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by mmcclimon 9mo ago
Cold ketchup on hot french fries is one of life's great joys, though.
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by mmcclimon 2y ago
> You can invoke git-who as git who by setting up an alias in your global Git config This works even without the alias, by the way: by default `git whatever` will search your path for `git-whatever` and execute it.
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by mmcclimon 2y ago
FWIW, the latest stable release is 7.0.12, released a week or so ago: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/upcoming/release-notes/7.0/ . (I'm not sure why the URL has /upcoming/ in it, actually: 7.
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by mmcclimon 2y ago
Field size for American football is definitely standardized: 100 yards between goal lines and 160 feet wide. Lots of Americans will have an intuitive sense for how long something like "three football fields" is.
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
Man with PhD in subject is pedantic about that subject on Hacker News, film at 11. ;) There are, of course, stylistic norms, and a lot of those norms are shared across lots of kinds of Western music. The thing I'm pushing back against
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
I'm not sure what your dissent is, so I'm not sure how to respond to it. I think you're saying that you had a good experience in your music theory classes, which used Bach chorales, and you wouldn't want to discard that
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
What I mean when I say that music theory is a descriptive enterprise is quite literal: the research that professional music theorists do is designing theories to describe music we see and hear in the real world. So yes, composers (now and i
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
Fair point; that's partly my own bias (I know basically nothing about non-Western musics), and partly because of the article I'm responding to ("Bach doesn't tell us anything about gamelan music" isn't an inter
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
We know quite a lot about Greek music theory (Thomas Mathiesen's Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity in the Middle Ages is the go-to source here: https://archive.org/details/mathiesen-19
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
Oh boy. Music theory, as such, has no "rules," and so of course Bach did not invent them. Music theory is a descriptive enterprise, which aims to make sense of music as composed/performed/enacted by humans. (I have a PhD
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
While acknowledging that git's CLI is often unintuitive: `git tag` lists tags, `git branch` lists branches, and `git remote` lists remotes, so I don't think I understand this particular objection.
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
The current version of perl is 5.36 (it's a really good perl). The language formerly known as Perl 6 is now called Raku. The "Perl 7 initiative" referred to in the grandparent is the idea that at some point, the 5.x series (i
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
Very little of git as used by most people is Perl these days; almost everything has been rewritten in C by now. A few things remain, but they're pretty niche: git-send-email, the git-cvs tools (!), git-svn, and git-fast-import (maintai
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
Perl may or may not be relevant in 2022 (it's certainly relevant to me ), but this article does not do a great job at explaining Perl's merits. The example code, in particular, is certainly not what I'd expect to see in a mo
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Hacker News “Who is Hiring?” top-level comments over time(blog.joewoods.dev)
241 points by mmcclimon 4y ago|114 comments
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
Yeah, `git log --format=%ae | sed s/.*@//` will get you most of the way there, and then it’s down to how you want to deal with the domains themselves, as you say!
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by mmcclimon 4y ago
The rule we have is that anything that is not idempotent and not run as a matter of daily routine must dry-run by default, and not take action unless you pass --really. This has saved my bacon many times!
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
Yeah, that seems to be the case (confirmed with their little example at https://github.com/mdn/dom-examples/tree/master/server-sent-... ). Once the connection is closed you can see things, but that's
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
Hmm! You're right that I hadn't looked it a while, so I checked before making the comment above. I'm still seeing the same thing I always have, which is "No response data available for this request". Possibly someth
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
SSEs are one of the standard push mechanisms in JMAP [1], and they're part of what make the Fastmail UI so fast. They're straightforward to implement, for both server and client, and the only thing I don't like about them is
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
Just to second this…Joe has done lots of great work at Fastmail, but ‘vesta show’ might be my favorite.
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
Oh yeah, our support team is worth their weight in gold. They're all real people who know an awful lot of arcana about the nuts and bolts of email, and much more friendly and helpful than if I needed to talk to our customers on a regul
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
For what it's worth: as a Fastmail employee, it's also extremely irritating for us!
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
(I work for Fastmail.) One of our attempts at doing some mitigation of the attack caused this; we fixed it about 16:00 US Eastern this afternoon. Sorry about that! Without getting into too much detail: we were limiting some HTTP methods, bu
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
Yeah, for sure! Outlook is also very bad about this, and usually when we see it people have added include:spf.messagignengine.com (Fastmail's SPF, which is all IP addresses) and one other include, which does a bunch of recursive lookup
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
> Normally, this means that spf.messagingengine.com has its own SPF DNS record, which will probably list some valid IP addresses that emails can be sent from. There's also one for Mandrill, for transactional emails. You can have as
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
I would add "Traits: Composable Units of Behavior" ( http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~black/publications/TR_CSE_02-012.pd... ), which is good if you're interested in OO at all but also if you want to know mor
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by mmcclimon 5y ago
I work for Fastmail, and helped write Topicbox, the backend of which is entirely written in modern Perl. The frontend obviously uses JavaScript, and talks to the backend using JMAP (RFC 8620), which we helped to develop; Topicbox was using
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by mmcclimon 6y ago
Nearly everything at Fastmail is in Perl. Cyrus, which is the mail storage engine, is in C (and open-source), but everything else is Perl.
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by mmcclimon 6y ago
I noticed recently that all the API responses from Twilio have an X-Shenanigans: none header.

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