amichal

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by amichal 21d ago
If their hero image video and the side by side at (5x) with a human at quote "1x" are "solved" I'm not impressed. I'm faster and more accurate and I am the worst folder in my house (kids included). The human lo
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by amichal 1mo ago
This was not the URL of this page in 1998.
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by amichal 3mo ago
Do we care that the bug here was a horizontal scrollbar showing and the fix after all this insane tool writing was to add a very obvious overflow-x: hidden to the element? We dont mind because its so fast a writing these tools and tricks bu
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by amichal 5mo ago
Edit: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/insights/leveraging-gmail-... Shows you how to use googles thing if you are a sender to know if @gmail folks are reporting you. It doesnt address what to do if someone&
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by amichal 5mo ago
I did some tiny digging because I remembered that there is a way to report individual messages in a structured machine readable way to abuse@ for these things --- i suspect that this is technically supported by gmail (if not given a lot of
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by amichal 6mo ago
PostgresSQL "crosstab ( source_sql text, category_sql text ) → setof record" https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tablefunc.html VIA https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/how-to-piv
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by amichal 6mo ago
If this code is real and complete then there are no callers of those methods other than a logger line
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by amichal 6mo ago
Good memories of the open source world. I couldn't find my commits in either repo and i'm afraid i might have been shy to upstream them and just did them in a fork. it was tiny, There was some issue in some less number formatting
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by amichal 7mo ago
I wonder, can we not turn all threads into a "when will AI do this creative thing better than humans". Humans need basic income (or at least resources) and to have culturally valuable work to do. Art and craft esp as a form of hum
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by amichal 7mo ago
I would love to see alternatives of educational code that implements these things in a "compliant" way. Security does not come from Compliance (sometimes they are at odds) but as someone who is not an academically trained security
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by amichal 7mo ago
Marginally better for sure but in this case the path would also have been "leaked" to the sentry instance owned by developers of the the NAS device phoning home. This can happen in zillions of ways and is a good reason to use rela
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by amichal 9mo ago
Yeah, as a salty greybeard i tried to tell our FE tech-lead to just render the proper HTTP Cache-Control headers in the Next.js site we recently built. He tried and then linked me to https://nextjs.org/docs/app/gu
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by amichal 9mo ago
this too...
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by amichal 9mo ago
I feel the same, 72 million monthly page views is about 8 pages per second even if in a single timezone (72e6 / 8h * 30d * 3600h/s) - even with today's heavy weight pages we are talking under well under 1000 req/s. Assum
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by amichal 1y ago
Does it? I watched this video and the explanation of how they (mostly Bill in Vermont) did it had barely enough room for the song data. I think the line graphics might have been some good story telling
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by amichal 1y ago
One of my first legit independent contractor jobs was a background job for coldfusion-based website that needed to get partners to update their data periodically. The business had figured out that their building supply partners were more re
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by amichal 1y ago
Does a good job of showing how completely unparsable ToS are: https://tosdr.org/en/service/1448 says both: "You maintain ownership of your data: This service does not claim ownership over user-generated conte
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by amichal 2y ago
Yeah, not a candidate for the list. I thought it wasn't because the list was about > 2 different spellings that sound "identical" but mean different things. I agree with you and when I (a non-linguist) first learned about
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by amichal 2y ago
"database" in legal/business speak (AFAIK) is the more general "organized collection of data" - not the more software engineer focused relational/object/graph- implementations of such.
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by amichal 2y ago
This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal... Edit: It's not on the list because its using multiple meanings of the same spelling...
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by amichal 2y ago
Wasn't fintech but was fin something. Several weeks into trying to port a Excel workbook with a zillion tabs, some VBscript from stackoverflow and other nastiness and being unable to replicate the results. I discovered the "consul
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by amichal 2y ago
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3927 "Microsoft Windows 98 (and later) and Mac OS 8.5 (and later) already support this capability." And https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/d
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by amichal 2y ago
I expected the layout, head size, expression etc rules to be more or less standard across countries. More than a decade a go our dual citizen baby got both passports at once and I thought I could use one of the US duplicates for the other c
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by amichal 2y ago
And an IDE would also fail to find references for most of the cases described in the article: name composition/manipulation, naming consistency across language barriers, and flat namespaces in serialization. And file/path folder n
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by amichal 2y ago
Nope but "handle confusion" safety perhpas?
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by amichal 2y ago
It wasn't the only language browsers (vbscript was allowed client side in early ie) supported and also isn't anymore with wasm
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by amichal 3y ago
Overall good points but don't forget that pre-approval processes resulted in asking for resources that exceeded the near term needs and once approved ongoing costs were rarely fully reviewed. I have personal experience with "ente
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by amichal 3y ago
I wonder if this is just them aligning themselves with the new EU AI Act at the same time that they are rolling out a EU region[1]. From my understanding that act, soon to take affect makes it a requirement to explicitly explain the use cas
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by amichal 3y ago
I suspect the article is about returning the contributing tables in a join as multiple relations... while not possible in SQL proper this is possible with stored procedures (at least in T-SQL) https://stackoverflow.com/quest
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by amichal 3y ago
I dont know about open source. But back back around 2000 it was fairly common to implement a "VBA host". It was also easy, a few dev days to scaffold and minutes to hours of dev time to expose functions. We did it with a suite of

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