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The End of Tt-Rss.org(community.tt-rss.org)
4 points by wfriesen 1y ago|0 comments
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by wfriesen 3y ago
In Australia it's $400 Google Store credit with the Pro, $250 with the regular. Pixel Watch 2 starts at $549.
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Do the poka-yoke: building error proof software(dontbuildsoftware.substack.com)
3 points by wfriesen 3y ago|6 comments
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by wfriesen 3y ago
Those prods have existed since phones, but it was previously about not having a ringtone blare out. Now the backlash is against people scrolling tiktok/whatever during a movie. I haven't been to a movie theatre in a while so I can
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by wfriesen 3y ago
I've always used this. Any rows returned means there are differences select * from ( ( select * from table1 minus select * from table2 ) union all ( select * from table2
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by wfriesen 3y ago
Yeah, compulsory voting is what makes it a viable way to detect fraud. I was also mistaken somewhat when I said "paper ballots". There is certainly electronic voting in Australia, but the "authentication" aspect of just
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by wfriesen 3y ago
In Australia we do paper ballots, no voter ID, you just say your name and it's crossed off a list. Afterwards, if the same name was crossed off two lists, the amount of double votes are counted and if it is enough to change the result
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by wfriesen 3y ago
Coming from an Oracle background, both application and data warehousing, I wholeheartedly agree with the articles first paragraph saying that application based dynamic SQL is horrible, but DBA (and I'll include data warehousing) dynami
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by wfriesen 3y ago
A good meta search across book stores is https://booko.info/ It's not global, but serves a few countries
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by wfriesen 3y ago
Not mainlined now, and probably not ever given that Linus has said "considering Oracle's litigious nature, and the questions over licensing, there's no way I can feel safe in ever doing so" https://arstechnica
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by wfriesen 4y ago
I think of the classic sci-fi depiction of "picture phones", and they are almost exclusively a device mounted on a wall, much like the original telephone. Maybe it's just a usability issue, in that holding a phone pointing at
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by wfriesen 4y ago
Joins are cheap when joining on indexed columns, but the trade off is extra time maintaining those indexes when writing. As always, it depends on the use case.
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by wfriesen 4y ago
I've been using it for a while now getting the password from a file.
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by wfriesen 4y ago
Interesting path, he's skipped straight over the Vagrant->Docker step most took (myself included)
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by wfriesen 4y ago
Signal doesn't press you to setup (by default) unencrypted cloud backups.
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by wfriesen 4y ago
I worked in government where Accenture where brought in for projects. A lot of high level meetings and presentations, then sub-junior level devs. At the end there was a lot of legal wrangling over "we delivered what you asked for"
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by wfriesen 4y ago
I'm using the linuxserver container image for calibre, then rsync'ing to my laptop to sync with my kindle. Not really server-only but has everything I want from that https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-c
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by wfriesen 4y ago
Other than doom I like some fuzzy raw black metal to drown out noise, like Paysage d'hiver. Thankfully they have quite a large discography.
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by wfriesen 4y ago
I just migrated my instance by repointing the webserver container image at the one in this repo. So far, so good.
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by wfriesen 5y ago
Tomcat is a common embedded server for Spring Boot applications, and included in the default web stack from Spring Initialiser.
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by wfriesen 5y ago
That's only on the cheapest paid plan. You can customize plans and increase the amount of domains, though it adds to the price.
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by wfriesen 5y ago
This isn't really "in SQL" as much as "using a product that has a SQL extension/backend".
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by wfriesen 5y ago
pivpn now supports both wireguard and openvpn, with wireguard as the default.
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by wfriesen 5y ago
The official plugin uses a php port of Mozilla's Readability, which is used for Firefox Reader Mode. There is also the 3rd party FeedIron that is more configurable. https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron
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by wfriesen 5y ago
Just 80, it seems https://github.com/caioluders/server.casino/blob/354cec4c053... That probably increases the odds that the servers it finds are "interesting"
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by wfriesen 5y ago
Business/requirements/users will often tell you that no two users will have the same birthday/SSN/whatever, but so often that eventually proves incorrect. Just using an auto increment ID as the primary key can prevent a
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by wfriesen 5y ago
I use rssbridge for sites without a feed, and the feediron plugin for ttrss for sites whose feed is incomplete. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-fe
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by wfriesen 5y ago
The .wal file comes and goes, so occasionally things like rsync will fail if the file no longer exists by the time it tries to transfer.
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by wfriesen 5y ago
They contain very little metal, so will not set off any metal detectors. I have a similar sized implant, but not this one, and have no trouble at airports.
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by wfriesen 5y ago
The result is the same, but most drugs (prescription and otherwise) are more in the milligram range. For ecstacy/MDMA an effective dose is usually on the order of 100mg.

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