sigwinch28

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by sigwinch28 3d ago
I think bit-aligned encodings (i.e. schemes where the output alphabets have a size that is a power of two) are the sweet-spot for encoding schemes due to simplicity of encoding and decoding compared to non-bit-aligned schemes like base84. B
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by sigwinch28 3mo ago
Conversely, as a hobbyist photographer, I want to do the exact opposite for most photos I take. I would like my camera info, especially the body, lens, focal length, and settings in the image. I recently discovered that software like Darkta
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by sigwinch28 8mo ago
Measurement trains filled with cameras and LIDAR For example, in the U.K.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Measurement_Train
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by sigwinch28 9mo ago
A writable file closing itself when it goes out of scope is usually not great, since errors can occur when closing the file, especially when using networked file systems. https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines&#x2F
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by sigwinch28 11mo ago
Or it’s simply an indicator of a schema that has not been excessively normalised (why create an addresses_cities table just to ensure no duplicate cities are ever written to the addresses table?)
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by sigwinch28 1y ago
Via Wikipedia: > The developer offered full refunds to the game for macOS and Linux owners regardless of how long they had the game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_League#Free-to-play_tra... https:/&#x2F
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
I’m from the U.K. and I consider the government’s actions around digital privacy to be somewhere between incompetent and malicious.
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
>waiting for 2 different lights just to get to the opposite corner. A solution sometimes seen in London is a “Pedestrian Scramble”, where pedestrians are explicitly given full (and even diagonal) access to a junction with all other traff
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
With SSO, the party running the SSO decides what the authentication policy is. For example, where the authentication request is coming from (on-site, managed device), what methods are being used (hardware second factor, Authenticator app).
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
Reuse of identifiers seems to be a theme in aviation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
If we replace “YAML” with “JSON” and then talk about naive text-based templating, it seems wild. That’s because it is. Then we go back to YAML and add whitespace sensitivity and suddenly it’s the state-of-the-art for declaring infrastructur
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
A lot government funding stipulates open access publication of some form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_mandate
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
A smartwatch for kids could be so good if it was designed in a way to be educational, but most importantly, which respects a child’s privacy utmost, even from their parents in terms of tracking. For example, a maps app, to always get the ki
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
At 2.6 megabytes per dollar, it is at least cheaper than the price of a (very legal) kdb license, which can hover around 3 bytes per dollar. Comparing apples and oranges here but I like thinking about the monetary value assigned to a byte.
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
This seems to be about GitHub’s annoying CODEOWNERS feature where every matching user in the CODEOWNERS file is forcefully added as a reviewer of opened PRs. To my knowledge this “feature” can’t be toggled independently and in my experience
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
There are clauses in many Hollywood contracts which prevent the use of an actor’s likeness. See what happened in Back to the Future Part 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#R...
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
https://youtu.be/MgNItWdfEIU?si=QGZbjRIh50InkiHV Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Name
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
> What's the risk here? A monopolistic stock exchange could, off the top of my head: increase fees, engage in rentseeking behaviour, impose unfair rules, discriminate (against companies and traders) or reduce the quality of service.
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by sigwinch28 2y ago
At least for AirTags before today, this functionality allegedly only triggers when the device is not near one of the owner’s iPhones/iPad/Macbooks.
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
They leave oxygen tanks littered up there. They leave human bodies up there, too, but those are usually moved out of view.
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
I try to do this when writing error messages I expect to be seen by other engineers. I also try to state why this is an error condition. “ERROR: Database query returned 0 rows” versus “ERROR: Database query returned 0 rows but need 2 or m
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
It is the rule in Europe, which is mentioned in (II)(C) in the link. I failed to link it properly.
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
More altitude means more time to work the problem.
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
The rule (edit: in Europe) is now 25 hours for aircraft over a certain weight, though it is not (currently) retroactively applied to existing equipment. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/04&#x2
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
Storing CCTV footage on-prem is at odds with preserving said footage. It’s usually easier for an intruder to destroy or steal the physical storage device on site compared to gaining access to an off-site storage device in an unknown or prac
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
> your config becoming more and more complex until it inevitably needs its own config, etc. You wind up with a sprawling, Byzantine mess. We're already there with Helm. People write YAML because it's "just data". Then
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
I would recommend implementing a similar API to Grafana Tanka: https://tanka.dev When you "synthesise", the returned value should be an array or an object. 1. If it's an object, check if it has an `apiVersion` and
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
I don't see any practical difference w.r.t. cybersecurity between "I blindly applied this pile of YAML to my production kubernetes clusters without looking at it" and "I blindly downloaded and ran this computer program o
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
Relevant: https://noyaml.com/ YAML and its ecosystem is full of footguns and ergonomics problems, especially when the length of the document extends beyond the height of a user's editor or viewport. Loss of context wit
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by sigwinch28 3y ago
I can get any proficient locksmith to open my front door with valid photo ID. In a pinch I can get in using a brick, a window, and a good throw. The police might turn up or they might not. With 2FA, a lot of times I’m going to go through en

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