tedchs

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by tedchs 12d ago
> Demand for engagement rings gave thousands of South Africans steady work at De Beers. Now, weak sales and lab-grown stones are taking it away. So wait, on this Labor Day weekend, it sounds like the WSJ is pro-worker, but only if they&#
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by tedchs 4mo ago
How many more examples of malware postinstall scripts do we need before Node quits running them by default, without warning?
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by tedchs 4mo ago
This is another indicator that "lifecycle" scripts in NPM (or other packaging systems, except perhaps Debian or RPM) are an idea we need to learn to live without. At most, packages should be able to emit a message to the user ask
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by tedchs 5mo ago
How does this compare to Temporal? That seems to be the current baseline for application-oriented workflow engines.
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by tedchs 7mo ago
The "buy me a coffee" button at the end is :chefskiss:
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by tedchs 8mo ago
I was excited about this idea, but based on the writing patterns and vague stories I'm pretty sure these writeups are mostly AI slop. For example, this is classic ChatGPT phrasing: > The growth I’d been celebrating wasn’t real grow
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by tedchs 9mo ago
My favorite section in an RFC is "alternatives considered". I've seen many times that an option that had been initially discarded became the solution after review and discussion. It's also a great way to answer later
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by tedchs 11mo ago
Just imagine being the designer of this thing and sitting at Thanksgiving dinner with your family. "Oh, tedchs, what've you been up to at work?" "Okay well this is gonna sound odd but we invented a camera for your stool
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by tedchs 11mo ago
Is this announcement just about the gem and bundler packages themselves? I don't think Ruby core team is taking over the rubygems.org site right?
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by tedchs 1y ago
My question is, why can Google themselves not just provide a dump to archive.org themselves? Having volunteer middlemen doing the work seems like an artificial crisis.
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by tedchs 2y ago
I've used strings of Twinkly lights for a couple seasons now. They can sometimes be found on eBay for cheap. They're easy to set up, whether standalone or by clustering multiple units into one larger virtual canvas. The app has
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by tedchs 2y ago
Wow, what a great name!
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by tedchs 2y ago
I've had the reMarkable 2 for years and it's amazing . FYI, the reMarkable is itself quite hackable. There is a supported way to run an SSH server on it and push your own binaries and other files to use on the device. One exam
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by tedchs 2y ago
FYI you can use a universal infrared remote with Apple TV, which might have larger buttons or a more familiar interface. I have mixed feelings myself about the "touchpad" in the apple remote.
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The Queueing Shell Game(blog.danslimmon.com)
11 points by tedchs 2y ago|2 comments
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by tedchs 2y ago
What I've found best is a compromise: send a chat message like "Hi foo, I hope you're having a good day! I'm trying to figure something out with Postgres and I wonder if you might have 30 minutes to chat about it?"
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by tedchs 2y ago
They say this is the first time an ocelot has been spotted in 50 years, but I beg to differ. An ocelot is /always/ spotted.
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by tedchs 2y ago
I see. It's a different reading of the first word "from". Thanks for pointing that out.
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by tedchs 2y ago
The first line has two errors. First, 9/11 was on a Tuesday. Saying it was a Sunday is just foolish, as it happened at the start of a busy workday. Many of us still remember it like it was yesterday. Also, the line says 2011. Furth
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by tedchs 3y ago
I did this, around 2005, but I dropped ALL the prod tables. I was using a SQL GUI called Toad (awesome) and had separate windows open, for both "dev" and "prod". I was trying to reset the dev database, and used the wro
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by tedchs 3y ago
This page has helpful comparisons: https://pkl-lang.org/main/current/introduction/comparison.ht...
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by tedchs 3y ago
This is a clever hack. However, if the intent is serious use, I'd be concerned about resiliency. It sounds like the schedule is maintained in Home Assistant, and that it sends a command to the ESP8266 to dispense food. That means a
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by tedchs 3y ago
I sold a car to Vroom previously. It was a great experience, with a very easy process. And, I got a very strong price, thousands more than other online dealers. It's a shame to see them out of business.
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by tedchs 3y ago
Fwiw, when I've forgotten to cancel something, I've had success saying something like "I was checking my credit card statement and was surprised I'm still paying for X. I haven't used it at all since Y date. Would
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by tedchs 3y ago
We've been using gVisor in production for customer workloads for about a year and a half. Works great!
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by tedchs 3y ago
OTOH, lots of babies wouldn't have been conceived at all if it weren't for a little booze! </joke>
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by tedchs 3y ago
I tried signing up and got an error: Template render error: (/root/email.radio_admin/views/applied.njk) [Line 32, Column 54] Error: Unable to call `date["getFullYear"]`, which is undefined or falsey at Ob
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by tedchs 3y ago
> Chocolate [...] Is a popular treat eaten by children and adults and not an essential part of a someone’s diet Well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by tedchs 3y ago
FYI, there are various other front-ends for NMVTIS data here: https://vehiclehistory.bja.ojp.gov/nmvtis_vehiclehistory
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by tedchs 3y ago
This is a big relief. I have a Samsung Chromebook Plus that still works fine and I like the form factor. I recently got notified that ChromeOS updates were EOL, so I reformatted it with PostmarketOS, an Alpine Linux derivative. Installin

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