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by SloopJon 2y ago
Me three, although my procedure did not result in quite so dramatic an improvement. I saw a PCP for the first time in several years, and was 180/130. Four meds (vasodilator, calcium channel blocker, diuretic, and beta blocker) brough
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by SloopJon 2y ago
Search for huge pages in the documentation of a DBMS that implements its own caching in shared memory: Oracle [1], PostgreSQL [2], MySQL [3], etc. When you're caching hundreds of gigabytes, it makes a difference. Here's a benchm
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by SloopJon 2y ago
This was a bit of a bear to get running on my Mac. Everything depends on ddpoker.rc, which doesn't behave as expected unless an OSNAME environment variable is defined. I don't have that on macOS 14 (Sonoma) Mac using either zsh
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by SloopJon 2y ago
To me, "hoard" comes with an implication of amassing these in secret and/or not making full use of them. If Meta is crowing about how many they have, and seemingly putting them to good use (or at least some use), I wouldn&#x
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I take a Show HN to be a solicitation for feedback. It took me a few tries to get this to run. I tried passing -model_path, but it complained that it couldn't find config.json. I then made a config.json in the pwd (which contained th
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I deal with a lot of data in tabular form, and I like to have as much of it in front of me at once as I can. The biggest influence on my report design has been, believe it or not, iTunes: no more padding than necessary, zebra striping, fas
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by SloopJon 2y ago
Testing correctness and compatibility with particular vendors was the priority: block storage, O/S images, APIs, etc. A third-party solution like LocalStack was on my radar, because it aims to be compatible with AWS. My understanding
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I'm in the funny position of having to test products in the cloud at a company that is really skittish about putting any of its own stuff in the cloud. I looked at AWS Outposts, but determined that it likely wouldn't pass muster
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I was shopping for a storage array last year, and was impressed by the IBM FlashSystem, which can stuff about 1.8PB (raw) into a 4U enclosure using forty-eight 38.4TB FlashCore modules. StorageReview's server is a different beast, but
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by SloopJon 2y ago
Reading this from the perspective of cluster headache, which gets some hand-me-down treatments from migraine, I just spent half an hour reading about CGRP blockers that have been approved in the last five or six years, including Aimovig and
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I was noodling in this area recently, trying to speed up some code similar to the tr utility: $ echo abcdef |tr abc ghi ghidef For an eight-bit character set, I found that building an array to map every character improved on li
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by SloopJon 2y ago
The article suggests that this DDoS is incentivized by the resume-padding cachet of having a CVE to your name, a kind of Hacktoberfest-style cobra effect: > a recently growing pattern involves newbie security enthusiasts and bug bounty h
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by SloopJon 2y ago
From the article: > The 'node-ip' project exists on the npmjs.com registry as the 'ip' package
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by SloopJon 2y ago
Although a lot of the comments so far refer to charitable fundraising, this story is about political fundraising, often confusingly similar to charities; e.g., the American Breast Cancer Coalition. The kicker is that some of the parties inv
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by SloopJon 2y ago
After looking up the code for raw_sync, I came to the same conclusion. My first question was whether the shared memory case is safe on a weaker memory model like ARM or Power. Seeing the mutex, it may be too safe.
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by SloopJon 2y ago
Slack's blog post links to "Enzyme is dead. Now what?"[1], in which Wojciech Maj said, "A couple of tireless evenings later, @wojtekmaj/enzyme-adapter-react-17 was born." Now, he was building on someone else&#
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by SloopJon 2y ago
Driver download: https://intersystems-community.github.io/iris-driver-distrib... Example connection strings: https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook... Instructions for s
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I created a Custom JDBC Server connection, but I can't figure out how to specify the driver file. Clicking the Test button offers to download one, but fails with an IndexOutOfBoundsException. I don't see anything relevant in the
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by SloopJon 2y ago
This could be useful for bootstrapping a shared-nothing cluster or a disaster recovery node. A comparable amount of space in a storage array might occupy a 2-4U chassis, which would be somewhat less convenient to transport. This thing isn&
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I wouldn't include atomics and memory barriers in the "fearless concurrency" category of Rust. Is there really a large enough body of third-party code to worry about compatibility? As for Linus's complaint that compiler
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by SloopJon 2y ago
This is every bit as much a people problem as a technology problem. When I read the headline, I didn't even understand what there possibly was to breach at OWASP. > OWASP collected resumes as part of the early membership process, wh
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I don't think you read the same article that I did, because you are impugning Trisha Thadani and/or the Washington Post for grift and conflict of interest with zero evidence. The tone of the article does not at all strike me as p
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by SloopJon 2y ago
> If your exotic software testing technology gets yanked, then you're literally exactly where you are today. As someone testing concurrent/distributed software, Antithesis is potentially useful to me. It would be a substantial
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by SloopJon 3y ago
OpenTofu does seem to have reached a stable, usable release. I meant to ask whether any of the other forks are viable. OpenBao, e.g., doesn't seem there yet.
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by SloopJon 3y ago
KeePassXC added support for passkeys in 2.7.7, released a week ago: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2024-03-10-2.7.7-released/ This post prompted me to give it a try at webauthn.io. Passkey support is disabled by defau
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by SloopJon 3y ago
> a shift in their user base towards open source forks I wonder how we can verify this. If I look at HashiCorp's quarterly results,[1] revenue is up, and they're adding customers, but net dollar retention rate is trending down
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by SloopJon 3y ago
I didn't look into this in detail at the time, but the report's summary of CVE-2021-45046 is that the parser that validated an URL behaved differently than a separate parser used to fetch the URL, so an URL like jndi:ldap:&#
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by SloopJon 3y ago
Another post in this thread was downvoted and flagged (really?) for claiming that URL parsing isn't difficult. The linked article claims that "Parsing URLs correctly is surprisingly hard." As a software tester, I'm v
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by SloopJon 3y ago
From the article: "In a nutshell, audio fingerprinting uses the browser’s Audio API to render an audio signal with OfflineAudioContext interface." It links to a previous article with more details: https://fingerprint.c
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by SloopJon 3y ago
I haven't used that many different keyboards, but each one has kind of added a feature to my must-have list. My first mechanical was a tenkeyless Max Keyboard Nighthawk. It sold me on the TKL size, and backlighting. It also has a USB

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