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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Why do the union agreements prohibit TOTP?
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
This sort of situation is why I'm so insistent when it comes to always operating a pull-through cache/mirror for dependencies in the context of a software company. Every company needs to do this to protect themselves against depen
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Definitions are immutable. Changes to the codebase may add new definitions, but cannot change existing definitions. The codebase only grows larger as it is changed. To give an analogy, it's like having a git repo where the only change
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
This was posted to the the reproducible builds mailing list as "Argument about reproducible builds on usenet in 1999". A bit of a historical curiosity. https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://lists.rep
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Time Independent Checksum(cksum) (1999)(usenetarchives.com)
1 points by oftenwrong 3y ago|1 comments
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Content-addressed ASTs make so many problems go away. No dependency hell. No merge conflicts. Fully incremental build, test, distribution, etc. Everyone can use their preferred formatting, or even their own syntax. I think the future of pro
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
The amount of effort put into Debian is truly impressive. I have used it for decades and it has been remarkably stable. Use the stable release with unattended-upgrades and it's almost zero-maintenance. Also, an estimated 96.3% of packa
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
There's apparently no strong scientific evidence supporting the efficacy of the "three sisters". Here's a blog post discussing the issue; https://www.gardenmyths.com/three-sisters-agriculture-an-exa...
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SQL vs. CSS What’s the Difference? Which Is Better?(history-computer.com)
2 points by oftenwrong 3y ago|2 comments
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EuSpRIG Horror Stories(eusprig.org)
2 points by oftenwrong 3y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Are you asking us for our perspective as hobbyists, or as b2b customers? If the latter, yes, absolutely. I have seen a few major successes in my career thay involved a migration from a self-hosted solution to a managed offering. Trying to s
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Curious use of `annotate` instead of `blame`. Former user of cvs, bk, hg, bzr, fossil, etc?
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The Parking Reform That Could Transform Manhattan(bloomberg.com)
1 points by oftenwrong 3y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Earlier, when I made the comment above, I tried it with YouTube, and it did not work. Now it works. This could be a bug rather than a change in policy.
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
This was (AIUI) the reason that google disabled the ability to adjust cast content volume via the volume rocker from their Android phones. Interestingly, I noticed that this feature had returned recently in at least one non-Google apps.
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
A horn, when heard as a pedestrian, is extremely loud, but it's not that loud to the driver using the horn, or to other drivers, since they are shielded by their vehicles. If the horn were as loud inside the vehicle (or close to it) as
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
That was exciting. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series. This reminds me of the "spooky wisdom" of cities that Chuck Marohn has written about, although it's more about culture and economics than construction: h
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
The one that comes to mind is PostgreSQL. You know the documentation is good when you can rely on it, and not have to seek out external help in mailing lists, Stack Overflow, et cetera. In the case of PostgreSQL, I was able to be productive
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
I have been using this, which is similar, for a few years: https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb
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Why Did Kids Stop Walking to School?(youtube.com)
4 points by oftenwrong 3y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Underground parking is very expensive to build. According to this source, it costs $25000 - $50000 (USD) per space: https://www.fixr.com/costs/build-parking-garage That adds up to a lot of extra cost in a development,
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
It's very difficult, politically, to take away something that people are accustomed to getting for "free". Easing mandates for developers is much easier than removing existing, free, on-street parking that residents have buil
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Bernd's Global Positioning System (2009)(bernd-paysan.de)
1 points by oftenwrong 3y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
One of the easiest ways to add an aux audio input to a car is to get a radio antenna bypass box, like the iSimple IS31.
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22883548
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Sapling SCM Internals: DrawDag(sapling-scm.com)
1 points by oftenwrong 3y ago|0 comments
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Some RDBMS features, such as stored procedures and views, can quite naturally be versioned, and become as ephemeral as your application code. For example, have your application setup a schema to contain its version-specific database compone
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
Yes, it is one of those things that many experienced makefile writers know to avoid, but the tool does not guide new users to this wiser approach. Contrast with Bazel, which does not pollute the workspace with outputs.
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
I always see others complain about Makefile syntax, especially the whitespace, but that is, to me, one of the smallest problems with make. For myself, the top problems are: - No tracking of changes to build rules. The build rule of a target
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by oftenwrong 3y ago
>ability to define your own functions to determine if a target is up-to-date. Yes! A modular make-like would allow the tool to fit any scale. Imagine not only being able to define the up-to-date function, but being able to plug into remo

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