Nilithus

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by Nilithus 6mo ago
I don't want to be like "that guy" or anything but there is definitely a racoon in there so like 14,332 cats and a racoon.
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by Nilithus 1y ago
I switched from packer to lazy after I noticed the maintainer of packer stopped using packer in his neovim config. Also I believe he has now officially marked it as unmaintained and recommends lazy or pckr
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by Nilithus 1y ago
“If someone does not have the basic tech literacy to install arch” I think there is a big jump from the tech literacy to install Arch and the tech literacy to maintain an Arch system over time. These derivatives feel like they are there to
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by Nilithus 1y ago
I don’t think that’s really fair. They are highlighting some pretty serious security flaws in MCP tools that are allowed to do some pretty privileged things. They don’t even mention their product till the very last section. Overall think it
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by Nilithus 2y ago
I believe they have already started this effort. https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...
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by Nilithus 2y ago
I'm pretty sure you could use something like https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/variables-referenc... to allow you to copy and paste your args into a user prompt when you initiate the debugger so you d
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by Nilithus 2y ago
"usually it demands 'libDickSmasher v2.0 or higher'" Legit made me chuckle
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by Nilithus 3y ago
This is insecure code that is susceptible to SQL injection. Check out https://phptherightway.com/#databases and read the PDO section. It gives almost your exact code as an example of what not to do. Look at using PDO bound
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by Nilithus 3y ago
I found Amazon's Builders Library to have a very insightful list of how to handle building multi tenant queue systems https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-insurmounta... I think one of the big tools is
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by Nilithus 3y ago
VSCode have a blog article talking out their move to using Piece Table as their main data structure. https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r... Has some good visualizations as well.
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by Nilithus 3y ago
I guess there must be a largish market for this since AWS introduced Outpost to provide the "cloud" to onprem industries. I feel like this is competing with that market. Since many of those use cases probably already run extensive
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by Nilithus 3y ago
Perhaps this changes the calculus. If you don't need as much of an ops team to go private cloud. Then you might not need to be as large before it makes sense.
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by Nilithus 3y ago
I'm also surprised no one is really mentioning Nomad in this discussion either, I know for a fact circleci used nomad at some point to schedule CI tasks on worker machines. If I create a SaaS product that runs programs which get schedu
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by Nilithus 4y ago
I was wondering anyone could shed some light on the "These hash functions should be pairwise independent" part. I don't know what pairwise independent means. My background is mostly in web so I am familiar with things like `s
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by Nilithus 4y ago
The VSCode Blog has a great article on Piece Tables talking about their adoption of that data structure https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
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by Nilithus 4y ago
This is indeed a downside but there are workarounds -- The wikimedia foundation put out a good blog post talking about getting HTTP connection pooling for PHP https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/10/26/impact-o
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by Nilithus 5y ago
This was talked about in another HN thread a few years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13426544 It's not stored in searchable text rather they simply have some heuristics that they modify the password submitte
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by Nilithus 5y ago
> "Luckily" Terraform's performance is so bad that you need to split the stacks anyways Not sure what about terraforms performance is so bad. Seems hard to blame a tool who's main execution path is potentially 100&#x2
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by Nilithus 6y ago
I think a lot depends on the environment you're working in / migrating from. If you're working from an on-prem datacenter with VM's and you're not moving to the cloud for whatever reason. I think your point of not h
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by Nilithus 6y ago
GoldenEye. You got the classic Pierce Brosnan suave and you get Sean Bean as the villian. Was my first bond movie and I still love it. Great action pieces too.