CodesInChaos

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by CodesInChaos 5d ago
Which one specifically? The ones I found looked like unmaintained throw-away experiments.
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by CodesInChaos 9d ago
I think this should include benchmarks zstd with larger windows and long range mode. I wouldn't be surprised if the window they used is smaller than an individual version tar file, which would prevent useful compression.
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by CodesInChaos 13d ago
Namecoin (.bit) was an attempt to create naming system without a central authority using a blockchain. But from what I remember, they fucked up the pricing function and it got overrun by domain grabbers.
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by CodesInChaos 13d ago
.org almost got screwed in 2019 too: > In April 2019, ICANN proposed an end to the price cap of .org domains and effectively removed it in July in spite of having received 3,252 opposing comments and only six in favor. A few months later
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by CodesInChaos 13d ago
They altered the deal. Now they are altering it further.
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by CodesInChaos 13d ago
Surprisingly the public suffix list doesn't list `*.name`. So they're indeed not properly isolated from each other. https://publicsuffix.org/ edit: apparently not all second level domains in .name are public suffi
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by CodesInChaos 14d ago
Which would have terrible performance for range requests starting late in a large file. For files that are frequently accessed that way, this could be prohibitive. You could split the file into independently compressed blocks as well. But t
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by CodesInChaos 14d ago
I'm confused by how this affects range requests. Without compression, those can be easily satisfied by reading the relevant part of the cached complete file. But how are they handled now? The article claims "range requests remain
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by CodesInChaos 15d ago
It's an alternative client app for the google store.
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by CodesInChaos 15d ago
For me anonymous use of Aurora never really worked, and with a google account it still works.
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by CodesInChaos 18d ago
Are the obstacles technical or legal? I vaguely recall most wikis on wikia being CC-BY-SA, but it's been a while.
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by CodesInChaos 19d ago
> Which was extra nice because I had no idea I was in fact charged for the bloatware, but I still got ~50€ for it on top of the OS license price. I actually expected those to pay for being pre-installed, offsetting or possibly even excee
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by CodesInChaos 19d ago
The currently mainstream payment solution hurt privacy even more than the current ad tracking. We'd need something like GNU Taler for that. I wonder what the world would look like if the Chaum E-Cash - Microsoft Windows cooperation had
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by CodesInChaos 19d ago
BTW Google had another go at forcing Treacherous Computing on people. This time it's a reCAPTCHA successor, which requires the user to scan a QR code using a Google/Apple owned phone.
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by CodesInChaos 19d ago
An IBAN can be used to take money via SEPA direct debit.
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by CodesInChaos 27d ago
That wouldn't make the decoy text look plausible to the AI.
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by CodesInChaos 27d ago
That, and how it's rendered needs to be separate from the value the the input gets. Just like `<option value="123">John Doe</option>` or ideally even rich html like `<option value="123"><sm
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by CodesInChaos 27d ago
What I'd like to see are searchable drop-downs (not to be confused with text input with suggestions). And the date/time picker controls are too limited for many applications.
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by CodesInChaos 27d ago
Unlogged tables still support MVCC and keep old versions of tuples around until they're garbage collected.
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by CodesInChaos 27d ago
In our multi-tenant e-commerce application we handled it like this: * Metadata for each file is stored in the database * The application accesses files through an abstraction based on that metadata, and doesn't care if the actual file
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by CodesInChaos 27d ago
My rule is "use a single database for as many of you persistence needs as possible". Often Postgres is a good choice for that database, but many other general purpose DBMSs will work just as well. In my previous company we used Mo
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by CodesInChaos 27d ago
One specialist and a group of generalists is often enough. Especially if you are allowed to contact the specialist outside normal working hours in rare emergencies.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
I wouldn't put auch limitations in the system prompt. A mix of fine-tuning and out-of-band detection appears to be a better fit.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
> apparently the Japanese did not like Unicode's tendencies towards Aristotelian essentialism Do you mean Han Unification? I.e. that conceptually equivalent characters which are written differently in Japan and China received only a
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
> just use SSE And then the user opens your website in a handful of tabs, and everything breaks because having enough open SSE connections blocks ordinary http requests to that origin. You can avoid that by using a shared worker for all
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
It's amusing how top law students become glorified narrators/voice actors. Had to visit one of these every time we raised capital. He never did more than read the text aloud and perhaps correct a typo. I don't want to know ho
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
They have google.com, which is the brand they use towards customers. The Alphabet brand is little more than a stock ticker.
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
Which gTLDs are reliable besides the classics (com, net, org,...)? By that I mean that the TLD owner won't screw you over a few years from now, for example by raising prices? I kind of like the idea to use .com for the marketing site,
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
I understand using http on localhost and in some cases local domains accessible within the LAN. But I don't see much point in using http for public domains, especially since browsers apply many restrictions to insecure origins ( http:&
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by CodesInChaos 1mo ago
A lot of things go up forever, as long as you denominate them in an inflationary currency ;-)

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