jvdongen

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by jvdongen 2mo ago
It reminded me more about these kind of things actually: https://www.ebay.com/itm/277636244509 (ISA RAM Expansion Boards from the PC/XT era)
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by jvdongen 4mo ago
I think both preceding comments are a bit too strongly worded. I’m experimenting as well with pairing deterministic programming with llm use in a similar fashion and find that it allows you to squeeze more out of smaller models than with ll
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by jvdongen 2y ago
As far as their public website tells ( https://www.riec.nl/ ) the RIEC is about a targeted bundling of knowledge, experience and resources to better deal with the effects of organized crimes, instead of everyone working in th
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by jvdongen 2y ago
My comment is made from the background of someone who has led the effort of bringing software development in-house, building a 20-odd FTE dev team, and is still leading it 3 years in. I'd not bring everything in-house at once unless yo
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by jvdongen 3y ago
Postgres has a similar feature, if you chose ‘remote_write’ for the ‘synchronous_commit’ setting. You can also mix and match sync/ascync options within a cluster and even between individual transactions. Recent versions of Postgres hav
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by jvdongen 3y ago
This is a disingenuous comment at best. As explained in the docs you link to, Postgres has both synchronous and asynchronous replication modes. In asynchronous mode availability is favored over durability. Which means commits can get lost w
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by jvdongen 6y ago
There was once actually an active effort to remove magic from Django: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/RemovingTheMagic
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by jvdongen 7y ago
Exactly this. For the docker images we use in production, we fork the corresponding git repo, build our own image and push it to our own local docker registry and pull it from there. It's fairly easy to setup in fact.
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by jvdongen 11y ago
You might be able to proxy the dictionaries from your own server? Unless something in the t&c's of the dictionary providers prohibits you from doing that of course.
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by jvdongen 11y ago
Hmmm I've a distinctly different experience. In my experience their support is good and their engineers quite knowledgeable. Tickets are dealt with within reasonable time frames. If I really do need something to happen quickly, I can c
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by jvdongen 13y ago
Basically. The idiomatic solution for this in python is: def fn(x, my_dict=None): if my_dict is None: my_dict = {} ...
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by jvdongen 13y ago
Well, that's the million dollar/euro question isn't it? It's a bit hard to verify with all the secrecy going on. And arguably without some level of secrecy you cannot have effective intelligence. It's a bit of a cat
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by jvdongen 13y ago
In fact the Dutch owned New York once (then called New Amsterdam ;-) until they effectively traded it with the British for Suriname and some spare change. And that whole Dutch East Indies and Indonesia thing still has some repercussions til
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by jvdongen 13y ago
Yes - it is called the "apple 12w usb power adapter" and costs $19 ;-)
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by jvdongen 13y ago
"Non-intrusive" is the most important part here I think. Measuring productivity does not produce anything that adds to your bottom line directly. An often overlooked aspect of performance/productivity management is that there should be a n
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by jvdongen 13y ago
In addition to templating, orm and routing there is also highly integrated i18n toolchain/workflow, built-in csrf protection, good session handling, well integrated caching and many more of such 'details'. All those things by themselves cou
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by jvdongen 14y ago
Yes, I know, it's turtles all the way down, of course. Still, I think that "but here we are aiming for practical applications not a philosophical debate about how everything is just an illusion." is a dangerous statement. Some people woul
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by jvdongen 14y ago
I was not referring to your comment per se, but indeed your comment fits the general sentiment I was referring to. And I think that localStorage is indeed literally no better than server-side storage. Whether it is any worse depends on the
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by jvdongen 14y ago
You're technically correct - it's all a matter of degrees of certainty. That does however not invalidate any of the points made in the article. If that native C application runs on a server that is fully under your control you stand a far,
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by jvdongen 14y ago
True - but how is a web server with certainty going to decide which clients can be trusted (because they've a truly capable browser)and which are not to be trusted (because they have a vulnerable and compromised browser that just preten
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by jvdongen 14y ago
My point is relevant as he considered the problem of availability of a CSPRNG 'solved' - and it isn't until you also solve most of the other problems Thomas identifies. And it was not my intention to 'bash' anyone - if it came across as suc
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by jvdongen 14y ago
This piece has surfaced before. Then and now I see people coming out of the woodwork with seemingly smart ideas about how it still should be possible to safely use crypto in the browser one way or another. One of the things my company does
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by jvdongen 14y ago
I'm afraid this falls in the "Check back in 10 years when the majority of people aren't running browsers from 2008." category ...
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by jvdongen 14y ago
And how are you going to be sure that 'window.crypto.getRandomValues' points to the function you expect? Currently you can't be.
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by jvdongen 14y ago
That is only useful if you also specify yhe conditions under which the "cracking" takes place. Do you mean on-line password guessing? Or do you mean brute-forcing a hashed password leaked from a database? In case 1 a lock-out policy would q
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by jvdongen 14y ago
For me part of the music experience is also feeling the music. That's not something you can get with headphones (well, safely at least :-)
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by jvdongen 14y ago
Don't know about you, but with my hourly rate wasting 2 whole days on looking for a way to avoid a 99 dollar fee does not make sense ...
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by jvdongen 14y ago
Well, in the Netherlands we used to have a bank whose internet banking site closed around 23:00 hours and re-opened somewhere in the morning. AFAIK it was because all actual processing was done in batch during the night. Somewhere around 20
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by jvdongen 14y ago
Good mention. A small correction though: repmgr is not so much an replication option for postgres as well as a handy toolkit for using Postgres's own replication features in a more convenient way.
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by jvdongen 14y ago
Security questions are basically passwords and thus suffer from the same issues. I'd a neat (imo) idea for this, though not everyone agreed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4349116

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