nicois

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by nicois 2mo ago
could graphene support multiple duress PINs? feds: "unlock your phone or else" victim: "um, you're stressing me man. It's either 1234 or 4321, I forget. One of them wipes the phone, the other will unlock it." W
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by nicois 8mo ago
One missing feature: deferred message propagation. As far as I understand, while messages will be rebroadcast until a TTL is exhausted, there is no mechanism to retain in-transit messages and retransmit them to future peers. While this adds
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by nicois 8mo ago
If the idea is to have devs implement each kata, wouldn't it be more effective to provide not only automated tests, but also code which should be used as a basis for each challenge? For example, if supporting a dev tag to serve assets
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by nicois 10mo ago
A large percentage of git users are unaware of git-absorb ( https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb ). This complements just about any git flow, vastly reducing the pain of realising you want to amend your staged changes
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by nicois 11mo ago
This is exactly what I want when baking bread: I have a fixed sequence of steps, spaced quite far apart, and this is pretty much perfect: a series of relatively short breaks when autolysing and kneading, then waiting 10 hours overnight, the
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by nicois 11mo ago
This would be more impactful if we could see the cost to US purchasers was actually 39% more. Sadly some manufacturers spread the cost across all consumers, which actually means non-US customers are actually paying some of the tariff costs
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by nicois 1y ago
Is there a risk that this will underemphasise some values when the source of error is not independent? For example, the ROI on financial instruments may be inversely correlated to the risk of losing your job. If you associate errors with ea
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by nicois 2y ago
Nit-picking, but a high signal to noise ratio is desirable, indicating low levels of noise compared to signal, not the reverse.
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by nicois 2y ago
Despite what you get in Australia being pretty reliable, it's too expensive to justify quite yet. My 8kW solar is connected to a Fronius inverter, but until I find a less expensive option I can justify adding a battery. A 13kWh system
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by nicois 3y ago
It would be interesting to know how effective Profile Guided Optimisation is here.
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by nicois 3y ago
I've also found htmx a great way to retain server side rendering with minimising the recalculation cost of client changes. By avoiding needing to add lots of client side logic to still get very low latency updates, it's given me t
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by nicois 4y ago
Doesn't this model fail to account for seasonal variations in the locus of the sun? The optimal angle will vary across the year, whatever the latitude. Maybe I'm missing something, but i would use a simpler algorithm which doesn&#
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by nicois 4y ago
Which is the cause, and which the effect? Was apple's incorrect autocorrect causing them to go to the wrong place initially, or did they autocorrect list get built from the incorrect attempts?
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by nicois 5y ago
The inter-request integrity guarantee is nice, but you're right that on its own it seems something many devs don't value - or at least don't consider. The main driver for getting it done is mostly to set the groundwork for th
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by nicois 5y ago
I can't speak for Channels itself, but I'm quite comfortable that my use of it is not exotic, so is less likely to hit rough edges. The pattern of use I have chosen (having each websocket endpoint subscribe to layer groups based o
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by nicois 5y ago
Over recent weeks there have been a few HN posts relating to Django and how it interacts with "modern" ecosystems. Over Christmas I began working on a Django extension which would help leverage some features usually seen only in j
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Show HN: Nango, a Django extension providing SPA-like features(github.com)
20 points by nicois 5y ago|5 comments
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by nicois 5y ago
This is also my pattern. To further assist with this, I wrote a short(ish) rebase script intended to be run when you want to squash your series of commits, also bringing your local branch up-to-date with the upstream. It relies on your init
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by nicois 5y ago
Hopefully ECS/fargate will also be supported soon. I tried shifting our CI workers to ARM but it resulted in not being able to use them to build ECS images, which was not great.
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by nicois 5y ago
So this is a big step forward in terms of avoiding the race condition where CI runners would accept new jobs during scale-in operations. But how do you ensure you only spawn new ephemeral runners as jobs become available? The webhook provid
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by nicois 5y ago
We have recently switched to GitHub actions and in addition to the above, there are two others which impact us: Sometimes the checkout action fetches the wrong commit! The SHA in the GitHub environment variable says one commit, but the actu
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by nicois 5y ago
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/safewa-app-sparks-urg...
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by nicois 5y ago
Is it possible you haven't added the bounding box for your geometries? The GIST index will use your bounding box to optimise the queries, but only if it finds one. Also make sure your query is actually using the index.
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by nicois 6y ago
The redis/memcache example doesn't make a lot of sense to me, unless the idea is that a separate memcache instance is deployed alongside each backend, while redis would have been a single instance. I'm all for boring technolo
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Donald Trump supporters embrace Signal, Telegram and other 'free speech' apps(abc.net.au)
10 points by nicois 6y ago|3 comments
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by nicois 6y ago
This is particularly frustrating to witness in Australia, where we have all but eliminated covid-19, but there is no political will to eliminate it entirely. Had we closed hairdressers, building sites and takeaway restaurants a month ago, w
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by nicois 6y ago
Add in the WHO book for children to help with dealing with covid too: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/09-04-2020-children-s-s...
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by nicois 6y ago
I also believe the referenced article does not correctly convey what the original New Scientist article does: the original epidemiologist does not buy in completely to the new inferences, by my reading.
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by nicois 6y ago
They claim half the population is already infected. So conduct a random sample, test 50 people and you would expect 25ish MTO be positive, with most showing no symptoms. If so, then herd immunity is indeed a thing. I have my doubts that the
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by nicois 6y ago
I just contacted the developer account with the following text. In my mind this has huge potential to help the world find the right level of isolation and potentially leverage powerful adaptive learning algorithms. I don't know why thi

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