for the public and not make things worse. Seriously. Who are you working for?
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by wvh 2y ago
I use `pass` and am sad about this. This whole password thing, by far, is not a solved problem in my book. But thank you for your contributions!
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by wvh 2y ago
A lot of FOSS projects are started by young people, often students. At some point, life hits, with spouses and children and real jobs demanding lots of time. Slowly people burn out, and most of the time, other people want to scratch their o
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by wvh 2y ago
Does that not apply to anything in life? How difficult is it to get code into any open-source software package or distribution really? I work in high-security environments, and I'm always wondering how you can really guarantee that any
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by wvh 2y ago
It really does depend on office culture. Some people might be more reasonable if you communicate directly. I don't think it would go down well everywhere if you state "Hey! No talking to me if Mr. Smurf is on the table!"... M

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