flowerlad

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by flowerlad 22d ago
> The water and power utilities are themselves large distributed systems. For power I can understand. For water supply it is harder to understand. Does water supply have similar characteristics to power, for example can you turn on a r
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by flowerlad 22d ago
I wish they would make Arm64 Windows binaries a standard part of the release. Intel is on its way out.
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by flowerlad 23d ago
Why are our water and power utilities connected to the internet? Is it so that the employees controlling them can work from home? If so they are accepting too much risk relative to the benefit.
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by flowerlad 1mo ago
As an American I’d like Europe to stand up to Trump. If little Iran can, so can Europe.
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by flowerlad 3mo ago
How far can we take this? Should Boeing airplane designs be public domain since the underlying math is public domain?
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by flowerlad 3mo ago
Should Google search index be forced to be public too?
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Anthropic Claims Alibaba Ran 'Brazen' Campaign to Access Its Claude AI Model(wsj.com)
3 points by flowerlad 3mo ago|1 comments
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by flowerlad 3mo ago
The subject says this is free, if so what free license are you using? If the license is unspecified it may be open source but it is not free.
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by flowerlad 3mo ago
Goldman Sachs projects SpaceX’s total revenue to reach $474 billion in 2030, up from $18.7 billion last year. That’s 25x in just 4 years. It shouldn’t take long to check if real growth is along this predicted trajectory. But by that time El
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by flowerlad 4mo ago
The article discusses algebraic effects but React is mentioned. Don’t make the mistake of saying thinking React is functional. See https://mckoder.medium.com/why-react-is-not-functional-b1ed1...
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Meta Is Dying. It's About Time(nytimes.com)
20 points by flowerlad 4mo ago|8 comments
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by flowerlad 5mo ago
Orban conceded defeat. This is a model for other countries to follow.
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by flowerlad 5mo ago
Not true. Liz Cheney hasn’t committed any crimes (as far as we know).
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by flowerlad 7mo ago
MVVM was invented by Microsoft for 2-way syncing in WPF. Today we know 2-way syncing is a mistake. Who uses MVC in 2026? Pretty much every framework out there, including Java frameworks and Python frameworks and .net
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by flowerlad 8mo ago
Right but it is cheaper than open source products if you self-host. Most open source products in this space, including grist, are only partially open source.
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by flowerlad 8mo ago
If you want forms try https://visualdb.com/ it is another tool that aims to be Microsoft Access
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by flowerlad 8mo ago
Better than the old one in what way?
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by flowerlad 9mo ago
This takes the American Oligarchy to the next level. Trump is now enabling his billionaire friends plunder another country, no doubt Trump will get a cut of the profits.
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by flowerlad 9mo ago
Yes the backup certificate can have validity starting at a future date. You just need to wait till that future date to create it.
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by flowerlad 9mo ago
Do services such as K8S ingress and Azure web apps allow you to specify multiple certificates? Update: looks like the answer is yes. So then the issue is people not taking advantage of this technique.
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by flowerlad 9mo ago
We need a way to set multiple SSL certificates with overlapping duration. So if one certificate expires the backup certificate will become active. If the overlap is a couple of months then you have plenty of time to detect and fix the issue
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Trump Administration Cuts Cyberdefense Even as Threats Grow(nytimes.com)
13 points by flowerlad 11mo ago|0 comments
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by flowerlad 11mo ago
Just know that that’s not a universally held opinion!
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by flowerlad 11mo ago
Also you may have to maintain code bases that don’t use your preferred subset. And you may have to work with developers who have a different preferred subset.
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by flowerlad 11mo ago
Exactly!
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by flowerlad 11mo ago
I use it for my web site where SSR is critical for SEO. For app development I don’t use Nextjs. I think it is designed for web sites (as opposed to web apps) and it is great for this purpose
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by flowerlad 11mo ago
Absolutely agree. Leave well enough alone. If they keep adding features it is only going to get worse.
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by flowerlad 11mo ago
Zuckerberg doesn’t have a good track record with philanthropy https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/tech/chan-zuckerberg-primary-...
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by flowerlad 11mo ago
> They also have a team of full time react devs they are paying for. For now. My guess is they will be included in the next round of layoffs. Money for $100 Million pay packages for AI researchers has to come from somewhere!
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by flowerlad 11mo ago
Did that turn out to be a good idea? Hooks are much reviled for a reason!

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