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by ascar 1y ago
yea that's an odd example to pick. expecting type conversion to add meaning to strings is a programmer problem not a language problem. really comes down to developers not thinking about types and their meaning anymore. there are plenty
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by ascar 2y ago
And a `git remote add name url` and you are setup to use another remote server.
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by ascar 2y ago
Even if that's a concern in a doomsday scenario, self-hosting gitlab is super easy and a good (some would argue better) alternative.
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by ascar 2y ago
It has an export function that you can scan from an old phone. And I kept the setup keys in my keepass database. On top of that now Google backs those up for you too.
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by ascar 2y ago
Not sure if that's actually your question, but GLSL is the language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_Shading_Language
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by ascar 2y ago
Seems like a rather easy thing to go wrong in the client, no? User sends message via client. Client fumbles the recipient id. Message ends up at the wrong recipient. Examples: incorrect recipient ID attached to contact in list where users s
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by ascar 2y ago
I'm not sure if I missed a bit here, but I have some colleagues doing research on unikernels for HPC and the point is that this unikernel is running directly on the hardware or hypervisor and not inside another VM. The unikernel is eff
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by ascar 2y ago
JSON for something that essentially mirrors a shell installation process? Feels like you are trying to reinvent things with a golden hammer, not like actually making it easier.
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by ascar 2y ago
If you read closely I am not talking about the limitations of GPT, but about the limitations of the developer having to fix code of others (GPT essentially being another developer). I guess it depends on the complexity of the problem. A lot
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by ascar 2y ago
You're working under the assumption that you will be able to find the errors. I personally found reviewing code always way harder than writing it and we already push tons of bugs to production in written+reviewed code.
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by ascar 2y ago
It's more like not using semi-autonomuous driving features with the car entirely relying on your expertise to realise and correct when it's making a mistake. The main difference is risk. Your own life at stake versus bugs in some
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by ascar 2y ago
Due to the nature of my current work I haven't really used GPT for coding yet, but I keep wondering isn't it easier to write code than to read and truly understand it? So how much development time was really saved, if I still care
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by ascar 2y ago
Fair enough. I lost track of the correct comment chain there.
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by ascar 2y ago
According to the RFC's PUT can be used to create a resource as long as the request has a clear target. That doesn't necessarily mean an ID, but just some kind of identifier (composite key, hash of content, url, etc.). When a creat
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by ascar 2y ago
Aren't you basically describing that you want idempotency? The RFC 9110 (and also the old 2616) clearly state PUT is idempotent while POST isn't. 9.3.4 PUT "The fundamental difference between the POST and PUT methods is high
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by ascar 2y ago
It's not part of RFC 9110, so why should it be included?
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by ascar 2y ago
Yes, as a long time Thunderbird on Windows user I second this.
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by ascar 2y ago
Until it's the German bureaucrats that ruin your day. This is an international issue and a national answer doesn't solve it. For what it's worth my first name is also not accepted correctly (it contains a hyphen) and I never
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by ascar 3y ago
The article makes that point. There is no law to put a giant banner that disturbs UX in your users face. Companies choose to do so. There only is a law that prevents companies from tracking you without consent.
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by ascar 3y ago
I don't think we should abolish time zones, but he isn't making good points. His points are based on conventions that exist because we use local time zones and he uses a lot of English centric bias in his argument. His first point
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by ascar 3y ago
I've seen ChatGPT translate English to German miles ahead of what Google translate does. Like an English satirical poem to perfect German. Changing the literal translation to keep the meaning and sarcasm of the poem.
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by ascar 3y ago
it's the 30 day uptime statistic displayed on the website I linked. if you click the history it says 98.452% over 365 days.
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by ascar 3y ago
The second one is just a standby though and not in another region. And if I recall correctly dang mentioned at an outage that the failover to the standby is manual. But I'm not sure. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by ascar 3y ago
Does 99.995% [1] of hackernews sound reasonable enough to you? The reality is a lot of systems (especially simple ones) run perfectly fine on a single server with next to no downtime and all the additional redundancies we introduce also add
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by ascar 3y ago
To be fair, I would say if your task is to design a system it's your job to find out what the person actually wants and not run with assumptions you made based on a bad description. The reality is that you will usually start with a bad
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by ascar 3y ago
"So what scale are we talking about? A few million monthly users? So like hackernews? I would use a single server... "
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by ascar 3y ago
Because primiparas describes the women that give first births and not the first births themselves. The abstract uses regular English and introduces the term. Otherwise they would have to write "women with first births" all the tim
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by ascar 3y ago
Nulligravida = not been pregnant Menarche = first menstrual period
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by ascar 3y ago
I assume it would be less about the dominance of passanger displacing freight and more about scale/distance. Germany is smaller than Texas (half the area). How often is it economical to put stuff on trains before loading them on trucks
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by ascar 3y ago
He was removed from the board though. This isn't entirely voluntary and out of the blue.

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