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The End of Tt-Rss.org

community.tt-rss.org
4 points·by wfriesen·9 mesi fa·0 comments

Do the poka-yoke: building error proof software

dontbuildsoftware.substack.com
3 points·by wfriesen·3 anni fa·6 comments

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wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
In Australia it's $400 Google Store credit with the Pro, $250 with the regular. Pixel Watch 2 starts at $549.
wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
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't say if it's a phenomenon but that would be infuriating
wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
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
      minus
      select *
      from table1
    )
  )
wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
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 saying a name is still the same. It's essentially "trust but verify"
wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
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 then the result of that electorate is invalidated. This has not ever happened.
wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
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) dynamic SQL is great, but it's essentially about how complex the thing is.

A DBA is likely doing things like looping over metadata tables and running

  'grant select on ' || some_table || ' to ' || some_user
While an app developer with free reign will end up doing something much more complex, and much harder to reason about/tune
wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
A good meta search across book stores is https://booko.info/ It's not global, but serves a few countries
wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
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.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-zfs-s...
wfriesen
·3 anni fa·discuss
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 yourself is a bit annoying?
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
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.
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
I've been using it for a while now getting the password from a file.
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
Interesting path, he's skipped straight over the Vagrant->Docker step most took (myself included)
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
Signal doesn't press you to setup (by default) unencrypted cloud backups.
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
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", while the customer got very little of what they wanted.
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
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-calibre
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
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.
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
I just migrated my instance by repointing the webserver container image at the one in this repo. So far, so good.
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
Tomcat is a common embedded server for Spring Boot applications, and included in the default web stack from Spring Initialiser.
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
That's only on the cheapest paid plan. You can customize plans and increase the amount of domains, though it adds to the price.
wfriesen
·4 anni fa·discuss
This isn't really "in SQL" as much as "using a product that has a SQL extension/backend".