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by xnorswap 11mo ago
My understanding, paraphrased: "In order to gradually roll out one change, we had to globally push a different configuration change, which broke everything at once". But a more important takeaway: > This type of code error is p
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
This is the most annoying thing, and it's even happened to Jetbrains' rider too. Some stuff that used to work well with smart autocomplete / intellisense got worse with AI based autocomplete instead, and there isn't alwa
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
It's because Copilot isn't (just) a model, it's a brand that's been slapped on any old rubbish. If Clippy were still around, that'd have been rebranded as Copilot by now.
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
I broadly agree. They package "copilot" in a way that constantly gets in your way. The one time I thought it could be useful, in diagnosing why two Azure services seemingly couldn't talk to each other, it was completely usele
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
This is what coordinated disclosure looks like.
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
At 600DPI that's over a marathon in each dimension. I do wonder if there are any DOS vectors that need to be considered if such a large image can be defined in relatively small byte space. I was going to work out how many A4 pages that
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Or indeed, ask them who won the space race, because by most measures, that was the Soviets too. Soviets achieved: - First artificial Orbit ( Sputnik ) - First animal to orbit ( Laika ) - First Man to orbit ( Yuri Gagarin ) - First
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
You've never asked someone for a version and got back a version number for a completely different product? Obviously it depends on your audience, and 3 rounds is exaggerating for the worst case, but in previous places I've worked
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
I agree with your conclusion that this stuff will get locked down again over time. I think there's also another major reason people don't like to ship desktop software, and that's the cost of support of dealing with outdated
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Perhaps it's time to organize a curated "stable" stream for npm packages. If I want more stability for my OS I can choose Debian-stable rather than Ubuntu-nightly. But for npm, there doesn't seem to be the same choice av
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
The next mistake is thinking that completely re-writing the system will clean out the cruft.
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Oh right, got you.
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment, I'm not sure it follows from what I posted? You can't force a collision for the function f(x) = x, by definition it has no collisions. It's not just collision-resistant, it's actually
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by xnorswap 11mo ago
> slow, particularly for short keys such as integers An interesting thing about the CLR is that the default hash for integers is: h(x) = x. Which as well as being collision-free, also avoids the trap of a slow default hash.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I remember reading an article in the journnal of the RSS about whether it was actually less safe or whether it was just statistical clustering. I don't however remember the conclusion! I've tracked down the article to https:&#x2F
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Claude code already does this, it'll present a series of questions with pre-set answers, and the opportunity to answer "custom: <free text>"
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by xnorswap 1y ago
They provide a bit more context around changes in their "What's new in C# 14" page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/cs...
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Previously, if you wanted to add that Trim in, you needed to define the field behind. You could have: public string Name { get;set; } Or you could have: private string name; public string Name { get; set { th
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by xnorswap 1y ago
System.Text.Json isn't needed as a nuget library for newer development, the library is only needed for older stuff. Those older stuff are likely running newtonsoft.Json anyway. There's also a load of .NET Framework applications st
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by xnorswap 1y ago
That seemed odd to me too, they're talking about single server, which to me would mean running postgres on the application server itself. In that scenario, the last thing you need is another layer between application and database. Even
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by xnorswap 1y ago
And they've all been burned by enterprise finance products which were sold to solve exactly that problem. Only different companies were all sold different enterprise finance products, but they need to communicate with each other (or th
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by xnorswap 1y ago
We're going full-circle, because LLMs are amazing for producing just the right incantation of arcane command-line tools. I was struggling to decrypt a file the other day and it whipped me up exactly the right openssl command to get it
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I still feel lost just trying to view my application logs. I don't want to pay for or lock myself into, "Azure Insights". I just want to see the logging, that I know if I can remember the right buttons to click, are available
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by xnorswap 1y ago
33 minutes from impact to status page for a complete outage is a joke.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
With the option to do a postal vote, or vote-by-proxy.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
It's a tricky problem, I'd recommend reading DDIA, it covers this extensively: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv... You can generate distributed monotonic number sequences with
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by xnorswap 1y ago
It seems pretty messed up when a $30k bill is written up like a big win.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I'm not denying bad internet exists. I'm saying that the impact of dropped packets and poor latency falls much worse on sites that have multiple connections and dozens of files to download than a single bundle. Also in those circu
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Indeed, Amazon use the euphemism, "making organizational changes".
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Questioning if I spend time away from a city is patronising nonsense. Websites taking seconds to load in bad mobile reception is usually down to latency and handshaking, not raw bandwidth. Show me a real world example of a single payload 50

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