karlmdavis

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by karlmdavis 8mo ago
I love absolutely everything about this… except for the lack of cross-platform support. I know how ludicrous it is to expect that, but… most workflows I’m considering solutions like this for are crippled by their inability to run Xcode or a
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by karlmdavis 8mo ago
I would take the other side of that bet. # if >10 then was_created_by_agent = true $ grep -oP '\p{Emoji}' vulns.md | wc -l
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by karlmdavis 1y ago
I find it kind of baffling that this toolkit is so popular when it makes handling database joins so difficult. After bashing my head against it for a while, I moved to Diesel, and while that has its own set of problems, I am generally able
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by karlmdavis 2y ago
I suspect they meant “scenario”.
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by karlmdavis 2y ago
I almost gave up on Leptos, because I was trying to use it with Actix, which it supports less-well than it does Axum (and I’m too stubborn for my own good and wouldn’t switch). I came back to it recently after the Leptos 0.7 release, though
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by karlmdavis 2y ago
What an absolutely delightful little project and write up.
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by karlmdavis 2y ago
A number of US federal agencies still have astonishing amounts of it. The world’s largest insurer, Medicare, uses 10M+ lines of COBOL to process the claims it receives — total dollar amounts that make up 3% of the yearly GDP. Maintaining an
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by karlmdavis 2y ago
From personal experience, it scales very well vertically. Have a system in production with tens of billions of rows and north of 12 TB of storage total. That system is read-heavy with large batched inserts, not many deletes or updates. Bigg
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by karlmdavis 3y ago
You and I must work in very different contexts, as these questions are so obvious that they first seemed like satire to me. You enforce API contracts in a monolith (or any codebase, really) via an at-least-modest amount of typing and a comp
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by karlmdavis 3y ago
Looks perfect for me with one show stopper: no Home Kit support. I love the idea of Home Assistant but do not have the free time to pick up another service to support in our house.
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by karlmdavis 3y ago
Nu is using a data frame abstraction to drive this and it’s really quite powerful and fast. I was rather skeptical on the value of having this stuff as a shell built in, but it won me over. Very convenient!
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by karlmdavis 3y ago
I’ve used Synthea for a whole assortment of small and large projects and it’s been boring in the best possible way: reliable and easy to use. I’ve also had the pleasure of working directly with the team at MITRE that owns it on a consulting
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by karlmdavis 3y ago
I don’t really understand how any file system designed in the last 20 years could be lacking data checksums. Data integrity is job #1, and yet.
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
“Year of Efficiency”? Hoo boy… is Zuck picking up his management strategies from a podcast/YouTube channel? I mean, I shouldn’t/wouldn’t be surprised by that but still, wow. Playing in the kiddie pool. (Strongly reminiscent of the
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
Man, playing with Mindstorms is some of the most fun I’ve had as an adult. This announcement is a shame. I spent some time going through all of their basic examples in Rust, which was just delightfully silly.
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
To extend that line of argument a bit, what about a more professional tool/system, e.g. cherry pickers? Doesn’t it seem reasonable to you to design and engineer cherry pickers such that the bucket can’t be moved unless a safety harness
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
“It helps build fast rendering sites, sometimes even sub-second renders…” That has to be a typo, right? Or sarcasm? I weep for what we’ve all done to the beautiful speed and simplicity of the web.
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
“We are raising your plan’s rates.” versus: “The plan’s rates have gone up.”
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
That… is not my understanding of the word “salary”; this article is conflating it with total compensation. Rather confusing.
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
Very pretty. Hilariously dangerous and user unfriendly for anyone with kids.
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
Underexplained, permanent system config changes? That just about counts as malware, in my book. (Since I use sway on Ubuntu, rather than gdm, I’d argue it’s a capital offense, but YMMV.)
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by karlmdavis 4y ago
From their What’s New: “ Flutter now supports variable refresh rate on iOS devices with ProMotion displays, including iPhone 13 Pro and iPad Pro. On these devices, Flutter apps can render at refresh rates reaching 120 hz, which were previou
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
I’m really not clear what’s going on with the null implementations… aren’t those just very boring mocks?
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
This is all true, but incomplete in some important ways, I think. The losses can be somewhat mitigated. As mikewarot’s comment here hints, you can slow down the meetings and take care to encourage everyone’s thoughtful participation. It req
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
Please don’t ever use time stamps for synchronization. You will have a bad time. Clock skew is an insidious problem: things may look like they’re working, but they’re not. Given all of the clock bugs out there it’s sometimes not even safe t
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
I think “deep commitment” is rather debatable. We’ve moved in the right direction, generally, but only slowly and with far too much foot dragging. Remember, gay marriage was only legalized six years ago. Six! And that’s just one example ou
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
Note to self: avoid “thanks” on most business emails —- I don’t need to get more email back (for most things, anyways).
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
This seems to rather callously disregard the parent commenter’s lived experience. Perhaps, just maybe, not everyone is like you; it might be different for different people? Just a thought.
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
Technical government employee here. :waves: Your observation is, in general, quite correct! Back in the 80s or thereabouts, the conservative administrations started a MASSIVE shift towards outsourcing of federal government work. This was fo
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
Check out Amethyst for Mac OS. It’s a bit buggy, and it’s not Sway, but it’s Sway-like enough for me to get by on my work system.

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