Tea418

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by Tea418 4y ago
The headline could also be “Google is deprecating older Widevine CDM versions”, which is a regular process. Whether or not the playback error rate of your product significantly spikes depends on the number of older non-Chrome browsers that
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by Tea418 4y ago
The public Go code I usually read are libraries and I admit I also noticed only a little adoption of generics. My personal hypothesis is that many libraries follow the official Go release policy[1]. Due to the fact that generics were introd
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by Tea418 4y ago
For me, a language or tech stack is not more than a tool box to achieve a higher goal, namely solving specific problems. While I do enjoy building software, "writing code" or mastering a particular tech stack is only one component
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by Tea418 4y ago
Netflix is able to track when viewers jump off in an episode. I’m wondering whether this information will be used soon to retroactively optimize the story line.
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by Tea418 5y ago
If you’re self-hosting your mail server and if you are using Postfix, changing recipient_delimiter could do the job without regex. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#recipient_delimiter
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by Tea418 5y ago
Fully agree here: I don’t expect anything else but reliable and performant HTTP caching from a CDN like CloudFront. Request manipulation is not the duty of a cache - even though other CDN providers mix request manipulation functionality wit
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by Tea418 5y ago
If you have trouble logging in to AWS Console, you can use a regional console endpoint such as https://eu-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/
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by Tea418 5y ago
I noticed last year that using a standing desk (in lifted position) half of the day helps me to focus significantly.
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by Tea418 5y ago
They’re commonly used at API boundaries to pass cancellation signals and deadlines. The Go blog has always good insights and details around things like this: https://go.dev/blog/context
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by Tea418 5y ago
Functions is cheaper than Lambda@Edge ($0.10 per 1M invocations vs. $0.60 per 1M invocations + duration pricing) but limited to lightweight request manipulation purposes.
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by Tea418 6y ago
Since I’m using a password manager, I’m generating >24 digit passwords, because I’ll never have to type them. You would be surprised how many websites cut everything after 24/32 digits during registration without notice, but suddenl
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by Tea418 6y ago
I don’t expect software to fail generally, but I’m getting used to a recurring stimulus quickly, especially if I underestimate its importance. Perhaps it’s a kind of habituation. I feel like it’s getting harder to estimate importance proper