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by molsson 1mo ago
5 hours going now and the entire thing is still completely down. This level of incompetence and their total disrespect for their customers is unbelievable.
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by molsson 1y ago
I maintain a package on npm with >1M weekly downloads. I also got the same phishing e-mail, although I didn't click it.. here are the e-mail headers in the phishing e-mail I got: Return-Path: <ndr-6be2b1e0-8c4b-11f0-0040-f184d662
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by molsson 1y ago
I guess this is the 1yr sharpe plotted over time, ie the sharpe at date X considers the stddev within the previous 365 days etc? Many brokers only show 1yr sharpe or perhaps 3yr sharpe (for example swedish nordnet has 1/3/5 year s
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by molsson 2y ago
process.stdout._handle.setBlocking(true) ...is a bit brutal but works. Draining the stream before exiting also kind of works but there are cases where drain will just permanently block. async function drain(stream) { return new Promise((r
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by molsson 4y ago
Hmm, why did you build it as a desktop app in 2022? Seems like a no brainer to have this in the cloud so that you can seamlessly process huge files and integrate with various third-party APIs. I've used https://www.gigasheet
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by molsson 5y ago
It would be nice if the web somehow filtered out links that one had decided to not pay for.
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by molsson 6y ago
We used a similar approach when we pushed to get -Werror enabled in a large C++ code base I worked on years ago.
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by molsson 6y ago
It's a beauty. Why buy a finished product when you can quickly put something like this together ?
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by molsson 6y ago
Dead birds? Clearly, the Earth's magnetic field must be reversing!!11 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/
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by molsson 6y ago
I hate when you browse through 10-15 websites and for all of them you quickly click the "Accept" button in the bottom banner to get rid of the irritating cookie banners. And then suddenly, on the 16th website they put a fucking &q
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by molsson 6y ago
The name wren is already used by: https://projectwren.com/
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by molsson 7y ago
I recently migrated a small side project from MySQL to PostgreSQL. I wrote a short blog post about how I did the migration, issues I ran into etc: http://blog.minimum.se/2019/07/09/upgrading-node-mysql-to-po..
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by molsson 7y ago
Very impressive!
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by molsson 7y ago
Wow, Stripe is having a really shitty day.
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by molsson 7y ago
I agree. Some more info here for those interested: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/A_Guide_to_CVE-2018-1058:_P...
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by molsson 7y ago
I agree, especially some info on production installation on Linux would be really nice. For example, is it better to install the "postgres" ubuntu distro package, or is it better to install the Ubuntu package provided by postgres
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by molsson 7y ago
The OWASP Postgres hardening page recommends that one removes the default "public" schema in postgres: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Backend_Security_Proje... ...whereas this course seems to use the p
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by molsson 7y ago
The free "teaser video" starts off showing "actor_id serial NOT NULL" but in postgres 10 and above identity columns can/should be used instead? https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_Do_Thi
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by molsson 7y ago
The content overview doesn't include anything about escaping data to prevent SQL injection (escaping of literals vs escaping of table/field names etc). This is important to get right and postgres has a slightly different approach
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by molsson 7y ago
It should be really nice to have variable playback speed for the videos.
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by molsson 7y ago
Great article!
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by molsson 7y ago
Thanks (you can upvote it here if you want: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19605334 ) I've added a mention of Xapian/Xapiand as well now and generated new graphs that include data for those two projects.
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by molsson 7y ago
Good point; I've added it now, both to the blog post and to the graph: https://blog.minimum.se/assets/elasticsearch-open-source-com...
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by molsson 7y ago
To get a feel for the size of Bleve, checkout this graph that shows commit rates doing into Bleve versus Elasticsearch and Vespa: http://blog.minimum.se/assets/elasticsearch-open-source-comm... If you don't need h
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Introduction to Elasticsearch(blog.minimum.se)
3 points by molsson 7y ago|0 comments
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by molsson 8y ago
Authentic8 Silo is something like this as a commercial product but it is based on Firefox I think.
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by molsson 8y ago
find other setuid binaries on your system using: find / -user root -perm -4000 -print 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"
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by molsson 8y ago
Looks like it was patched in Ubuntu 18.04 just two weeks ago, see "apt changelog xserver-xorg-core": xorg-server (2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.2) bionic-security; urgency=medium * SECURITY UPDATE: Privilege escalation and file overwrite
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by molsson 8y ago
If you look at the Dockerfile you will realize this project uses a lot of stuff beyond just the go binary; it looks like docker is a good fit for this project.
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by molsson 8y ago
And until recently it could abort() either, but Chrome/FF/Edge all have it now (yay!) and there is a polyfill for Safari/MSIE and old browsers: https://www.npmjs.com/package/abortcontroller-polyfill

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