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by __float 1y ago
It sounds like this may have been one of the pieces of software the author intentionally chose not to use: > There are some clunky old Windows programs, niche scientific tools, and image analysis software that assumes you’re trying to co
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by __float 1y ago
Those downsides don't seem that bad to me. If something needed repair, they can bring a contractor on site, and certainly the Fed has cameras and police to monitor. (In line with some other commenters, I'm more inclined to believe
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by __float 1y ago
It's a tech/quant role.
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by __float 1y ago
I like the exit code feature a lot; Starship does that with my config in a subtle color change. My shell customization is largely throwing Starship in (so it looks the same on all the machines I use -- Ubuntu servers at work, macOS at home,
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by __float 1y ago
What in microtype makes "a big difference"? I don't recall using it (my LaTeX years are long behind me), but all of the examples on https://www.khirevich.com/latex/microtype/ seem incredibly minor.
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by __float 1y ago
With all of the basic mistakes in the content of this report, how is removal of the word "big" worthy of description as a fuckup?
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by __float 1y ago
Do many people use macFUSE? I thought ever since the license change it's really dropped off.
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by __float 1y ago
I think they're probably more concerned about fake accounts and people finding ways to get free stuff.
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by __float 1y ago
> Hopefully Matz sticks to his guns and never allows type annotations at the language and VM level. Why? Just because they _exist_ doesn't mean you'd need to use them.
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by __float 1y ago
Checklists work well in high stress situations where you cannot forget a step (medicine, aviation). A checklist in a security incident? Probably helpful. A security checklist to satisfy auditors and ancient regulations? This is an entirely
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by __float 1y ago
It may violate the SQL Server license? Microsoft have not apparently paid for a Jepsen analysis (or perhaps don't want it public :))
102.
by __float 1y ago
Neat idea, but uh, you're giving users a text box straight to a costly API. Why is that unexpected?
103.
by __float 1y ago
That isn't the point. In practice, if you provide randomness, it will be depended upon.
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by __float 1y ago
The live demos were neat! I was playing around with "The Pete System Prompt", and one of the times, it signed the email literally "Thanks, [Your Name]" (even though Pete was still right there in the prompt). Just a remin
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by __float 1y ago
YRIS: you'll read it someday
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by __float 1y ago
My experience has not been so smooth. Migrations are reasonable, but they're not free and "always keeps backups" sounds like you'd tolerate downtime more than I would. Even in the best case (e.g. basic column addition),
107.
by __float 1y ago
Performance is not necessarily worth maxing at all costs. Is that project even maintained still? GitHub looks...quiet.
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by __float 1y ago
While none of that is false, I think there's a big difference from shipping your data to an external LLM API and using AWS. Using AWS is basically a "physical server they have control of".
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by __float 1y ago
He has surely dedicated a significant portion of his life to his own pet theories on obesity, but to consider him a well-regarded expert is very misleading. He has quite a few claims that are just...ridiculous, and his pop science books hav
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by __float 1y ago
What's wrong with Markmonitor? They don't have nearly the customer base of Zoom (where I can relate to any complaints, I'm sure)
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by __float 1y ago
No, it's objectively more difficult to type [on a qwerty keyboard]. cmd-s is a single keypress and can be done with a single hand. shift-; w cr is two more and involves a back and forth over the entire keyboard.
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by __float 1y ago
Modern GUI apps tend not to design for the keyboard-wielding power user. TUIs can have just as many quirks and bugs, but on the whole they tend to be a little simpler, and the author usually is an end-user :-)
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by __float 1y ago
This might be true for the most part as an end user, but from a licensing perspective regarding the original binaries, this is irrelevant. You must be able to modify and change the code, not merely append to the PATH: > Tivoization: Some
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by __float 1y ago
While the GUI is somewhat helpful, at the end of the day it's not the key piece, and it could easily be rebuilt.
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by __float 1y ago
This was discussed somewhat recently in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42855258
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by __float 1y ago
The lifetime warranty clearly was valuable to many people here. The problem though, is the _misleading_ marketing around "better sound" and similar that is false and does not justify charging more to basic home consumers who don&#
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by __float 1y ago
I can't really fault them too much for hopping on the latest bandwagon, if their software is general enough at running workflows for it to fit. They do seem to have a nice "quickstart for CI" they haven't abandoned, yet:
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by __float 1y ago
TeamCity's "config as code" feels a bit like an afterthought to me. (It's very Windows-style, where PowerShell got bolted on, and you're still fighting a bit of an upstream current getting clickops users out of old
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by __float 1y ago
Yeah, I've come back around to this: you do not want "end users" writing Groovy, because the tooling around it is horrible. You'll have to explain the weird CPS transformations, you'll probably end up reading the
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by __float 2y ago
It's common (see: S3, private GitHub repos) to return 404 instead of unauthorized to avoid even leaking existence of a resource at URL.

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