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by yashap 1mo ago
We use other runners (Blacksmith), and it hasn't helped, still hard down all day long. Brutal outage. As a side note, I started getting these symptoms (actions staying queued forever or not running at all) at 5pm PDT yesterday, intermi
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by yashap 1mo ago
Yeah who knows, would be interesting to hear an inside take if any readers here are also GH devs! They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that do
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by yashap 1mo ago
It's honestly insane how terrible their reliability is. Over the past 4 weeks, 8 days with GitHub Actions outages, many of them multi-hour outages: >3 hours on each of July 9th, July 20th and today, and 1.5 hrs on July 23rd. Outages
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by yashap 2y ago
Hmm really? Even on the Wikipedia page for 7 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7 ), one of the first things it says is “7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic.” And FWIW you c
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by yashap 2y ago
This is great :) Also if anyone else is hitting New Yorker paywalls and can't read this, just disable JavaScript and reload.
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by yashap 2y ago
Ah brutal. Has it got worse recently? Been years since I’ve taken the train in Germany, but they used to be pretty good IMO.
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by yashap 2y ago
Huh really? Whenever I’ve taken the train in Germany it’s been pretty punctual, and looking at the board that’s been the case for most trains. But maybe I just got lucky and/or it’s changed over time. Flakiest trains I’ve experienced a
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by yashap 2y ago
I hope so, but for different reasons. Agreed they spit out plenty of gibberish at the moment, but they’ve also progressed so far so fast it’s pretty scary. If we get to a legitimate artificial general super intelligence, I’m about 95% sure
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by yashap 2y ago
I want to be able to easily read and understand configuration without having to pop it into a converter. The YAML I encounter in the wild is ~80% pure block style, ~20% mixed (within a single file, mostly block style with some flow style).
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by yashap 2y ago
Don’t have any experience with them.
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by yashap 2y ago
For sure, but most YAML you actually encounter does not use much in the way of JSON syntax, it looks a lot more like this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/wp-content/uploads/sit... Where arrays and obje
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by yashap 2y ago
Fair, YAML has a lot of usability warts, and those suck too. Although personally I really do hate how tough it is to tell apart arrays and objects, at least with the most common YAML array/object style.
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by yashap 2y ago
I’m a fan of JSON5. A common criticism is “we’ve already got YAML for human readable config with comments,” but IMO YAML’s readability sucks, it’s too hard to tell what’s an object and what’s an array at a glance (at least, with the way it’
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by yashap 2y ago
They’re probably downloading from a server in the states, being much further away makes a big difference with a massive download.
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by yashap 2y ago
I think you’re reading way, way too much into this. Read the piece and it seems like just a goofy little oddball story, makes for a light and enjoyable read, I’m really not picking up any political angle in this piece. The Guardian are cert
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by yashap 2y ago
Agreed, it’s a lose-lose situation really. But the reason most companies just settle is that going to trial is so expensive, and the American legal system allows these frivolous lawsuits while generally awarding either no compensatory damag
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by yashap 2y ago
You can see why, though. Even in this case where they thoroughly won, and got damages, the damages were just $225K, and they probably spent millions on legal fees, employee/founder time, etc. Ultimately, the American legal system is pr
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by yashap 2y ago
Ah fair, definitely a very different environment than what I’ve worked in! Have only worked on SaaS, where all forms of testing (automated and manual) are a thing we do internally, without customer involvement. We’ll do things like turn fea
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by yashap 2y ago
I enjoyed the humour, and the content. Personally I wouldn’t change it - it’s kind of a click-bait title, but I never would have read the article if it had a boring title, and I am glad I read it.
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by yashap 2y ago
Indeed, and it’s clearly stated in the article: > Safemode is the satellite equivalent of a blue screen of death. It’s about avoiding safemode, and more generally about the end-to-end QA/testing process for satellites before they’re
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by yashap 2y ago
> I have not found an answer for testing React components that seems like a good use of resources > … > I'd really love to have a system that would give me a heads up that some CSS I changed has a spooky effect on a distance o
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by yashap 2y ago
I’ve never used it, but I’ve used the Starbucks app a bunch. Order on the app when I’m 5-10 mins away, and can just roll up and grab my food/drink, vs waiting in line, ordering/paying, then waiting for prep. Useful when you’re tig
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by yashap 2y ago
The successful companies that came out of the dot com bubble era actually proved their business viability before getting major investment, though. Amazon is one of the most famous successes of the era. Bezos quit his job, launched the busin
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by yashap 2y ago
Agreed, the AI bubble is very, very real. Not that LLMs are all hype, they’re certainly impressive with useful applications, but AI companies are getting insane valuations with zero proof that they’re viable businesses.
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by yashap 2y ago
Hackers are global, though, and no matter what country you’re in, almost certainly the vast majority of hackers attempting to attack you are doing so from outside your country. Enforcing laws on a global scale is extremely difficult and alm
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by yashap 2y ago
The platform is absolutely overrun with bots and extreme racism and sexism (as well as extremely racist/sexist bots). It’s a complete tire fire, advertisers are pulling out en-masse because they don’t want to be associated with this ce
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by yashap 2y ago
Hmm fair, I’ve mostly just compared it to Ory Keto, Keycloak and FusionAuth, and it was my favourite so far, was the easiest to use/quickest to integrate for me. But it’s definitely personal, and it’s also a space with a tonne of playe
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by yashap 2y ago
I think the “developer friendly” critique is a fair one for Ory, especially Ory Keto, which I found to be an absolute nightmare to use. But as a dev I found SuperTokens really easy/nice to use. Open core vs. full open source, fair.
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by yashap 2y ago
How would you compare yourselves to SuperTokens ( https://supertokens.com/ )? I ask because they’re another open source, YC backed auth system, and one that I’ve quite enjoyed using on a side project. There seem to be a lot o
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by yashap 2y ago
Yeah, I think having it as an option is the way to go. Though I’d personally have it default to per-capita, as I do think that correlates closer with actual risk. To illustrate with an extreme example, an area with 10 burglaries per 100 peo

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