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by oftenwrong 9mo ago
What you are describing is basically remote buildkitd. That allows all of your docker builds to share a big cache. The cache-to/cache-from approach is of limited usefulness.
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Modeling Inclusionary Zoning's Impact on Housing Production in LA (2024) [pdf](ternercenter.berkeley.edu)
1 points by oftenwrong 9mo ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 9mo ago
This is based on this write-up: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wont-main-break-all-time-your... archive copies: https://archive.is/wI4b0 https://web.archive.org/web/20251211132753&
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by oftenwrong 9mo ago
Triggering off of changed file paths is not a great way to achieve this because it's disconnected from the underlying dependency graph. This is also a standard feature of GitLab CI.
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by oftenwrong 10mo ago
What if I want to do something on my land that will poison the ground water for the area? What if I want to raise an invasive species on my land that will likely escape and devastate local wildlife? Should society be permissive and wait for
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by oftenwrong 10mo ago
The problem is always how well one can prove that any harm was done, or that theoretical harm would be done.
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by oftenwrong 10mo ago
This headline is misleading. >This applies to work-managed devices and doesn’t affect personal devices. "All Your Text Messages" implies _all_ messages, which is not the case.
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by oftenwrong 10mo ago
Maven does not support "scripts" as NPM does, such as the pre-install script used for this exploit. With scripts enabled, the mere act of downloading a dependency requires a high degree of trust in it.
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by oftenwrong 10mo ago
I think some people would enjoy something akin to HyperCard for building custom TUIs and/or highly efficient web UIs.
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by oftenwrong 11mo ago
Would a wider road not embolden drivers to increase their speed?
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The Surprising Lack of Good Permitting Data and What to Do about It(bostonindicators.org)
6 points by oftenwrong 11mo ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 11mo ago
There is something to be said for having some basic data access libraries already in place, even if they are not ideal, so that developers can bang out functionality more quickly. That is the typical selling point of ORMs, isn't it? Wh
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Four Strategies for Organizing Code (2016)(medium.com)
2 points by oftenwrong 11mo ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 11mo ago
It's less complicated than you might think. A Java Development Kit (JDK) is a filesystem directory, and includes everything necessary to run a Java program. Most of the mysterious installers and version managers are managing a collecti
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The Oddest Car Park in the World? (2015)(speedhunters.com)
4 points by oftenwrong 11mo ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
A live demo is better for selling. A live demo says "this is real and it works".
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
I have been struggling with some team members who don't have taste, and amplify that via this sort of uncritical application of AI. The issue for one if them seems to be that they think the AI is perfect. They think: "If it comes
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
Don't discount the technical innovation required to integrate existing technologies in a novel and useful way. Docker was an "off the shelf" experience unlike any other solution at the time. You could `docker run ...` and hav
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
In many systems it is reasonable not to include a zone. Usually that goes hand-in-hand with the desire to use a more compact representation, such as storing a numerical timestamp with a customary interpretation (usually UTC or TAI). If you
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Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution(blogsystem5.substack.com)
4 points by oftenwrong 1y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
I think there was an even earlier example of merge trains at Etsy mentioned here: https://pushtrain.club/ This blog post about choosing which commit to test is also relevant and may be of interest: https://sluong
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
EVs still produce air pollution from tyre, brake, and road surface abrasion. There is also new research that indicates resuspension of particles is a major source of roadway-related pollution. This review is a good jumping-off point for res
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
Storing an IR also means we can create languages beyond the limits of syntactical practicality. Imagine, for example, an entire comment/documentation dimension of the code. Instead of commenting on a line near some code, you could atta
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
Unison's immutable definitions also enable a bunch of compelling capabilities. No merge conflicts. Incremental everything: build, test, lint, distribution, rendering as formatted text, et cetera. Trivial to apply "hot" update
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
Protobuf is typically serialised using a TLV-style encoding. https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/encoding/ A major value of protobuf is in its ecosystem of tools (codegen, lint, etc); it's not only an enc
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Understanding Bazel Remote Caching(blogsystem5.substack.com)
2 points by oftenwrong 1y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
Can you explain what you mean in #4, or provide a link for further reading? Throughout the period of my career so far, API design has always been a major part of the job of a developer. Therefore, I assume you mean something else than what
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
Many drivers do let their mind wander. This is especially true of motorway driving; it is easy to enter a state where the mind is only passively engaged in driving. I do somewhat miss and romanticise my public transport commute in the pre-s
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
There is a PostgreSQL extension that adds support for incremental updates to materialised views: https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm
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by oftenwrong 1y ago
That is also something that I have always wanted... and it seems like we are in good company.

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