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by afgrant 28d ago
“Required several coordinated actions” is the key moment for reflection.
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by afgrant 4mo ago
Maybe they prioritized it low, assigned it to a group of 3 devs, and it functioned the first time they demoed it to management, so it shipped. All other devs would’ve been working on their in-house software.
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by afgrant 4mo ago
I haven’t heard of a single software job in the last decade that offers anything resembling “training”. You sink or swim based on your previous knowledge, what you can glean from the codebase and coworkers, and how skilled you are at self-t
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by afgrant 5mo ago
Does Postgres no have online backup built in? All of the other major DBMSes do.
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by afgrant 2y ago
It’s the same as trying to tell everyone to stop buying gasoline for a day.
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by afgrant 3y ago
My phone is always with me when I drive and has a data connection that a car can tether to.
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by afgrant 3y ago
Everyone: Please stop using ‘#’ as an href placeholder. Don’t make your ‘<a>’ elements rely on events. If you want to replace their events with others, go for it. But please make them work at the base level.
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by afgrant 3y ago
If your MacBook battery is recent and lasting for less than 8 hours, you’re doing something very unusual.
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by afgrant 3y ago
When the encoding relies on differentiating between lowercase and capitalized characters, you’re hitting a high level of ambiguity. Hexadecimal UUIDs don’t have this problem.
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by afgrant 3y ago
128 bits versus 64 bits is a deal breaker?
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by afgrant 3y ago
It exists, but I wouldn’t call that “lucky”, or a selling point.
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by afgrant 3y ago
It’s just a 128-bit value that’s hexadecimal encoded. What can be controversial about that?
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by afgrant 3y ago
The hazard of base64 is the use of '+', '/', and '=' characters, which most HTTP engines treat as special.
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by afgrant 3y ago
Are there modern databases that can’t readily index on a 128-bit value?
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by afgrant 3y ago
It’s a sales pitch for base58 that I’m not buying at all. According to the code segment, they include numeral “1” but exclude lowercase “l”? 0-9 and a-f are unambiguous and widely understood. They’re more “human readable”.
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by afgrant 3y ago
Is this any better than the Wireshark database? https://www.wireshark.org/tools/oui-lookup.html
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by afgrant 3y ago
For the benefit of the future reader, I’m guessing you meant “CJS”, short for CommonJS.
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by afgrant 3y ago
Houses are tightly coupled to lives. Even if you escape the house, you might not survive the smoke inhalation from the surrounding trees.
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by afgrant 3y ago
The “unlicensed” aspect was never preventing this. Do you deny the basic benefits of end-to-end encryption?
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by afgrant 3y ago
I don’t get why you would conflate temperature degrees with angular degrees. They have nothing to do with each other.
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by afgrant 3y ago
If employees are getting paid salary, getting health insurance, getting retirement contributions, they’re by-and-large not going to quit
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by afgrant 4y ago
I’m in the same mindset. My 2009 MacBook got regular OS updates until 2017, then security updates until 2019. I replaced that one with an M1 Air and it’s been smooth sailing.
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by afgrant 4y ago
I’ve looked at my work from 7-8 years back and realized that it’s actually better. I’m not sure yet what this means.
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by afgrant 4y ago
… and Exxon, and Shell, and BP.
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by afgrant 4y ago
I would be interested in hearing of any instance where Firebase costs created financial hardship.
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by afgrant 4y ago
A minority of gas stations in the US use this system.
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by afgrant 4y ago
Are local weather conditions not generally available for all airports at all times?
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by afgrant 5y ago
In what nation?
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by afgrant 5y ago
The “lifetime of the hardware” is defined by the lifetime of the supporting software, which ultimately boils down to the popularity of the platform you’re on
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by afgrant 5y ago
For what it’s worth, personally, I expect 5 years from time of purchase.

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