zshrdlu

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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Have you written about the problem and how you thought about it? Sounds fascinating - like something I'd like to read :D
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Seems to be US-only according to the linked JD.
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by zshrdlu 4y ago
Are you curious about the tech? If yes, what more reason do you need? If no - why proceed?
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
The device can be snatched along with the FIDO2 key...
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Sounds to me like the author is essentially bemoaning a presumed lack of an invalidation mechanism, and thus declares "Bearer tokens considered harmful".
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Code could be well-modularized in one single file, of course. But we don't have the tools to write code like that (editors and languages basically).
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
What non-deadly diseases are Africans routinely vaccinated against, pray tell?
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Are you guys still using voice calls to educate farmers? That is one of the neatest things I have ever seen.
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Derives mundane Golang functions that you do not want to maintain(github.com)
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
They do have at least one redeeming quality: smartphones are a cheap, portable gateway to the internet for millions of people worldwide who cannot possibly access it any other way.
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
As I like to say, Lisp's reputation precedes it more so than any other $TECH.
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
One of my favorite books! Do you know any more like it?
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Interesting impression you have there - third world countries have actually contributed very little greenhouse gas historically and in the present-day age too.
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
What do you consider to be crap?
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Me three!
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Ah, this one probably had more impact on me than I credit it for. Thanks for pointing it out :)
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Here in a 30-year-old Common Lisp library: https://unwindprotect.com/constraint-programming
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
The other day it struck me that we live in a literal fairy tale, with real monsters, fantasmal lands and people and creatures, and unthinkable, magical phenomena. Most people choose mundanity (even when not constrained by socio-economics) a
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Perhaps it could be framed differently. Clojurescript has unlocked new levels of productivity for him/her .
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by zshrdlu 5y ago
Don't mind me, just big fan of yours! Can't wait to get your book!
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
It sells itself better to a target audience that is bamboozled/enthusiastic/optimistic about the technology. Think of it as you would SEO - it's merely a feature/optimization that gets you an audience.
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
I've encountered something like this in a work of fiction, Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow . In the book, investors find young, brilliant but impoverished children, usually in crisis-struck places (war, civil strife, etc). They
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
Me too, I just never switched when everyone else did. It's always just worked for me.
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-program
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
Did exactly that, with a simple in-house ETL in python that has not failed us once and is virtually real-time, something the SAAS solutions could not do. Also blogged about not doing this: https://unwindprotect.com/postgre
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
> Sadly this conman is shutting down and rejects the WebSocket connection! Sorry if this is obvious: why is the request proxied to a conman that is shutting down in the first place? Wouldn't it be more robust to work around this i
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
This reminds me of Ted Kaczynski's Industrial Society and Its Future , which oddly struck me as a pro-poverty manifesto when I read it a long time ago.
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
If you're optimizing for a career or something, then it's probably prudent to learn the latest and greatest fad. But sometimes you learn for fun, or out of sheer curiosity.
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
A couple of East African countries resolved to stop importing used clothes, one of the reasons being to boost their own local textile industries. They were almost all pressured out of their resolve (except Rwanda IIRC). Modern Opium Wars. S
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by zshrdlu 6y ago
Does this include the past? Should we "tax" the US and Europe since they've been burning coal and diesel faster than everyone else for more than a century? Should we also favor countries like Kenya, who have burned zero coal

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