john_the_writer

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by john_the_writer 11mo ago
The only bit that I didn't agree with was the downsides. You can scale individual modules. You can set your load balancer to make all calls to specific endpoints go to specific servers. These can scale independently. If you have bac
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by john_the_writer 11mo ago
Yeah.. I always remind myself of the netscape browser. A lesson in "if it's working to mess with it" My question is always the reverse. Why try it in Y new language. Is there some feature that Y provides that was missing i
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by john_the_writer 11mo ago
Agreed. I rather dislike the idea of "safe" coding languages. Fighting with a memory leak in an elixir app, for the past week. I never viewed c or c++ as unsafe. Writing code is hard, always has been, always will be. It is never
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by john_the_writer 11mo ago
Yes.. that.. If you are against oil and plastics, walk your talk. If you are against rare earth, walk your talk. If you have a degree in chem-eng, and you're building low plastic solutions, and you're critical, then you're be
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by john_the_writer 11mo ago
reminds me of the just stop oil protest that stopped the cooking oil truck. People who don't know enough, trying to stop what they don't understand.
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by john_the_writer 11mo ago
If it's one thing the US gov has down, it's how to move super slow. No way it gets done in a 10 years.
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by john_the_writer 11mo ago
Sounds like a right to repair argument. It will lose. Try putting linux on a windows-10 laptop. That BIOS is nailed down hard. It can be done but its a right PITA
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
They might not.. But you'd very likely have their number saved on your phone. Might even have them as an un-mutable contact. My wife/kids and their school are all on the "never mute" list.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
This is awesome. Great job your bank..
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
I mean. I have a little book on my desk with password hints. "2nd grade best friends phone number", "birthday of first dog". It also has a grid of random numbers/letters on the front page, so I can write "fir
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
My local medical clinic sent me an sms with a link, asking me to change my medical info. I called them to point out how they were training their patients to fall for sms scamms.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
I've had a few calls where they are from legit places (I confirmed later) and they ask me verify my identify. I counter, that they need to verify who they are. They were confused and we couldn't go forward, because I wouldn't
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Love this quote. An love the intent.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
I don't know that they don't care about safety. They just don't agree with the definition others have picked. I remember when managed code became a thing. I being an old c++ dev noted that memory was always managed. It was
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Literally did this all day today. Took a csv file, parsed it in elixir, processed it and created a new csv file, then opened that in excel, to confirm the changes. At least 100 times today.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Well I mean unless you're inspecting it with a hex editor, you're not looking at the csv file itself. Even then, I suppose you could say that's not even the file itself. An electron microscope perhaps? But then you've
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
100%.. xml also worked here too.. YAML is a pain because it has every so slightly different versions, that sometimes don't play nice. csv or TSV's are almost always portable.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
What are you talking about? Excel opens csv with zero issue. In windows, and mac. Mac you right click and "open with". Or you open excel, and click file/open and find the csv. I do the first one a dozen times a day.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Got to figure out how to block the url in the router.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Just a few more years and it's time will be up :D
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
This is a fantastic article. Reminds me why I get up in the morning. Reminds me of why I fell in love with programming, and why after 25 years as a dev, I still mostly love it. (there are days) AI will rob me of that practice.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Yeah, the other day a front end dev created a branch in some elixir code. They added a pile of tests, and asked a (new hire) back end dev to finish off the work. The tests were 100% vibe coded. I knew the code well, and after looking realiz
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Because something is the best dog dookie on the market, does not mean I should be happy to eat it. Or that I should say nothing when it lands on my plate.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
But what happens when the Gov decides they don't want to fund it anymore? Or the gov decides something shouldn't be funded.. Say truckers on strike, or wiki-leaks? Well then boom we have the same game, just a different player.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Nah.. Congress won't. When paypal stopped payments to wiki-leaks Congress was happy as to close their eyes.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
I've often countered the "if you've got nothing to hide" by taking out a bit of paper, and asking for their social and email passwords. "nothing to hide."
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
As a parent, I can tell you it's insanely easy to manage allowing kids online. Don't.. or 100% supervised. Done
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Reminds me of the xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
Yep.. They/we get miffed, and twisted, stalled. Then they get dispassionate, and leave.
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by john_the_writer 1y ago
I've found it starts bad, but it works into your flow, and eventually it gets a better. It's a minimal thing though. It's sort of like intel-i-sense.

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